The Leopoldina Symposium "Recent Challenges for Statistics in the Biosciences – 100 Years after Gustav Zeuner" is an interdisciplinary conference for mathematical statisticians and scientists from the biosciences with interest in statistics. The main topics of the conference are bioinformatics, demography, epidemiology and spatial statistics. The symposium will be held on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of Gustav Zeuner's death.

Organisatoren: Maria Blettner (Mainz), Niels Keiding (Kopenhagen), Thomas Lengauer (Saarbrücken), Dietrich Stoyan (Freiberg / Sa.)