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.

July 18-24, 2010Canterbury, UK

2010 ISOP-BSPB MEETING

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. Meeting information and registration will be available through the ISOP website (http://www.uga.edu/protozoa/) later this year.

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 will be 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:

• ISOP Symposium: Alternative Nutritional Strategies. Chair: Bob Sanders, Temple University.

  Speakers include:
  Bob Sanders, Temple University, Alternative nutritional strategies in freshwater protists: a short review
  Diane Stoecker, University of Maryland, Acquired phototrophy in ciliates
  Ruben Sommaruga, University of Innsbruck,  A photobiological perspective of mixotrophy in ciliates
  Per Juel Hansen, University of Copenhagen, Role of food uptake and photosynthesis in free-living marine dinoflagellates
  Hae Jin Jeong, Seoul National University, Mixotrophy in the raphidophytes
  

• Mini-symposium: Dynamics of Genomes and Life Cycles. Chairs: Laura Katz & Laura Parfrey, Smith College.
• Mini-symposium: Bioinformatics as a Tool to Understanding the Biology & Biochemistry of Parasitic and Free-living Protists.  Chairs: Burt Goldberg, New York University & Tim Paget, Universities of Kent and Greenwich at Medway.

  Plenary speakers:
   David Lloyd, University Wales, Cardiff, TBA
   Martin Embley, Newcastle University, TBA
  

• Mini-symposium: Species Concepts in Protists, Cryptic Species, Parasites and Non-parasites.  Chair: Tom Cavalier-Smith, University of Oxford.
• Mini-symposium:  New Insights into Free-living Flagellates.  Chairs: David Bass, University of Oxford & Edvard Glücksman, Pembroke College MCR.
• Mini-symposium: Pushing the Boundaries: Protist Diversity Never Ending. Chair: Jan Keithly, Wadsworth Center.

  Plenary speaker:
  Ross Waller, University of Melbourne, TBA
  

• Mini-symposium: From Gause to Gaia: Using Protists to Model Ecological Processes. Chairs: David Montagnes, University of Liverpool & Steve Wickham, University of Salzburg .
  

  Plenary speaker:
   Owen Petchey, Sheffield University, Extinctions, warming, and food webs linked using microbial microcosm experiments.

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

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/.