********************Jobs******************** Dear colleagues, Applications are welcome for a Junior Professorship (Chaire de Professeur Junior) available at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Paris, France), in the field: *Integrative taxonomy to describe biological diversity and understand evolutionary and adaptive processes.* The possible Research Units (all based in Paris, *National Museum of Natural History*) of assignment are: BOREA - Biology of aquatic organisms and ecosystems CR2P - Palaeontology Research Centre - Paris ISYEB - Institute of Systematics, Evolution and Biodiversity MCAM - Communication and Adaptation Molecules of Microorganisms MECADEV - Adaptive Mechanisms and Evolution The advertisement can be consulted on the ODYSSEE recruitment portal: https://odyssee.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/procedures/recrutement-ec/offres-poste/fiche-offre-poste/253142 Applications must be submitted via this portal, by accessing the ODYSSEE platform, between 8 July and 8 September 2025. Auditions will take place in October, with a contract starting no later than 1 December 2025. You will find the detailed profile online (English version: https://filesender.renater.fr/?s=download&token=627c10bb-cec9-4a43-8137-a293760085f0). Please pass on this opportunity to your colleagues who are looking for a very attractive position, with substantial support and accelerated career development, in a leading institution in the field, while remaining on a human scale. Thank you in advance. Best regards, Pierre-Yves HENRY Professeur, Directeur +33 (0)1 40 79 36 60 +33 (0)7 78 03 89 56 MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE Département Adaptations du Vivant (Adaptations of living organisms) Maison Buffon, 36 rue Geoffroy St Hilaire - CP 41 - 75005 Paris - France https://www.mnhn.fr/fr/adaptations-du-vivant Centre de Recherches sur la Biologie des Populations d'Oiseaux (France Bird Ringing Scheme) https://crbpo.mnhn.fr/ Pierre-Yves HENRY (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca) ********************Jobs******************** Dear All, A junior professorship position will open at the Ecobio Lab, University of Rennes, France on quantitative and computational approaches to the study of biodiversity (https://www.univ-rennes.fr/recrutement-des-enseignantes-chercheures). Applications will be accepted on the French national platform Odyssee, job offer N° 253071 , from August 18 to September 18. Interviews will then take place in October, with the contract starting no later than December 15, 2025. The profile is detailed below. Best regards, Sylvain Glémin Quantitative and computational approaches to the study of biodiversity Detailed description of research activities: One of today's challenges is to understand the responses of species and communities to anthropogenic pressures and global change, in order to predict their evolution in the near future. The availability of large datasets and high-performance analysis methods enables new approaches to meet this challenge. ECOBIO has strong expertise in experimental and field ecology, including long-term monitoring, and in multi-omics data production and analysis, and is looking to strengthen skills in complex and heterogeneous data analysis, modelling, meta-analysis, as well as the development of quantitative and predictive approaches. The person recruited will develop research based on computational approaches (e.g. modelling, simulations, advanced statistics, AI, meta-analyses) and the analysis of "massive data" in ecology and/or evolutionary biology, available in public databases, within research observatories and/or the laboratory (e.g. inventories, habitats, traits, surveys, participatory science data, multi-omics data). The project must fit in with one or more of the UMR's themes, but is open in terms of biological models already considered within the UMR, ecosystems or territories studied, and spatial and temporal scales. The successful candidate must also be able to respond to major national and European calls for research projects. Desired skills: - Background in ecology and/or evolutionary biology - Management and integration of complex and heterogeneous data - Statistics and data analysis - Modelling, simulations Research laboratory: ECOBIO UMR 6553, Rennes https://ecobio.univ-rennes.fr Contact: Julien Pétillon: julien.petillon@univ-rennes.fr Detailed description of teaching duties: The person recruited will strengthen the B2E department team by teaching: - in evolution, both on micro and macro evolutionary aspects. In particular, he/she will be involved in teaching population genetics, phylogeny... and/or - community and population ecology, functional ecology. He/she may also be involved in statistics courses. and/or - complex data analysis, modelling and meta-analysis, particularly in the context of new courses to be developed in our training offer. These courses will be taught in particular in the Organismal Biology Bachelors program and in the Biodiversity-Ecology-Evolution (BEE) Masters program. Teaching will take the form of lectures, tutorials and practical work. The person recruited will be expected to take on teaching responsibilities and be involved in developing new teaching approaches. Expected skills in the use of online teaching resources. The person recruited is expected to participate in the international dimension of the school and to develop his/her teaching activities in this direction. The person recruited will therefore be encouraged to teach all or part of his/her course in English, and to participate in the University's European and international openness, notably through physical and/or virtual teaching mobility, and the development of courses in collaboration with teachers and teacher-researchers from member universities of the EDUC European University. Teaching component: Biology, Ecology and Ethology Department https://sve.univ-rennes.fr Contact: Jean-Christophe Sangleboeuf: jean-christophe.sangleboeuf@univ-rennes.fr Application procedure and timetable : Application via the ODYSSEE application: from 18/08/2025 to 18/09/2025 https://odyssee.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr Sylvain Glemin (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca) ********************Other******************** The Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) International Committee invites applications for the International Event Grants, which provide funding for international symposia, workshops, courses, and other events within the field of evolutionary biology, including virtual events. Our priority is to support events that benefit emerging communities in the field of evolutionary biology. The diversity of participants and invited speakers will be considered as a criterion for selection. Application deadline: September 15, 2024 More information: https://rb.gy/76fgi SSE Communications (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca) ********************Conferences******************** Announcing the last call for applications to attend the SMBE Satellite Meeting: Evolutionary Biochemistry of Insect Antimicrobial Peptides The SMBE Satellite Meeting on Evolutionary Biochemistry of Insect Antimicrobial Peptides will be held at the University of Houston (Texas, USA) on Oct 13-15, 2025. The Meeting is FREE to attend, but attendance requires admission following review of your application. The first round of application review will complete on July 14, 2025. Applications from Early Career Researchers and scholars from diverse research areas are highly encouraged. Travel awards are available to support attendance for early career scholars. Please visit the meeting website for more information, including application, registration, and travel award links: https://uh.edu/nsm/biology-biochemistry/news-events/smbe-meeting/ Additional information: Microbes that cause disease to humans, livestock, crops, and wild species are incredibly diverse and rapidly evolve resistance to existing antibiotic drugs. Naturally occurring insect antimicrobial peptides have tremendous promise to help address the challenge of antibiotic resistance, but realizing this potential requires transdisciplinary collaboration across disciplines including genomics, microbiology, biochemistry, data science, and engineering. The conference will promote growth in this area by bringing together researchers from a variety of disciplines and career stages to understand modes of action and potential applications of insect AMPs as novel antibiotic agents. Research areas covered by this conference will include: - Phylogenetic and comparative genomics of arthropod antimicrobial peptides - Novel antimicrobials, biomimetics design, and peptide biochemistry - Microbiology, in vitro and in vivo experimentation - Machine learning and data science - Translational research There will be multiple breakout sessions at the conference, which we intend to use to develop at least one white paper on Insect Antimicrobial Peptides and Antibiotic Drug Design. Are you interested in the meeting but cannot attend in person? Please consider attending online (also free). Online attendees will be eligible to give talks and will be invited to participate in discussions. Richard Meisel rpmeisel@uh.edu "Meisel, Richard P" (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)