Meetings and Activities related to IOBC: Time-Table

(last update: 10.03.2010)

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Date,
Event, Place

23-25 March 2010:
"Slug and Snail Control in the 21st Centuary". Meeting of the Slug and Snail subgroup within the IOBC/WPRS Working Group on "Insect Pathogens and Entomopathogenic Nematodes", Cardiff University, UK.

Contact Professor William O.C. Symondson, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff Universit, Museum Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3AX, UK, Email: Symondson@Cardiff.ac.uk, Tel: +44 (0)29 20 875151
Information Website: http://www.cf.ac.uk/biosi/newsandevents/events/slug/index.html

Date,
Event, Place

05-07 May 2010:
ENToM 2o1o, 37 èmes journées des entomophagistes
. Antibes Juan-les-pins, France.

Information Website: https://colloque.inra.fr/entom2010

Date,
Event, Place

11-13 May 2010:
Biocontrol in the Americas – Past, Present and Future.
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
A Joint meeting of the International Organization of Biological Control (IOBC), Nearctic and Neotropical Regional Sections.

Information Website: http://www.iobcnrs.com/event_5-11-10.htm

Date,
Event, Place

7-11 June 2010:
IOBC/WPRS Working Group "Biological control of fungal and bacterial plant pathogens"
, Graz, Austria.

Contact Local organizer: Gabriele Berg. Convenor: Ilaria Pertot, tel. +39 0461 615515 e-mail: ilaria.pertot@iasma.it
Information

Website: http://www.envirochange.eu/english/events_index.html
Download: 1st Circular (PDF, 86 KB), 2nd Circular (PDF, 114 KB), Registration Form (DOC, 21 KB), Abstract Template (DOC, 26 KB)

Date,
Event, Place

29 June - 01 July 2010:
IOBC/WPRS Working Group "Landscape Management for Functional Biodiversity"
, Cambridge, UK.

Contact Convenor: Dr John M Holland, Head of Farmland Ecology, Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, Fordingbridge, Hampshire, SP6 1EF UK, office tel. 00 44 (0)1425 651035, mobile 00 44 (0)7711 680585, fax 00 44 (0)1425 651026, e-mail: jholland@gwct.org.uk
Deputy Convenor: Professor Bärbel Gerowitt, Institute for Land Use - Crop Health -, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Rostock, Satower Str. 48, D-18051 Rostock, Germany, tel. 0381-498-3160, fax 0381-498-3162, e-mail: baerbel.gerowitt@uni-rostock.de
Information

Download: 1st Announcement (PDF, 130 KB)

Date,
Event, Place

23 August, 2010:
28th International Horticultural Congress
, 22-27 August, 2010. Lisbon, Portugal.
One-day Seminar, Sm02:
2010 - THE CHALLENGE OF EMERGING FRUIT TREE PESTS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN FREE-TRADE AREA.

Contact

Convener: Anna Maria D’Onghia, CIHEAM/Mediterranean Agronomic Institute, Bari, Italy, e-mail: donghia@iamb.it
Secretariat: IHC Lisboa 2010 - Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal. Tel. +351 961 068 237 +351 961 068 237 Email: info@ihc2010.org

Information Website: www.ihc2010.org

Date,
Event, Place

12-17 September 2010:
IOBC/WRS Working Group "Integrated Protection of Fruit Crops",
Joint meeting of the Study Groups "Pome fruit arthropods" and "Stone fruits", Workshop on "Sustainable protection of fruit crops in the Mediterranean area", Tremiti Islands, Italy.

Contact WG Convenor: Dr. Claudio IORIATTI, Istituto Agrario San Michele all’Adige, Plant Protection Department, Research Center, Via Edmondo Mach, 2, I-38010 S. Michele all'Adige (TN), ITALY, Tel.: ++39-0461-615 514, Fax: ++39-0461-615 500, e-mail: claudio.ioriatti@iasma.it
Information Download: First indications on dates, place, local organizer and tentative programme (PDF, 46 KB)

Date,
Event, Place

19-24 September 2010:
IOBC-Global Working Group "Ecology of Aphidophaga",
11th International Symposium, Perugia, Italy.

