Autumn School "Global Change Ecology : from microorganisms to ecosystems"

Looking to broaden your technical skills as a budding researcher in ecology ?
Interested in different fields of ecology ?
Join ECOTUMN 2025, our self-organized scientific autumn school from 20th to 24th October 2025. We will explore the consequences of global changes at different scales, the existing tools and new methods to study them, and their impact on species conservation.

This event is open to all young researchers in ecology (PhD students and postdoctoral researchers). We particularly thank the LECA and the doctoral schools "Chimie et Sciences du vivant" and "Sciences, Ingéniérie, Environnement" for funding our project.

A Journey through Global Change Ecology

Embark on a scientific journey to the heart of mountain ecology with ECOTUMN, a research school organized by PhD students at the Alpine Ecology Laboratory in Grenoble, France, from October 20 to 24, 2025. This immersive program is designed for PhD students interested in the impact of global change on ecosystems.

If you are interested in (among other things) :

understanding the implications of microorganisms in biogeochemical cycles,
how plants and mammals are affected by global changes,
and how ecology can help implement conservation policies adapted to global changes,

then this theme week is for you. The program includes a series of lectures by specialist researchers from France and Europe in fields as diverse as population genetics, functional ecology, metabolomics, and parasitology, with global changes as the main object of interest.

The week will culminate in a 1-day field ecology excursion in Chartreuse to discover one of the biodiversity monitoring programmes developed by LECA and talk about the impacts of global changes on the Chartreuse’s socio-ecosystem.

Practical information : This event is free of charge (excluding accommodation and travel expenses). We will cover all the lunches and bus travels to Chambéry and Chartreuse. All talks will be held in English and you can benefit from training credits for your doctoral school.

Location :

IMAG Building, 150 Place du Torrent, 38400 Saint-Martin-d’Hères, France (20, 21 and 24 October)
Belledone Building, Le Bourget du Lac, 73370 France (22 October)

Flyer :

Schedule

Please note that this planning is preliminary and subject to change.

Featured speakers

Elsa Abs, Research Fellow, at Laboratory of Environmental and Climate Sciences (LSCE), Paris, France
Martino Adamo, PostDoc Position at University of Turin, Italy
Alice Brambilla, PostDoc Position at University of Zurich, Switzerland
Gabriele Casazza, Professor (Associate) at University of Genova, Italy
Olivier Duriez, Assistant Professor at University of Montpellier, France
Clara Marino, Post-doc at CESAB
Gabrielle Martin, Assistant professor at Toulouse University

More to come !

Register

Registration is now open !
Registration for the Autumn School is free of charges and includes lunch for all participants. However, accommodation and travel costs are not covered.

To register please fill this form : https://forms.gle/nBgtyD5Spear4Nwy7

**Registration is mandatory. Priority will be given to the first 40 people who register.

We are looking forward to meeting all participants on the 20th of October.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at ecotumn gmail.com.

About us

The Autumn School Initiative was founded in 2019 by PhD ecology students from the LECA, who would like to take their own responsibility for graduate level specialization courses.

Here is our 2025 team :