EMBO | EMBL Symposium: New Model Systems for Linking Evolution and Ecology 2016 Heidelberg

This sym­po­sium focuses on the inter­face of ecol­ogy and evo­lu­tion­ary genet­ics, with spe­cial empha­sis placed on the inter­ac­tion between organ­isms as a basis for under­stand­ing eco­log­i­cal adap­ta­tion. New sequencing-​based meth­ods are bridg­ing the gap between mod­ern genet­ics and systems-​level eco­log­i­cal stud­ies. This is par­al­leled by dra­matic improve­ments in imag­ing and remote sens­ing, with which one can cap­ture both spa­tial and tem­po­ral com­po­nents of dynamic inter­ac­tions between indi­vid­u­als and their nat­ural environment.

Aims

Areas of dis­cus­sion will be the right bal­ance between gen­er­at­ing large vol­umes of data and the depth of sci­en­tific ques­tions to be addressed. An impor­tant aim is the devel­op­ment of bio­log­i­cal con­cepts for com­par­a­tive analy­sis and exper­i­men­tal strate­gies for func­tional analy­sis that opti­mally exploit the advances in data collection.

Top­ics

• genotype-​phenotype map
• interor­gan­is­mal interactions
• eco­log­i­cal genomics
• evo­lu­tion­ary genetics
• land­scape genomics

Who should attend?

Spe­cial­ists from ecol­ogy who want to learn how cutting-​edge genomics can sup­port their work, and spe­cial­ists from genet­ics who want to learn how cutting-​edge field meth­ods can help them address ques­tions that can­not be con­clu­sively answered by lab work. The meet­ing is also for any­body who wants to bring a new eco­log­i­cal model sys­tem into the genomic era.

• Doris Bachtrog – Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley, USA
• Kirsten Bomblies – Har­vard Uni­ver­sity, USA
• Frank Chan – Friedrich Miescher Lab­o­ra­tory, Germany
• Dieter Ebert – Uni­ver­sity Basel, Switzerland
• San­ti­ago Elena – IBMPC, Spain
• Bev­erly Glover – Uni­ver­sity Cam­bridge, United Kingdom
• Astrid Groot – MPI for Chem­i­cal Ecol­ogy, Ger­many & Uni­ver­sity of Ams­ter­dam, The Netherlands
• Angela Han­cock – MFPL , Austria
• Lena Hile­man – The Uni­ver­sity of Kansas, USA
• Andrew Hud­son – Uni­ver­sity Edin­burgh, UK
• Katia Koelle – Duke Uni­ver­sity, USA

• Sarah Lebeis – Uni­ver­sity of Ten­nessee, USA
• Ruth Ley – Cor­nell Uni­ver­sity, USA
• Miriam Lied­vo­gel – MPI for Evo­lu­tion­ary Biol­ogy, Germany
• Vir­ginie Orgogozo – Insti­tut Jacques Monod — CNRS UMR7592 — Uni­ver­sité Paris Diderot, France
• Ann Pringle – Har­vard Uni­ver­sity, USA
• Eddy Rubin – DOE Joint Genome Insti­tute, USA
• Jon Slate – The Uni­ver­sity of Sheffield, United Kingdom
• Ralf Som­mer – MPI for Devel­op­men­tal Biol­ogy, Germany
• Joan Strass­mann – Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­sity St. Louis, USA
• John Willis – Duke Uni­ver­sity, USA

EMBL Advanced Train­ing Cen­tre Cor­po­rate Part­ner­ship Pro­gramme Reg­is­tra­tion Fee Waivers and EMBO Travel Grants are avail­able for young researchers for the EMBO|EMBL Sym­posia Series. Please indi­cate your inter­est for a CPP Reg­is­tra­tion Fee Waiver or an EMBO Travel Grant or both when sub­mit­ting your abstract. Whilst sub­mit­ting your abstract (Step 2 after you have reg­is­tered your per­sonal details) you will also be asked to com­plete a field with the name of your lab and the coun­try in which it is based, and to answer some ques­tions to detail your rea­sons for request­ing this fel­low­ship. A state­ment of sup­port from your bud­get hold­ing super­vi­sor explain­ing a) their sup­port for your atten­dance and b) sup­port pro­vided by the lab­o­ra­tory bud­get is required to com­plete the application.

Reg­is­tra­tion Fee Waiver: The sum that you have paid to attend the meet­ing will be reimbursed.

Travel Grant: Up to €500 for par­tic­i­pants arriv­ing from the eli­gi­ble coun­tries listed below.

Pri­or­ity is be given to par­tic­i­pants work­ing in labs in: Croa­tia, Czech Repub­lic, Esto­nia, Greece, Hun­gary, Italy, Malta, Poland, Por­tu­gal, Slo­va­kia, Slove­nia, Spain, Tai­wan and Turkey.

Travel grants may also be pro­vided to par­tic­i­pants work­ing in labs in: Africa, Asia (exclud­ing Japan, Sin­ga­pore, and Korea), South and Cen­tral Amer­ica, Alba­nia, Arme­nia, Azer­bai­jan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herze­gov­ina, Bul­garia, Cyprus, Geor­gia, Kaza­khstan, Kosovo, Kyr­gyzs­tan, Latvia, Lithua­nia, Mace­do­nia, Moldova, Mon­tene­gro, Roma­nia, Russ­ian Fed­er­a­tion, Ser­bia and Ukraine.

The sci­en­tific organ­is­ers will select the recip­i­ents of all fel­low­ships dur­ing the abstract selec­tion process.

Travel grants are also avail­able as part of the coop­er­a­tion agree­ment with the National Sci­ence Coun­cil of Tai­wan, in addi­tion to travel grants for par­tic­i­pants from Italy in coop­er­a­tion with the SIBBM.