The SSE International Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 International Event Grants [1]! The goal of these grants is to foster communication and collaboration between scientists from different countries by sponsoring international symposia, workshops, courses, and other events within the field of evolutionary biology.
2024 Recipients:
Event: Meeting on the Origins and Evolution of Multicellularity Across the Tree of Life
Organizers: Victoria Shabardina (Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona, Spain —IBE, CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain), Marta Álvarez-Presas (IBE), Koryu Kin (Juntendo University, Japan), Guifré Torruella (IBE), Aurora Nedelcu (University of New Brunswick, Canada), Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo (IBE)
Dates: October 9-11, 2025
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Event: Evolutionary Genomics Workshop – Colombia 2024
Organizers: Catalina Palacios (SELVA: Research for the conservation in the neotropics, Colombia), Daniel Cadena (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia), Camila Gómez (SELVA: Research for the conservation in the neotropics, Colombia), Leonardo Campagna (Cornell University, USA)
Dates: Late 2024 (exact dates TBD)
Location: Bogotá, Santa Marta, and Chiquinquirá, Colombia
Event: RADcamp-Latin America 2025: Robust and reproducible library preparation, sequencing, assembly, and analysis of RADseq datasets
Organizers: RADCamp workshop team (USA) and CoreLab Genomics team (Tecnológico de Monterrey, México)
Dates: July 14-21, 2025
Location: Monterrey, México
Event: Fifth International Southeast Asian Bat Conference (SEABCO 2024)
Organizers: Long Vu (Center for Biodiversity Conservation and Endangered Species—CBES) and Laurel Yohe (UNC Charlotte, USA)
Dates: November 26-30, 2024
Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam