Last week I attended the 2011 meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Bioogy, held in Tuebingen, Germany. Although I was absolutely shattered by the time it came around (having spent the week prior becoming increasingly frantic as I tried to finish off a review article, analyse data, and create a poster for the conference), I enjoyed it immensely! It was a huge event with lots of really nice and interesting people, all sorts of great talks, and helped down by actual summer weather and a fair amount of hefeweizen…

Over the next few weeks, I’m going to attempt to write some short posts on my favourite talks from ESEB, from dirty bedbug penises to the evolutionary consequences of multiple inheritance systems, and deceitful flowers to sexy robotic crab claws. Hopefully I’ll be able to do them justice.