Meetings, Seminars & Workshops

At the 'Science works' debate, researchers, politicians, policymakers and grant advisers will discuss current issues in the science field. Everyone who cares about science is welcome. We use the output of the debate to further shape our 'Science Works' strategy. Please note the debate will be held in Dutch

Wageningen Evolution & Ecology Seminars (WEES) invites you to 1) Seminar: Heat stress effects on insect reproduction with Dr. Graziella Iossa (16:00 in Orion C2030) and 2) Workshop: Work-life balance and other challenges in academia (14:00 in Orion B3042) on 31st of January.

Join a time machine with these professional time travelers: a marine biologist, a galactic archaeologist, an art historian, and an artist collective. During this meeting in Naturalis we take a journey through time and learn about very old stars that reveal the secrets of our universe, about coral reefs in the past and the future, and about how you can make art objects survive for thousands of years.

Following the success of Lignofuels 2022 which brought 150+ senior level industry professionals to Helsinki in June 2022, we are delighted to be returning to Finland for the 2023 edition of the conference taking place on 8th & 9th February 2023 in Helsinki. Book your early bird pass at Lignofuels 2023 and don't miss out on the presentations by senior representatives of GoodFuels & Biokraft in the afternoon of Conference Day 1 in session entitled "Future Markets for Lignofuels".

The constraint-based modeling course provides insights in the powerful modeling framework that allows to model reaction fluxes in genome-scale metabolic network models, with uses in fundamental and applied questions relevant to biotechnology, microbiology and biomedicine. These genome-scale metabolic models encompass all metabolic reactions encoded in an organism, possibly contextualized to a particular cell type and condition. Constraint-based modeling provides a scalable framework to analyze these large-scale models, whether they describe microbes, human cells in health and disease or multi-cellular systems like microbiota and the whole body.

The goal of the Hot Topic sessions is to bring together researchers with shared interests in an informal setting. The format can change from session to session, but will typically involve a number of invited talks and, importantly, the opportunity for networking.

After the long delay due to the pandemic, we are thrilled to invite the world’s soil biodiversity researchers, educators, and policy supporters to join us in Dublin, Ireland on 13-15th March 2023 for the 3rd Global Soil Biodiversity Conference. The Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative, launched in 2011, is a major stakeholder in the development of soil biodiversity policy, and the accelerating scientific knowledge underpinning the vast biological diversity contained in terrestrial soils worldwide.

The 19th edition of NAC (Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres) brings together the research fields within the Earth and Environmental Sciences from the remit of the NWO Science Domain. The event aims to continue to provide a true interdisciplinary forum for discussion and for young scientists to present their research results to a broad audience. NAC is a great opportunity to present your science and get some really crucial feedback, to meet and mix with eminent people within the field and to really take the opportunity to speak to as many people as you can.

The Centre for Wetland Ecology (CWE) is pleased to announce a restart of our biannual symposia on topics related to wetland ecology, now covid policies allow this again. We start with a save the date announcement for an upcoming one-day symposium:

It is now possible to register and submit an abstract for NWO Life2023. This conference is a breeding place for wild ideas. A place for life scientists of all scale levels to explore, connect, discuss and get inspired. NWO Life2023 takes place in Hotel Zuiderduin at Egmond aan Zee, on 23 and 24 May 2023. The overarching theme for this edition is ‘Diversity of Life’.

The UI Institute for Health in the Human Ecosystem (IHHE) is hosting its annual Biology of Vector-borne Diseases six-day course, Monday through Saturday, June 12-17, 2023, on the UI campus in Moscow, Idaho. This course provides accessible, condensed training and "knowledge networking" for advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, new faculty, and current professionals to ensure competency in basic biology and cutting-edge knowledge for U.S. and global vector-borne diseases of plants, animals, and humans. With the support of 30+ internationally recognized faculty, we seek to train the next generation of scientists and professionals to think about vector-borne diseases as interconnected pathosystems and help them to develop effective solutions to current and emerging vector-borne disease threats in complex human ecosystems.

The 2023 ATBC annual meeting will be held in Coimbatore, India. They are receiving now calls for symposia (deadline January 15th, 2023).

On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the ECE 2023 and the Hellenic Entomological Society, we are delighted to invite entomologists from around the globe to the XII European Congress of Entomology (ECE 2023), which will be held in Heraklion, Crete, on 16-20 October 2023. Deadline for abstract submission is Monday 27 February 2023