December 11, 2014
Dear SSE Colleagues:
Congratulations and thanks to our newly elected Council members!
President-elect Kim Hughes (Florida State, will serve as president in 2016)
Secretary Cynthia Weinig (University of Wyoming)
Councilor Andrea Case (Kent State University)
Councilor Kristi Montooth (University of Nebraska)
Additionally, special thanks to Maria Servedio (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), who will serve as a new Handling Editor for Evolution. Extra special thanks to Council members who are rotating off this year: Rich Lenski (president in 2013, who gave an outstanding speech that year in Snowbird), John Kelly (extremely dutiful secretary who also kept the 2014 president in check whenever possible), and Councilors Aneil Agrawal and Judith Mank. Thanks also to Thomas Lenormand for his service as a Handling Editor for Evolution.
To let you know what's been accomplished this year, here are some SSE Highlights from 2014 beyond the usual (publishing great science in Evolution, recognizing outstanding young scientists with the Dobzhansky & Fisher prizes, etc.):
SSE Awards Accepting Nominations/Submissions
There are a number of deadlines upcoming for SSE Awards.
Stephen Jay Gould Prize - December 18
Fisher Prize - January 31
Dobzhansky Prize - February 15
Rosemary Grant Research Award - April 1
The 2015 SSE Annual Meeting
Save the dates of June 26-30, 2015 for the next SSE annual meeting which will take place at the Casa Grande Resort in Guarujá, Brazil. We anticipate that registration will open in January. Some information is already being posted at the EVOLUTION 2015 meeting site.
Watch for announcements regarding student travel awards in January!
Thank you for your continued work and support of our mission.
Best wishes,
Mohamed Noor, President
Society for the Study of Evolution
SSE Business Office
PO Box 299 | St. Louis Missouri, 63166
314-577-9566
www.evolutionsociety.org
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August 27, 2014
Dear SSE Colleague:
I want to extend a big thank you to Allen Rodrigo & team for a phenomenal Evolution 2014 meeting. Videos of 78 of the talks are online so if you could not attend, you can still get a taste of what the meeting was like. Mark your calendars now and plan to join us for EVOLUTION 2015: June 26-30, 2015 at the Casa Grande Hotel, Guarujá, São Paulo, Brazil. Remember that US citizens NEED TO GET A VISA ~1-2 months in advance to travel to Brazil. Save the date for EVOLUTION 2016: June 17-21 in Austin, Texas.
IMPORTANT SOCIETY ITEMS
SSE STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL:
We welcome PhD student Karl Grieshop who joins us as an additional member of SSE Student Advisory Council (serving with Cathy Rushworth from Duke University, in her second year in this role). Karl works in Göran Arnqvist's lab at Uppsala University studying the architecture of sexually antagonistic genetic variation. We will be seeking two more members to serve in 2015.
NEW RESOURCE: EvoED DIGITAL LIBRARY
The EvoED Digital Library is a peer-reviewed online educational resource maintained by SSE. EvoED is part of a suite of resources established under the Digital Resource Discovery Project, with support from NSF and AAAS, and in partnership with the Ecological Society of America, the Botanical Society of America, and the Society for Economic Botany. While there are currently more than 1000 resources in the shared Digital Resource Library, most of the content to date has been acquired via the EcoED portal. SSE would like to see EvoED reach its potential as a resource for evolution educators, especially with regard to undergraduate instruction. To achieve this goal, the editors of EvoED, Tom Meagher and Rich Kliman, invite self-nominations for a newly established board of reviewers. At the same time, the editors invite educators to contribute evolution-focused content -- particularly exercises, computer simulations, and other tools that have been used successfully in the laboratory and classroom to help students better understand evolutionary principles. Prospective reviewers should contact Rich Kliman (rmkliman@cedarcrest.edu). Instructions for submitting original content to EvoED can be found at http://evoed.evolutionsociety.org.
All the best,
Mohamed Noor, President
Society for the Study of Evolution
SSE Business Office
4475 Castleman Avenue | St. Louis Missouri, 63110-3201
314-577-9566
www.evolutionsociety.org
June 2, 2014
Dear SSE Colleagues:
Happy summer 2014! We’re all really excited about the upcoming Evolution 2014 conference in Raleigh, NC, USA, starting June 20! Below please find some important Society and meeting news.
