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Upcoming ISCE Meetings

2010: 26th ISCE Annual Meeting, Tours, France

2011: 27th ISCE Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada

2012: 28th ISCE Annual Meeting, Vilnius, Lithuania

2013: 29th ISCE Annual Meeting, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA

 

Meetings of Interest

• GRC Plant Herbivore Interactions 2010
  Feb 21-26 2010, Hotel Galvez, Galveston, TX

The 2010 Gordon Research Conference on Plant Herbivore Interactions will be held Feb 21-26 2010 at a new venue in Galveston, TX. Hotel Galvez is located on the Gulf of Mexico about 40 miles from Houston (http://www.galveston.com/galvez/ ).  For over 25 years, the GRC series on Plant-Herbivore Interactions has served as a premier forum for scientists investigating the ecology and evolution of plant-herbivore interactions. In addition to being an important venue for sharing late-breaking results, its broad influence makes the conference series an influential determinant of research directions in the field.
The 11th GRC on Plant-Herbivore Interactions will bring together an outstanding group of junior and senior scientists. Sessions will range from genetic and biochemical mechanisms to populations, communities and ecosystems, embrace mechanism and theory, and link chemistry, ecology and evolution. To complement the diverse themes of the session presentations, three poster sessions are scheduled for the evenings and all attendees are encouraged to contribute a poster. The program is at http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2010&program=plantherb . The collegial atmosphere of this Conference and breadth of research areas represented, with programmed morning and evening discussion sessions and informal gatherings in the afternoons, provides an exciting venue for scientists from different disciplines to brainstorm and debate across disciplinary boundaries.

• BES Annual Symposium 2010: The integrative role of plant secondary metabolites in ecological systems University of Sussex, UK
  12 – 14 April, 2010

The symposium will be published by the British Ecological Society as an edition of Ecological Reviews.

Rationale and aims:

This symposium is proposed approximately fifty years after the seminal work of Fraenkel (1959) placed the ecological function of plant secondary metabolites (PSMs) onto the agenda of modern ecology. Since then numerous ecological roles of PSM have been elucidated, including the mediation of interactions between pairs of species, such as between plants and their herbivores and pathogens, as well as acting against other plants. However, important recently emerging developments have been made in our understanding of the processes underlying the ecological roles of PSMs including:

• Synthesis and translocation of PSM, that determine the distribution and allocation of resources
• The associated costs that determine their ecological and evolutionary relationships. 
• Molecular techniques that provide novel tools and specific genotypes in which to investigate the ecological aspects of PSMs

- Important integrative roles of PSMs in connecting multiple components of ecological systems including

- above and below-ground processes

- multitrophic interactions.

- community and assemblage structure

- ecosystem function

- landscape scale ecological patterns

PSMs are now recognised as major contributors to the bridge between genes and ecosystems, by representing the gene-products, the effects of which cascade through ecosystems, driving both ecosystem composition and function. After the development of such tools for molecular model plants there are now exciting developments for ecological models such as wild tobacco, wild crucifers etc. A theme running throughout the sessions of the symposium will be identification of the new opportunities afforded by emerging molecular, genomic, metabolomic and physiological approaches.  

This symposium aims to synthesise these recent developments that have brought us to the cusp of a new understanding of the integrative roles of PSMs.  It will establish a new baseline in ecology and point to the trajectories along which future studies of PSMs will be launched. 

Invited speakers, who have all confirmed their attendance, span a range of international experts addressing topics under three main sessions.  The organisers welcome similar offered contributions which may be oral presentations (approximately 20 minutes) or posters. Contact Glenn Iason to register your interest or for more information. Oral contributions should include review material and preferably some of the authors original work.

 

• Fifth Asia Pacific Conference on Chemical Ecology October 27-30, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii. Click here for announcement

• Royal Entomological Society Annual Meeting and International Symposium

Ento’09
Sheffield, UK, July 15-17 2009

 

Insect Infection and Immunity:
Evolution, Ecology and Mechanisms

The symposium, organized by Stuart Reynolds (Bath, UK) and Jens Rolff (Sheffield, UK) will consist of three plenary sessions running in the morning of each day. Speakers include:

Bruno Lemaitre (EPF Lausanne, CH)
Mike Kanost (Kansas State University, USA)
David Schneider (Stanford University, USA)
George Dimopoulos (John Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, USA)
Fotis Kafatos (Imperial College, UK)
Greg Hurst (University of Liverpool, UK)
Jean-Michel Drezen (University of Tours, France)
Jean Luc Imler (Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Strasbourg, France)
Jacob Koella (Imperial College, UK)
Shelley Adamo (Dalhousie, Canada)
Lex Kraaijeveld (University of Southampton, UK)
Brian Lazzaro  (Cornell University, USA)
Paul Schmid-Hempel (ETH Zurich, CH)
Mike Siva-Jothy (University of Sheffield, UK)

 

Annual Meeting

The afternoons, organized by Klaus Reinhardt, Roger Butlin and Mike Siva-Jothy (all Sheffield, UK), will see thematic sessions with the opportunity to contribute talks and posters on:

Insect Immunity (chair P Ligoxygakis, Oxford)

Comparative Genomics (chair Casey Bergman, Manchester)
Invited Speaker: Jack Werren, Rochester, USA

General Entomology (chair Mike Siva-Jothy, Sheffield)
Stanislav Gorb, Kiel, Germany
Paul Buckland, Sheffield, UK

Predation (chair Dirk Mikolajewski, Sheffield)
Johanna Mappes, Jyvaskyla, Finland
Robby Stoks Leuven, Belgium

Range Expansion (chair Janis Antonovics Virginia/Sheffield)
Jane Hill, York, UK
Rosa Menendes, Lancaster, UK

Chemical Ecology (chair Stephen Martin, Sheffield)
Tbc

 

The conference dinner will be in a Victorian museum and pre-ceded by a Plenary Talk by Naomi Pierce from Harvard.

The Society offers excellent support for students: students can apply for support of up to 50% of all costs (travel, accommodation, registration). Also, as conference dinners are very good networking opportunities, the dinner is only £15 for students. Early application is strongly recommended. Applications must be made by letter or email (bill@royensoc.co.uk) to the Registrar at the RES office and the deadline for receipt is 1st May 2009.

Daytime childcare is available on request (childcare.ento2009@sheffield.ac.uk).

Registration and details http://www.royensoc.co.uk
General questions: Vi Nguyen ento2009@sheffield.ac.uk. Kirsty Whiteford kirsty@royensoc.co.uk
Scientific programme: Klaus Reinhardt: ento2009@sheffield.ac.uk

 

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