The European Society for Evolutionary Biology was founded in 1987. The objectives of the Society are to "Support the study of organic evolution and the integration of those scientific fields that are concerned with evolution: molecular and microbial evolution, behaviour, genetics, ecology, life histories, development, paleontology, systematics and morphology". The Society endeavours to accomplish these objectives through the publication of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, through meetings, and the John Maynard Smith award.
Membership of the Society is open to both scientists and interested laymen, although the primary goal of the Society is to serve the scientific community. Membership includes a free copy of the Journal (printed and/or online).
The JEB impact factor is up from 2.97 to 3.92! JEB now ranks 11th in evol biology (was 13th).
Website Congress 2009 live
The 2009 ESEB Congress will be held in Torino, Italy, August 24-29. All information can be found at www.eseb2009.it
Note that ESEB members get a substantial reduction in congress registration fees! To become a member, please go to the membership application page
2007 Congress
The 11th congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology at Uppsala University in Sweden from 20-25
August 2007 was a huge success. Almost 1,400 people attended!
ESEB was founded in 1987 so this year the 20th anniversary of the Society was celebrated. The Society's founding father, Prof. Steve Stearns, was made a Distinguished Fellow in recognition of his invaluable contributions not only to the birth but also over the years to the life of the Society. More about the Distinguished Fellow on his website.
The other ESEB Distinguished Fellow was Prof John Maynard Smith (6 January 1920 - 19 April 2004). During every ESEB congress the John Maynard Smith Prize is awarded to an outstanding young researcher in the field. This year's winner was Andy Gardner, who gave a fascinating plenary lecture. Information about the prize winner can be found here.
More information about the congress can be found at the
congress website
11th Meeting of the German Society of Primatology (GfP) from 24th - 26th February 2009.
Dear ESEB members,
We would like to welcome you to the 11th Meeting of the German
Society of Primatology (GfP) from 24th - 26th February 2009 in
Hannover organized by the Institute of Zoology, University of
Veterinary Medicine Hannover.
More information is available on our homepage, www.gfp2009.de.
Sincerely,
Marina Scheumann
European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB 14), 8th - 13th September 2008, Einsiedeln, Switzerland.
This student conference brings together European students in an informal atmosphere, where they can discuss their work without the pressure of presenting to senior academics. Present your work, discuss your research ideas, meet new collaborators, receive feedback on your talk, and make new friends from all over Europe! Important date: 1 April 2008: beginning of online registration.
Plenary lectures by:
For registration and information please consult the EMPSEB 14 website: http://www.empseb.unibe.ch/
NOTE: this meeting is supported by ESEB.
"Evolutionary Biology in Guarda 2008" is open for registration.
It is my pleasure to announce this years Guarda
workshop in Evolutionary Biology. The main aim of
this 1 week course is to develop the skills to
produce an independent research project in
evolutionary biology. The course is for master
students and first or second year PhD students
with a keen interest in evolutionary biology.
Course dates: 21. - 28. June 2008 (Saturday to Saturday).
Location: The village Guarda in the Swiss Alps.
Course faculty
* Dr. David Haig (Harvard University, USA)
* Dr. Bruce Levin (Emory University, Atlanta, USA)
* Dr. Sebastian Bonhoeffer (ETH Zürich)
* Dr. Dieter Ebert (Basel University) (course organizer)
For more informaton: http://www.evolution.unibas.ch/teaching/guarda
Contact: dieter.ebert@unibas.ch
Climate Change and Systematics Conference 1 - 3 September 2008, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
First Announcement and call for research papers on aspects of the interaction between Climate Change and Systematics. The conference will deal with this topic under three headings as follows: 1. Climate Change and Speciation/extinction:
2. Climate Change and Biogeography: 3. Climate Change: documenting and conserving biodiversity. To obtain further information and register for the conference please see http://www.tcd.ie/Botany/Conference.php
Conference on Nematode Evolution - Survey
The organisers are conducting a survey to see how many people would likely attend a major conference on the Evolution & Ecology of Nematodes, which would be held in 2010 at a site in Europe (tentatively in the UK). You can find more information and the survey here
Meta-analysis seeking data on group size and parasitism
A National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent: www.nescent.org) working group is exploring ways to enhance meta-analyses and syntheses through broader requests for data. Here, we present one pilot request
for data for a proposed synthetic work. Charles Nunn and Laszlo Garamszegi seek unpublished results and "pointers" to published
results involving the association between group size and parasitism in vertebrates. The data will be used in a meta-analysis to investigate the links between sociality and parasitism. All published studies will be cited in resultant publications, and unpublished work may be given credit through consortium coauthorship for the person providing the data. For more information, please see: http://www.biology.duke.edu/noorlab/Nunn.html
If you have questions about the broader NESCent project of enhancing synthetic works, or have an idea for a synthetic work that you'd like
to pursue that also would benefit from broader requests for data, please contact Mohamed Noor (Duke) or Maria Servedio (UNC-Chapel
Hill), or see: http://www.biology.duke.edu/noorlab/SEED.pdf
Free Target Reviews online
The January 2007 issue (20:1) of Journal of Evolutionary Biology featured the Target Review paper: "A tale of two matrices:
multivariate approaches in evolutionary biology" by M.W. Blows. This target review was accompanied by 11 commentaries and all of
these articles have been made free online.
Click here to read these articles.
Previous Target Reviews:
September 2006 issue (19:5): "The evolution of cooperation and altruism - a general framework and a classification of models"
by L Lehmann and L Keller, accompanied by 16 commentaries.
Click here to read these articles.
September 2005 issue( 18:5): "Twenty questions on adaptive dynamics", by David Waxman and Sergey Gavrilets, plus the
commentaries.
Click here for free access to all of these articles.
November 2004 issue (17:6) "Costs and benefits of genetic heterogeneity within organisms" by M Pineda-Krch, K Lehtilä,
accompanied by seven commentaries.
Click here to read these articles.
And also still available: November 2001 issue (14:6): "The genic view of the process of speciation" by Chung-I Wu, accompanied by
10 commentaries. Click here to read these articles.