4th Young Natural History Scientists' Meeting

registration and abstract submissions for the 4th Young Natural History scientists' Meeting hosted at the MNHN (Paris, France) on February 7th-11th, 2017. The meeting will be followed by excursions on the 10th and 11th to visit some of the numerous exhibitions of the Muséum and a naturalist tour. We invite contributions from non permanent researchers (PhD students, post­doctorants master
students) in English (either oral or poster communications) on all aspects of natural history
represented in these six sessions:

- Biodiversity Dynamics and Conservation
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Humanities and Natural Sciences
- Systematics, Evolution and Comparative Anatomy
- Evolutionary ecology
- Methods in Natural History

A keynote speaker will open each of these multidisciplinary themes with a lecture on a
relevant topic. Deadline for abstract submission and registration is December 11th 2016 (23:59 GMT+1). The submission process takes place on the following website:
http://ynhm2017.sciencesconf.org/submission/submit?lang=en
A scientific committee has been appointed and will review all the abstracts. If we receive too many
abstracts for oral communications only the successful abstracts will be given as talks, the other abstracts will be accepted for poster presentations. VENUE AND TRAVEL:
The conference will take place at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, in the Grand
Amphithéatre du Muséum 2d, 3rd and 4th February 2016. We have some travel grants available for young researchers coming from far away who can not
afford to pay for the trip to Paris. Information about the application to the grants will be available in
the next circular. GETTING THERE:
Address: Jardin des Plantes ­ 36, rue Geoffroy Saint Hilaire 75005 Paris

Bus: Lines 24, 57, 61, 63, 67, 89 et 91

Metro, RER: M5: Austerlitz, M7: Censier Daubenton, M10: Jussieu or Austerlitz, RER C: Austerlitz. SNCF Railway Stations:
Austerlitz or Gare de Lyon (but all the railway stations are connected to metro and bus lines)

Getting to Paris by plane:
Paris has two major international airports: Roissy­Charles de Gaulle (north of Paris) and Orly (south
of Paris). There is frequent connecting city trains (RER) or buses leading to the center of Paris (and
therefore connection to the metro). The transfer takes between 30 and 45 minutes. For those interested in taking advantage of their stay in Paris to access the collections the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle stands as a fantastic memory of life forms and minerals, holding one of the most important international reference collections. Inert objects displaying palaeontology, geology, mineralogy, meteorites, botany, zoology, prehistory, anthropology,
ethnobiology and chemistry are estimated to total over 60 million specimens. Visits to our collections are welcomed, but access is dependent on the availability of curatorial staff. Delegates are strongly encouraged to contact the curators well in advance of the meeting through the
colhelper interface (http://colhelper.mnhn.fr/).All the details about the Meeting can be found at:
http://ynhm2017.sciencesconf.org/
Please feel free to circulate this to colleagues who may be interested in attending, and do not hesitate
to get in touch if you have any questions about the meeting ([email protected]). We look forward to seeing you in Paris! The BDEM, Doc’up and Timarcha