Award Winners Announced
Daniel Matute of the University of Chicago (starting a faculty position at UNC-Chapel Hill in fall, 2014) was awarded the Society for the Study of Evolution’s 2014 Dobzhansky Prize. This award recognizes the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding young evolutionary biologists. Daniel has already made seminal contributions to our understanding of the genetics and evolution underlying species formation. He’ll present an address at the 2014 conference entitled "Drosophila, reproductive isolation, and speciation," as well as a separate symposium talk entitled "The genetic architecture of hybrid inviability in Drosophila."
The winner of the 2014 Stephen Jay Gould Prize is Steve Jones of University College London. Professor J. Stephen Jones is well known in Britain and worldwide as an eloquent spokesperson for promoting the public understanding of science, particularly with regard to evolution. Steve Jones will deliver the Gould Prize Lecture at 5:30 PM on Friday, June 20th, 2014 in the Raleigh Convention Center Ballroom C. The title of his talk is “Snails in Art and the Art of Snails: An Evolutionist’s Journey Through Science and the Arts.”
The R. A. Fisher Prize is awarded annually by the Society for the Study of Evolution for an outstanding Ph.D. dissertation paper published in the journal Evolution during a given calendar year. This year’s Fisher Prize is awarded to Dr. Amy Hurford for her paper: Hurford, A. and T. Day. 2013.Immune evasion and the evolution of molecular mimicry in parasites. Evolution 67(10): 2889-2904.
Congratulations to the 22 graduate student winners of the Rosemary Grant Awards! These awards assist students in the early stages of their Ph.D. programs by enabling them to collect preliminary data or to enhance the scope of their research beyond current funding limits.
EVOLUTION 2014- New Services
In the spirit of sharing and dissemination of scientific information, Evolution 2014 offers two new, voluntary services. First, presenters of talks or posters are welcome to upload their slides or poster to F1000 Posters, thereby allowing people to see to their content again after the conference dates. For more information, please visit this site. We advise submitters to consider whether F1000 Poster contributions could affect subsequent publication in a particular refereed journal. Second, more than 100 people offered to allow their conference talks to be videotaped and put online. This is an experimental service, so we appreciate everyone's patience as we try it for the first time. If you're a student who would like to volunteer to record some of the talks with your personal device (e.g., smartphone) in exchange for US$10 per recording, please provide your information HERE.
Call for Symposia for 2015 Annual Meeting
The 2015 annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution is planned for June 26-30, 2015 in Guaruja, Brazil. The SSE Council invites proposals for the two Society-sponsored symposia to be held in conjunction with the meeting. To learn more or to submit a proposal, please visit our site. The deadline is this Friday, June 6.
Looking forward to seeing many of you in Raleigh later this month.
Best wishes,
Mohamed Noor, President
Society for the Study of Evolution
SSE Business Office | PO Box 299 | St. Louis Missouri, 63166 | 314-577-9566
www.evolutionsociety.org
Dear SSE Colleagues:
EVOLUTION 2014 Meeting News
Here are some upcoming deadlines for EVO 2014.
Join us in Raleigh, North Carolina on June 20-24.
* April 14: undergraduate travel awards close
* April 16: early-bird registration and presentation submission deadline
* May 23: childcare registration deadline
* May 31: deadline to enter the evolution film festival
* late-May/early-June: complete program becomes available; stay tuned
* June 1: cancellation deadline
Best wishes,
Mohamed Noor, President
Society for the Study of Evolution
Dear SSE Colleagues:
EVOLUTION 2014 Meeting News
Save the date! This year SSE will meet in Raleigh, North Carolina on June 20-24. This is the premier opportunity to share scientific research on evolution. There will be symposia, contributed papers, and poster sessions, and we’re expecting around 1,500 participants. NESCent, the National Evolutionary Science Center, is organizing the Evolution 2014 meeting. So visit the web site for all the latest information. Stay tuned for an email when registration opens and make your plans now to join us in Raleigh next June!
