We are pleased to announce this year's Early Career Scientist Symposium, Frontiers in Community Assembly, to be held Saturday, March 12, 2016 in the Chemistry Building on the campus of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The symposium will focus on the integration of evolutionary and ecological perspectives to understand community assembly.

Our outstanding lineup of keynote speakers and emerging leaders will present a diverse array of integrative advances in our understanding of community assembly. These topics include new conceptualizations of the species pool for community ecology, the genomic processes underlying species coexistence, phylogenetic models of community composition, insights from paleo-communities, and coevolutionary networks.

We are delighted to announce our keynote speakers: Rosemary Gillespie, professor and Schlinger Chair in Systematic Entomology, Department of Environmental Science and Essig Museum of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley, and Tadashi Fukami, associate professor, Department of Biology, Stanford University. You can read more about them and our early career speakers and their presentations under the speakers tab on our website. Early career scientists are considered senior graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and first- or second-year faculty.

Registration is free of charge but we strongly encourage you to register so we may provide adequate food and refreshment. 

Register Here

Graduate students from all universities and all disciplines are invited to present their work during a lunchtime poster session, and can indicate so when they register. Poster specifications.  

Lunch will be provided at the poster session and a reception will follow the symposium.

Looking forward to your participation,

2016 Early Career Scientists Symposium organizing committee

Lydia Beaudrot

James Pease

Marian Schmidt

Ben Winger

Senay Yitbarek

For further information, contact Carol Solomon.

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