| Announcements from the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)
Applications and nominations are invited for the position of Director of the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, NESCent (www.nescent.org), a research center in Durham, North Carolina, USA. The Center is supported by the National Science Foundation, and is jointly sponsored by Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University. The position of Director will be a faculty appointment at the senior level made by Duke University.
NESCent promotes collaborative research on fundamental synthetic questions in evolutionary biology by supporting visiting scientists in working groups and catalysis meetings (>500 scientists/year) and resident sabbatical and visiting scholars and postdoctoral fellows. The Center also has a large Informatics group and an active program in Education and Outreach in evolutionary biology.
Applications and nominations should be submitted electronically to nescent-director@duke.edu. Review of applications will begin December 1, 2008 and continue until the position is filled.
The full ad and application instructions can be viewed at:
http://www.nescent.org/about/employment.php.
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Online Ballot 2008
The SMBE Council is pleased to bring you the slate of officers for this year's election. All SMBE members should have received their Subscription Number and Voting Token, akin to a password, by e-mail. If you or a colleague who is a member has not received them by April 21 2008, please email Oxford University Press to get them.
MBE Election Site
 SMBE 2008 Annual Meeting
The organizing committee for the SMBE 2008 meeting is pleased to invite you to attend the meeting to be held in Barcelona, June 5-8, 2008.
The meeting will highlight the latest research at the interface of molecular biology and evolution, especially involving the analysis of genomes.
Julio Rozas and Carmen Segarra
SMBE 2008 Organizers
http://www.smbe2008.com
The Organising Committee invites you to present proposals for potential Symposia topics. More information available at: http://smbe2008.com/callSymposia.htm
University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA.
http://ccg.biology.uiowa.edu/sexrec
The Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics and the Department of Biology at the University of Iowa announces an international conference on the evolution of sex & recombination. This conference will immediately precede the 2008 Evolution meeting taking place in nearby Minneapolis, Minnesota (June 20-24).
Talks will be given by invited speakers at both the junior and senior level. There will also be opportunities for contributed talks and posters to be given by conference attendees at all levels of seniority. A number of travel awards (10-15) will be provided to deserving students and postdocs.
Topics will include:
- Advantages of sexual reproduction
- Experimental evolution of sex
- Estimating recombination rates
- Mating types & sex determination
- Linkage, selection & population size
- Sex chromosomes
- Sex & pathogenesis
- Sexual selection
- Sexual conflict
Confirmed speakers: http://ccg.biology.uiowa.edu/sexrec/speakers.php
Check the conference website for details regarding registration, accommodation, etc.: http://ccg.biology.uiowa.edu/sexrec/registration.php
A symposium issue to be published in Journal of Heredity is being planned.
All enquiries are encouraged (including potential sponsors) and should be directed to the organizers: sexrec@uiowa.edu
France, Montpellier area: Hameau de l'Etoile
http://www.lirmm.fr/MIEP08/
Non-exhaustive list of topics: phylogenetics, evolutionary genetics and
genomics, molecular evolution of pathogens and epidemiology, biodiversity,
statistical modelling, algorithmics, and software development.
The number of participants will be limited. Registrations are open on
conference web site.
 In the Light of Evolution II: Biodiversity and Extinction
You are invited to attend an Arthur M. Sackler colloquium, In the Light of Evolution II: Biodiversity and Extinction, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences. The Colloquium will be at the Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering in Irvine, California. A preliminary program can be viewed at www.nasonline.org/Sackler_biodiversity_program. Please register on the NAS website www.nasonline.org/Sackler_biodiversity. The registration fee is $350, which includes the cost of meals, reception, and banquet. However, an early registration fee of $250 (also including meals, reception, and banquet) is available to those posting their registration by November 1, 2007. A reduced all-inclusive registration fee of $150 is offered to Graduate Students and Postdocs who register by November 1, 2007.
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