Past Protistology Meetings
includes links to meeting reports when available
- 5th International Symposium on Testate Amoebae (ISTA-5) September 14-17, 2009
- ICOP XIII August 23-28, 2009
- First North American Section ISOP Meeting June 11-13, 2009
- 4th World Congress on Leishmaniasis (WL4) February 3-7, 2009
- 2008 ISOP/ISEP, July 21-26, 2008
- 3rd Gordon Research Conference on Marine Microbes (Diversity and Interactions) July 13-18, 2008
- Seventh International Chrysophyte Symposium June 23-27, 2008
- First Spanish-French Meeting on Protistology June 4-6, 2008
- X International Workshop on Opportunistic Protists (IWOP-10) May 28-31, 2008
- Fourth International Conference on Anaerobic Protists (ICAP IV) May 12-16, 2008
- 10th Symposium on Aquatic Microbial Ecology (SAME10), September 2-7, 2007
- 2007 ISOP/PSA, August 5-9, 2007
- V European Congress of Protistology and XI European Conference of Ciliate Biology, July 23-27, 2007
- FASEB Ciliate Molecular Biology Conference July 21-26, 2007
- International Congress of Toxicology July 15-19, 2007
- SMBE 2007 June 24-28, 2007
- International Symposium on Ectoparasites of Pets/Livestock Insect Workers Conference June 10-14, 2007
- Small Matters: Microbes and their Role in Conservation April 26-27, 2007
- International Symposium on Ciliate Biology February 6-7, 2007
- Forams 2006 September 10-15, 2006
- Fifth International Symbiosis Society Congress, August 4-10, 2006
- Congress of Parasitology, ICOPA XI, August, 2006
- International Society for Evolutionary Protistology (ISEP XVI), August 1-5, 2006
- 2006 Gordon Conference on Marine Microbes, July 23-28, 2006
- Joint Meeting: ISOP and IWOP-9 (International Workshop on Opportunistic Protists), June 20-24, 2006
- 13th East Coast Protozoology Meeting June 6-8, 2006
- Kinetoplastid Diseases 2006 March 11-19, 2006
- ASLO/AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting February 20-24, 2006
- Third Symposium on Harmful Algae in the U.S, October 2-7, 2005
- XI International Meeting on Biology and Pathogenicity of Free-Living Amoebae, September 5-9, 2005
- Ciliate Molecular Biology, August 3-8, 2005
- 6th International Crustacean Congress (ICC6), July 18th - 22nd, 2005
- ICOP XII International Congress of Protozoology, July 10-15, 2005
- 12th East Coast Conference on Protozoology, June 3-5, 2005
- WorldLeish III [3rd International Congress on Leishmania and Leishmaniosis (=Leishmaniasis)}, April 10 to 15, 2005
- GEOHAB Open Science Meeting on HABs and Eutrophication, March 7-10, 2005
- ISEP XV - International Society of Evolutionary Protistology, 30 January – 3 February, 2005
- Evolution of
Protozoa and Other Protists, September 13, 2004
- 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society of Protozoologists, June 2-6, 2004
- 36th Annual Midwest Protozoology Meeting, April 24, 2004
- XVI Congreso Latinoamericano de Parasitologia FLAP 2003, October 1-3, 2003
- 4th European Congress of Protistology together with the 10th European Conference on Ciliate Biology, August 31-Sept 5th 2003
- 11th East Coast Conference on Protozoology, June 6-8, 2003
- 10th East Coast Conference on Protozoology, June 8-9, 2002
- The 55th annual meeting for the Society of Protozoologists, June 14-19, 2003
- International
Congress on Toxoplasma Biology, Clinical Practice and Public Health, June 23 - 25, 2003
- International Congress of Parasitology, July 4-6, 2003
- II International Workshops On Opportunistic Protists (IWOP-8) and International Conference On Anaerobic Protists (ICAP), July 25-29, 2003
- 9th East Coast Protozoology Conference, June 9-10, 2001
- ICOP XI, June 9-10, 2001
September 14-17, 2009
Montbéliard, France
5th International Symposium on Testate Amoebae (ISTA-5)
Research on testate amoebae has been increasing exponentially in recent years. This is due largely to the fact that the analysis of testate amoebae is now a common tool in palaeoecological studies where they provide information on past changes in hydrology and other environmental conditions.Recent research has also shown that testate amoebae also play a very important role in the cycling of elements in terrestrial ecosystems and potentially interact closely with vascular plants in the rhizophere. Molecular methods are finally becoming available to study the phylogeny and taxonomy of testate amoebae, and help resolve long-standing debates on their diversity and biogeography.
