Interested in host-microbiome research? Join Society for Experimental Biology conference 2024, July 2-5 in Prague, on a session on microbiome: Invisible friends: microbiome in eco-evolutionary research All organisms harbour microbes, and their key role on host animal health and disease is established. However, causative data from wild species and populations is still relatively scarce, and taxonomical coverage in microbiome studies is limited. Insights into which factors shape the communities of microbial symbionts, what functional roles they provide to the host, and how they contribute to host adaptation still remain to be explored. This symposium will highlight novel findings in eco-evolutionary host-microbiome research, encompassing fine-scale molecular and physiological questions, broadening to whole organism and population level approaches, while also addressing methodological and theoretical issues across animal taxa. SEB Conference Prague 2024 | The Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) (sebiology.org) Keynote speakers: Tamsyn Uren-Webster, Swansea University: Can microbiome plasticity enhance host tolerance of environmental stressors? Samantha Fontaine, Kent State University: The role of the microbiome in ectotherm thermal biology David Diez-Mendéz, University of South Bohemia: Gut colonization in avian early-life: the preponderance of maternal effects in bacterial acquisition Mason Stothart, University of Calgary: Straight from the Sable Island horse's mouth: selection and transmission of gut microbiome variation in the wild Abstract submission for the session is now open, deadline 8thMarch 2024. Conference registration earlybird deadline 24thApril 2024. See you there! Session organizers Suvi Ruuskanen, Charli Davies and Silva Uusi-Heikkilä Suvi Ruuskanen Associate Professor in Environmental Physiology Department of Biological and Environmental Science University of Jyväskylä, Finland Adjunct professor, visiting researcher Department of Biology University of Turku, Finland Mobile +358503256547 Environmental Physiology Lab | University of Jyväskylä (jyu.fi) Twitter: @RuuskanenSuvi "Ruuskanen, Suvi" (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)