Activities
CeMEB is a meeting place for marine evolution researchers. Each year, activities are organized for exchange of experience and to strengthen and develop the network. We see it as particularly important that young researchers and doctoral students get a good network for their future development. The next CeMEB Assembly will take place on October 13-15 2026 in Gothenburg.
Upcoming activities
The CeMEB Autumn Assembly 2026 will take place on October 13-15 in Gothenburg. Part of this year's Assembly will focus on the concept of "populations" and how to use/not use it in conservation.
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Previous activities
The CeMEB Assemblies are an important part of the strategy for promoting discussions and development of the research within the centre. Taking place twice every year, the programme always includes oral presentations of results, but also plenty of time for discussions and informal chatting. New research collaborations are often formed during these meetings. To stimulate the discussions recognised colleagues from national and international institutions are invited.
2025
CeMEB Autumn Assembly
CeMEB Autumn Assembly 2025, October 8-10 at SciLifeLab Navet, Biomedical Centre (BMC), Uppsala
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2024
AI methods in evolutionary biology
CeMEB Autumn Assembly 2024, October 22–24 at the Tjärnö Marine Laboratory.
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2023
Seascape Genomics
CeMEB Autumn Assembly 2023, October 4–6 at the Tjärnö Marine Laboratory.
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CeMEB Spring Assembly 2023. Virtual meeting April 28th.
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2022
Incorporating an evolutionary approach in conservation management.
CeMEB Assembly 2022, October 4–6, at Tjärnö Marine Laboratory.
Keynote speakers:
- Leif Andersson, Professor, Dept of Medical biochemistry and microbiology, comparative genetics and functional genomics, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Maria Beger, Associate professor in Conservation Science, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, UK
- Jakob Granit, Director General, The Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (HaV), Sweden
- Kerstin Johannesson, Professor, Dept of Marine Sciences and Director of Tjärnö Marine Laboratory, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Genetic diversity important for protecting the marine environment (news article)
2021
CeMEB Autumn Assembly 2021
5–7 October at Tjärnö and on-line. Aim of the meeting was to reflect what’s going on within the field of marine evolution and to discuss future initiatives.
Invited speakers:
- Pierre-Alexandre Gagnaire, ISEM – University of Montpellier, France
- Marija Cvijovic, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
- Olga Vinnere Pettersson, Uppsala University, Sweden
2020
CeMEB and beyond - research themes and future activities, CeMEB Virtual Assembly 2020, 10 June
Invited speaker:
- Katie Lotterhos, Northeastern University
2017
Biological invasions and Range expansions from en evolutionary perspective
18th CeMEB Assembly, 10-12 October 2017, Tjärnö
Invited speakers:
- Rick Shine, University of Sydney, Australia
- Jane W Behrens, DTU Aqua Charlotttenlund, Denmark
- Marc Rius and Steve Bourne, University of Southampton
- April Blakeslee, University of East Carolina, USA
- Jonne Kotta and Kiran Liversage, University of Tartu, Estonia
Micro versus macro in the sea - Microorganisms influence on macro-evolution
17th CeMEB Assembly, 25-27 April 2017, Tjärnö
Invited speakers:
- Jarone Pinhassi, Linnaeus University, Sweden
- Markus Lindh, Lund University, Sweden
- Helle Ploug, University of Gothenburg
- Hans Peter Grossart and Luca Zoccarato, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
- Simon Dittami and Angelique Gobet, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, France
- Sebastian Coloma, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Peter Steinberg, University of New South Wales, Australia
2016
Marine Evolution meets Medicine, 16th CeMEB Assembly, 11-13 October 2016, Tjärnö
Invited speakers:
- Pam Fredman - vice chancellor, University of Gothenburg
- Henrik Zetterberg - Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, GU
- Erik Larsson Lekholm - Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, GU
- Claes Gustafsson - Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, GU
- Niclas Karlsson - Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell biology, GU
- Jonas Nilsson - Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska Academy
- Johan Svensson - SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden
CeMEB 2.0, 15th CeMEB Assembly, 26-28 April 2016, Tjärnö
Invited speakers:
- Jeanine Olsen, Marine Benthic Ecology & Evolution, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Anja Kamp, AIAS, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Mattias Ormestad, SciLifeLab, Sweden
- Maria Enge, Grant and Innovation Office, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Henrik Lindskog, Grant and Innovation Office, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Camilla Persson, Grant and Innovation Office, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Swaraj Basu, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Institute of Biomedicine, The Sahlgrenska Academy, Sweden
