Past courses and feedback

Thomas Francisco

SLiM modeling workshop, 11-15 August 2025, Helsinki, Finland

By Thomas Francisco

The 2025 Summer EvolTree Training Course on SLiM software took place in Helsinki and was taught by Dr. Benjamin C. Haller. Throughout the week, we learned the fundamentals of SLiM, a powerful tool for performing evolutionary…

Marija Kravanja

SLiM Modeling Workshop, 11-15 August 2025, Helsinki, Finland

By Marija Kravanja

The workshop, organized by LUKE and the University of Helsinki in August 2025, provided the participants with valuable insights into SLiM, a highly versatile and powerful engine for population genetics simulations. The software…

Jemal Mohammed Abdela

Third Summer School on adapting forests to climate change: Operationalizing assisted migration

By: Jemal Mohammed Abdela

The summer school was organised by the Austrian Research Center for Forests (BFW) in collaboration with the EVOLTREE network and the Czech University of Life Sciences (CZU). It took place at the Forestry Training Centre in…

Vasyl Mohytych

Third Summer School on Adapting Forests to Climate Change: Operationalizing of Assisted Migration

By Vasyl Mohytych

From 28 July to 1 August 2025, I had the opportunity to participate in the summer school "Adapting Forests to Climate Change: Operationalising Assisted Migration", which took place in Traunkirchen, Austria. The course focused on…

Marija Kravanja

Training course “Genetics and Genomics of Adaptation to Climate Change in Plants” November 2024 Denmark

By: Marija Kravanja

The training course “Genetics and Genomics of Adaptation to Climate Change in Plants” was organised by the University of Copenhagen from 25 to 29 November 2024. It covered the use of GWAS to identify genotype-phenotype…

David Chludil

Summer School "Modeling Assisted Migration to Adapt Forests and Ecosystem Services to Climate Change" BFW, Austria 29 July - 2 August 2024

By: David Chludil

I attended a summer school titled "Modeling Assisted Migration to Adapt Forests and Ecosystem Services to Climate Change," held at a beautiful forest training center in Traunkirchen, Austria, from July 29th to August 2nd. This…

Marion Carme

Summer School - Assisted migration for adapting forests to climate change 28 Jul - 2 Aug 2024, BFW, Austria

Report on the summer school «Modelling assisted migration»

Marion CARME

I participated in the 2024 session of the summer school on Modelling Assisted Migration to adapt forests and ecosystem services to climate change (29 July-2 August 2024).

Time…

Carlos Guadaño-Peyrot

IUFRO World Congress Stockholm, 23-29 June 2024

Carlos Guadaño-Peyrot, July 2024

Participating at the IUFRO World Congress 2024 as a PhD student was an inspiring experience, an excellent opportunity to learn about the work of other colleagues and share my own research results, as well as to keep…

Thomas Francisco

ETH/Evoltree course "Genomics of environmental adaptation", 4-11 February 2024, WSL, Switzerland

"The 2024 Evoltree training course “Genomics of Environmental Adaptation” was organised by the WSL Birmensdorf team. During this week, we covered a wide range of genomic topics ranging from the acquisition of genomics and environmental data to the…

Kit Nemeth

ETH/Evoltree course "Genomics of environmental adaptation", 4-11 February 2024, WSL, Switzerland

“Receiving the Evoltree Grant has allowed me to travel from Scotland to Switzerland to participate in the Genomics of Environmental Adaption five-day winter school. This course helped me improve my decision-making skills when analyzing genomic and…

Felix Zimmermann

EVOLTREE training 2023 - Introduction to Quantitative Genetics

By Felix Zimmermann

The EVOLTREE training course “Introduction to Quantitative Genetics” at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague was led by Prof. Milan Lstibůrek. He provided us with valuable inputs about basic concepts of population and…

Sharing insights and fostering connections are pivotal, especially at the onset of one's career. As a post-doctoral researcher, I seized the opportunity to achieve precisely that through the presentation of my research at the prestigious ECEM2023…

Desanka Lazic

Second EVOLTREE Conference 2023, Romania
I am happy to report that I participated in the Second EVOLTREE 10–15 September in the beautiful city of Brasov in Romania. I attended to present my poster on the topic of speciation and evolution of oaks and the conference proved to be the perfect platform for the topic, as the room was packed with not only oak specialists, but also experts in speciation, hybridization, adaptation, and a myriad of related areas.

