The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan presents an exciting international symposium on the integration of evolutionary and ecological perspectives to understand community assembly.

Our outstanding speaker lineup of keynote and emerging leaders will present a diverse array of integrative advances in our understanding of community assembly. These topics include new conceptualizations of the species pool for community ecology, the genomic processes underlying species coexistence, phylogenetic models of community composition, insights from paleo-communities, coevolutionary networks, and macroevolutionary dynamics of assembly.

The keynote speakers are Rosemary Gillespie, professor and Schlinger Chair in Systematic Entomology, Department of Environmental Science and Essig Museum of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley, and Tadashi Fukami, associate professor, Department of Biology, Stanford University. You can read more about them and our early career speakers and their presentations under the speakers tab on the ECSS website.