2015
Applications of Evolutionary Biology in the Marine Environment, 14th CeMEB Assembly, 6-8 October 2015, Tjärnö
Invited speakers:
- Anna Kuparinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Silva Uusi-Heikkilä, University of Turku, Finland
- Lars Bosshard, Univ Bern, Switzerland
- Hitoshi Araki, Hokkaido University, Japan
- Xiaoxu Li, Genetics, Reproduction & Biotechnology Aquatic Sciences, SARDI, Australia
- Simon Cragg, Univ of Portsmouth, UK
- Chenyi Wu, Univ of Portsmouth, UK
- Amaia Green Etxabe, Univ of Portsmouth, UK
Reporting on ongoing and planned activities within CeMEB, 13th CeMEB Assembly, 21-23 April 2015, Tjärnö
Invited speaker:
- Irene Kalchhauser, Dept Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland
2014
Measuring selection in the laboratory and in the wild..., 12th CeMEB Assembly, 23-25 September 2014, Tjärnö
Invited speakers:
- Adam G Jones, Texas A&M university, USA
- Roger Butlin, Sheffield University, UK, and University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Felicity Jones, Max Planck Institute Tübingen, Germany
- Hunter B Fraser, Stanford University, USA
- Silva Uusi-Heikkilä, University of Turku, Finland
CeMEB meets CAnMove and the Butterfly group at Stockholm University..., 11th CeMEB Assembly, 9-11 April 2014, Strömstad
Invited speakers:
- Christopher Wheat, Stockholm University
- Jason Hill, Stockholm University
- Sören Nylin, Stockholm University
- Christer Wiklund, Stockholm University
- Kaj Hulthén, Lund University
- Naomi Keehnen, Stockholm University
- Marco Klein Heerenbrink
- Alyssa Woronik, Stockholm University
- Staffan Bensch, Lund University
- Peter Pruisscher, Stockholm University
- Ramprasad Neethiraj, Stockholm University
2013
Dream projects, 10th CeMEB Assembly, 14-16 October 2013, Tjärnö
The IMAGO species and how to proceed with the genomes, 9th CeMEB Assembly, 23-25 April 2013, Tjärnö
Invited speakers:
- Filip Volckaert, Laboratory of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Genomics, KU Leuven, Belgium
- John Craft, School of Health and Life Sciences, Galsgow Caledonian University, UK
- Erica Leder, Department of Biological Sciences, Division of Genetics and Physiology, University of Turku , Finland
- Joanna Wilson, Dept Biology, McMaster University, Canada
- Gareth Pearsson, Centro de Ciencias do Mar, Faculdade de Ciencias do Mar e Ambiente (F.C.M.A.), Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
- Sandra Heinrich, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany
- Andy Cameron, Center for Computational Regulatory Genomics, Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, USA
- Paola Oliveri, School of Life and Medical Sciences, University College London, UK
- Chris Bowler, Environmental and Evolutionary Genomics Section, Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
- Marina Montresor, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli, Italy
- Staffan Bensch, Department of Biology, Lund University, Sweden
2012
Theoretical approach on CeMEB research, 8th CeMEB Assembly, 9-11 October 2012, Tjärnö
Invited speakers:
- Jörgen Ripa, Department of Biology, Lund University
- Mikael Pontarp, Department of Biology, Lund University
- Stig Omholt, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) and “Centre for Integrative Genetics” (CIGENE)
- Edda Klipp, Department of Biology, Theoretical biophysics, Humboldt, Universität Berlin, Germany
- Berhard Mehlig, Department of Physics, University of Gothenburg
- Torbjörn Lundh, Department of Mathematics, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
- Philip Gerlee, Sahlgrenska Cancer Centre, University of Gothenburg
- Bernt Wennberg, Department of Mathematics, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
- Anders Karlsson, Department of Mathematics, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
7th CeMEB Assembly, 11-13 April 2012, Kristineberg
Invited speakers:
- Patrick Cormier, Station Biologique Roscoff, France
- Mats Grahn, School of Life Sciences, Södertörn University
- Josefin Larsson, School of Life Sciences, Södertörn University
2011
The CeMEB thematic areas, 6th CeMEB Assembly, 11-13 October 2011, Tjärnö
Invited speakers:
- Anna Bockelmann, Leibniz Institute of Marine Science, Kiel University, Germany
- Jackie DeFaveri, Ecological Genetics Research Unit, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Juha Merilä, Ecological Genetics Research Unit, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Maria Jose Rivas, Population Genetics and Cytigenetics Group, University of Vigo, Spain
- Maria Saura, Population Genetics and Cytigenetics Group, University of Vigo, Spain
- Scott McCairns, Ecological Genetics Research Unit, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Takahito Shikano, Ecological Genetics Research Unit, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Thorsten Reusch, Leibniz Institute of Marine Science, Kiel University, Germany
5th CeMEB Assembly, 14-16 June 2011, Tjärnö
2010
4th CeMEB Assembly, 16-18 November 2010, Tjärnö
3rd CeMEB Assembly, 31 May - 2 June 2010, Tjärnö
2009
2nd CeMEB Assembly, 9-11 November 2009, Tjärnö
1st General ACME meeting, 26-27 February 2009, Kristineberg
2024
- Advances in Marine Evolutionary Biology, July, Montreal, Canada.