Ourania Grigoriadou Zormpa

Second Evoltree Conference 2023
I participated in the 2nd EVOLTREE conference "Resilient Forests for the Future", an event that brought together researchers, PhD students, and professors from various parts of the world. This conference, where I made my first oral presentation as a PhD student, turned out to be an incredible opportunity for education and networking.

FENG LONG

12th International Congress of Plant Pathology (ICPP2023), 20-25 August 2023, Lyon, France
The 12th International Congress of Plant Pathology (ICPP2023) was held from 20 th to 25 th of August 2023 in Lyon, France. There were around 2400 plant pathologists and plant health researchers from around the world who joined to discuss the latest research in plant pathology as well as current and future issues in plant health.

Boris Rantaša

EVOLTREE Summer School August 2023
Summer School "Modelling Assisted Migration to Adapt Forests and Ecosystem Services to Climate Change." This event was organized by the Bundesforschungszentrum für Wald (BFW) and the Czech University of Life Sciences, and was held at the Forestry Training Centre in Traunkirchen, Austria.....more

ANDRO KOKEZA

11th Summer School on 'Scientific Writing, Reviewing, and Publishing: Measures to protect and monitor forest genetic diversity', August 2023, Slovenia

The summer school was of great help for improving my scientific writing and understanding the core elements of scientific papers. The reason why I wanted to attend this summer school was because I am still a fresh PhD student and everything new I…

ANA-MARIA UNGUREANU

EVOLTREE Summer School August 2023
EVOLTREE Summer School „Modelling Assisted Migration to adapt forests and ecosystem services to climate change” 30 July – 04 August 2023.

HUAYONG WANG

Training course "Genomics of environmental adaptation" WSL, Switzerland
It was a perfect experience to have this course. There are so many R scripts and PPT. Now I know more about the population genomics.

NATAŠA ŠIBANC

Training course "Genomics of environmental adaptation" WSL, Switzerland
This five-day winter school aimed at teaching the most recent aspects of the genomics of environmental adaptation. It provided both theoretical background and hands-on exercises on major topics of contemporary environmental genomics such as signatures of selection, outlier analysis and environmental association analysis.

FELIX FRACCHIA

Course "Landscape Genomics" at WSL (Switzerland)
I attended the course "Landscape Genomics" held at WSL (Switzerland) and it was beyond all my expectations. The course was very well structured, in terms of both scientific and practical supports. The flow between each sessions was very well thought which made the entire course well accessible even though I did not have the appropriate scientific background. The teachers were always accessible for any questions, remarks and discussion and were more than invovled in the good evolution of the course. Overall, I came back to my former lab with solid knowledge and pratices about landscape genomics and I am looking forward to digg more into this field

NATAŠA ŠIBANC

Summer school in Kočevje
The need for the transfer of knowledge is high among both researchers and practitioners, active in the discipline of forestry. The Summer school on ‘Scientific writing, reviewing and publishing and forest genetic monitoring knowledge transfer into practice’ provides Ph.D. students, junior and senior researchers training sessions on a production, submission and a reviewing process of scientific publications.

