The deadline for submissions to the yearly iEvoBio Challenge is June 25, 2012, and is rapidly approaching! This is our last reminder. This year’s theme is "Synthesizing Phylogenies," and further information on criteria for challenge entries, how to submit them, and award amount can be found at http://ievobio.org/challenge.html.

Also, Biomatters Ltd is running the Geneious Challenge alongside iEvoBio’s competition. The goal of this challenge is to develop a new and exciting visualization or analysis plugin to Geneious Pro, using the public API. Seehttp://ievobio.org/geneious_challenge.html for more information. The deadline for this competition is also June 25.

More details about the iEvoBio conference and program are available at http://ievobio.org. You can also find continuous updates on the conference's Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/iEvoBio and Google+ page, or subscribe to the low-traffic iEvoBio announcements mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/ievobio-announce.

iEvoBio 2012 is sponsored by the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) and by Biomatters Ltd., in partnership with the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB).

The iEvoBio 2012 Organizing Committee:

Hilmar Lapp, US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (chair)

Robert Beiko, Dalhousie University

Nico Cellinese, University of Florida

Robert Guralnick, University of Colorado at Boulder

Rebecca Kao, Denver Botanic Gardens

Ellinor Michel, Natural History Museum, London

Nadia Talent, Royal Ontario Museum

Andrea Thomer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign