Next deadline: 15th November, 2022.
We are excited to announce the next round of this initiative by the European Society of Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), in partnership with the Journal of Evolutionary Biology (JEB).
We invite applications for funding to support focussed conference or workshops on a topical issue where rapid progress is currently being made in understanding Evolutionary Biology. ESEB will supply funds up to EUR 15,000 to assist with workshop planning (venue, travel or attendance support). We encourage proposals on any topic.
We expect these meetings to bring together a range of researchers focussed around a topic for a “state of the art” conference, ideally proposing a new synthesis, viewpoint or technical or analytical breakthrough facilitating new avenues of research. Attendees would represent researchers from all career stages and must accord with our Equal Opportunities guidelines. Attendance should be open to all, but ESEB members should be prioritised. Typically, meetings would last 2–3 days.
An important condition of the funding is that the meeting has a clear objective to produce either a Special Issue or Invited Review for JEB. Organisers should aim to have the manuscript(s) produced within 4 months of the end of the meeting, and should detail how this will be done in their applications. In the case of a Special Issue, the organisers of the meeting or appropriate nominees may serve as Guest Editors (where appropriate), handling the peer review process for manuscripts arising from the meeting with assistance from JEB editors.
There will be one call for applications per year, with this year’s deadline being November 15th, 2022. Applicants should be members of ESEB or our sister society, the Society for the Study of Evolution.
There is no official application form. The application document should include:
- The title of the conference and why this is suitable for a Progress Meeting
- Names and addresses of the organisers, with short (1 page each) CVs
- List of keynote speakers, with justification (potentially key recent references). They should have agreed in principle to participate
- A 2‑page description of the aims and potential scope of the conference
- Conference venue details
- Methods of selecting participants
- Publication plans
Questions and applications should be submitted to the ESEB Office (office@eseb.org) by the deadline. The successful application will be chosen by an ESEB committee.
Luke Holman, Reviews Editor, JEB
Max Reuter, Editor-in-Chief, JEB
Mike Ritchie, former Editor-in-Chief, JEB
Tanja Schwander, Deciding Editor and former Special Issue Editor, JEB
Progress Meeting 2022
Advancing 21st Century Evolutionary Biology through Evolvability in the Fossil Record
Organisers: Masahito Tsuboi (SE), Stephen De Lisle (SE), & Lee Hsiang Liow (NO)
Dates & Place: tba, Department of Biology in Lund University, SE
Review: tba
Progress Meeting 2021
The Social Lives of Viruses
Organisers: Asher Leeks (UK) & Samuel L. Díaz Muñoz (US)
Dates & Place: 21 – 23 March 2022, St. John’s College, Oxford, UK
Review: tba
Progress Meeting 2020
Disentangling neutral versus adaptive evolution in chromosomal inversions
Organisers: Emma Berdan (SE), Thomas Flatt (CH), and Kerstin Johannesson (SE)
Dates & Place: 28 February – 3 March 2022, Tjärnö Marine Research Station, SE
Review: tba
Progress Meeting 2019
Virus evolution on the mutualist – parasite continuum
Organisers: Samuel Alizon (FR) & Paul Turner (US)
Dates & Place: 21 – 25 October 2019, Roscoff, FR
SPECIAL SECTION: Virus evolution on the mutualist-parasite continuum
Guest edited by Samuel Alizon and Paul E. Turner
Progress Meeting 2018
Resistance to gene drives: responses to natural and synthetic systems
Organisers: Tom Price (UK) & Anna Lindholm (CH)
Dates & Place: 18 – 23 June 2018, Arolla, CH
INVITED REVIEW: Price T.A.R., et.al.: Resistance to natural and synthetic gene drive systems, DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13693