T.H. Huxley Award
The SSE Education & Outreach Committee is pleased to announce the T. H. Huxley award, named in honor of Darwin's very public supporter, which provides funding for an SSE member to present at the National Association of Biology Teachers annual conference. If you have an interesting project or educational activity to share with high school, community college or undergraduate faculty, consider applying for this award. Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are encouraged to apply. This year’s conference will be held Nov 12-15 in Cleveland, OH. The deadline for applying for the Huxley award is March 7. Apply here: http://tinyurl.com/kzy8uvw
Rosemary Grant Research Awards
Now is the time to begin thinking about applications for the Rosemary Grant Research Award. Awards will range from $1,500 - $2500 and approximately twenty awards will be made. The Grant awards are to assist students in the early stages of their Ph.D (first two years) programs by enabling them to collect preliminary data or to enhance the scope of their research beyond current funding limits (e.g. by visiting additional field sites, or working at other labs). Deadline for the Rosemary Grant Research Award - April 1
EVOLUTION Journal News
Just a reminder that we have made it easy for you to find articles from back issues of Evolution from the SSE website. After you’ve logged on as a member, you can get any issue from 2000 onward via the link to the Wiley page, and you can get older volumes by following the JSTOR link. Have you checked out the research in the February issue yet?
Graduate Student Advisory Council
We will soon be looking to add a new member to the still-forming Graduate Student Advisory Council. A separate email will go out to the graduate student membership shortly. Be on the lookout and please consider volunteering your time to help shape your Society.
Give An SSE Gift Membership
To assist in the continued growth of the Society, we encourage you to recruit new student members from your labs and classrooms. Did you know that you can give a student a NEW membership for only $10? Look at the students around you and give a gift membership or two this year! We want to grow our student population, so please consider this special invitation. We also invite you to take advantage of the opportunity of giving gift associate memberships to colleagues from developing countries, also at the low rate of $10. This is an easy and amazing way to introduce new members to our community. CLICK HERE to give a gift membership.
Dear SSE Colleagues:
Happy New Year to all, and a special welcome to our new members! I have just recently taken over the position as SSE President and am looking forward to working with the SSE Council at our upcoming January meeting. We are anticipating a busy and exciting year ahead. Congratulations to all the new 2014 officers! To see a listing of SSE officers and Council members for 2014, CLICK HERE.
Your SSE membership has not yet been renewed for 2014. Please take a moment to do so, before you drop off of our mailing list. RENEW HERE!
EVOLUTION Journal News
Just a reminder that we have made it easy for you to find articles from back issues of Evolution from the SSE website. After you’ve logged on as a member, you can get any issue from 2000 onward via the link to the Wiley page, and you can get older volumes by following the JSTOR link.
SSE Awards Accepting Nominations/Submissions
As in previous years, there will be various awards and prizes, including the W. D. Hamilton Award for Outstanding Student Presentation at the 2014 meeting, the Rosemary Grant Student Research Awards for students in the first two years of their Ph.D. programs, and the R. A. Fisher Prize for an outstanding Ph.D. dissertation paper published in Evolution during 2013. You can find out more about these and other awards, including application details and deadlines, under the AWARDS tab at the SSE website. A number of awards have deadlines in January and February, so now is the time to begin thinking about nominations and working on submissions.
Fisher Prize - January 31
Dobzhansky Prize - February 15
Rosemary Grant Research Award - April 1
SSE International Committee Award Opportunities
The SSE-IC mission is to foster international relationships between evolution societies and its members with particular focus on students and early-career scientists. The committee sponsors annually a series of activities/awards to reach this goal. Check out each of the following three to see if these opportunities might be right for you.
1. International Travel Stipends (IT- Awards)
2. Co-sponsorship of symposia organized by non-US based evolution societies
3. Evolution International Events (EIE) awards
The International Travel Stipend is managed directly by the SSE-IC committee. For the other two award types, the SSE-IC committee will present the best proposals to the SSE council, which will decide on the winner for that year. The equivalent of 10,000 euros will be devoted to the International Travel stipends. The rest of the available funding will be either given to either a single proposal from one category or divided amongst the best proposals in either of the two categories.
Call for Proposals for SSE Outreach Awards
January 25th is the deadline to apply for funds for a project/activity that supports and promotes the understanding of evolutionary biology. Read more about these awards HERE.
Give An SSE Gift Membership
To assist in the continued growth of the Society, we encourage you to recruit new student members from your labs and classrooms. Did you know that you can give a student a NEW membership for only $10? Look at the students around you and give a gift membership or two this year! We want to grow our student population, so please consider this special invitation. We also invite you to take advantage of the opportunity of giving gift associate memberships to colleagues from developing countries, also at the low rate of $10. This is an easy and amazing way to introduce new members to our community. CLICK HERE to give a gift membership.
Make your plans now to join us in Raleigh next June!
Best wishes,
Mohamed Noor, President
Society for the Study of Evolution
SSE Business Office
PO Box 299 | St. Louis Missouri, 63166
314-577-9566
www.evolutionsociety.org
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