Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to the next online seminar for the "Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation" Special Topic Network (STN) funded by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, which will take place on January 16th, 14:00 UTC. Our speakers for this seminar are: John Werren (University of Rochester): Cooperating on conflict: Selfish genetic elements, heritable microbes, and genetic conflicts. Bengt O. Bengtsson (Lund University): Decades of conflicts: A personal history. In this seminar, we will look back on the early study of internal conflicts when biologists started identifying selfish genetic elements and grew aware of their importance to organismal (mal-)adaptation. We hope this will serve as both a 'history lesson' that can help understand how we got to where we are now, as well as an opportunity to reflect on how we can move the field forward. We expect the meeting to take approximately 1.5 hours. Meeting details: Link: https://georgetown.zoom.us/j/98076313746. Date: January 16th, 2025. Time: 14:00 UTC. If you would like to get on our mailing list and take part in our upcoming events, please visit our website ( https://internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/) for more information. Sincerely, The Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation STN Martijn Schenkel, Arvid Ågren, Manus Patten, Nina Wedell, and Thomas Hitchcock ESEB-funded Special Topic Network "Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation" https://internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/ https://eseb.org/prizes-funding/special-topic-networks/ Internal Conflicts STN (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)