Upcoming ISCE Meetings
2010: 26th ISCE Annual Meeting, Tours, France
Dear all registrants to the ISCE 2010 meeting,
We are pleased to welcome you to Tours very soon for the 26th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Chemical Ecology. We are (almost) ready and happy to host you for what is going to be one of the biggest meetings of the Society. The Schedule will be available online next Friday (23rd of July) on the web site of the congress: http://www.atout-org.com/isce2010/topics.
We hope to have prepared a great scientific program thanks to your numerous submissions.
We also hope that you are now ready for your trip to France, that all oral presentations and posters are finished (way in advance as usual!) and suitcases almost packed. As far as the weather goes, Mother Nature has been a little bit capricious lately, oscillating between chilly and very hot (and remember that the French believe in the “cooling” power of old stones and almost don’t know what air conditioning is). We usually say that it NEVER rains in Tours, but just in case, you might consider taking an umbrella with you. Even if the good local wine will help, we also suggest you to take some “warm” clothes with you for the banquet and the visit of winery.
We look forward to seeing you soon.
Anne-Gen Bagnères and the organizing committee
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
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The Annual Meeting of the Royal Entomological Society 2011 will be held at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Chatham Maritime, Kent, UK, 7-9 September 2011 with an associated symposium on "Insect Chemical Ecology: Reception, Detection and Deception". Website is not yet launched.
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This is to officially inform you about the formation of the Latin-American Association of Chemical Ecology (ALAEQ). The idea of this association had been discussed for some time, including at the ISCE meeting in Neuchatel, and was concretized at the 6th Brazilian Meeting of Chemical Ecology held in Viçosa in December 2009.
I invite you to visit the website of ALAEQ at www.alaeq.org for further information about the association. I would also like to draw your attention to the first meeting of ALAEQ to be held October 17-20, 2010 in Colonia (Uruguay). For more information about this meeting, please visit alaeq1.fq.edu.uy.
Sincerely yours,
Jan Bergmann
ALAEQ President
Instituto de Química
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Avda. Universidad 330
Curauma
Valparaíso - CHILE
Tel.: +56-32-2274920
skype: jan.bergmann
E-mail: jan.bergmann@ucv.cl
- 9th European Congress of Entomology, ECE2010 (Budapest, 22-27 August, 2010)
Two symposia of ECE2010 represent the field of Chemical Ecology:
Symposium 1.3 "Chemical mimicry and defense mechanisms of Arthropods"
Organizers: Prof. Dr. Stefan Schulz and Prof. Dr. Gabor Szocs
Symposium 10.3 "Sensory Ecology (Pheromones)"
Organizers: Prof. Dr. Bill S. Hansson and Prof. Dr. Gabor Szocs
For information on the meeting see: www.ece2010.org
- 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.
