Meetings
The IUSSI International Congress |
| 13-18 July 2014
| Cairns, Australia Come for the science, stay for the reef and rainforest. The Australian Section will be hosting the next international congress of IUSSI. The President is Ben Oldroyd, and the organizing committee currently comprises Madeleine Beekman, Simon Robson and Judith Reinhard. The committee will be expanded closer to the event. The Congress will be held in the magnificent Cairns Convention Centre, and there will be a brilliant selection of post conference tours, etc. There will be discounts for student delegates, and students are strongly encouraged to participate and to present. Please mark the dates in your calendar. More details can be found at the congress web site: www.iussi2014.com |
| | | Previous Congress: | 8-14 August 2010
 | XVI IUSSI interational Congress Copenhagen, Denmark The web site for the previous congress can be found here. |
| IUSSI Section Meetings |
| 26-30 August 2012
| EUROIUSSI2012 - Combined European IUSSI Sections Meeting Hotel Tuscany Inn, Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, Italy The Managing Board of the Italian Section of the IUSSI, the Organizing and Scientific Committees and the Accademia Nazionale Italiana di Entomologia invite you to the 5th Congress of the European Sections of the IUSSI that will be held in Montecatini Terme (Tuscany, Italy) from 26 to 30 August 2012. Early discount registration is available until 28 February 2012, and the deadline for submission of abstracts is 30 April 2012. More details are available at the web site: http://www.mdbenterprise.it/iussi/ |
| 5-7 October 2012
 | North American Section meeting 2012 Haw River State Park's Summit Retreat and Conference Center The North American Section of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects will hold its next meeting in Greensboro, NC on 5-7 October 2012. The conference will take place at the Haw River State Park's Summit Retreat and Conference Center during the peak season of the Fall colors in the region. The organizers would like to invite any students of social insects to participate in this exciting conference by submitting abstracts for posters and oral presentations More details can be found on the meeting web site: http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/entomology/apiculture/IUSSI2012/HOME.html If you need any further information, please contact the organizers through the meeting Facebook page or at iussinas2012@gmail.com |
| Other Meetings of interest to social insect researchers |
| 25-28 July 2012
 | X Encontro sobre abelhas - A century of bee research in Brazil Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil The 10th Encontro sobre Abelhas, which has as its main theme "A century of research in Brazil", celebrates the relevance of the greater research on bees in Brazil as well as in the whole world. It is a great opportunity for the scientific community to meet and gather with world-known specialists, as well as to come to know the research facilities and their lines of research on the Campus of the University of São Paulo in Ribeirão Preto, where 11 professors and over 40 graduate students and postdocs work on bees. This campus also houses the world's main collection of stingless bees (Meliponini), besides being a major center for research on Africanized bees, concerning their genetics, as well as behavioural aspects and their management. Abstract deadline is 15 May 2012. Find out more at the meeting web site: http://rge.fmrp.usp.br/abelhudo/en/index.php |
| 5-12 August 2012
| The Hym Course 2012 Tovetorp Zoological Research Station, Sweden The main objective of HYM Course is to provide participants with knowledge and experience in identifying parasitic and predatory wasps, sawflies, wood wasps, bees, and ants. Information on natural history is also presented, and that information is reinforced with fieldwork. Techniques used to collect, rear, preserve, and curate specimens are presented in a hands-on manner to allow participants to learn directly by doing. Enrollment is now open. The deadline for applications (Maximum 25 participants) is March 2, 2012. More information, and the application form can be founnd at the course home page: http://hymcourse.org/ |
| 21-31 August 2012
| Ants of the Southwest Southwestern Research Station, Portal, Arizona, USA Ants of the Southwest is designed for students, biologists, and other individuals who have some background in biology at the college level. This course is designed with curriculum that complements rather than competes with the California Academy of Sciences Ant Course. Although we will cover basic taxonomy and systematics, the major focus of this course will be on the ecology and behavior of ants. Deadline for applications: 6 July 2012 For more information, see the course web site: http://research.amnh.org/swrs/ants-southwest |
| 1-5 September 2012
 | PhD Course: Taxonomy, identification and ecology of European ants University of Copenhagen The course is primarily aimed at Ph.D. students who wish to obtain an overview of the diversity of European ants, and some practical experience with their collection and identification. The course is limited to 20 participants, and priority will be given to Ph.D. students from the University of Copenhagen, followed by Ph.D. students and M.Sc. students from other institutions. Closing date for applications is 1 July 2012 For more information, see the course web page: http://socialevolution.ku.dk/kurser/ea2012/ |
| 4-6 September 2012  | EurBee 2012 Martin-Luther-University, Halle an der Saale, Germany The 5th European Conference of Apidology will take place in Halle in September 2012. The congress is the major European platform for bringing together international scientists with an interest in all aspects of bee biology. The biennial conference serves as a communication platform for top EU research in Apidology and hosts the pan European research networks BEEDOC, STEP and COLOSS.For more information, please download the flyer, or visit the EurBee2012 web site: www.eurbee2012.uni-halle.de |
| 29 September -
4 October 2013
 | Apimondia 2013 International Exhibition Centre, Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine The 43rd Apimondia meeting will be held in Ukraine in 2012. Super-early registration is already open. Please see the web site for more details: apimondia2013.com.ua |
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