DEB events

Please follow this link to access the list of all past keynote speakers at DEB international symposia.
Event Location Dates Note
DEB 2025 tele-course, School & Symposium One line & Iraklion, Crete, Greece 2025/02/14 - 03/28 (online course); 2025/05/26 - 06/03 (practical course); 2025/06/04 - 06 (symposium) 9th Internat. Symposium on DEB theory preceeded by a two part training event (free online course and 8-d practical course in person).
Add-my-pet curator workshop V Zagreb, Croatia 2025/02/02 - 08 Developments in AmP, symposium and preparation for DEB2025
DEB 2023 tele-course, School & Symposium One line & Baton Rouge, Lousiana, USA 2023/03/23 - 05/04 (online course); 2023/06/05 - 13 (practical course); 2023/06/14 - 16 (symposium) 8th Internat. Symposium on DEB theory preceeded by a two part training event (free online course and 8-d practical course in person). 142 participarts enrolled for online-course, 27 for school (excluding 13 assistants) participants of DEB2023 lots of squirrels around the place closeby New Orleans has a nice aquarium many discussion sessions were in the campus-park the alligator boat-trip in the swamps of Louisiana, American style some are scared by big insects, others are not ...
Add-my-pet curator workshop IV Voorschoten, the Netherlands 2023/02/28 - 03/23 & 2023/04/27 - 05/09 AmP curator workshop 2023 AmP curator workshop 2023 AmP curator workshop 2023 AmP curator workshop 2023 Developments in AmP and preparation for DEB2023
DEB 2021 tele-course, School & Symposium Online (due to COVID) 2021/03/04 - 04/22 & 05/17 - 22 7th international symposium on DEB theory: 2021/05/24 - 28 Online with daily live zoom sessions 15:00 and 18:00 GMT (London time)
Ecotox (GUTS)focused training courses at SETAC Europe Dublin, Ireland 2020/05/03 - 07 A course on the openGUTS software by Tjalling Jager and Roman Ashauer - an afternoon's hands-on course for using the software, with very limited attention to the backgrounds of the GUTS model itself. This course is now available for everyone via Leanpub. TC01 - GUTS Modelling: From the Theory to the Practice (3rd May). A full-day training course organized by Sandrine Charles. Details on the course can be found here. (Practical: R software and MOSAIC web platform)
debX 2020 Online 2020/02/17 - 03/23 A 5-week course (MOOC) providing a framework for modelling metabolism at the organism level, covering the full life-cycle, using the Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) Theory. A free online course about DEB theory that has been running for 4 years. This year it will have new French subtitles thanks to the LEMAR group in Brest
Preditox 2020 - Ecotoxicology and Predictive Modelling Lyon, France 2020/01/06 - 10 (Ecotox) Winter school covering the following topics: Introduction to R software, Dose-response and TKTD modeling, Distribution fitting, Bayesian inference
DEB session/symposium at the ISEM conference Salzburg, Austria 2019/10/01 - 05 Dynamic energy budgets are one of the main topics on the International Society for Ecological Modelling conference. Abstract submission deadline 26th April.
