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Type	Title	Contact	Institution	Country	Description
Conference	7th International Palaeontological Congress	IPC7 Organisers	Cape Town International Convention Centre	South Africa	The 7th International Palaeontological Congress (IPC7) will be held in South Africa in 2026. The meeting will be held during the height of our very pleasant summer season at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) between the 30 November – 3 December.
Lab	Conservation Palaeobiology and Historical Ecology	Martin Zuschin	University of Vienna	Austria	We study modern environments and their very young fossil record to define ecological baselines for the differentiation of anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic change and to set realistic targets for the restoration of disturbed ecosystems. We use the older geologic record including now-extinct taxa to study biotic responses to environmental change that is beyond conditions observed today and to strengthen the ecological theory underlying conservation practice. For this purpose we concentrate on modern and fossil marine ecosystems and we use geohistorical records (e.g., fossils, sediment cores, geochemical data among others) to study biotic responses to environmental disturbances.
Lab	Vertebrate Palaeontology UCL	Philip Mannion	University College London	UK	We reconstruct patterns of ancient biodiversity through time and space in an attempt to better understand how past continental configurations and climatic changes constrained the evolution and distribution of ancient biodiversity, with relevance to predicting the long-term responses of climatically-threatened living organisms. This incorporates cutting-edge quantitative methods to elucidate the biogeographic history of fossil groups. Our work includes the characterisation of statistical relationships between deep time biodiversity and the geological biases that can obscure our understanding of macroevolutionary patterns, as well as subsampling and modelling approaches to ameliorate these biases.
Lab	PaleoLab USP-RP	Max Langer	University of São Paulo	Brazil	We study evolution, systematics and morphology of extinct organisms, with a special focus on vertebrates. We do lots of field works in many region of Brazil and other countries, collecting and describing new taxa. We are also interested in macroevolution, describing long-term patterns. PIs: Max Langer and Annie Hsiou.
Lab	Geozentrum Nordbayern	Wolfgang Kiessling	Friedrich-Alexander-Universität	Germany	In section Paleobiology and Paleoenvironments, we study the evolution of ecosystems over long timescales. We deduce the environmental factors which significantly influenced the emergence and disappearance of communities throughout Earth’s history, alongside predicting the effects of modern day anthropogenic climate change on future ecosystems.
Lab	Bristol Palaeobiology Group	Emily Rayfield	University of Bristol	UK	The Bristol Palaeobiology Research Group includes eight members of academic staff together with large numbers of research fellows, postdocs, PhD students, and Masters students.
Lab	Computational Evolution	Tanja Stadler	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	The Computational Evolution group works on inferring the past state (i.e. the phylogenetic tree) of macroevolutionary processes, together with inferring the past speciation and extinction dynamics, particularly via the fossilized birth-death process.
Lab	Mapas Lab	Sara Varela	Universidade de Vigo	Spain	We are a group of scientists working on paleoclimatology, paleontology, evolution, and ecology, investigating ancient life paleobiogeographic dynamics.

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