Centre for Integrative Ecology Annual Conference 2018

Date:  Friday, 12^th October, 2018
Time:  10:00 – 4:00pm
Venue:  Deakin Downtown, Tower 2, Collins Square, 727 Collins St, Melbourne 

The Centre continues to aim to strengthen its research collaboration and provide forum for our academics, researchers and our students to discuss and exchange research ideas.  It is a great platform for our students to showcase their outstanding research.

The conference will consist primarily of 5-minute speed talks, with a single plenary (our CIE seminar speaker for the week), and time for networking and catching up with your colleagues and peers. Lunch will be provided.

Please register your interest at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/centre-for-integrative-ecology-cie-conference-2018-registration-35067117693  and submit a title (on-line) for your presentation by 1^st September 2018.

All are invited and encouraged to participate and attend, but we will give priority to students and postdocs to present if places are limited.  All students attending should present a short talk.

Invited speaker: Dr Hamish Campbell, School of Environment, Charles Darwin University.

Best Student Talk will be announced at the closure of the conference.

Best Student Paper Award will be conferred at the conference (in order to qualify for the award, the paper must be nominated and sent by your supervisor, directly to Tim Jessop, email tim.jessop@deakin.edu.au.  More details on this will be sent by Tim.

Full details of the program will be made available closer to the date of the conference.

Your attendance is important to the success of the conference. If you are able to join us for this event, please register by 1^st September at the above link.

Local events

Weekly (Waurn Ponds) or fortnightly (Warrnambool and Burwood) research meetings are organised, covering a great variety of topics (to present and discuss hot scientific papers, draft manuscripts, draft presentations, relevant socio-economic issues, HDR and staff development, funding opportunities, etc.).

If you want to have more information on these meetings or if you want to join, please contact:

• Emily Nicholson (Burwood)
• Raoul Ribot and Matt Berg (Waurn Ponds)
• Jordy Thomson (Warrnambool)