Ecological applications of DEB at the Biomathematics ESMTB Summer School 2019 - Modelling in Marine Ecology Sicily, Italy 2019/09/8 - 21 The school aims to cover several themes on modelling in marine ecology and provide several courses within each theme. Five diverse themes were negotiated, with some of them having as many as five courses. Among modelling strategies, frameworks, and concepts, DEB theory and DEB-based models are presented and applied
DEB2019: Practical course, Workshop & Symposium Brest, France 2019/04/1 - 6 & 8-9 & 10 - 12 participants DEB2019 participants DEB2019 participants DEB2019 DEB School practical course (a continuation of the tele-course, including practical exercises). The course is followed by 2-day DEB workshops, and the 6th international symposium! Application for the school and abstract submission are open (deadline October 20th)
DEB2019: Tele-course Online 2019/01/24 - 02/28 10th edition of the DEB tele-course: general theoretical part. Focus is on chapters 1-4 of the DEB3-book, which deal with the principles of the theory and (the simplest) univariate DEB models
Add-my-pet curator workshop III Voorschoten, the Netherlands 2018/08/13-20 AmP curator workshop 2018 AmP curator workshop 2018 AmP curator workshop 2018 Developments in AmP
debX 2018 Online 2018/02/19 - 03/26 A 5-week course (MOOC) providing a framework for modelling metabolism at the organism level, covering the full life-cycle, using the Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) Theory
DEB2017 tele-course & School & 5th International DEB Symposium Tromsø, Norway 2017/05/21 - 30 & 05/31 - 06/02 Continuation of the DEB Tele-course. The focus of the practical course is mastering the skills involved in the interface between the empirical world and mathematics. The course is followed by the symposium covering advances in research and developments of DEB theory in the context of ecosystem based approaches to managing resources. (Akvaplan-niva AS)
debX micro Online 2017/05/12 - 25 A framework for modelling metabolism for microorganisms using the Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) Theory is provided in this course
9th DEB Tele-course 2017 Online 2017/03/02 - 04/06 The tele-course focuses on chapters 1-4 of the DEB-book, which deals with the principles of the theory and with univariate DEB models. (Akvaplan-niva AS)
Add-my-pet curator workshop II Voorschoten, the Netherlands 2017/01/23 - 27 AmP curator workshop 2017 Developments in AmP/ DEB course and symposium 2017
MEMS Summer School Brest, France 2016/08/29 - 09/02 MEMS Summer School 2016 "Combining Modeling and Experimental Approaches for Marine organisms under Stress"
TKTD summerschool 'DynModTox' 2016 Holbæk, Denmark 2016/08/09 - 17 Learning the basics of toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic modelling, how they can be linked and how to analyse and interpret body residue and toxicity data on a mechanistic basis. The course follows the same format as in 2014, but with more freedom in the group projects Impressions
Add-my-pet curator workshop I Voorschoten, the Netherlands 2016/06/25 - 07/02 AmP curator workshop 2016 AmP curator workshop 2016 AmP curator workshop 2016 AmP curator workshop 2016 AmP curator workshop 2016 Developments in add-my-pet/ DEB course 2017
Effective Strategic Renewal workshop Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen Denmark 2016/06/22 Study of applicability of DEB theory in Economics
Eco(toxi)cology tool for produced water workshop Statoil, Trondheim, Norway 2016/03/03 - 04 Improving risk assessment for produced water in the Bering Sea using DEB theory
TKTD summerschool 'DynModTox' 2014 Roskilde, Denmark 2016/08/05 - 13 Focus on (basic) toxicokinetics and toxicodynamic modelling (sub-lethal effects) using DEB theory in the form of the simplified DEBkiss model. Use of OpenModel next to Matlab. Impressions
DEB2015 course and Symposium Online and Marseille, France 2015/02/19 - 03/26 & 04/20-30 124 participants DEB2015 8th DEB Tele-course (19 Feb - 26 Mar): general theoretical part (5 weeks part-time) in tele-mode (at your working place) Participants; practical training part (20 Apr - 27 Apr): 7 days in class-room mode in the CIRM (Centre for International Meetings in Mathematics) in campus Luminy, Marseille (France); 4th Symposium on DEB theory (28 Apr - 30 Apr): at campus Luminy, Marseille (France). DEB 2015 is organised conjointly by the CIRM, the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO) and the Institute Pytheas (OSU). These are components of Aix-Marseille University (AMU)
Multispecies parameter estimation workshop LEMAR, Brest, France 2015/09/07 - 08 participants Introduction to multispecies DEB parameter estimation
PhD course on Theoretical Ecology Amsterdam 2015/02/02 4 lectures on DEB theory for metabolic metabolic organisation at VU University
DEB2013 course and Symposium Online and NIOZ, Texel, Netherlands 2013/02 - 03 & 04/15 - 26 130 participants DEB2013 Parciticipants of DEB2013 Parciticipants of DEB2013 7th DEB Tele-course (Feb - Mar): general theoretical part in tele-mode Participants; practical training part (15 Apr - 23 Apr) in class-room mode in the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel (Netherlands). 3rd Symposium on DEB theory (24 Apr - 26 Apr) at NIOZ
TKTD summerschool 'DynModTox' 2012 Holbæk, Denmark 2012/08/11 - 18 Learning the basics of toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic modelling, how they can be linked and how to analyse and interpret body residue and toxicity data on a mechanistic basis. TKTD modelling in general, and GUTS and DEBtox in particular. Impressions
Workshop on DEB theory Melbourne, Australia 2012/08/06 - 07 Lecture series, discussion sessions, school
PhD course on Theoretical Ecology Amsterdam 2012/01/16 4 lectures on DEB theory for metabolic metabolic organisation at VU University
Summer course Wimereux 2011/05/10 - 06/14 Station Marine de Wimereux, Univ. du Littoral cote d'Opale: Lectures on metabolic organisation and evolutionary aspects
DEB2011 course and Symposium Online and Lisbon, Portugal 2011/02-03 & 04/04-15 DEB2011 organizing crew in 2009 participants DEB2011 6th DEB Tele-course (Feb - Mar): general theoretical part in tele-mode. Participants.; practical training part (04 Apr - 12 Apr): in class-room mode at the Instituto Superior Técnico (T&eactute;cnico Lisboa), Lisbon (Portugal). Most participants.; 2nd Symposium on DEB theory (13 - 15 Apr) at Técnico Lisboa in Lisbon.
