We are delighted to welcome you for the 4th edition of Silicamics workshop in France.
Silicamics 4 will be held at Moulin Mer Center, next to Brest, Finistère, France
from the 14th to the 18th of October 2024.
Presentation
The SILICAMICS interdisciplinary conferences series was launched in 2015 under initiative of the international Silica Group. This group, based in LEMAR-IUEM, is networked with top researchers of America, Asia, and Europe experts on the silicon cycle and the silicifiers. These conferences series aim to develop an integrative approach that includes chemistry, biogeochemistry, ecology, physiology and genomics to better understand biosilicification and silicifiers in past, contemporary and future oceans.
Since 2015, a second conference (SILICAMICS 2) was held in Victoria, Canada in 2018, and a third conference (SILICAMICS 3) was organized online by colleagues in Hangzhou, China in 2021. SILICAMICS 4 will be held, once again, near Brest, France in October 2024. Among the outcomes of the three first SILICAMICS conferences are synthesis articles in Nature Geoscience (2018) and in Biogeosciences (2021) and two special issues of Frontiers in Marine sciences (2019 and 2022) that hosted more than 24 articles.
Built on a Gordon-like conference scheme the SILICAMICS 4 conferences invites international keynote speakers, and organises working groups of PhD students, which debate with senior scientists to build their own understanding of science.
Based on merit, 4 students may be exempted from registration fees.
To compete for fee exemption, students must submit an abstract in the section "abstract submission" and add a cover letter describing their motivation to participate to Silicamics 4 in the section "supplementary file" (at the end of abstract submission process). You are nevertheless invited to pay the registration fee and will be reimbursed before the conference.
Opening dates for registration and abstract submission : January, 24th 2024
Deadline for abstract submission : June 15th, 2024 (and cover letter for fee exemption)
1rst deadline for abstract selection : May 15th, 2024
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