More information about the meeting is available at http://www.ot-pays-de-montbeliard.fr/index.php?id=403&no_cache=1&L=0
August 23-28, 2009Armação dos Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
ICOP XIII
This meeting featured symposia on Pneumocystis, the ecology of free-living protists, anaerobic protists, biodiversity and molecular phylogeny, signaling and behavior/cell-cell interaction/developmental biology, secretion/endocytosis, genomics/proteomics/ metabolomics, symbiosis and evolution, structure and function of organelles, free-living relatives of parasitic protozoa (an ISOP-sponsored symposium), opportunistic protists, and zoonotic protozoa at the human-wildlife-domestic interface.
Meeting details are being posted at the conference Website, http://www.sbpz.org.br/icop
Plenary Lectures
- Walter Colli, Brazil
- Thomas Cavalier-Smith, UK
- Jean François Dubremetz, France
- Jan Tachezy, Czech Republic
- Sina M. Adl, Canada: The Central Role of Protists in terrestrial nutrient cycling.
A list of scheduled symposia (Microsoft Word file), a preliminary schedule (Microsoft Excel file), and the schedule of the Special Symposium on Trypanosoma cruzi (Word file) are available.
June 11-13, 2009Bristol, Rhode Island (USA)
First North American Section ISOP Meeting
The ISOP- North American Section held its first meeting at Roger Williams University (RWU), Bristol, Rhode Island, June 11-13, 2009. The meeting was sponsored by the International Society of Protistologists and Roger Williams University.
A full program with abstracts is available.
Congratulations to the student award winners:
Oral presentations
Tie for first
Matthew Browne, University of Arkansas
The phylogeny of the “forgotten” slime mold Fonticula alba reveals a key evolutionary position within Opisthokonta
Donald Schoener, University of Conneticut
Turnover of photosynthetic pigments in a mixotrophic ciliate
Third place
Daniel Lahr, University of Massachusetts
Evolution of the actin gene family in lobose testate amoebae
Poster presentations
First place
Justin Schumacher and Stephanie Canton, University of Rhode Island
An orthologue of the protozoan vaccine candidate phosphoprotein p0 in Tetrahymena thermophila
Second place
Mark Byrne, Salve Regina University
Efficient use of real-time PCR to determine Ld LIP3 transcript copy number in Leishmania promastigotes
Third place
Sheila A. Kitchen, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
An electrophysiological investigation of Karenia brevis
February 3-7, 2009Lucknow, India
4th World Congress on Leishmaniasis (WL4)
Lucknow (India) hosted the IVth World Congress on Leishmaniasis. The previous Congresses were been held in Istanbul, Crete & Sicily.
Kindly go online at www.worldleish4.org to look for details about the conference.
July 21-26, 2008Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada)
2008 ISOP/ISEP Meeting
The 2008 annual meeting of the International Society of
Protistologists was held jointly with the International Society
for Evolutionary Protistology in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Visit http://myweb.dal.ca/asimpso2/Protist2008.htm for
information about the meeting, including conference photos.
July 13-18, 2008Il Ciocco, Italy
3rd Gordon Research Conference on Marine Microbes (Diversity and
Interactions)
The conference included plenary lectures, discussions and poster
sessions. A preliminary program
for the conference is available, including an outline for the plenary
lectures and discussions.