Contact

J.P. Michaud, Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Agricultural Research Center – Hays. Tel: 785 625 3425, Fax: 785 625 4369, E-mail: jpmi@ksu.edu
Carlo Ricci, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences - Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Perugia. Tel: +39 075 5856031, Fax: +39 075 5856039, E-mail: cricci@unipg.it

Information Website: www.aphidophaga11.unipg.it

Date,
Event, Place

20-23 September 2010:
IOBC Working Group "Integrated Protection of Fruit Crops", Sub Group "Soft Fruits",
Workshop on "Integrated Soft Fruit Production", 7th Meeting, Budapest, Hungary.

Contact Convenor of the Sub group: Christian Linder, Agroscope Changins-Wädenswil ACW, CP 1012, CH-1260 Nyon 1, SWITZERLAND, Tel.: +41-22-3634389, Fax: +41-22-3621325, e-mail: christian.linder@ acw.admin.ch
Local organizer: Gábor Vétek, Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Horticultural Science, Department of Entomology, Villányi út 29-43, H-1118, Budapest, HUNGARY, Tel.: +36 1 482 6518, Fax: +36 1 482 6072, e-mail: gabor.vetek@uni-corvinus.hu, http://horticulturalscience.uni-corvinus.hu/
Information Download: Invitation (PDF, 46 KB), First Announcement (PDF, 32 KB), Pre-registration Form (DOC, 37 KB)

Date,
Event, Place

26 September - 01 October 2010:
8th Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance (ISFFEI)
, Valencia, Spain.

Contact Dr. B. Sabater-Muñoz (8th ISFFEI secretariat), e-mail: fruitfly2010@gva.es
Information Download: Invitation (PDF, 94 KB)

Date,
Event, Place

19-22 October 2010:
Blueprint for the future of arthropod rearing and quality assurance. Vienna, Austria.
Joint meeting of:
- IOBC Global WG on Arthropod Mass Rearing and Quality Control (AMRQC)
- Association of Natural Bio-control Producers (ANBP)
- ASTM subcommittee E35.30 on Natural Multi-Cellular Biological Control Organisms
- International Biocontrol Manufacturers Association (IBMA), Invertebrate Biocontrols Group
In cooperation with the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture.

Information Download: First Announcement (PDF, 15 KB)
Website: www.AMRQC.org and www.ANBP.org

Date,
Event, Place

01-05 November 2010:
IOBC Global WG meetings
, combined workshops, Nairobi, Kenya:
8th IOBC International Workshop on Biological Control and Management of Chromolaena odorata and Other Eupatorieae
1st IOBC International Workshop on Biological Control and Management of Parthenium hysterophorus

Contact

Dr Costas Zachariades ARC-PPRI, Private Bag X6006, Hilton, 3245 South Africa, Tel +27333559418, cell +27833152100, fax +27333559423, E-mail: ZachariadesC@arc.agric.za or costaszach@yahoo.co.uk

Information Download: Second Announcement (PDF, 1'556 KB), Expression of interest form (DOC, 323 KB)
More information and registration forms available at:
http://www.arc.agric.za/home.asp?pid=5229 (or http://www.arc.agric.za 'Quick Links')

Date,
Event, Place

15-20 May 2011:
5th meeting of the IOBC Working Group "Integrated Protection of Olive Crops", Jerusalem, Israel.

Contact

WG liaison officer and contact person: Dr. Phyllis G. Weintraub, Gilat Research Station, Entomology Unit, D.G. Negev 85280, ISRAEL, Tel.: +972 8 9928678, Fax: +972 8 9926485 E-mail: phyllisw@agri.gov.il
WG convenor: Dr Dionyssios Perdikis, Agricultural University of Athens, Laboratory of Agricultural Zoology and Entomology, Iera Odos 75, 11855, Athens, GREECE, e-mail: dperdikis@aua.gr

Information Website: http://www.iobc2011.com

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