Events and Activities related to IOBC: Time-Table

(last update: 26.06.2008)

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Date, Event, Place	06-11 July 2008: International Congress of Entomology, Durban, South Africa.
Information	Website: http://www.ice2008.org

Date, Event, Place	20-23 August 2008: 4th International Symposium on Rhizoctonia, Berlin, Germany.
Information	Website: http://rhizoctonia.org/

Date, Event, Place	24-29 August 2008: 9th International Congress of Plant Pathology (ICPP 2008 Conference), Torino, Italy.
Information	Website: http://www.icpp2008.org

Date, Event, Place	09-12 September 2008: IOBC/WPRS Working Group "Biological control of fungal and bacterial plant pathogens", 10th meeting of the phytopathogens group, Switzerland.
Contact	Organizing and Scientific committee: Brion Duffy, Christoph Keel, Sebastian Kiewnick, Monika Maurhofer, Cesare Gessler, Yigal Elad. Contact: Brion Duffy, e-mail: duffy@acw.admin.ch (preferred way of communication), FAX: +41 44 783 63 05, Agroscope ACW, Postfach 185, CH-8820 Wädenswil, Switzerland
Information	Download: Second announcement with registration form, updated 03/2008 (DOC, 257 KB), Supplementary information to the original announcement / bank payment correction (PDF, 50 KB)

Date, Event, Place	21-26 September 2008: 8th International Conference on Controlled Atmosphere and Fumigation in Stored Products, Chengdu, China.
Information	Website: http://www.caf2008.com

Date, Event, Place	29 September - 1 October 2008: IOBC/WPRS Working Group "Integrated Control in Oilseed Crops", FIAP Centre Jean Monnet in Paris, France.
Contact	Please send e-mails to all of the three following email addresses: bkoopma@gwdg.de sam.cook@bbsrc.ac.uk pinochet@cetiom.fr
Information	Website: http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~iobc/index.html Location: http://www.fiap.asso.fr/index.html

Date, Event, Place	05-09 October 2008: Microbes and the law - setting the limits for practical use, Uppsala, Sweden. A joint course and a symposium to be held at the campus of SLU in Uppsala, Sweden. An event aimed at the community of researchers, industrials, and regulators dealing with various aspects of safety assessment and regulation of the use of beneficial, living microorganisms in environmental applications and biotechnology.
Contact	DOM Symposium 2008, Department of Microbiology, Box 7025, SE-750 07 UPPSALA, Phone 018-673208, Fax 018-673393, e-mail: DOMsymposium@slu.se
Information	Website: http://www-mikrob.slu.se/DOMSymposium/index.htm

Date, Event, Place	13-15 October 2008: ENDURE International Conference "Diversifying Crop Protection", Congress Palace of La Grande Motte, near Montpellier, France.
Contact	e-mail: endure2008@alphavisa.com
Information	Website: http://www.endure-network.eu/international_conference_2008

Date, Event, Place	15 October 2008: Traceability - Tracking and Tracing of Food, Central Science Laboratory, York, UK.
Information	Website: http://www.aab.org.uk

Date, Event, Place	27-30 October 2008: IOBC/WPRS Working Group "Integrated Plant Protection in Fruit Crops", 7th International conference on Integrated Fruit Production, Avignon, France.
Contact	Organizing and Scientific committee: Jerry Cross (Convernor), Claudio Ioriatti (Arthropods), Arne Stvensand (Pome fruit diseases), Benoit Sauphanor (Local organiser), Christian Linder (Soft fruits), Fabio Molinari (Stone fruits), Carlo Malavolta (IFP guidelines), Jesus Avilla. Contact: Dr Benoît Sauphanor, e-mail: benoit.sauphanor@avignon.inra.fr, INRA-PSH, Domaine Saint Paul, Site Agroparc, F-84914 - AVIGNON Cedex 9, France, Tel 33 (0)4 32 72 26 07, Fax 33 (0)4 32 72 24 32
Information	Website: https://colloque.inra.fr/ifp2008_eng

Date, Event, Place	08-13 February 2009: 3rd International Symposium on Biologiocal Control of Arthropods, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Contact	Sara Russell, Professional Development Group, PO Box 84, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand, e-mail: russels4@lincoln.ac.nz
Information	Website: http://www.isbca09.com

Date,
Event, Place

09-12 March 2009:
IOBC/WPRS Working Group "Integrated Control of Plant-feeding Mites", Centro per I'Agrobiologia e la Pedologia, Experimental Institute for Agricultural Zoology (ISZA), Firenze, Italy.