June 23-27, 2008New London, Connecticut (USA)
Seventh International Chrysophyte Symposium
The Seventh International Chrysophyte
Symposium was held during the week of June 23, 2008 at Connecticut
College, New London, Connecticut, U.S.A. The three to four day symposium brought together experts from around the world representing a broad
spectrum of disciplines. Although the overriding theme of the symposium will
focus on chrysophytes in a broad sense, there were also significant
contributions representing allied heterokont groups and an infusion of ideas
from other fields.
For more details, please visit the meeting Website at http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/departments/botany/ICS.
June 4-6, 2008Seville, Spain
First Spanish-French Meeting on Protistology
On behalf of Grupo Especializado de Protistologia, Sociedad Española de Microbiologia and Groupment de Protistologues de Langue Française, we have the pleasure to announce you the conjoint celebration in 2008 of their respective meetings. The gathering, tentatively called First Spanish-French Meeting on Protistology, was held in Seville (South of Spain), from 4th to 6th June. The aim of this meeting was to promote Protistology in Europe through scientific exchange.
For further information, please visit www.congreso.us.es/hfprotis.
Hope to see you in Sevilla,
Eduardo Villalobo, President of the Organizing Committee
May 12-16, 2008Taoyuan, Taiwan
Fourth International Conference on Anaerobic Protists (ICAP IV)
Dear colleagues and friends:
The Fourth International Conference on Anaerobic Protists (ICAP IV) in 2008 was on the theme "Systems Biology of Anaerobic Protists". The conference was held at Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, from 12 to 16 May 2008. Further details are available on the ICAP IV website: http://bioinfo.cgu.edu.tw/ICAP2008/.
Petrus Tang
Conference Chair, ICAP IV
Associate Director, Bioinformatics Center, Chang Gung University.
259 Wen-hwa 1st Rd., Kweishan, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan
TEL:+886-3-2118800~5136
FAX:+886-3-2118122
E-mail: petang@mail.cgu.edu.tw
September 2-7, 2007Faro, Portugal
10th Symposium on Aquatic Microbial Ecology (SAME10)
The 10th Symposium on Aquatic Microbial Ecology (SAME10) was held from 2nd to 7th September 2007 at Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal.
All information including program as well as registration and abstract submission
is available on the official same10 website: http://www.ualg.pt/fcma/same10/
August 5-9, 2007Providence, RI, USA
2007 ISOP/PSA Meeting
The 2007 annual meeting of the International Society of Protistologists was held jointly with the Phycological Society of America at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Providence-Warwick, Rhode Island.
The program included a Joint ISOP-PSA symposium on symbiosis, an ISOP symposium entitled Biogeochemical Cycling: the Protist Connection, the invited ISOP Hutner lecture by Per Juel Hansen, a Past President's address, and two platform sessions
(Protists and the Molecular and Informatics Revolution, and Drug Targets in Parasitic Protists.)
Information about the scientific program is also available on the PSA Website (http://www.psaalgae.org/ops/psa2007.shtm).
For questions about the meeting, contact local organizer Glen Thursby (Thursby.Glen@epamail.epa.gov).
July 23-27, 2007St.
Petersburg, Russia
V European Congress of Protistology and XI European Conference of Ciliate Biology
Meeting Website: http://ecp2007.ifmo.ru/
July 21-26, 2007Tucson, AZ, USA
FASEB Ciliate Molecular Biology Conference
Meeting Website at http://src.faseb.org/
July 15-19, 2007Montreal, Canada
11th International Congress of Toxicology
Meeting Website at http://www.ict2007.org/
June 24-28, 2007Halifax, NS (Canada)
SMBE 2007
The 2007 annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE), co-hosted by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, was held at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
More information about the conference is available online at the SMBE website (http://www.smbe.org/) or directly via Dalhousie University (https://smbe2007.dal.ca).
June 10-14, 2007Lexington, Kentucky (USA)
International Symposium on Ectoparasites of Pets / Livestock Insect Workers Conference
A combined meeting of the International Symposium on Ectoparasites of Pets and the Livestock Insect Workers Conference was held in Lexington, Kentucky (USA), June 10-14, 2007.
