Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation
Organisers: Martijn A. Schenkel (University of Groningen, NL, and Georgetown University, US), J. Arvid Ågren (Cleveland Clinic Foundation, US, and Uppsala University, SE), Manus M. Patten (Georgetown University, US), Nina Wedell (University of Melbourne, AU)
Contact:
Martijn A. Schenkel – m.a.schenkel[at] rug.nl
Funding period started in 2023
TIBBE – The Integrative Biology of Brain Evolution
Committee Chairs: Katja Heuer (University of Paris, FR), Roberto Toro (University of Paris, FR), Alexandra de Sousa (Bath Spa University, UK), Stephen Montgomery (University of Bristol, UK)
Organising committee: Zegni Triki (Bern University, CH), Carmen Falcone (SISSA Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, IT), Maria Castello (Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable (IIBCE), Ministerio de Educación y Cultura (MEC), UY), Kristina Kverkova (Charles University, CZ), Lucia Prieto-Godino (The Francis Crick Institute, UK), Ornella Bertrand (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ES), Rogier Mars (University of Oxford and Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, UK and NL)
Contact:
katjaQheuer@gmail.com
rto@pasteur.fr
s.montgomery@bristol.ac.uk
alexandraallisonsousa@gmail.com
Funding period started in 2023
Joint evolution of dispersal and mating systems
Organisers: Greta Bocedi (University of Aberdeen, UK), Scott Burgess (Florida State University, US), Julien Cote (CNRS, University of Toulouse, FR), Kimberly Gilbert (University of Fribourg, CH), Clément Lafon Placette (Charles University Prague, CZ), Xiang-Yi Li Richter (University of Neuchâtel, CH), John Pannell (University of Lausanne, CH), Jane Reid (Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, NTNU, NO), Cristina Tuni (University of Turin, IT)
Contact: Greta Bocedi – greta.bocedi[@]abdn.ac.uk
Funding period started in 2023
The network of socially transferred materials
Organisers: Adria LeBoeuf (University of Fribourg, CH / University of Cambridge, UK from Jan 2024), Joris Koene (VU Amsterdam, NL), Katharina Gapp (ETH Zurich, CH), Rebecca Kilner (University of Cambridge, UK), Sanja Hakala (University of Fribourg, CH)
Contact: Adria LeBoeuf
Funding period started in 2023
WAME – Wild Animal Microbiome Evolution
Organisers: Amy Sweeny (University of Edinburgh, UK), Johannes Björk (University of Groningen, NL), Sarah Knowles (University of Oxford, UK), Xavier Harrison (University of Exeter, UK), Trine Bilde (University of Aarhus, DK), David S Richardson (UEA, UK).
Contact:
Prof. David S Richardson (David.richardson[at]uea.ac.uk)
Funding period started in 2021
IOS – Integration of speciation research
Committee Chairs: Jonna Kulmuni (University of Helsinki, FI), Chris Cooney, (University of Sheffield, UK), Sean Stankowski (IST, AT), Carole Smadja (ISEM-CNRS, FR).
Organizing committee: Nick Barton (Treasurer; (IST, AT), Sonal Singhal (Diversity and inclusion officer; CSU Dominguez Hills, US); Roger Butlin (University of Sheffield, UK, and University of Gothenburg, SE), Joana Meier (University of Cambridge, UK), Richard Merrill (LMU, DE), Konrad Lohse (University of Edinburgh, UK), Liz Scordato (California State Polytechnic
University, CA, US).
Contact:
Jonna Kulmuni (jonna.kulmuni [at] helsinki.fi)
Funding period started in 2021
The Evolutionary Ecology of Thermal Fertility Limit
Organisers: Claudia Fricke (University of Halle, DE), Amanda Bretman (Leeds University, UK), Tom Price (Liverpool University, UK), Rhonda Snook (Stockholm University, SE)
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Claudia Fricke (claudia.fricke(at)zoologie.uni-halle.de)
Animal Ecology Research Group
Hoher Weg 8
06099 Halle
Germany
Funding period started in 2019
Synthesizing Micro- and Marco-Evolutionary Processes Shaping Prokaryotic Genomes
Organisers: Deepa Agashe (National Centre for Biological Sciences, IN), Edward Feil (University of Bath, UK), Isabel Gordo (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, PT), Ruth Hershberg (Technion, Haifa, IL), Olivier Tenaillon (INSERM, Ecole Polytechnique, FR)
Contact:
Deepa Agashe (dagashe@ncbs.res.in)
Edward Feil (bssef@bath.ac.uk)
Funding period started in 2019
Ecological genomics of coevolutionary interactions
Organizers: Amandine Cornille (University of Paris Saclay, FR), Daniel Croll (University of Neuchatel, CH), Dieter Ebert (University of Basel, CH), Eva Stukenbrock (MPI Evolutionary Biology, Plön, DE), Aurélien Tellier (Technical University of Munich, DE), Peter Tiffin (University of Minnesota, US).
Contact:
Amandine Cornille (amandine.cornille[at]inra.fr)
Funding period started in 2017
Past Special Topic Networks
ADAPT – Ancient DNA studies of Adaptive Processes through Time
Organizers: Andrew D. Foote (NTNU, NO), Marie Louis (University of St Andrews, UK), Michael D. Martin (NTNU University Museum, NO), Ole Seehausen (University of Bern & EAWAG, CH), Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, (University of Bern, CH), Eline Lorenzen (Natural History Museum of Denmark & University of Copenhagen, DK), Thomas P. Gilbert (Natural History Museum of Denmark &University of Copenhagen, DK), Matteo Fumagalli (Imperial College London, UK), María C. Ávila-Arcos (National Autonomous University of Mexico, MX), Love Dalén (Swedish Museum Natural History, SE), Tomas Marques-Bonet (Institute of Evolutionary Biology, CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, ES), Nina Overgaard Therkildsen (Cornell University, Ithaca, US), Daniel Wegmann (University of Fribourg, CH), Jennifer A. Jackson (British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK).
Funding period: 2017 – 2023
European Drosophila Population Genomics Network (DrosEU)
Main organizers: Josefa González (Institute of Evolutionary Biology, CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, ES), Martin Kapun (Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, CH), Thomas Flatt (University of Fribourg, CH); STN DrosEU Steering Committee: Andrea Betancourt (University of Liverpool, UK), Thomas Flatt, Josefa González, Mike Ritchie (University of St. Andrews, UK), Bas Zwaan (Wageningen University, NL).
Funding period: 2016 – 2023
Linking local adaptation with the evolution of sex differences
Organizers: Hanna Kokko (University of Zurich, CH), Erik Svensson (University of Lund, SE), Florence Débarre (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, Paris, FR), and Tim Connallon (Monash University, Melbourne, AU)
Funding period: 2016 – 2023