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BIOLOGY20

Venue

University of Fribourg
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The largest conference of organismal biology in Switzerland will take place in Fribourg on 6 and 7 February 2020

Logo de Université de Fribourg
Logo de Université de Fribourg
Logo de Université de Fribourg

The BIOLOGY conference aims to provide a platform for exchange between students and researchers across diverse scientific institutions and topic areas such as evolution, ecology, conservation, behavior and systematics. It is also the annual joint meeting of the Swiss Zoological, Botanical, and Systematics societies.

The day before the main meeting (5 February) a satellite meeting of the Swiss Bioinformatics Institute on “Analyzing Microbiomes” will take place, organized by Laurent Falquet (Fribourg).

Speakers:

  • John Pannell, University of Lausanne (Darwin talk)
  • Andrea Waeschenbach, Natural History Museum of London, UK
  • Alexandra-Maria Klein, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
  • Iain Couzin, University of Konstanz, Germany
  • Claudia Bank, The Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal

Categories

  • Botany
  • Evolutionary biology
  • Systematics
  • Zoology