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  • Register now for the NVTB Schoorl meeting 1st and 2nd June 2026

    Register now for the NVTB Schoorl meeting 1st and 2nd June 2026

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    NVTB board

    The annual NVTB meeting which will take place at Dopersduin (Oorsprongweg 3) in Schoorl on the 1st and 2nd of June. Be sure to sign-up as soon as possible as availability is limited! Registration will close on the 8th of May. We invite everyone to submit an abstract for a presentation. We would like to especially encourage master students, PhDs and postdocs to submit such an abstract, as they are also eligible for the best presentation award (€100 prize). Please be sure to spread the word about the Schoorl 2026 meeting to any colleagues that may be interested (for example by using this poster).

    The keynote presentations will be provided by Silke Henkes (LU), Michiel Adriaens (UM) and Marco Saltini (WUR) You can register for Schoorl 2026 using this form:
    https://forms.gle/vfcDToCVgmyDrXnF7

    The meeting will start on the 1st of June around 10:30, and will end on the 2nd of June, around 16:00. Lunch and dinner on the 1st of June and breakfast and lunch on the 2nd of June, as well as an overnight stay at Dopersduin, are included in the conference fee. All meals will be vegetarian, and other dietary requirements can be accommodated if entered into the form. We will also again offer a very affordable shared-room option. For exact prices and accommodation options please see the registration form.

    This year we will again award the NVTB prize for the best theoretical biology paper of the year. The award will consist of a €100 prize, accompanied by an invited talk at Schoorl in 2027. You may nominate a paper (deadline May 8th) using this form:
    https://forms.gle/zoiZXJKXBJcF7bYVA

    Martijn Egas, Erika Tsingos & David Versluis
    Board of the NVTB

  • NVTB Schoorl 2025 meeting report & 2026 dates

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    NVTB board

    A big thank you to all the participants at the 2025 NVTB meeting! We are pleased to have met so many of you, and to have seen a lot of very interesting theoretical biology! Particular thanks to all of those who provided a talk, and very special thanks to Erika for arranging our own NVTB rail replacement bus!

    Most importantly, we can announce that the Schoorl meeting next year will take place on June 1st and 2nd 2026. Please save the date! We also wish to congratulate Marco Saltini for winning our paper price with his paper “Evolution from mixed to fixed handedness in mirror-image flowers: insights from adaptive dynamics“, our winner of the presentation price Griffin Kutler Dodd, and Rob de Boer who became a lifetime honorary member. The complete minutes from the general assembly can be found here and the financial report here. At this general assembly, Martijn de Jong stepped down as secretary. We thank him for his efforts! David Versluis has been installed as the new secretary.

    Griffin Kutler Dodd being awarded the presentation price by Martijn Egas

    Winner of the presentation price Griffin Kutler Dodd

    Rob de Boer being presented with his honorary membership by Martijn Egas

    Honorary lifetime member Rob de Boer

    Also a big thanks to Dopersduin for providing us with an excellent place to stay. We would also like to thank the NWO for providing financial support, which helped us fund this meeting. We hope to see you all again next year!

    Group picture of the Schoorl 2025 meeting



    Kind regards,

    Martijn Egas, David Versluis & Erika Tsingos

    Board of the NVTB