SPSAS-evo – São Paulo School of Advanced Science Evolution | São Sebastião – SP

• Grant number: 11/51916-0
• Support Opportunities: Organization Grants - Scientific Meeting - São Paulo School of Advanced Science
• Start date: March 01, 2012
• End date: October 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology
• Principal Investigator: Antonio Carlos Marques
• Grantee: Antonio Carlos Marques
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The overarching goal of SPSAS-evo (São Paulo School of Advanced Science Evolution) is to provide opportunities for close interaction among students and leading experts conducting cutting edge research in evolution, as well as to stimulate interdisciplinary discussion about hot topics in evolutionary biology. A historical discipline by definition, evolutionary biology nevertheless relies both on experimental evidence and historical inference to address phenomena that occur in time scales ranging from a few days to billions of years. Interdisciplinary par excellence, its conceptual breakthroughs will most likely occur when experts from different areas are brought together with the goal of exchanging and synthesizing knowledge. The school will have a total of 78 hours (at least, depending on the time spent in periods of free study by students), with nine days involving practical directed studies classes, round tables, exhibition of research lines in development in the State of São Paulo, group work to produce proposals for scientific articles and conceptual web pages, discussion of its projects with teachers and speakers, and two days with visits monitored the plant examples of research of the State of São Paulo. There are three main thematic axes, synergistic, "Microevolution", "Macroevolution" and "Integrated Approaches". There will be 15 teachers (9 foreign institutions and national institutions 6) and 9 speakers (all in the State of São Paulo). The school will offer 60 positions being at least 30 of these for foreign students from the undergraduate to post-doctoral fellows. Our expectation is to promote future collaborations between students of the school and its faculty, attract young talent from the area for studies in the State of São Paulo and lead to a better level of studies and publications of all involved at the School. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

PARFREY, LAURA WEGENER; LAHR, DANIEL J. G.. Multicellularity arose several times in the evolution of eukaryotes (Response to DOI 10.1002/bies.201100187). BIOESSAYS, v. 35, n. 4, p. 339-347, APR 2013. (11/51916-0)