IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop: 30 June – 3 July, 2025
The workshop starts on June 30 at 5pm and ends on July 3 in the evening.
Pre-school: June 29 (afternoon) & June 30, 2025
Registration deadline: 15 March, 2025
Notification of acceptance: 22 March, 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 experimentalists 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 theoretical 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)
Laure Olazcuaga (CNRS - SETE)
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).
