GfBS's Annual Meeting

Please remind the following conference deadlines

  • early bird registration ends 11th May 2025
  • abstract submission ends 25th May 2025
  • registration deadline is 28th May 2025

Conference Venue, Travel, and Accommodation

Read more in the second Circular (pdf) on how to get to the venue, and get tips on hotels, public transportation and recreation in Hamburg. 

GfBS-Jahrestagung: Travel Grants 2025

Financial travel support for students to visit our Annual Meeting of the GfBS is available. Please apply with a brief text confirming your status as student (including PhD students), location and estimated costs for transport to Hamburg. Please send your application to our managing director  until 10th May 2025. A decision will be made soon after this date.

Registration is open: 26th Conference of our Society of Biological Systematics (GfBS) 2025

in Hamburg, Germany, at the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB).

29 May - 1 June 2025

  • Keynote speakers are Elizabeth Joyce (Munich), Nancy Mercado Salas (Hamburg) and Jonas Zimmermann (Berlin)
  • Conference-dinner on St. Pauli (included in conference fee)
  • Winner of our Rensch Award will be announced
  • Announcement of two new honorary members
  • GfBS's member assembly (Sunday)
  • Meetings of our working groups: Curators and Young Systematists
  • Tours through exhibitions and scientific collections of the Museum for Nature (Zoology, Paleontology, Mineralogy)
  • Travel Grants are available
  • Conference Venue, Travel and Accommodation (pdf)
  • Deadlines:
    early bird registration ends 11th May 2025
    abstract submission ends 25th May 2025
    registration deadline is 28th May 2025
  • Organised by the team around the Conference Chair: Prof. Dr. Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa
  • see conference schedule (pdf)

To register, please follow https://express.converia.de/frontend/index.php?sub=1842

26th Conference of our Society of Biological Systematics (GfBS) 2025

in Hamburg, Germany

29 May - 1 June 2025

At the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB)

Organised by the team around the Conference Chair: Prof. Dr. Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa

read details in -> 1st Circular (pdf)