AForGeN Meeting 2026 ¶

The AForGeN meeting 2026 will be jointly organized by the University of Freiburg (Katrin Heer & Jill Sekely) and the Forest Research Institute FVA (Charalambos Neophytou).

Accomodation

We will convene at the "Sternwarte" close to Todtmoos. Rooms will be shared among up to four people, each room has an individual bathroom. Beds are of best Italian quality and very comfortable. We will get simple but solid food, vegetarian/vegan options will be provided.

Program

The program will be similar to what we did during the last meetings: One full day of scientific talks, one day for hiking (we might plan that flexibly depending on weather conditions) and the last half day for AForGeN topics. So, please plan your arrival for dinner on the first day (June 8th), departure after lunch on Thursday, June 11th.We will ask you for abstracts for the scientific program in time before the meeting.

Costs

We can only book the entire house - so the costs per person will depend a bit on how many people will actually attend. Assuming that we will be 25 people, the total costs (including 3 nights stay, food for all days except during the hike and a small conference fee for other expenses) will be max. 390 € (might be less if were are more people).

How to get there

For those coming with public transport: Potentially, you can get there with buses either from Seebrugg (via Freiburg) or Bad Säckingen (from the South). But since this might be complicated, we will have a car or two on sight so we can pick you up at Aha/Schluchsee which you can reach via train from Freiburg. We can probably also arrange to take some of you from Freiburg on the first day (we will probably leave here around 15:00 h).

We need some information for planning

For planning this further, please indicate in the poll, if you are planning to come or not.