CARLOS GUADANO PEYROT

F-4 Symposium Future PhDs for future forests, Germany

I am very grateful to EVOLTREE for its support which made possible my attendance to the Symposium Future PhDs for Future Forest and have the opportunity to give the talk Phenotypic variation in tree-height of Pinus pinea L. along the natural…

IULIA BACU

Summer school: "Scientific writing, reviewing and publishing and forest genetic monitoring knowledge transfer into practice"

The courses held by em. prof. dr. Reinhart CEULEMANS during the Summer School on “Scientific writing, reviewing and publishing: Measures for protection and monitoring of forest genetic diversity & Communicating scientific results to small-scale…

ADELAIDE THERAROZ, INRAE-UMR

F-4 Symposium – Future Pds For Future Forests

The 1st F-4 Symposium – Future Pds For Future Forests was held at the Georg August Univesität Göttingen, Germany between the 28th to 30th September 2022. The aim of this Symposium was to encourage PhDs students in the field of forest genetics and…

MELINA KRAUTWURST, Thuenen Institute of forest genetics, Germany

F4-Symposium Future PhDs for Future Forests, Germany

The main object of the symposium was to encourage PhD students to share and discuss their work and build a network.

Every PhD student had the opportunity to present their work with a presentation. It did not matter if they had results already or…

DOMITILLE COQ-ETCHEGARAY, INRAe

ESEB - Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology

The Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) was held at the Prague Congress Centre in Czech Republic from 14th to 19th August 2022. With up to 1600 participants, ~700 posters and ~500 talks in 40 different symposia the ESEB…

ATTENDEES OF THE IUFRO GENOMICS AND FOREST TREE GENETICS CONFERENCE

Vera Inácio, ISA, Portugal

I presented my work as a poster entitled “Differential DNA methylation patterns in Quercus suber are related to cork quality” which was developed as collaboration between my institute (LEAF - Institute of Agronomy) and…

XAVIER BOUTEILLER, INRA, FRANCE

European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB)
I am very grateful to the EVOLTREE committee that allowed me to participate in this conference. Thanks to the EVOLTREE funding, I had the opportunity to present my work to other evolutionary biologists from all Europe and I had very interesting discussion about my project with participants that will help fulfill my PhD project.

BORIS JAKUSCHKIN

IUFRO Tree Biotechnology Conference “Forests: the importance to the planet and society”
I am very grateful to EVOLTREE for the travel grant, which allowed me to attend the IUFRO Tree Biotechnology Conference “Forests: the importance to the planet and society” in Florence from 8th to 12th June. Walking the streets of Florence, which have seen the great Renaissance men was very inspiring. Even more inspiring was it to see many great scientists of our time doing timely research on forest trees.

ANNIKA PERRY, CEH

5th International Workshop on the Genetics of Tree-Parasite Interactions
The conference was a valuable opportunity to stimulate discussion between forest breeders, geneticists, entomologists, phytopathologists, forest managers and evolutionary biologists and to hear about ongoing work, progress and successes in a range of different pathosystems across the world.

RICHARD WHITTET, CEH

Integrated AdapCAR and EVOLTREE Conference and summer school
I am very grateful to EVOLTREE for providing me with a conference grant to attend the conference and summer school. It was a very worthwhile and enjoyable experience and it was good to meet and speak with other researchers.

CARMEN ROMERALO

5th Workshop in Genetics of Tree-Parasite Interactions
Thanks to the EVOLTREE group, who supported economically my stay, I had the opportunity of presenting my work as a talk entitled: “Aleppo pine provenances vary in susceptibility and secondary chemical response to Gremmeniella abietina infection” which was developed as a collaboration between my institution, the Sustainable Forest Research Institute, University of Valladolid-INIA and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

CRISTINA LEONARDUZZI

IUFRO Tree Biotechnology Conference “Forests: the importance to the planet and society”
During the conference breaks it was possible to have a look at the many posters presented in the poster session, to directly talk to the authors, and to meet and discuss with other scientist about the topics introduced by the presentations. This conference was very inspiring and very useful for me and I am really grateful to EVOLTREE for providing me financial support to attend it.

