Molecular Mechanisms in Evolution and Ecology Course

Molecular Mechanisms in Evolution and Ecology Course is organized by European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and will be held from Oct 08 - 11, 2024 at EMBL Advanced Training Centre (ATC), Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.

Description:
Dramatic advances in omics technologies and genetic engineering now enable us to tackle one of biology’s most fascinating problems – how evolution works in life’s communities and ecosystems. Gaining mechanistic insights requires bringing together multiple disciplines and viewpoints. The focus of this workshop series is on interspecies and cell-environment interactions across living organisms, with a special focus on bacteria, microbial eukaryotes, and viruses. The workshop series aims to highlight the latest technological advances, amplify scientific and societal focus on biodiversity, and showcase studies on the vital role of microbes in planetary ecosystems.

The 2024 meeting will bring together researchers from a wide range of fields and organismal systems that aim to gain mechanistic insights on major outstanding ecological and evolutionary questions (e.g., how organisms interact and assemble into communities, how genotypic variation transforms into phenotypic variation) or that develop novel experimental and/or computational approaches for doing so. The meeting will foster dialogue between researchers from different backgrounds who work on diverse ecological systems to catalyze new innovative ideas and aid the career advancement of young researchers.

Session Topics:

• In the wild
• The genotype-phenotype map
• Coevolution across trophic levels
• Assembly and evolution of communities
• Innovative & integrative approaches for ecology and evolution