Future Meetings

We are pleased to announce the forthcoming conference focused solely on bivalved molluscs, to be held from 5th - 8th September, 2023, at the University of Cambridge (UK). This is intended as a successor to the previous bivalve meetings that took place in London (1977), Drumheller (1995), Cambridge (1999) and Barcelona (2006). Our aim is to host a relaxed, open in-person meeting to carry on this tradition of convivial review of all aspects of current bivalve research (living and fossil).

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#SPPC2022 will take place at the Natural History Museum, London, in conjunction with the Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy. Platform presentations will take place in the morning, with time during tea break and lunch for delegates to view posters. Tours of the Conservation Centre and collection highlights will take place in the afternoon, bookable on a first come first served basis.

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We would like to invite you to a regional meeting dedicated to conodont research, to take place at the Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, on 22-23 September. Considering the impact of Covid-19 on networking opportunities for Early Career Researchers and the difficult funding situation for blue skies research in palaeontology, the meeting focuses on keeping the costs low and facilitating participation for students and those who do not have funding to attend meetings.

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The NOW database of fossil mammals started as a small joint initiative of a few researchers in 1996 but over three decades it has grown and evolved into a thriving community including mammal palaeontologists from all over the world. We have NOW for years to come, but 25 years is quite a respectable age for a database, and this requires a celebration. Therefore, after one year of delay because of the pandemic, it is our pleasure to invite you to the NOW 25th anniversary meeting. Please note this is not an event reserved to NOW contributors, everyone is invited!

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The main aim of this Conference is to bridge the gap between what has been thought of as separate and decoupled fields of knowledge (Natural Sciences and STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics- and Social Sciences), and also to think about gender differences in Science(s) from an intersectional perspective.

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The first OxGVC of 2020 was setup in response to the cancellation of a number of meetings due to COVID-19. In 2022, the meeting returns, once again providing a online space for the discussion and promotion of all topics within geoheritage. We hope OxGVC will continue to bring together the geoheritage community, wherever you may be in the world.

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We are excited to present this meeting highlighting cutting-edge advances in the understanding of the evolution and development of the phylum Deuterostomia. We have an excellent lineup of speakers, including leaders and emerging stars in the fields of paleobiology, evolutionary biology and developmental biology of deuterostomes, and metazoan phylogenetics and paleobiology more broadly. The meeting is based around the thematic contributions of the late R.P.S.

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Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the ICOS 5 in 2021 have been postponed to 2022. The Organizing Committee invites you to the 5th International Conodont Symposium (ICOS 5) which will be held in Wuhan City, China during late June in 2022. Considering the pandemic situation, we will organize this symposium as a combination of offline (on site), and online (visual) meeting. The scientific program will cover all aspects of conodont, and symposium will provide conodont researchers with an opportunity to present their research.

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The Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that the 7th International Conference on Trilobites & Their Relatives will be held next year in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. This meeting is postponed from July, 2021 due to COVID.

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Georges Cuvier (1769 – 1832), born in Montbéliard, made comparative anatomy a formal science and, by applying its principles, was one of the first to propose reconstructions of extinct animals.

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