7th AQUAdeb meeting Nantes 2010/04/27 Upcomming events in DEB research
PhD course on Theoretical Ecology Amsterdam 2010/01/11 4 lectures on DEB theory for metabolic metabolic organisation at VU University
6th AQUAdeb meeting Nantes 2009/11/05 Upcomming events in DEB research
DEB2009 course and 1st Symposium Online and Brest, France 2009/02/12 - 03/19 & 09/17 - 10/22 & 04/19 - 23 61 participants DEB2009 DEB2009 organizing crew 5th DEB Tele-course in tele-mode: 02/02: plenary introductory program about chap 1-5 of the DEB book, and 09/10: advanced parallel program with selected topics related to the various symposium sessions. Practical training part (04): course and discussion day in Brest, France; 1st Symposium on DEB theory DEB Theory: 30 years of research for metabolic organization
5th AQUAdeb meeting Nantes 2008/10/28 3rd edition of DEB book and its maintenance
4th AQUAdeb meeting Nantes 2008/04/24 Isotope dynamics
PhD course in Theoretical Ecology Amsterdam 2008/01/07 4 lectures on metabolic organisation at VU University
3rd Workshop on DEB theory applications in marine systems Marseille 2007/12/20 University of the Mediterranee
3rd AQUAdeb meeting Rennes 2007/12/18 Agrocampus
2nd AQUAdeb meeting Nantes 2007/04/25 Ifremer, estimation of DEB parameters
DEB2007 tele course Online 2007/02 - 03 52 participants DEB2007 4th DEB Tele-course in tele-mode
2nd Workshop on DEB theory applications in marine systems Marseille 2007/01/17 - 18 Centre d'Oceanologie de Marseille Laboratoire de Microbiologie, de Geochimie et d'Ecologie Marines, Marseille
1st AQUAdeb meeting Nantes 2006/10/30 Ifremer, estimation of DEB parameters
1st Workshop on DEB theory applications in marine systems Marseille 2005/12/12 - 14 Centre d'Oceanologie de Marseille Laboratoire de Microbiologie, de Geochimie et d'Ecologie Marines, Marseille
PhD course in Theoretical Ecology Amsterdam 2005/12/05 4 lectures on DEB theory at VU University Amsterdam
DEB2005 tele course Online 2005/02 - 03 26 participants DEB2005 3th DEB Tele-course in tele-mode
ESMTB Summerschool Seqüenza, Spain 2003/08/25 - 09/03 participants of summerschool Scales in Mathematical and Theoretical Ecology From Individuals to Ecosystems
DEB2003 tele course Online 2003/02 - 03 48 participants DEB2003 2nd DEB Tele-course in tele-mode
DEB2001 tele course Online 2001/02 - 01 57 participants DEB2003 57 participants DEB2003 1st DEB Tele-course in tele-mode
DEB course Berlin, Germany 2000/02/17 6-lecture course at Humboldt University
DEB course Woutschoten, the Netherlands 2000/01/06 5 lectures at 3rd winterschool on pupulation dynamics