[Nhcoll-l] Call for Nominations | 16th Annual Early Career Scientists Symposium | University of Michigan

[Cody Thompson]

*CALL FOR NOMINATIONS*
*16TH ANNUAL EARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS SYMPOSIUM*

*-Natural History Collections: Drivers of Innovation-*

The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of
Michigan invites nominations of outstanding scientists early in their
careers to participate in an exciting symposium about innovative and
unconventional uses of biological collections across scientific
disciplines. The symposium events will take place from 13-15 March 2020, on
the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Eight early career scientists will be selected to present their work and
generate intriguing discussions at the 2020 ECSS symposium. In addition,
two keynote speakers will be featured in the symposium. We welcome
nominations of early career scientists who study and utilize natural
history collections in new and potentially unexpected ways. We envision
this symposium as a way to showcase the often-unrealized opportunities and
non-traditional avenues of research that museum collections make possible
to the entire scientific community, and emphasize some of the
interdisciplinary ways in which collections are being or could be used. We
hope to foster a broader understanding and expanded use of the incomparable
resource that is a biological collection. This symposium aims to highlight
the work of up-and-coming scientists whose research interests span a
breadth of disciplines in collections work including but not limited to:
comparative genomics, bioengineering, climate change, historical pathogen
dynamics, and many, many more. We both advocate for and champion diversity
and strongly encourage the nomination of members from groups traditionally
underrepresented in science.

Early career scientists are considered senior graduate students (who stand
to receive their Ph.D. within one year), postdoctoral researchers, and
first- or second-year faculty. Research scientists with non-academic
positions also are eligible if they are considered "early career" by the
timeline established by the previous criteria. A colleague or advisor must
provide the nomination.

Nomination materials must include a brief letter of recommendation
addressing the nominee’s scientific promise and ability to give a
compelling talk, nominee’s curriculum vitae, and a brief abstract of the
proposed presentation (< 200 words, written by the nominee).

Nominations should be sent electronically as a single PDF file to
ecss-2020 at umich.edu using the subject line format, “nominee’s Last Name,
First Name ECSS 2020 Nomination”.

Review of nominations will begin on *January 7, 2020*.

Selected participants will be contacted in mid-January and will have all
expenses covered (registration, travel, and accommodation). An official
announcement of the slate of speakers will be issued soon thereafter.

Information about Early Career Scientist Symposia held in past years can be
found at http://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/. For more information, please
contact Linda Garcia at garciall at umich.edu.

The 2020 Early Career Scientists Symposium scientific committee includes:

Jenna Crowe-Riddell
Sonal Gupta
Hernán Lopez-Fernandez, chair
Benjamin Nicholas
Teresa Pegan
Brad Ruhfel
Cody Thompson
Taylor West
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