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SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

European Society for Evolutionary Biology (Past Council Member)
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (Chairman)
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (Member)
Bertalanffy Center for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Board Member)
European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (President Elect)
European Forum Alpbach (Curatorium Member)
Istituto Veneto delle Science, Lettere ed Arti (Elected Foreign Member)



EDITORIAL BOARDS

1990 - 1993 Journal of Evolutionary Biology
1991 - 2004 Evolution and Cognition
1999 - Molecular and Developmental Evolution, JEZ
1999 - Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology, MIT Press
2005 - 2007 Journal of Biosemiotics
2006 - Biological Theory
2008 - Evolutionary Biology

 

ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

2011 with A. Minelli and G. Fusco
2nd European Summerschool in EvoDevo.
Istituto Veneto di Science, Lettere ed Arti, Venezia, Italy.

2010 Steering Committee, with R. Raff and D.B. Wake
Conceptual Change in Biological Science: Evolutionary Developmental Biology 1981-2011.
Workshop at the Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin.

2009 with A. Minelli and M. Akam
1st European Summerschool in EvoDevo.
Istituto Veneto di Science, Lettere ed Arti, Venezia, Italy.

2008 with D. Rasskin-Gutman
"Origins of EvoDevo: A tribute to Pere Alberch".
20th Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology,
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria.

2008 with M. Pigliucci
"Toward an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis".
18th Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology,
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria.

2008 with I. Salazar-Ciudad
"Theoretical contributions of EvoDevo to evolutionary theory".
2nd Meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology,
Ghent, Belgium.

2008 with S. Brauckmann, C. Brandt, and D. Thieffry
"Cultures of Seeing 3D and Beyond".
Workshop at the Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin.

2008 with W. Callebaut
"Interpreting Climate Change".
Altenberg Symposium in Theoretical Biology,
University of Vienna, Austria.

2007 with J. Schwartz
"What Happened to Evolution After the Synthesis?"
Session at the ISHPSSB Meeting in Exeter, GB.

2007 with S.A. Newman
"Emergence in Biology".
Seminar at the 63rd European Forum Alpbach, Austria.

2007 with S. Brauckmann, C. Brandt, and D. Thieffry
"Graphing Genes, Cells, and Embryos".
Workshop at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy.

2005 with M. Laubichler and B.K. Hall
"Arriving at a Theoretical Biology – The Waddington Centennial".
13th Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology,
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria.

2004 with L. da Fontoura Costa
"Modeling Biology - Structures, Behavior, Evolution",
10th Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology,
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria.

2004 with S.A. Newman
"Morphological Innovations",
Symposium at the SICB Annual Meeting in New Orleans, USA.

2003 with W. Callebaut, A. Jütte, D. Penn, K. Kotrschal, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences
"Origins of Ethology: Konrad Lorenz 100 Years",
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.

2001 with B.K. Hall and R. Pearson
"Environment, Development, and Evolution",
6th Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology,
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria.

1999 with K. Kotrschal and H. Winkler
“Concepts of Ethology”,
Symposium in commemoration of Konrad Lorenz,
Konrad-Lorenz-Forschungsstelle für Ethologie, Grünau, Austria.

1999 with S.A. Newman
"Origins of Organismal Form",
4th Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology,
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria.

1996 with W. Fontana and G.P. Wagner
"The Emergence and Evolution of Organization",
1st Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology,
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria.

1996 with S.A. Newman
"Determinants of Morphological Evolution",
Symposium at the 5th International Congress on Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, Budapest, Hungary.

1986 with B.K. Hall
"Experimental Vertebrate Embryology and the Study of Evolution",
Workshop at the 2nd International Congress on Vertebrate Morphology, Vienna, Austria.