Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the organization of a CNRS funded Jacques Monod Conference on "*/Evolutionary and ecological genomics of polyploidy in plants:temporal dynamics across scales of biological organization from molecules to ecosystems/*" to be held in Roscoff (France), September 15-19, 2025. Deadline for registration is 5 may 2025, and details on the Conference can be found at (English version) (French version) _Invited speakers_: *BARKER Michael*  (Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, USA) *BONNEMA Guusje*  (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Wageningen, Netherlands) *CASACUBERTA Josep *(Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Barcelona, Spain) *CHOULET Frédéric*  (INRAE Site de Crouël, Clermont-Ferrand, France) *CONOVER Justin*  (Molecular and Cellular Biology Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA) *D'HONT Angélique*  (CIRAD, Montpellier, France) *GLEMIN Sylvain*  (CNRS UMR Ecobio, Université de Rennes, France) *HU Guanjing*  (Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, China) *KOLAR Filip*  (Department of Botany, Faculty of Science Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic) *KOVARICK Ales*  (Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic) *LASCOUX* *Martin*  (Uppsala University, Sweden) *LEITCH Andrew*  (Queen Mary University of London, England) *LEITCH Ilia*  (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, England) *MANDAKOVA Terezie*  (Mazaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) *MASON Annaliese*  (INRES, Pflanzenzüchtung Bonn, Germany) *NOVIKOVA Polina *(Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Koln, Germany) *PARISOD Christian*  (Département de Biologie, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland) *ROUSSEAU-GUEUTIN Mathieu*  (IGEPP, INRAE, Le Rheu, France) *SALMON Armel*  (UMR CNRS Ecobio, Université de Rennes, France) *SERRA Heïdi *(Institut de Génétique, Reproduction et Développement, CNRS/ INSERM/Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France) *SOLTIS Pamela *(Florida Museum of Natural History, USA) *VAN DE PEER Yves*  (VIB UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium) *VEKEMANS Xavier *(Université de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France) *WINCKER Patrick *(Genoscope, Evry, France) Best regards, Malika AINOUCHE (U. Rennes, France) & Jonathan WENDEL (Iowa State University, USA) Malika Ainouche Professeur Emérite, Université de Rennes UMR CNRS 6553 Ecobio Bât 14 A Campus de Beaulieu 35 042 Rennes Cedex (France) https://ecobio.univ-rennes.fr/evolution-des-genomes-traits-dhistoire-de-vie-et-adaptation Malika Ainouche (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)