The 1st international Symposium on Metabolic organization occurred from 19th to 22nd April, 2009, in Brest (France). This conference has been organized jointly by Ifremer, the Department of Theoretical Biology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Universities of Brest, Marseille and Lisbon (Instituto Superior Técnico), the IRD, the INRA, the NIOZ, the IMARES Wageningen, as all these research teams are involved in research on DEB theory. About 82 participants from 13 different countries (Croatia, Denmark, France, Finland, Holland, Italy, Portugal, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States of America) participated to this symposium.


The 2nd international DEB symposium has been convened in Lisbon (Portugal) from 13 til 15 April 2011 and organised by Instituo Superio Técnico.

A 3rd international DEB symposium is going to be organised at Texel (The Netherlands) from 23 to 25 April 2013, and will be hosted by NIOZ.