CALL FOR NOMINATIONS SEVENTH ANNUAL UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN EARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS SYMPOSIUM
INFECTIOUS DISEASE ACROSS SCALES The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan invites nominations of outstanding scientists early in their careers to take part in an exciting symposium on infectious disease ecology and evolution. This symposium will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan on Saturday, 16 April 2011. Eight scientists will be selected to present their work. The theme of the symposium will be "Infectious disease across scales: the complexity of pathogen ecology and evolution". We are therefore seeking nominations for scientists whose work addresses host-pathogen or host-parasite systems at the within-host level, at the community level (multiple pathogens and/or hosts), considers the (co)evolutionary dynamics of disease systems, or that bridges one or more of these scales. We are especially interested in junior researchers with strong field or laboratory research programs that address fundamental theoretical questions and theoreticians whose work is especially intimately connected with data. Early career scientists are defined as senior graduate students (who stand to receive their Ph.D. within one year), postdoctoral researchers, and first- or second-year tenure-track faculty. Advisors and senior colleagues are encouraged to submit nominations. A nomination consists of a brief letter of recommendation addressing the nominee’s scientific promise and ability to give a good talk, the nominee's curriculum vitae, and a brief abstract of the proposed presentation (< 200 words, written by the nominee). Nominations may be sent electronically (in one file if possible) to [email protected] using your nominee's name as the subject line (last name first, please). More information is available at http://sitemaker.umich.edu/ecss2011. All nominations must be received by January 10, 2011. Selected participants will be contacted by January 31, 2011. For more information, contact Gail Kuhnlein at [email protected]. 2011 ECSS organizing committee: Aaron King [email protected] Mercedes Pascual [email protected] Pejman Rohani [email protected] Andres Baeza ([email protected]) Micaela Martinez-Bakker ([email protected]) Gail Kuhnlein ([email protected]) Michigan EEB website: http://www.eeb.lsa.umich.edu
