March 29-April 1, 2010Cardiff, UK

Trypanosomiasis and Leishmaniasis Seminar

A conference organised by the British Society for Parasitology

Convenors: Graham Coombs (Strathclyde), Karen Grant (Lancaster). For further information visit the British Society for Parasitology website: http://www.bsp.uk.net.

April 7-16, 2010Urbino, Italy

International School on Foraminifera

The 3rd Course on Foraminifera is designed to provide an overview of the Taxonomy, Ecology, Biodiversity and Geological History of Benthic and Planktonic Foraminifera. This intensive course is intended for students interested in Micropalaeontology, Palaeoceanography, Palaecology, and Climate History. The aim is to provide a primer on the study foraminifera and examples of how foraminifera can be used as palaeoenvironmental and palaeoceanographical proxies. We review the current classification schemes of the foraminifera, discuss Ecology and Life History, review their usefulness for Biostratigraphical applications, and use case studies to investigate the geological history of the group with lab sessions.

Two distinct courses are planned: Benthic Foraminiferal Course (7-11 April) and Planktonic Foraminiferal Course (12-16 April).

For complete meeting details, please see the course announcement.

April 17-21, 2010Cambridge, UK

Working with Parasite Database Resources

We are pleased to announce a workshop taught as part of a collaboration between the Pathogen Genomics Group (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK), the Eukaryotic Pathogen Bioinformatics Resource Center (University of Georgia and University of Pennsylvania, US), and the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (US). This residential workshop aims to provide experimental biologists with hands-on experience in genomic-scale data analysis, including genome browsers and comparison tools, methods for data integration, and resources for sophisticated data mining. Many examples and exercises will be drawn from the kinetoplastida, including Leishmania spp., Trypanosoma brucei, and Trypanosoma cruzi, although applicants working on other protozoan parasites will also benefit.

Application Deadline is December 18th 2009!

For registration and additional information (including scholarships) please visit http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Education-resources/Courses-and-conferences/Advanced-Courses/Courses/WTX057366.htm

June 5-6, 2010Lexington, VA (USA)

Second North American Section Meeting

ISOP's North American Section will hold a meeting at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, VA on June 5 and 6. Prof. Wade Bell of VMI is the local host. The meeting will be held 9-5 on Saturday the 5th and 9-12 on Sunday the 6th. Lodging will be in local hotels, which range in price from $50 to $120 per room per night. The registration fee will be $50. There is no direct plane or train travel to Lexington, so participants will need to drive there. A second announcement with forms for registration and abstract submission will be distributed at the beginning of March. Registration and abstract submission deadlines will be May 1. Please send questions and comments to Wade Bell at BellWE@vmi.edu or Michael Dolan at mdolan@geo.umass.edu

July 2-7, 2010Kanazawa City, Japan

ISEP XVIII

New! Travel awards for students and postdocs.

Dear colleagues and friends,

We cordially invite you to attend the 18th Meeting of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology (ISEP XVIII), which is held on 2-7 July in 2010 at the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art in Kanazawa City, Japan. The ISEP XVIII is the first ISEP meeting held in Asia and we are pleased to have the meeting in one of the most beautiful, traditional and historical cities in Japan, Kanazawa.

We look forward to welcoming you, in particular young students, in Kanazawa during the ISEP XVIII.

On behalf of the organizing committee Hiroshi Endoh

Ken-ichiro Ishida (Ph D)
Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences,
University of Tsukuba,
Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
Phone: +81-29-853-7877
Fax: +81-29-853-6614
E-mail: ishida@sakura.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp

July 18-24, 2010Canterbury, UK

2010 ISOP-BSPB MEETING

New for January 2010: Full meeting Website now available!

The 60th annual meeting of the International Society of Protistologists will be held jointly with the British Society of Protist Biology from 18-23 July 2010. This UK-based meeting will be on the campus of the University of Kent, Canterbury, located in the coastal countryside about 1.5 hours southeast of London. The city of Canterbury is readily accessible from London by rail.

Assistance for students and young investigators.

The ISOP and BSPB are committed to fostering student and postdoc participation at the meeting. Those in need of travel assistance are encouraged to apply for Travel Support. Application instructions will be available on the meeting website. Reduced registration fees will be provided for student members of ISOP and BSPB.

Housing.

