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The Munich Graduate Program for Evolution, Ecology and Systematics (EES) invites applications for an

International EES Summer School on 'Evolutionary and Ecological Consequences of Global Change'

held at Frauenchiemsee (80 km east of Munich) from 9 - 14 September 2007.


The 5-day Summer School will consist of lectures, discussions and excercises provided by the invited teachers as well as oral and/or poster contributions by the more advanced student participants. Arrival of participants is scheduled for Sunday 9 September evening, departure for Friday 14 September early afternoon.

Invited teachers and preliminary topics:

Christiaan Both, University of Groningen, The Netherlands: Evolutionary and ecological responses to climate change in bird populations

Arndt Hampe, INRA, UMR Biodiversity, Genes & Ecosystems, Cestas, France: Conserving diversity of species and genotypes under climate change: the rear edge of the species range matters

Nils Christian Stenseth and Dag Hjermann, University of Oslo, Norway: Trophic interactions under climate fluctuations:and Environmental change and mammalian evolution

Håkan Wallander, Lund University, Sweden: Global change as seen from a below-ground prespective

Local organizers:

Reinhard Agerer, Sebastian Diehl, Bart Kempenaers, Pleuni Pennings (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and Max Planck Institute for Ornithology Seewiesen)

The summer school is open to students at the PhD and Master/advanced Diploma levels. The course language will be English. Students who are involved in global change related research are encouraged to prepare short oral contributions or posters highlighting their research interests and/or achievements.

Thanks to support from the Volkswagen Foundation, the University of Munich's EES program will cover costs for housing and meals during the Summer School. Participants will have to cover their travel expenses and must pay a 50¤ registration fee. A limited amount of funding is available to partly subsidize travel expenses for students from the most distant localities.

Applicants should provide a full CV, a statement about your research interests/current projects (max. half page), a statement about why you want to attend the Summer School, explicitely addressing how you expect to benefit and what you can contribute (max. half page). Application deadline is 11 June.

Questions can be addressed to Ms Pleuni Pennings (pennings@lmu.de). Please send your application by e-mail, preferably as a single pdf file, to Ms Katrin Kümpfbeck Program Secretary of the Munich Graduate School for Evolution, Ecology, and Systematics (k.k@lmu.de). Further information is available at http://www.eeslmu.de/eeswiki/index.php?title=Summer_school_2007.