Dear Friends, Colleagues, former Guarda Summer School participants It is my pleasure to announce the 2026 Guarda Summer School in Evolutionary Biology for master and PhD students. The main aim of the course is to develop the skills to produce an independent research project in evolutionary biology. The summer school will take place 13. - 20. June 2026 (Saturday to Saturday) in the Swiss mountain village Guarda. Faculty includes Judith Bronstein (University of Arizona, USA), Paul Turner (Yale University, USA), Roland Regoes (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Sebastian Bohnhoeffer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) and Dieter Ebert (University of Basel; course organizer). The course is intended for master students and early PhD students with a keen interest in evolutionary biology. Web page with all details: https://tb.ethz.ch/education/guarda.html Application is open now. Deadline is the 20. January 2026. Please communicate this information to interested students. If you receive this email multiple times, please excuse me. With best wishes, dieter Dieter Ebert University of Basel, Department of Environmental Sciences, Zoology Vesalgasse 1, CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland http://evolution.unibas.ch/ Email: dieter.ebert@unibas.ch Tel. +41-(0)61-207 03 60 Dieter Ebert (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)