The biennial Biology of Spermatozoa (BoS) meetings are a chance to bring together biologists interested in different aspects of reproductive biology, such as behavioural ecologists, reproductive physiologists, evolutionary biologists, theoreticians and those interested in IVF. The aim is to provide a forum in which researchers working in different areas of reproductive biology can exchange new ideas. To this end, meetings are limited to 60-80 individuals to maximize informality and the exchange of ideas.

In 1992, the meeting was established and organized by Tim Birkhead and Harry Moore (University of Sheffield), and they continued to invest their substantial energy in running the meetings through 2015. For the 2017 meeting, Tim and Harry handed over the reins to a steering group of BoS regulars led by Rhonda Snook. From 2019 BoS meetings have been co-organized by Rhonda Snook and John Fitzpatrick.

BoS.16 was scheduled for September 2021 but has been postponed due to the current restrictions on travel. We will update the website and BoS community about the date of the next BoS meeting as soon as we have more information available.