On November 13, 2019, the first Wuhan University international forum for ecology and evolution was held in the College of Life Sciences. Professors Stephen Rossiter (Queen Mary University of London), Peng Zhou (Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Jinhong Luo (Central China Normal University), Tinglei Jiang (Northeast Normal University), and Huabin Zhao (Wuhan University) attended the forum, and presented their research works.