Symposium at the Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology in Montreal. See more info here. Organizers: Pierre De Wit and Ellika Faust.
2021
- Evolution of Species Ranges, 8–10 March 2021, webinar.
More than 200 participants took the opportunity to registrer and listen to invited speakers presenting talks on the dynamics of species re-distribution. Read main organizer Marina Rafajlovics comments on the outcome of the webinar here. Link to the event page with program and abstracts here.
2020
- Evolution in Sweden 2020, 15-16 January 2020, Tjärnö, Sweden.
Evolution in Sweden is a biannual meeting, which broadly gathers evolutionary biologists working in Sweden. In January of 2020, the meeting is hosted by the Linnaeus Center for Marine Evolutionary Biology, University of Gothenburg.
2019
- In dialogue with diatoms: Anna Godhe Memorial Conference
5-7 November 2019, Tjärnö, Sweden
2018
- Marine Evolution - Marcus Wallenberg Symposium, 15-17 May 2018, Strömstad, Sweden.
CeMEB organized the first international conference in marine evolution,
2013
- Evolution and plasticity of marine organisms in a changing world, 29 May - 1 June 2013, Kristineberg, Sweden.
Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, organized the Tenth Kristineberg Symposium.
2023
Land, River, and Seascape Genomics
Ph D course 29th October to 4 November, 2023 at Tjärnö Marine Laboratory.
How spatial data on properties of terrestrial and marine environments can be combined with genomic data to gain an understanding of population structure, dispersal routes and patterns. And how such can facilitate appropriate and sustainable land and seabottom use and management.
Teachers:
- Cynthia Riginos (University of Queensland, guest professor at University of Gothenburg),
- Anna Runemark (Lund University),
- Mark Ravinet (University of Nottingham),
- Kerstin Johannesson (University of Gothenburg, coordinator), and others.
2020
- An introduction to bioinformatic tools for population genomic data analysis. 9–15 November 2020. Online via Zoom.
2019
- Meta-analysis in Biology and Environmental Sciences, 20-25 October 2019, Tjärnö
2018
- CeMEB Advanced course 2018: An introduction to bioinformatic tools for population genomic data analysis, 5-9 November 2018, Tjärnö
2017
- PhD course - Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology, edited by Westneat & Fox, 2010, Oxford University Press, 10 January - 11 April 2017, Gothenburg
- Career Control for Researchers - Web-based training in career planning at CeMEB, 5 February - 31 March 2017
- CeMEB Advanced course 2017: An introduction to bioinformatic tools for population genomic data analysis, 6-10 November 2017, Tjärnö
- PhD literature circle - Eco-evolutionary Dynamics: Andrew P. Hendry, November 2016 - Spring 2017
2016
- PhD course: Meta-analysis in Biology and Environmental Sciences, 21-26 August 2016, Tjärnö
- PhD course: An introduction to bioinformatic tools for metagenetic and population genomic data analysis, 7-11 November 2016, Tjärnö
- CeMEB Advanced Course: Marine Evolution under Climate Change, 20-25 November 2016, Kristineberg
2015
- An introduction to bioinformatic tools for population genomic and metagenetic data analysis, 2-6 November 2015, Tjärnö
- CeMEB Advanced course: Marine evolution under climate change, 13-19 December 2015, Kristineberg
2014
- CeMaCE advanced course in structure elucidation: 6-13 October 2014, Tjärnö
- Meta-analysis in Biological and Environmental Sciences, 3-7 November 2014, Tjärnö
- Metagenetic and population genomic data analysis pipelines: a hands on workshop for high throughput sequencing data analysis, 3-7 November 2014, Tjärnö
- Telomeres - in aging, rejuvenation and fitness, 24-30 November, 2014, Gothenburg
- CeMEB Advanced course: Marine evolution under climate change, 1-6 December 2014, Kristineberg
