IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop: 30 June – 3 July, 2025
Registration deadline: 15 March, 2025
Notification of acceptance: 22 March, 2025
The workshop starts on June 30 at 5pm and ends on July 3 in the evening.
Pre-school: June 29 & June 30, 2025
OVERVIEW
Evolutionary rescue is a topic of great interest, from medicine to agriculture to conservation, and from
natural observations to experiments to theory. In 2023, we organised a workshop on ‘Mathematical
models of evolutionary rescue’. In this second edition, we now aim to bring modelers and experi-
mentalists together to discuss (1) which theoretical insights should be tested experimentally and how
this could be done, (2) which experimental observations could be clarified with the help of theoret-
ical models, and (3) which open questions could be addressed by the co-development of models and
experiments.
In addition to invited and contributed talks and posters there will be discussion sessions, designed to
increase cross-talk between theory and experiments.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Helen Alexander (University of Edinburgh)
Lutz Becks (University of Konstanz)
Robert D. Holt (University of Florida)
Jitka Polechová (University of Vienna)
PRE-SCHOOL
In addition to the workshop, we offer a ‘pre-school’ prior to the workshop, in which we provide an
introduction to models of evolutionary rescue (afternoon of June 29 – June 30). This school will be
open for workshop participants (e.g. students or experimental researchers who would like to gain
better insights into modeling) and members of the institute. The pre-school will take place if there is
sufficient interest.
APPLICATION & REGISTRATION
We hope that all participants present a talk or poster but it is not mandatory. However, if you do
not submit an abstract please briefly state your motivation for participating (max. 250 words) in the
appropriate field. Applicants will be notified about acceptance by March 22.
Registration is free. However, you need to pay for your own travel and accommodation. If you do not
have sufficient funds to cover these expenses, please provide some information (including estimated
gaps in funding) in the respective field upon registration. We may be able to subsidize travel in
exceptional cases.
CONTACT
For all administrative queries (including invitation letters for visa applications), please contact Maren
Lehmann (lehmann@evolbio.mpg.de).
If you have any other questions, please contact the organizers, Hildegard Uecker (uecker@evolbio.mpg.de)
and Matthew Osmond (mm.osmond@utoronto.ca).
