Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences Exploratory Workshops

LESC is funding 16 ESF Exploratory Workshops in 2008:

1. EW07-045

   Modelling And Interpretation Of Ice Microstructures
   Dates and location: 8-11 April 2008, Göttingen, Germany
   Convened by: Paul Dirk Bons (DE), Sergio Faria (DE), Sepp Kipfstuhl (DE)
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2. EW07-007
   co-funded by EMRC

   Cryopreservation Of Ovarian Tissue In Cancer Patients, Farm Animals And Endangered Species
   Dates and location: 15-17 May 2008, Heidelberg, Germany
   Convened by: Michael Von Wolff (DE), Claus Yding Andersen (DK)
   

3. EW07-156
   co-funded by SCH

   Veterinary Knowledge: Between Human Medicine And Agriculture, 1870 - 1970
   Dates and location: 15-18 May 2008, Paris, France
   Convened by: Jean-Paul Gaudillière (FR), Delphine Berdah (FR), Pierre-Benoît Joly (FR)
   

4. EW07-186
   co-funded by SCSS

   The Reuse Of Contaminated Sites For Local Sustainable Development Strategies
   Dates and location: 26-28 May 2008, Venice, Italy
   Convened by: Margherita Turvani (IT)
   

5. EW07-034

   Improving Estimates Of The Rate Of Sea-Level Rise From The Greenland Ice Sheet
   Dates and location: 27-30 May 2008, Calla Millor, Mallorca, Spain
   Convened by: Tavi Murray (UK), Carl Egede Bøggild (NO)
   

6. EW07-038

   Large-Scale And Long-Term Functional Biodiversity Research In Europe
   Dates and location: 2-4 June 2008, Potsdam, Germany
   Convened by: Markus Fischer (DE), Elisabeth Kalko (DE), Karl Eduard Linsenmair (DE), Simone Pfeiffer (DE), Ernst-Detlef Schulze (DE), Wolfgang Weisser (DE)
   

7. EW07-023
   co-funded by SCH, SCSS

   Developing Criteria For An Ecological And Ethical Valuation Of Environmental Impacts of GM Crops
   Dates and location: 4-6 June 2008, Engelberg, Switzerland
   Convened by: Franz Bigler (CH), Klaus Peter Rippe (CH), Olivier Sanvido (CH)
   

8. EW07-039

   Linkages And Feedbacks In Highly Dynamic, Alpine, Fluvial Systems
   Dates and location: 30 June-3 July 2008, Cornino (Friuli), Italy
   Convened by: Angela M. Gurnell (UK), Klement Tockner (CH), Marco Tubino (IT)
   

9. EW07-032

   Heterochromatin Structure And Function: From Repetitive Dna Sequences To Epigenetics
   Dates and location: 20-23 September 2008, Donja Stubica, Croatia
   Convened by: Miroslav Plohl (HR), Fernando Azorin (ES), John Seymour (Pat) Heslop-Harrison (UK), Barbara Mantovani (IT)
   

10. EW07-022
    co-funded by PESC

    Computational Disease Modeling
    Dates and location: 24-26 September 2008, Barcelona, Spain
    Convened by: Albert Compte (ES), Johan Bjorkegren (SE), Carme Junqué (ES), Jesper Tegner (SE)
    

11. EW07-037

    Large Animal Models For Biomedicine
    Dates and location: 25-26 September 2008, Munich, Germany
    Convened by: Angelika Schnieke (DE), Eckhard Wolf (DE)
    

12. EW07-044

    Mesophyll Conductance To Co2: Mechanisms, Modeling And Ecological Implications
    Dates and location: 28-30 September 2008, Palma De Mallorca, Spain
    Convened by: Jaume Flexas Sans (ES)
    

13. EW07-027
    co-funded by PESC

    EuroIce2008
    Dates and location: 1-3 October 2008, Granada, Spain
    Convened by: Julyan Cartwright (ES), Ignacio Sainz-Diaz (ES)
    

14. EW07-028
    co-funded by SCSS

    Europe’s Green Backbone - Post-Socialist Land Use Change In The Carpathian Region
    Dates and location: 9-10 October 2008, Berlin, Germany
    Convened by: Patrick Hostert (DE)
    

15. EW07-062

    The New Role Of The Extended Phenotype In Evolutionary Biology
    Dates and location: 2-5 November 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Convened by: David Hughes (DK), Jacobus Boomsma (DK), Frédéric Thomas (FR)
    

16. EW07-054

    Seismic Oceanography
    Dates and location: 19-21 November 2008, Barcelona, Spain
    Convened by: Valentí Sallarès (ES), Ramon Carbonell (ES), Richard Hobbs (UK), Josep Lluís Pelegrí (ES), Nuno Serra (DE)
    

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