Jill Sekely

IUFRO World Congress in Stockholm, 23-29 June 2024

Jill Sekely, 15 July 2024

Presenting my work on the global stage at the IUFRO World Congress in Stockholm was an enormous opportunity, both in terms of delegate count (over 4,000!) and the reach I was afforded. As I finally near the summit of my PhD…

Andrii Tarieiev

XX International Botanical Congress in Madrid 21-27.07.2024

By Andrii Tarieiev, 12 August 2024

I would like to thank EVOLTREE for providing the travel grant to attend XX International Botanical Congress in Madrid 21-27.07.2024. In addition, I also participated in the Nomenclature Section of the International…

Adélaïde Theraroz

IUFRO World Congress in Stockholm 23-29 June 2024

Adélaïde Theraroz, July 2024

I attended the XXVI IUFRO World Congress 2024 Forests And Society Towards 2050 in Stockholm, which welcomed more than four thousand people from all over the world where I had the opportunity to present a poster entitled…

Victor Papin

IUFRO World Congress in Stockholm, 23-29 June 2024

Victor Papin, July 2024

I would like to thank you warmly for this grant, which has enabled me to cover my travel expenses to Stockholm, Sweden, for the IUFRO 2024 international congress. I was able to give an oral presentation in session T3.14…

Date	Event	Location
2025-09-10 September 2025	Training course: "Conservation of forest genetic resources", 10-11Sept 2025, Poland
2025-08-11 August 2025	Course on genetic simulations with the SLiM software. 11-15 August 2025, Finland	University campus Viikki, Finland
2025-07-28 July 2025	Third Summer School on Adapting Forests to Climate Change: Operationalizing of Assisted Migration. 28 July-1 August 2025	Traunkirchen, Austria
2025-05-19 May 2025	Workshop: Introduction to Quantitative Genetics. 19-23 May 2025	Prague, Czech Republic
2025-01-27 January 2025	ETH/Evoltree course "Genomics of environmental adaptation" January 2025	WSL Birmensdorf, Switzerland (close to Zürich)
2024-11-25 November 2024	Training course "Genetics and Genomics of Adaptation to Climate Change in Plants"	Copenhagen, Denmark
2024-07-29 July 2024	Summer school: "Assisted migration for adapting forests to climate change"	BFW, Traunkirchen, Austria
2024-02-05 February 2024	ETH/Evoltree course "Genomics of environmental adaptation"	WSL Birmensdorf, Switzerland (close to Zürich)
2023-11-27 November 2023	Training: Introduction to quantitative genetics	Czech Republic
2023-08-07 August 2023	11th Summer School on Scientific Writing, Reviewing, and Publishing	Planica, Slovenia
2023-07-30 July 2023	Summer School: Modelling Assisted Migration to adapt forests and ecosystem services to climate change	Forestry Training Centre Traunkirchen (BFW), Austria
2023-02-06 February 2023	Course "Genomics of environmental adaptation"	WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
2022-09-28 September 2022	Symposium: Future PhDs for Future Forests	Göttingen, Germany
2022-08-24 August 2022	Training: "Novel forest tree breeding for tolerance to abiotic and biotic stress" organised by "TolerantTree" and EVOLTREE	Nødebo, Denmark
2022-08-08 August 2022	Summer school: "Scientific writing, reviewing and publishing and forest genetic monitoring knowledge transfer into practice"	Kočevje, Slovenia
2022-06-22 June 2022	B4EST short course: Polygenicity and population genetics	Lisbon, Portugal
2022-02-07 February 2022	Five-day winter school on Genomics of Environmental Adaptation	WSL, Switzerland
2021-08-09 August 2021	Summer school on scientific writing, reviewing and publishing & Forest genetic monitoring knowledge transfer into practice	Pokljuka, Slovenia
2021-02-08 February 2021	Genomics of Environmental Adaptation	WSL, Switzerland
2020-09-18 September 2020	Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding	Umeå, Sweden
2020-05-10 May 2020	Black Forest Summer School 2020	Location Online
2020-01-31 January 2020	Wikipedia edit-a-thon training session	Avignon, France
2020-01-30 January 2020	Genomics training session	Avignon, France
2019-08-19 August 2019	LIFEGENMON and EVOLTREE Summer school on scientific writing, reviewing and publishing & Forest genetic monitoring knowledge transfer into practice	Location Pokljuka, Slovenia
2019-07-01 July 2019	Introduction to Next-Generation Sequencing: Applications in Ecology and Evolution. IV Edition	Vicalvaro, Madrid
2019-06-03 June 2019	Summer School "Ecology and Society: Frontiers and Boundaries"	Bordeaux, France.
2019-03-27 March 2019	Environmental modelling: species distribution and transfer models in forestry under climate change	Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic
2018-12-10 December 2018	Forest Models and Simulators to Support Sustainable Forest Management in a Global Change context	University of Lisbon, School of Agriculture (ISA), Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisbon, Portugal
2018-09-19 September 2018	EVOLTREE Summer School - Modern physiological measurements and data analysis	Prague, Czech Republic
2018-08-06 August 2018	Summer school on Scientific writing	Osnovna šola Soca, Slovenia
2018-07-02 July 2018	Introduction to next-generation sequencing: applications in ecology and evolution
2018-06-11 June 2018	Summer School: Interactions between ecosystems and rural–urban fringes	Bordeaux, France
