Conference Program
Evolution in the Gong (Joint AES x SASB Conference) 2026 will be held at the University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2–4 December 2026 hosted by Damien Esquerre (AES) and Nik Johnson (SASB).
We are delighted to announce our AES plenary speakers along with our two Best Paper Awardees.
Plenaries
Best Paper Award - ECR
Paper: Nesting behaviour predicts heat tolerance evolution and climate vulnerability in bees (da Silva et al. 2026 Nature Communications)
Best Paper Award - PhD
Paper: Evolution across the adaptive landscape in a hyperdiverse beetle radiation (Li et al. 2024. Current Biology)
References:
da Silva, C. R. B., Beaman, J. E., Dorey, J. B., Bradford, T., Smith, T. J., Gloag, R., & Kellermann, V. (2026). Nesting behaviour predicts heat tolerance evolution and climate vulnerability in bees. Nature Communications, 17(1), 4961. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-73689-7
Li, Y., Moritz, C., Brennan, I. G., Zwick, A., Nicholls, J., Grealy, A., & Slipinski, A. (2024). Evolution across the adaptive landscape in a hyperdiverse beetle radiation. Current Biology, 34(16), 3685-3697.e6. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.06.080
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