ESEB Congresses
The biennial ESEB congress is one of the largest conferences in evolutionary biology with about 1400 – 1700 participants. The congress usually takes place in August in Europe.
Upcoming ESEB Congresses
The next congress will be held in Turku, Finland from August 19 – 24, 2019 organized by Craig Primmer (chairman of the organisation team).
Visit the ESEB 2019 congress website
In 2021, the congress will take place from August 22– 27, 2021 in Prague, Czech Republic, organized by Lukáš Kratochvíl.
Visit the ESEB 2021 congress website
Past ESEB Congresses
- 2017 – Groningen, NL – organized by Leo W. Beukeboom
Program 2017 - 2015 – Lausanne, CH – organised by Nicolas Perrin
Program 2015 | Abstracts 2015 - 2013 – Lisbon, PT – organised by Octávio S. Paulo
Program 2013 | Abstracts & List of Poster 2013 - 2011 – Tübingen, DE – organised by Nico Michiels
Program & Abstracts 2011 | Abstracts & List of Poster 2013
Please note that the web-domain of the 2011 congress was taken over by an anti-evolution organization. ESEB unfortunately has no means to change this and disapproves of the presented content. - 2009 – Torino, IT – organised by Cristina Lorenzi and Gabriella Sella
Program, Abstracts, List of Poster 2009 - 2007 – Uppsala, SE – organised by Jacob Höglund, Jon Ågren, and Mats Björklund
Program & Abstracts 2007 - 2005 – Krakow, PL – organised by Jan Kozlowski
Program 2005 - 2003 – Leeds, UK – organised by Roger Butlin
Program & Abstracts 2003 - 2001 – Aarhus, DK – organised by Volker Loeschcke
- 1999 – Barcelona, ES – organised by Antionio Fontdevilla
Program, Abstracts, Participants 1999 - 1997 – Arnhem, NL – organised by Jos van Damme
Program & Abstracts 1997 - 1995 – Edinburgh, UK – organised by Nick Barton
Program, Abstracts, Participants 1995 - 1993 – Montpellier, FR – organised by François Catzeflis
- 1991 – Debrecen, HU – organised by Gabor Vida
Program 1991 | Abstracts 1991 - 1989 – Rome, IT – organised by Valerio Sbordoni
Abstracts 1989 - 1987 – Basel, CH – organised by Stephen C. Stearns
Preliminary Program 1987 | Program 1987 | Participants 1987
Joint Congresses
The congresses are held every six years jointly together with the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB).
The II. Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology will take place from 19 – 22 August 2018 in Montpellier, France.
Visit the conference website: evolutionmontpellier2018.org
Program 2018
Past Joint Congresses
- 2012 – Ottawa, CA – organised by Howard Rundle and Andrew Simons
Program 2012
EMPSEB
The annual European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB) is supported by ESEB to provide a platform for PhD students studying Evolutionary Biology to present their work and to meet their peers from all over Europe. The meeting is held at a different European city each year and is independently organized by current PhD students in this country.
The 24th EMPSEB will be held from September 10-15, 2017 in Bubión, Granada, Spain.
More information is available on the EMPSEB 24 website.
Past EMPSEB meetings
- 2017 – Krasiczyn, PL
- 2016 – Visby, SE
- 2015 – Stirling, UK
- 2014 – La Roche-en-Ardenne, BE
- 2013 – Exeter, UK
- 2012 – Virrat, FI
- 2011 – Seia, PT
- 2010 – Wierzba, PL
- 2009 – Schoorl, NL
- 2008 – Einsiedeln, CH
- 2007 – Lund, SE
- 2006 – St Andrews, UK
- 2005 – Bordeaux, FR
- 2004 – Shrewsbury, UK
- 2003 – Fiesch, CH
- 2002 – Lohja, FI
- 2001 – Bernried, DE
- 2000 – Vaalbeek, BE
- 1999 – Umeå, SE
- 1998 – Heraklion, GR
- 1997 – Barcelona, ES
- 1996 – Amsterdam, NL
- 1995 – Zurich, CH