Dear colleague, The workshop Species interactions and speciation will take place in Umeå, Sweden, during January 16-18. We would be most grateful to you if you could kindly share this information with potentially interested colleagues in your research group or department.
It is commonly recognized that species interactions can play an important role in the speciation process, both by enabling reproductive isolation and by generating ecological conditions that favor adaptive speciation. Despite this, much contemporary speciation research focuses on single species in isolation. The aim of this workshop is to bring together leading speciation researchers for three days of talks and discussion on the role of species interactions in speciation. This workshop will be organized as part of the European Science Foundation’s Research Networking Programme Frontiers of Speciation Research (FroSpects), which is funded by 16 of ESF's national member organizations. The aims of FroSpects are to bridge between different approaches to speciation research and to promote integrative perspectives that interface empirical insights with theoretical advances and bring together developments in ecology, systematics, and genetics. In addition to about 10 invited presentations, the conference will feature contributed talks and a poster session. Confirmed invited speakers include Mike Boots, University of Exeter, UK, Tucker Gilman, University of Manchester, UK, Rees Kassen, University of Ottawa, Canada, Nicolas Loeuille, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, Rupert Mazzucco, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, Hans Metz, Leiden University, Netherlands, Jörgen Ripa, Lund University, Sweden, Axel Rossberg, Cefas & Queen's University Belfast, UK, and Richard Svanbäck, Uppsala University, Sweden. Registration is open at www.kbc.umu.se/species-interactions-and-speciation-registration.html With many thanks and best wishes, Åke Brännström & Ulf Dieckmann Workshop website: http://www.kbc.umu.se/events/species-interaction-and-speciation-home.html About FroSpects: http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/EEP/FroSpects About ESF: http://www.esf.org About Umeå University: http://www.umu.se
