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This site provides up to date information regarding the 13th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Tuebingen 20-25 August 2011.
Registration opens early 2011. A call for symposia will be sent out very soon and can be found here: Call for Symposia
The historic university town of Tuebingen is a perfect venue to catch up with your international colleagues. Embedded in the beautiful landscape of central Baden-Wuerttemberg (SW Germany), this small but cosmopolitan town hosts 20,000 students. With one of the oldest universities in Europe (founded 1477), Tuebingen offers cultural highlights from the Middle Ages to the present. You can also look forward to enjoying warm summer evenings over a glass of local wine or beer in one of many open-air bars and beer gardens in the traffic-free centre or along the river Neckar.
Note that due to restricted accommodation we shall limit the number of participants to 1,300 (details to follow).
The Tuebinger meeting will see a few changes in the long-standing tradition of ESEB conferences. Here are some of them:

  1. Four, not five, full meeting days (excluding arrival and departure days). Pre-booked sightseeing tours will take place before or after the meeting. During the conference, we shall offer brief guided tours in the evenings.
  2. Symposia will be extended to up to 9 in parallel activities each afternoon. Some of these will be on topics of broad interest, some of them specialized and aimed at a limited audience.
  3. Each morning, two invited talks will be followed by three parallel sessions with submitted talks of broad interest. The latter do not have to belong to a pre-defined set of topics or symposia, but will be selected based on expected quality only.
  4. Three poster sessions and extra incentives to present and view posters will boost poster visibility and impact.
  5. In-conference communication will be maximized by making optimal use of electronic communication. We shall also implement new ways to encourage communication and facilitate meeting people you find interesting.
  6. A public transportation ticket is included, allowing you to move in and around Tuebingen for free. It also allows free access to local sightseeing highlights.
  7. A big farewell event in the historic monastery Bebenhausen closes the meeting.
 

Partners of ESEB 2011 ESEB Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen