CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 12th ANNUAL EARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS SYMPOSIUM The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan invites nominations of outstanding scientists early in their careers to participate in an exciting international symposium entitled “Frontiers in Community Assembly.” The symposium events will take place on 12 March 2016, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dr. Tadashi Fukami and Dr. Rosemary Gillespie will be the keynote speakers.
Potential topics include phylogenetic and ecological models for inferring community structure, speciation and the evolution of secondary sympatry, genomic processes underlying colonization and local adaptation, the structuring of communities across environmental gradients, inferences from paleo-communities We welcome nominations of early career scientists who are studying ecological and evolutionary approaches to community assembly. Early career scientists are considered senior graduate students (who stand to receive their Ph.D. within one year) or postdoctoral researchers. A colleague or advisor may provide the nomination. The selected nominees will be invited to present their work and to participate in panel discussions at the symposium. The nomination consists of the nominee’s curriculum vitae, a brief abstract of the proposed presentation (< 200 words, written by the nominee), and an optional brief letter of recommendation addressing the nominee’s scientific promise and ability to give a compelling talk. Nominations should be sent electronically (in one file, please) to [email protected] using the nominee’s name as the subject line (last name first). More information is available at http://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/. Review of nominations will begin on January 22nd, 2016. Selected participants will be contacted by February 1, 2016, and will have all expenses covered (registration, travel and accommodation). An official announcement of the list of speakers will be issued soon thereafter. For more information, contact Carol Solomon at [email protected]. The 2016 Early Career Scientists Symposium scientific committee includes: Lydia Beaudrot James Pease Marian Schmidt Carol Solomon Ben Winger Senay Yitbarek