2018-06-04 June 2018	Training course: From genotypes to phenotypes - assessing forest tree diversity in the wild	Faculty of Forest Science and Ecology, Aleksandras Stulginskis University, Lithuania
2018-02-25 February 2018	Workshop: Physiological and Molecular Adaptation to Climate Change in Forest Trees	Israel
2017-09-11 September 2017	Genomic selection and Breeding without Breeding strategy	Czech University of Life Sciences Prague – University Campus, Prague, Czech Republic
2017-08-28 August 2017	Summer School and Symposium on “Integrated methods to detect polygenic adaptation from genomic data”	ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2017-08-23 August 2017	HealGenCAR workshop “Fighting ash dieback with new and old tools”	Nødebo, Northern Sealand
2017-08-07 August 2017	Summer school of scientific writing and publishing & CAPABAL 5th TRAINING SCHOOL	Penzion na Razpotju,The Logar ska Valley, Slovenia
2017-07-24 July 2017	Black Forest Summer School 2017	Black Forest next to the mountain Herzogenhorn, Germany
2017-07-03 July 2017	LabEx COTE 5th Summer School: "Weak signals and emerging issues in ecological transition"	Bordeaux, France
2017-06-28 June 2017	Training and PhD course: Analysis of genetic structure within and among populations based on common garden trials	University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark
2016-10-04 October 2016	Molecular phylogeography of forest tree species using newly developed genomic resources (EST-SSRs and SNPs)	Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
2016-09-13 September 2016	Black Forest Summer School 2016	Herzogenhorn, Black Forest, Germany
2016-09-07 September 2016	The ALTER-Net Summer School: Biodiversity, ecosystem services and sustainable management of socio-ecosystems	Peyresq, France
2016-09-06 September 2016	Workshop on Cork oak woodlands: an ecosystem in the edge of climate change	University of Lisbon, School of Agriculture (ISA), Lisbon, Portugal
2016-06-06 June 2016	COTE 4th Summer School on Ecology and Global Changes	Bordeaux, France
2015-09-14 September 2015	NGS Data for Phylogenetics	The Black Forest, Germany
2015-08-27 August 2015	Global change and the evolutionary potential of forest trees	Iceland
2015-06-22 June 2015	Ecology and society: Biodiversity and global change	Bordeaux, France
2015-05-11 May 2015	Coalescent Today	Uppsala University, Sweden
2015-04-20 April 2015	Ancestral graphs and SMC	Uppsala University, Sweden
2015-03-24 March 2015	Approximate Bayesian Computation	Uppsala University, Sweden
2015-02-28 February 2015	Workshop on Forest Genetic Monitoring	Thessaloniki, Greece
2014-09-24 September 2014	Population structure and the architecture of quantitative traits	Uppsala University, Sweden
2014-09-08 September 2014	Georeferenced Genetic Data and their Evaluation	Technical University of Zvolen, Slovakia
2014-07-02 July 2014	NGS data analysis: From Hell to Heaven
2014-06-16 June 2014	Ecosystem Transfers and Interactions	Bordeaux, France
2013-07-15 July 2013	Forest ecosystems under threat - an integrative approach for analysing the conservational status of beech forests in Europe	Marburg, Germany
2013-06-17 June 2013	Next-generation sequencing for beginners: applications to population genetics, forest health and tree breeding	Valladolid, Spain
2013-06-03 June 2013	Estimating mating system and gene flow in plants, with special emphasis on trees	Bydgoszcz, Poland
2012-09-24 September 2012	Population genetic and genomic approaches	Göttingen, Germany
2012-09-10 September 2012	Ecophysiology Field Techniques Workshop	Lisbon, Portugal
2012-09-05 September 2012	Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services	Peyresq, France
2012-09-05 September 2012	Genome-wide association studies using mixed models	Uppsala, Sweden
2012-06-11 June 2012	Genetic Data Analysis	Prague, Czech Republic
2011-11-22 November 2011	Population genomics	Helsinki, Finland
2011-11-14 November 2011	Evolutionary quantitative genetics in forest ecosystems	INRA BIOGECO, Bordeaux, France
2011-10-04 October 2011	Functions of microbial communities in soils; sustainable use of biotic resources	Munich, Germany
2011-09-12 September 2011	Adaptation to climate change in forest management	Vienna, Austria
2011-09-06 September 2011	Next Generation Sequencing and the Analysis of Genetic Diversity	Udine, Italy
2011-07-25 July 2011	Population genetic and genomic approaches	Göttingen, Germany
2010-06-21 June 2010	Stress response including microbial communities	Munich / Freising, Germany
2009-08-26 August 2009	Eco-evolutionary Approaches to Climate Change Responses	Paris, France
2009-05-11 May 2009	Forests at the limit	Sopron, Hungary
2009-05-04 May 2009	Ancient DNA	Borrowdale, Lake District, UK
2009-03-16 March 2009	Use of Stable Isotopes in Forest Ecology	INRA-Nancy, France
2008-12-15 December 2008	Spatial and temporal variation of genetic structures in tree populations	Goettingen, Germany
2008-09-16 September 2008	Glomus Genome Consortium Workshop	Nancy, France
2008-09-08 September 2008	Functions of microbial communities in soils	Nancy, France
2008-09-01 September 2008	Computational and Mathematical Modeling for Plant Systems Biology	Ghent, Belgium
2008-07-24 July 2008	Computational Phyloinformatics	Durham, North Carolina, USA
2007-09-10 September 2007	Global change and challenges for genetic and ecological research	Zvolen, Slovakia
	Epigenics autumn school - has been postponed to 2025	Marburg, Germany

