Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that on January 13-15, 2014, the American Society of
Naturalists will hold
a conference at the Asilomar Conference Center, on the spectacular Monterey
peninsula in coastal
California (http://www.visitasilomar.com). The conference is titled "Next
generation naturalists: new
perspectives on integrating evolution ecology and behavior".
The American Society of Naturalists is the oldest scientific society in North
America and is associated
with the journal The American Naturalist. The society's goal is to advance and
to diffuse knowledge
of organic evolution and other broad biological principles so as to enhance the
conceptual
unification of the biological sciences. In keeping with this goal and the
diverse subject matter in the
American Naturalist, the Asilomar conference will emphasize:
1) interdisciplinary research spanning the areas of evolution,
ecology, and behavior,
2) effective integration of theory, field and lab experimental
research, and emerging genomic
and bioinformatic perspectives
The conference will take on a unique format in order to provide both a venue
for presenting your
own research, as well as a setting for public discussions to define an
intellectual agenda for our
disciplines. We especially wish to encourage ecologists and behavior
researchers to attend the
meeting, as well as evolutionary biologists, as the former often do not attend
the ASN summer
meetings that are held jointly with the Society for the Study of Evolution and
the Society for
Systematic Biology. ASN will continue to meet jointly with SSE and SSB during
the summer, but plans
to use this more intimate winter meeting to attract a more diverse
interdisciplinary audience, attract
individuals whose summer research schedule does conflicts with summer meetings,
and provide a
unique conference experience.
We hope that you will set aside the dates of January 13-15 2014 to attend the
Asilomar meeting. To
be put on a mailing list for future announcements regarding registration,
conference format, and
calls for symposium proposals, please email [email protected] with the
subject line
"Subscribe to Asilomar emails: <your email>".
Sincerely,
Dan Bolnick
ASN Secretary
[email protected])
PS: Anyone interested in helping to plan the logistics or scientific agenda for
the meeting can contact
Daniel Bolnick ([email protected]).