Contact

Local Organizer: Sauro Simoni, ISZA, Firenze, Italy. sauro.simoni@isza.it.
WG Convener: Eric Palevsky, Dept. of Entomology, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), Israel, e-mail: palevsky@volcani.agri.gov.il.
Scientific committee: Phyllis Weintraub, Dept. of Entomology, ARO, Israel, e-mail: phyllisw@volcani.agri.gov.il; Uri Gerson, Dept. of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, e-mail: Gerson@agri.huji.ac.il.

Date, Event, Place	12-13 March 2009: 3rd Workshop of the EWRS (European Weed Research Society) Working Group "Weeds and Biodiversity, Lleida, Spain.
Contact	Paula Westerman, Barbara Baraibar & Jordi Recasens (e-mail: paula.westerman@ewrs.org, barbara.baraibar@ewrs.org)
Information	Download: First circular (PDF, 98 KB)

Date, Event, Place	Late spring 2009: IOBC/WPRS Working Group "Insect Pathogens and Insect Parasitic Nematodes", Navarro, Spain.
Contact	Local organizer: Primitivo Caballero, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Producción Vegetal, 31006 Pamplona (Navarra), SPAIN, Tel ++34 948-16-9129, e-mail: pcm92@unavarra.es

Date, Event, Place	12-16 May 2009: IOBC/WPRS Working Group "Induced Resistance in Plants against Insects and Diseases", Granada, Spain.
Contact	Local organizers: María José Pozo, Tel. +34 958 181600 Ext. 233, e-mail: mariajose.pozo@eez.csic.es and Víctor Flors, Tel. +34 964 729417, e-mail: flors@uji.es
Information	Website: http://www.fvccee.uji.es

Date,
Event, Place

14-16 May 2009:
Ecological Impact of Genetically Modified Organisms (EIGMO), 4th meeting of the IOBC/WPRS Working Group "GMOs in Integrated Plant Production"; Rostock, Germany

Contact

Local Organizers: Thomas Thieme, BTL Bio-Test Laboratory, Sagerheide, Germany, tt@biotestlab.de; Kerstin Schmidt, BioOK, Rostock, Germany, kerstin.schmidt@biomath.de, and institutes of the University of Rostock.
WG Convener: Jörg Romeis, Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station ART, Zurich, Switzerland, joerg.romeis@art.admin.ch
Scientific committee: Ramon Albajes, University of Leida, Leida, Spain, ramon.albajes@irta.es; Franz Bigler, Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station ART, Zurich, Switzerland, franz.bigler@art.admin.ch; Alan Raybould, Syngenta, Bracknell, UK, alan.raybould@syngenta.com; Jörg Romeis; Thomas Thieme

Date, Event, Place	01-04 June 2009: 4th Meeting of the IOBC/WPRS Working Group "Integrated Protection of Olive Crops", Cordoba, Spain.
Contact	Dr. E. Quesada-Moraga, Department of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, ETSIAM, University of Cordoba. Campus de Rabanales. Building C4 “Celestino Mutis”, Cordoba 14071 (Spain), e-mail: cr2qumoe@uco.es
Information	Website: http://www.proyectosycongresos.net

Date, Event, Place	29 June - 2 July 2009: IOBC/WPRS (OILB/SROP) Working Group on “Integrated Protection of Stored Products”, Campobasso, Italy.
Contact	PIC, Proyectos, Incentivos y Congresos, S.L., C/ Conde de Cárdenas, nº 16, 1º - 2º - 14002 Córdoba, Plaza de las Flores, 6 - 6º B - 29005 Málaga, Tel: 957 48 58 48 - 952 32 53 39, Fax: 957 48 58 49, e-mail: info@proyectosycongresos.com
Information	Download: Invitation, First Circular and Call for Papers and Registration Form (PDF, 2'242 KB)

Date, Event, Place	6-11 September 2009: IOBC/WPRS Working Group "Integrated Control in Protected Crops, Mediterranean Climate", Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICh), Crete, Greece.
Contact	Local organizer: Dr. Dionyssios Perdikis, Agricultural University of Athens, tel. +30 210 5294581, e-mail: dperdikis@aua.gr

Date, Event, Place	07-09 October 2009: IOBC/WPRS Working Group “Pesticides and Beneficial Organisms”, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Contact	Local Organizer: Dr. BOŽENA BARIĆ, Department for Agricultural Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagreb, Croatia.