Past courses and feedback

Thomas Francisco

Marija Kravanja

Jemal Mohammed Abdela

Vasyl Mohytych

Marija Kravanja

David Chludil

Marion Carme

Carlos Guadaño-Peyrot

Thomas Francisco

Kit Nemeth

Felix Zimmermann

Daniel Provaznik

Kedra Mohammed Ousmael

Victor Frion

Desanka Lazic

Ourania Grigoriadou Zormpa

FENG LONG

Boris Rantaša

ANDRO KOKEZA

ANA-MARIA UNGUREANU

HUAYONG WANG

NATAŠA ŠIBANC

FELIX FRACCHIA

NATAŠA ŠIBANC

CARLOS GUADANO PEYROT

IULIA BACU

ADELAIDE THERAROZ, INRAE-UMR

MELINA KRAUTWURST, Thuenen Institute of forest genetics, Germany

DOMITILLE COQ-ETCHEGARAY, INRAe

ATTENDEES OF THE IUFRO GENOMICS AND FOREST TREE GENETICS CONFERENCE

XAVIER BOUTEILLER, INRA, FRANCE

BORIS JAKUSCHKIN

ANNIKA PERRY, CEH

RICHARD WHITTET, CEH

CARMEN ROMERALO

CRISTINA LEONARDUZZI

Jill Sekely

Andrii Tarieiev

Adélaïde Theraroz

Victor Papin