News from the Silicofossil Group A meeting on "Geobiology and environments of silica biomineralizers" was held at the University Lille 1 (France) on 4-7th September 2011. The abstract volume and programme may be downloaded here (600kb .pdf file). The 2011 Silicofossil and Palynology groups joint spring meeting was held on 31st March, 2011 in Tromso, Norway - Details   Joint meeting of the Palynology and Silicofossil Groups 2006 The meeting was held at the Laboratory of Palynology and Palaeobotony, Utrecht University on the 9th-10th March, 2006. More>> New WWW links Silicofossil Group report for Spring 2005.  The first joint meeting of the Silicofossil and Palynology groups 9-10 June 2004, School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, Cardiff University, UK.  Silicofossil Group report for Summer 2004.   Silicofossils in the News Climate change marks dawn of man - diatoms reveal complex variation in East African climate, which helped drive the development of our human ancestors Diatoms: Algae with Animal traits - the discovery of urea cycle in the genome sequence of Thalassiosira pseudonana Gallery - some false coloured images from www.sinia-planeta.com Article - Colouring-in micrographs - waste of time or capturing the public imagination? by Dee Breger, Photomicrographer & Director of Microscopy at Drexel University