This meeting offered a unique opportunity for parasitologists, entomologists, veterinarians, clinicians, researchers, industry representatives, and others interested in arthropods affecting companion animals (dogs, cats, horses, etc.) and domestic animals (beef, dairy, poultry, sheep, etc.). Research presentations will span basic biology, ecology, host-parasite interactions, disease transmission, zoonoses, medications, insecticides, etc.
For further information, go to the ISEP/LIWC conference website at http://www.pestmanagement.info/ISEP_LIWC/ or contact Dr. Fred Knapp, Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington,
KY 40546-0091, phone 859-257-8989 (fax 859-323-1120), or fknapp@uky.edu.
April 26-27, 2007New York, NY, USA
Small Matters: Microbes and their Role in Conservation
The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation's Twelfth Annual Symposium, American Museum of Natural History
Meeting Website at http://cbc.amnh.org/symposia/microbes/
Symposium Theme: Microscopic organisms comprise the majority of life on Earth--and we are
discovering more all the time. They play a multitude of roles in every ecosystem. While recent attention has focused on microbial involvement in spreading disease, many microorganisms are beneficial or even crucial to the sustainability of life; and yet they may be threatened by human-induced environmental change. This symposium brings together microbiologists and conservationists to raise the profile of these unseen organisms and stress the critical need to include microbes in conservation research and resource planning.
Speakers will address the broad questions of how much microbial diversity exists on the planet; how this diversity affects other organisms, both positively and negatively; and how conservation practices take microbial life into account?
Podcasts and other information from the conference are available on the Symposium Website.
February 6-7, 2007Delhi, India
International Symposium on Ciliate Biology
An International Symposium on Ciliate Biology was hosted by Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, a constituent college of University of Delhi, Delhi, India, on 06-07 Feb, 2007. It was being supported by various Indian government agencies.
Visit the symposium website at http://iscb2007.com
for further details. Abstracts
are available.
For more information contact the conference secretariat:
Dr. Komal Kamra
Organizing Secretary, ISCB, 2007
Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College
University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
INDIA
E-mail:khalsasymposium@yahoo.co.in,komalkamra@yahoo.com,
r17gupta@hotmail.com and grsapra@yahoo.co.in
September 10-15, 2006Natal, Brazil
Forams 2006
Meeting Website
FORAMS 2006 was held in the city of Natal on 10 - 15 September 2006. and included presentations on foraminiferal systematics, biology, paleontology, stratigraphy, biogeography, ecology and paleoecology, oceanography and paleoceanography, climatology and paleoclimatology, and evolutionary studies.
August 4-10 2006Vienna, Austria
Fifth International Symbiosis Society Congress
The Fifth International Symbiosis Society Congress was held for the University
of Vienna, Vienna, Austria from August 4 - 10, 2006. Featured
keynote speakers included Margaret McFall-Ngai, Lynn Margulis, Colleen
Cavanaugh, Todd Lajeunesse, Luis Villareal, et al. The meeting Website
is at http://www.isscongress2006.com.
August 2006Glasgow, Scotland
Congress of Parasitology, ICOPA XI
The
International Congress of Parasitology, ICOPA XI was held in Glasgow,
Scotland in August 2006. The meeting Website is at http://www.icopa-xi.org.
Congress of Parasitology, ICOPA XI Flyer
(PDF)
August 1-5, 2006Wroclaw, Poland
ISEP XVI
Meeting Website at http://www.isep16.biol.uni.wroc.pl/
The 16th Meeting of the Society for Evolutionary Protistology
(ISEP 16) took place in Wroclaw, Poland, August 1-5, 2006.
June 20-24, 2006Hotel Villa Rica, Lisbon, Portugal
ISOP and IWOP-9 (International Workshop on Opportunistic Protists)
Minutes
Minutes of the Executive
Committee and Business
meetings of the Society, held at this meeting, are available (Microsoft
Word documents). An open letter to the membership from the Society President,
Wilhelm Foissner, can be found here.
June 6-8 2006Troy,
NY
13th East Coast Protozoology Meeting
Meeting Website
The 13th meeting of the East Coast Section of the International Society
of Protistologists was held June 6-8, 2006 at Russell Sage College in
Troy, NY.