A limited number of single occupancy dorm rooms will be available on the University of Kent campus at a modest cost. Dorm rooms are available with shared bath, or with private bath at slightly higher rate. Dorm reservations will be arranged during meeting pre-registration. Off-campus housing will be by personal reservation at local hotels or bed-and-breakfasts. A list of options is available on the meeting website.

Featured program elements.

In the spirit of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the meeting organizers are developing an informative and contemporary program that assembles a wide range of participants: students, young investigators, and established scientist from diverse backgrounds. In that effort, ISOP and BSPB are sponsoring one full symposium and several mini-symposia. See the meeting site for details.

Are you a student or young investigator in need of travel support? Information on travel support will be available soon. To become an ISOP member go to Wiley-Blackwell, Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology-Membership (link to http://www.wiley.com/bw/memb.asp?ref=1066-5234&site=1)
To apply for ISOP Student Presentation Awards go to the Society Awards page.

Address questions to one of the Program Co-chairs:

D. Wayne Coats
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
647 Contees Wharf Rd
Edgewater, MD USA 21037
coatsw@si.edu
443-482-2271

Burt Goldberg
Department of Chemistry
Professor of Natural Sciences
Morse Academic Program
New York University
212-998-7949
burt.goldberg@nyu.edu

August 1-5, 2010Hilo, Hawaii (USA)

IWOP-11

IWOP-11 (Intenational Workshops on Opportunistic Protists) will be held Aug 1-5, 2010, at the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel in Hilo, Hawaii. This is prior to the International Congress of Parasitology to be held in Melbourne, Australia. Those working on Pneumocystis, Toxoplasma, Cryptosporidium, the microsporidia, kinetoplastid flagellates, pathogenic free-living ameba (whether the organisms infect humans, animals, or other hosts species) should plan on participating. The link to the IWOP-11 website where there is information on registration, hotel reservations, and call for abstracts is: http://uhhconferencecenter.com/iwop.html

August 15-20, 2010Melbourne, Australia

ICOPA XII

Note that we have many sessions devoted to kinetoplastids as well as more general sessions that will accept papers addressing topics in Trypanosome, Leishmania and T cruzi biology. We have several key people in this area attending and Chairing sessions. the website is at www.icopaxii.org. We are also offering Travel Awards for delegates from resource poor countries. see website.

For more information, please contact Terry Spithill (Program Coordinator- ICOPA XII Organising Committee)

September 5-10, 2010Bonn, Germany

FORAMS 2010 - International Symposium on Foraminifera

In about two years, the next International Symposium on Foraminifera, FORAMS 2010 will be held in the city of Bonn, Germany. The meeting is a follow-up to the very successful meetings previously held in Halifax (Benthos'75), Pau (Benthos'81), Geneva (Benthos'86), Sendai (Benthos'90), Berkeley (Forams'94), Monterrey (Forams'98), Perth (Forams 2002), and Natal (FORAMS 2006).

Presentations on any aspect of foraminiferal biology, paleontology, biostratigraphy, systematics, biogeography, ecology and paleoecology, oceanography and paleoceanography, molecular evolution, climatology and paleoclimatology, and macro/micro evolutionary studies are welcome.

If you wish to participate in FORAMS 2010 and present a paper or if you need more information and want to receive future updates, please use our Pre-registration Form on the Website to pre-register for the International Symposium on Foraminifera, FORAMS 2010. While pre-registration is not required, it will help meeting organizers anticipate attendance. Pre-registration will also assure that you're kept up-to-date about logistical details as more information becomes available. It will help us in planning better the symposium. Please visit the main website periodically for any further information about FORAMS 2010.

Venue:

Main Building of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn, Germany.

Details and preliminary information for the meeting will be available at the FORAMS 2010 website: http://www.forams2010.uni-bonn.de Please bookmark this site and include the event on your Calendars. The Website will be regularly updated.

The FORAMS 2010 Flyer can be downloaded directly from our website, http://www.forams2010.uni-bonn.de/flyer/Flyer_FORAMS_2010.pdf Please use it to advertise the event in your institution!

Important dates to Remember:

Deadline for abstracts: April 30, 2010 (submissions will be open online early on 2009)

Registration: from July 2009 to April 30, 2010 (all contributors have to be registered by this date).

July 25-29, 2011Berlin, Germany

VI European Congress of Protistology

Special focus: Concepts in Protistology. To include an ISOP-sponsored session. For meeting details, visit http://www.ecop2011.org/.