1. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem Collections and Research on the Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants

2. Famous names: Willdenow, Humboldt, Schweinfurth, Eichler, Urban, Engler … 1822: Foundation of Berlin University, since then garden directors are at the same time professors of botany around 1900: relocation of the garden (including herbarium and museum) to Dahlem Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765 – 1812) 300 years of scientific tradition: Adolf Engler (1844-1930)

3. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem A central unit of the Freie Universität with special tasks:  Document plant diversity (in nature and in collections)  Collect plant diversity  Conserve plant diversity (ex situ)  Exhibit the collections and educate about plant diversity  Carry out research on plant diversity (according to the BGBM transfer act & the International Council of Museums‘ guidelines)

4. Department: Research & Biodiversity Informatics Head: Walter Berendsohn

5. Department: Research & Biodiversity Informatics Research & Development Group: Biodiversity Informatics and Scientific Information Systems Head: Anton Güntsch  Taxonomic computing. Prominent product: EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy.  Networking of primary biodiversity data. Prominent product: BioCASE.  Currently >25 group members in >10 projects (including 5 EU network projects)

6. Role in pro-iBiosphere Improve cooperation of and interoperability between e-infrastructures (Task 4.1). WP 3 Lead. Organising Meeting Nr 4 (Berlin) and workshop „How to improve technical cooperation and interoperability at the e- infrastructure level“.