2013
- Literature course: DL Hartl, AG Clark. Principles of population genetics (2007)
- Course in Metabolomics - International course for PhD students, postdocs and master students, 7-11 October, Tjärnö
- An introduction to bioinformatic tools for metagenetic and population genomic data analysis, 4-8 November, Gothenburg
- CeMEB Advanced course: Marine Evolution under climate change, 17-23 November, Kristineberg
- CeMEB Advanced course: Marine Genomics, 24-30 November, Tjärnö
- English for Research, Web based course for PhD Students by Rowena Janson, 2012-2013
2012
- Experimental Design & Data Analysis for Marine Biologists, 20-31 August 2012, Tjärnö
- CeMEB Advanced Courses: Marine evolution under climate change, 19-23 November 2012, Kristineberg
- Writing a Scientific Paper, CeMEB Course for CeMEB PhD students, September 2012-February 2013, Gothenburg and Tjärnö
2011
- How to write applications, Course for PhD-students, February-March 2011, Gothenburg and Tjärnö
- Presentation Technique, Course for PhD-students, 31 March - 1 April, Gothenburg
- CeMEB Advanced Courses: Marine evolution - patterns and processes, 21-25 November 2011, Tjärnö
- Working with images in science, 12 December 2011, Tjärnö
2010
- Experimental Design & Data Analysis for Marine Biologists, 4-13 August 2010, Tjärnö
2022
Disentangling neutral versus adaptive evolution in chromosomal inversions. Progress meeting in Evolutionary Biology, funded by the European Society of Evolutionary Biology – ESEB – in partnership with the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Feb 28 – March 3.
2021
2019
- SMBE Satellite Meeting and Workshop on ‘Identifying barriers to gene flow in the genome, 17-19 June 2019, Tjärnö
2018
- Sand Goby genome - writers' corner, 22-24 January 2018, Tjärnö
- Interplay between parental care and sexual selection, 26 February - 3 March 2018, Kristineberg
2017
- IMAGO Amphiura genome workshop, 24 and 28 April 2017, Tjärnö
- IMAGO Pomatoschistus genome workshop 2, 12-14 June 2017, Tjärnö
- IMAGO Skeletonema genome workshop, 14-16 June 2017, Tjärnö
- XII International Symposium on Littorinid Biology and Evolution, 13-16 August 2017, Tjärnö
- IMAGO Littorina genome workshop, 17-18 Augusti 2017, Tjärnö
- Workshop in Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC), 11-15 September 2017, Tjärnö
2016
- Sand goby genome Jamboree, 13-14 June 2016, Tjärnö
- The CeMEB mini project on Littorina physiology, 20-25 April 2016, Kristineberg
2015
- IMAGO meeting 1 (coordinators), 25 - 26 March, Tjärnö
- Discover your strengths - Gallup StrengthsFinder Assessment, Workshop with CeMEB PhD students, 20 April 2015, Tjärnö
- IMAGO meeting 2, Tjärnö 19-20 May
- Phenomics work-shop, Tjärnö 20-21 May
- Workshop on Connectivity in the ocean - Observing, modeling and assessing, 28 May 2015, Tjärnö
- IMAGO meeting 3, 21-22 September 2015, Tjärnö
- Workshop on presentation techniques - CeMEB PhD student day, 5 October 2015, Ågrenska Villan, Gothenburg.
- IMAGO meeting 4, 9-10 December, Tjärnö
2014
- The Art of Publishing, October 1st, 2014, Gothenburg.
2012
- Littorina Genomics, 13th March 2012, Tjärnö
- Genetic for Dummies, 10th May 2012, Tjärnö
- IMAGO workshop. Marine genomics - establishing the Infrastructure for MArine Genetic model Organisms (IMAGO), 7-8 June 2012, Tjärnö
- Idotea - Gobid Genomic Workshop, 6-7 October 2012, Kristineberg
2011
- Selection Experiments 1, 13th January 2011, Kristineberg
- Selection Experiments 2, 7th March 2011, Tjärnö
2010
- Workshop on Ocean Acidification Best Practice, 17 February 2010, Kristineberg.
- Storing and handling EST (Expressed Sequence Tag) data: alternative solutions to set up an EST database, 29-30 April 2010, Tjärnö
2009
- Using EST (Expressed Sequence Tag) data in biological applications, 19-22 October 2009, Tjärnö.
