18-21 July 2018
The Canadian Society for Ecology & Evolution (CSEE) present their 2018 meeting with the theme “Fundamentals in Ecology and Evolution: Now and Into the Future”.
Location: Guelph, Canada
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15-17 May 2018
Marine Evolution 2018 is a Marcus Wallenberg Symposium organized by the Centre for Marine Evolutionary Biology at University of Gothenburg. It will bring marine evolutionary biologists from all over the world together to present recent and ongoing work, share ideas and discuss future collaborations, all in the beautiful setting of the Kosterhavet Marine National Park in the archipelago on the Swedish west coast. Keynote speakers are: Cynthia Riginos (University of Queensland), Nicolas Bierne (University of Montpellier), Andreas Hejnol (Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology), Marjorie Oleksiak, (Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science), Nicolas Galtier (University of Montpellier), and Frédérique Viard (Station Biologique Roscoff).
Location: Strömstad, Sweden
Abstract deadline: 1 February 2018
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Organizers: Kerstin Johannesson, Anders Blomberg, Pierre de Wit, Samuel Perini & Eva Marie Rödström
13-16 May 2018
Building on the momentum of the highly successful #PEQG16 (held at GSA’s The Allied Genetics Conference), the 2018 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference (#PEQG18) brings together population, evolutionary, and quantitative geneticists to promote cross-disciplinary exchange between those doing theoretical and experimental work in these broad but overlapping fields. Topics will span the diversity of PEQG, including: theoretical population genetics, molecular evolution, quantitative and complex traits, population genomics, experimental evolution, adaptation and ecological genetics, statistical genetics, genome evolution, and speciation.
Location: Madison, United States
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Organizers: Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, Dmitri Petrov, Matthew Hahn, Hopi Hoekstra, Lauren McIntyre & Matt Rockman
18-20 April 2018
The AsiaEvo Conference is a platform that will bring together researchers from all fields concerned with evolution, including genomics, developmental biology, paleontology, phylogenetics, ecology, biogeography, evo-devo, and others from Asia and the rest of the world. The conference aims to stimulate evolutionary research in Asian area, to reinforce cross-disciplinary collaboration among countries, and to promote young researchers.
Location: Shenzhen, China
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9-13 April 2018
The meeting will consider applications of mathematical modelling to explore processes and mechanisms in various biological systems ranging from a cell to the human society. A special focus will be on the interplay between ecology and evolution across time and space. MPDEE’18 is also expected to explore similarities between modelling techniques traditionally applied in ecology and evolution and those used in other life sciences with the purpose to enhance interdisciplinary approaches and to stimulate further advances in population dynamics, ecology and evolution. The meeting will be an open forum for interaction between theoreticians and empirical biologists with the main goal of enhancing communication between the two groups to better link theories with empirical realities.
Location: Leicester, United Kingdom
Registration deadline: 31 January 2018
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Organizers: Andrew Morozov & Sergei Petrovskii
14-19 January 2018
This Gordon Research Conference on the Origins of Life, entitled, “The Prebiotic Milieu Building the Evolution of Early Life” promises to be a highly interdisciplinary meeting. The sessions will provide a state-of-the-art update of the field, while also providing room for discussion and debate on some of the larger outstanding questions in our understanding of the origin of life.
Location: Galveston, Texas, United States
Registration deadline: 17 December 2017
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Conference chairs: Matthew Pasek & Nicolle Zellner
8-12 July 2018
The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) will host a conference in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Neutral Theory of Evolution, as published in the landmark paper by Kimura in 1968.
Location: Yokohama, Japan
Abstract deadline: 25 January 2018
Registration deadline: 15 June 2018
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14-16 December 2017
The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) will hold a satellite meeting on evolution of microbes in natural and experimental populations – synthesis and synergies. The meeting aims to bridge the gap between complimentary approaches (experimental evolution in the laboratory and studying variation within natural populations) and build upon synergies and reciprocal benefits. The meeting will include a session on ‘Big Data’ analysis and microbial genomics supported by MRC-CLIMB (Cloud Infrastructure for Microbial bioinformatics).
Location: Assam, India
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26-29 June 2018
The European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (EED) will hold their 7th meeting in June 2018. Scientists and students from all over the world are invited to present their most recent research and discuss the current state of the art and future directions of Evo Devo. Confirmed keynote speakers are Graham Budd (Uppsala University), Angela Hay (Max Planck Institute for plant breeding research), Mark Martindale (University of Florida) and Philipp Mitteröcker (University of Vienna).
Location: Galway, Ireland
Abstract deadline: 16 February 2018
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19-22 August 2018
ESEB is delighted to welcome you to the Second Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology. Joint Congresses take place every six years and bring together four of the world’s largest academic societies in the field of evolutionary biology: the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). There will be 78 symposia during the meeting, running as parallel half/full-day sessions. For more information and a list of symposia, please visit the conference website.
Location: Montpellier, France
Abstract deadline: 15 January 2018