Category Archives: conferences

Molecular ecologists — and molecular ecology — at Evolution 2019

Posted on 19 Jun, 2019 by Jeremy Yoder
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Deep Sea Biology Symposium 2018

Posted on 5 Oct, 2018 by Katharine Coykendall

The bloggers here at The Molecular Ecologist have been regaling you with recaps of various conferences from The Ecological Society of America to Evolution  to  the more intimate  Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics Conference.  Although it contemplated skipping my synopsis to … Continue reading →

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Microbiomes of a small conference

Posted on 23 Sep, 2018 by Laetitia Wilkins

The conference season is almost over. There are still a few gems out there worth attending before school starts. I just came back from the Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics Conference which took place at a UCLA resort in the mountains. … Continue reading →

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Evolution 2018: assortative mating, combinatorial speciation and genome dynamics

Posted on 24 Aug, 2018 by Alex Twyford

The Evolution conference in Montpellier is over, and as the sun, wine and great science become a memory, here is my recap of some conference highlights following on from a great first day: Sharon Strauss (University of California Davis) gave … Continue reading →

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ESA 2018 Recap

Posted on 23 Aug, 2018 by Kathryn Turner

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something BLUE …in which I shoe-horn a summary post of this giant meeting into a cutesy subtitle, but it mostly works.

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Evolution 2018 Day 1: From genomics in the wild, to new models of selection

Posted on 19 Aug, 2018 by Alex Twyford

It’s Evolution conference time! Evolution has long been my favourite fixture in the conference calendar, with its diverse mix of theoretical and empirical studies that span the full range of evolutionary biology. This year it’s the second Joint Congress on … Continue reading →

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La vie en rouge … l'algue rouge

Posted on 4 Jun, 2018 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

Best laid plans of a #NewPI … what happens to them? Well, they often get triaged for more urgent things that were triaged earlier for more urgent things that were also triaged even earlier for more urgent things … and … Continue reading →

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We can make academia more family friendly

Posted on 8 Apr, 2018 by Laetitia Wilkins

This one tickled me for too long. It became a serious itch and I feel I have to say something. Two weeks ago, Rebecca Calisi Rodríguez and a Working Group of Mothers in Science published an opinion article in the … Continue reading →

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Notes from Asilomar: 150 years of the American Naturalist

Posted on 9 Jan, 2018 by Jeremy Yoder

My 2018 academic year started with a drive north. Asilomar Conference Grounds, on the Monterey Peninsula, is a half-day trip north of Los Angeles, so when the American Society of Naturalists announced it as the site for the society’s meeting … Continue reading →

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#Evol2017 catch-up — or remember that time when someone stole your field gear?

Posted on 12 Jul, 2017 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

To borrow from our lead in paragraph for post-Evol2017 wrap-ups: Two weeks after the closing day of the 2017 Evolution Meetings, the Molecular Ecologists have all dispersed from Portland, though items from the Krueger-Hadfield lab didn’t make the return journey! Still, the conference … Continue reading →

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