== Fellowships / Residencies (months) == * [http://www.iiasa.ac.at/web/home/education/yssp/Apply/ConditionsEligibility/Conditions-and-Eligibility.en.html Summer Fellowships for Young Scientists @ International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria]: June-August annually. * [http://www.iiasa.ac.at/web/home/research/researchPrograms/EvolutionandEcology/AbouttheProgram/Student-Participation-in-EEP.en.html Past projects] == Summer Schools (weeks long) == Gotta add more and update links, short descriptions stuff like that * SFI Complexity Summer School thinger * [wiki:UWSummerStatsWorkshop Univ WA Statistical Genetics Summer School] * [http://treethinkers.org/ Bodega Bay workshop in applied phylogenetics] * Held in spring in at UC Davis. * [http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/physio/khadralab//public_html/summer.html The Joint 2015 CAMBAM-MBI-NIMBioS Summer School] -- NONLINEAR DYNAMICS IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS -- * [http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/physio/khadralab//public_html/website/programme.html 2015 Programme] - June 1-12 * [http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5284 East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI)] * More open ended, an NSF grant. Applicants must propose a location, host scientist, and research project that is appropriate for the host site and duration of the international visit. * Deadline is mid november * [http://www.evolution.unibas.ch/teaching/guarda/index.htm Evolutionary Biology in Guarda 2015] - An international summer school in the Swiss Alps, jointly offered by Basel University and the ETH Zurich. Happens mid-june * More of a grant writing/team building exercise, but still cool. * Application opens January 5, 2015. Deadline is '''February 12, 2015'''. * [http://depts.washington.edu/fhl/ Friday Harbor Labs] * Associated with UW, in beautiful san juan islands puget sound, can't beat the location. * Many options for recurring summer schools, very ecology based. * [http://www.mbl.edu/education/special-topics-courses/workshop-on-molecular-evolution/ Workshop on Molecular Evolution] @ Woods Hole * 10 days, covers all kinds of computational biology topics, almost everything you could want to do in evolutionary biology downstream from sequencing/variant calling. Popgen, phylogenetics, molecular evolution etc. * [https://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=13135 Gordon Research Conference on Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics] * July 12-17, 2015 * Deadline '''June 14, 2015''' * [http://ssmpg2015.imag.fr/index.html Software and Statistical Methods for Population Genetics] * In the french alps, so that's a bonus * Sept 7-11 == Workshops / Meetings == Normally smaller (<50 people), semi-annual or offered irregularly, 1-3 day events, more hands on * [http://meetings.cshl.edu/courses/2014/tgac14.shtml Cold Spring Harbor Workshops] * [http://meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.html Cold Spring Harbor Meetings] * [http://life.mcmaster.ca/cgi-bin/my_wrap/brian/evoldir/Conferences/ EvolDir Conferences page] * [http://life.mcmaster.ca/cgi-bin/my_wrap/brian/evoldir/WorkshopsCourses/ EvolDir Workshops page] * [http://www.nimbios.org/ National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis] * Sign up for their newsletter because they have cool workshops and opportunities all the time. * [http://www.samsi.info/ Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute] - Same here, often have cool workshops. == Smaller / Specialized Annual conferences == * [http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2015/index.php Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology] * Lots of "wet" biology, morphology, functional anatomy, etc, etc, but they do have some phylogenetic/geographic/genomic stuff too. * [http://www.lirmm.fr/mceb2015/ Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology] * Annual conference held in france. The website has links to previous years programs with lots of slides from presentations, good place to just go look around. * [http://www.biologie.ens.fr/mmee2015/ Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution] - Paris (France) * [http://protolang.org/ Protolang] - Looks insanely cool, not _exactly_ evolution (run by the philosophy dept) but still good stuff * Plus it's in Rome, in September * Bi-annual (next one is in 2017) * "The Protolang conference series creates an interdisciplinary platform for scholarly discussion on the origins of symbolic communication distinctive of human beings. The thematic focus of Protolang is on delineating the genetic, anatomical, neuro-cognitive, socio-cultural, semiotic, symbolic and ecological requirements for evolving (proto)language" == Annual Conferences (Mega) == Probably most people know about these, but putting them on here for completeness. * [http://www.evolutionsociety.org Evolution (SSE)] * [http://www.eseb.org/ European Society for Evolutionary Biology] has an annual conf, could be fun. 2015 conference is in August. * [http://esa.org/baltimore Ecological Society of America]