"Units of Selection and Individuality - A Workshop on Multilevel Selection"

June 4 - 5, 2014 in Münster

The workshop comprised keynote lectures as well as discussion groups and addressed the two main topics:

1. The Unit of Selection - Individual vs. Metaorganism
   
2. Inclusive Fitness Theory meets Multilevel Selection

Keynote lectures:

Wednesday, 4.6.2014
Kavaliershäuschen (Schlossplatz 6, Seminar room on ground floor)

• 10:30 s.t.
  Seth Bordenstein (Vanderbilt University, USA)
  "Darwin's blind spot: The microbial making of a species"
• 11:30 s.t.
  Timothy Linksvayer (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
  "Levels of selection and social evolution in social insects"

Thursday, 5.6.2014
Kavaliershäuschen (Schlossplatz 6, Seminar room on ground floor)

• 17:00 s.t.
  Jürgen Gadau (Arizona State University, USA; ETT-Fellow of the MGSE)
  "Genetics and genomics of speciation"
  

Poster for the Workshop, Flyer for the workshop, Preliminary program

This Workshop was supported financially by