Symposium

9^th International Symposium on Dynamic Energy Budget theory (June 4 - June 6 2025)

The DEB2025 International Symposium brings together a multi-disciplinary audience to advance the development and application of Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory.DEB theory offers a unified set of assumptions that form the basis for mathematical models aimed at studying metabolic organization at the individual level and its dynamic interactions with the changing environment. This event centers on exploring DEB theory within the context of ecosystem-based approaches for managing Earth’s resources.

The DEB symposia are international researcher conferences arranged on a regular basis in different countries. They are hosted by different nodes of the DEBnet: an international network of experts on Dynamic Energy Budgets.

The theme of the 2025 is "Stress ecology and biodiversity under climate change". As we enter the anthropocene and are now crossing critical planetary boundaries, numerical modelling is an indispensable tool for scientists, managers, and stakeholders. DEB theory provides a framework for constructing families of related models, rooted in a mechanistic description of the individual metabolic processes. This mechanistic approach is essential for linking functional traits to predictive variables, ensuring that models remain adaptable to shifting environmental conditions. A key challenge in model applications is the assessment of parameter values. Many applications of DEB theory have demonstrated the capacity to extract meaningful parameters from data, enabling models to inform effective decision-making. This symposium will showcase the latest advancements in DEB theory and its applications, fostering cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary developments to address the pressing ecological challenges of our time.

 This symposium aims at: 

• Bring together researchers from biology, mathematics, engineering, chemistry, and physics to address biological and ecological challenges.
• Present new challenging problems where mathematical analysis is applied to solvie ecological questions.
• Stimulate biological research in a physics-oriented style, emphasizing explicit mechanistic assumptions rather than mere descriptions, and exploring the implications of these assumptions for novel situations (which were possibly never studied before).
• Creating an opportunity for lecturers who attended previous DEB courses to present results they obtained since then (oral presentations will not be limited to this).
• Bringing in fresh ideas into the DEB community by inviting some keynote speakers from outside the DEB community.
• Expanding the scope of DEB applications through a diverse selection of oral presentations, while integrating the symposium into the DEB course to provide participants with this opportunity.. The international school and the tele-couse are organized directly prior to the symposium.

Registrations will open soon, stay tuned for updates!

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