October 2-7, 2005Monterey, California, USA
Third Symposium on Harmful Algae in the U.S.
The Third Symposium on Harmful Algae in the U.S. took place at the Asilomar conference grounds
in California, October 2-7, 2005. The main symposium webpage is at http://www.whoi.edu/redtide/3rdsymposium/
Supported by FASEB and European Science
For further information, please contact Judy Kleindinst,
jkleindinst@whoi.edu.
August 3-8, 2005Il Ciocco, Lucca, Italy
Ciliate Molecular Biology
Supported by FASEB and European Science
http://www.faseb.org/
July 18th - 22nd 2005Scotland UK
6th International Crustacean Congress (ICC6)
Dr Douglas M. Neil (d.neil@bio.gla.ac.uk)
organized the meeting.
www.gla.ac.uk/icc6
Web site of the 6th International Crustacean Congress (ICC6)
June 3-5, 2005Richmond, Virginia
12th East Coast Conference on Protozoology
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
Read
the meeting report
Minutes of the Executive Committee
meeting are available.
FEATURE: SYMPOSIUM ON CRYPTOSPORIDIUM
The organism, the genome, the environment and the host response
SPEAKERS: DR. RON FAYER, DR. JOAO AlVES, and Dr. JAN MEAD
April 10-15, 2005Terrasini,
Sicily (Italy)
WorldLeish III
3rd International Congress on Leishmania and Leishmaniosis (=Leishmaniasis)
was held at Palermo - Terrasini, Sicily (Italy) from April 10 to 15,
2005. See websites: www.worleish.org
and www.newteam.it/worldleish3
for details.
September 13th 2004 London, United Kingdom
Evolution of Protozoa and Other Protists
Joint Meeting of Linnean Society, British Section of the Society of Protozoologists,
and the Systematics Association
June 2-6, 2004Rhode Island
2004 Annual Meeting of the Society of Protozoologists
Download the Minutes-business meeting MSWord document.
Download 56th annual meeting MSWord
document.
April 24 2004University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
36th Annual Midwest Protozoology Meeting
Suzanne McCutcheon (312-413-9027) and Howard Buhse organized the meeting.
Octubre 1-3 2003La Paz Bolivia
XVI Congreso Latinoamericano de Parasitologia FLAP 2003
La Paz Bolivia - Sede Hotel Radisson. Place: at The Hotel Radisson.
Pagina Web www.flap.org.bo
Website of Secretariot www.flap.org.bo
Casilla 446 La Paz Bolivia, Postal address 446 La Paz Bolivia, Telefono
/ Fax (591-2)2227184
Dr. Rene Angles Presidente FLAP
August 31-Sept 5th 2003Italy, San Benedetto del Tronto
4th
European Congress of Protistology together with the 10th European Conference
on Ciliate Biology
4th European Congress of Protistology together with the 10th
European Conference on Ciliate Biology took place in Italy August 31-Sept 5th 2003, San Benedetto del Tronto, (AP), Hotel Calabresi Congress Center
(On the Adriatic coast of Italy - nearest airport Ancona). Information at the site: http://protistology.unicam.it/
June 6-8 2003University of Maryland Baltimore
County
11th East Coast Protozoology Conference
Meeting summary
(also available in PDF
format).
June 23 - 25 2003Copenhagen
International Congress on Toxoplasma
Biology, Clinical Practice and Public Health
The Congress can be accessed at www.toxo2003.ics.dk
Website of Secretariot flap.org.bo
Casilla 446 La Paz Bolivia, Postal address 446 La Paz Bolivia, Telefono
/ Fax (591-2)2227184
Dr. Rene Angles Presidente FLAP
International Congress of Parasitology
In memoriam Professor Dr. Ernest M. Ungureanu will be held in
Iasi Romania. Secretariat of the Congress can be contacted at: 2AOastei
Str,sc.A, apt 6,Iasi 6600, Romania. Tel: 0040.232.213.593 Fax:00.40.232.260.650
email:ecrucer@iasi.mednet.ro
July 25-29 2003Hilo, Hawaii, USA
III International Workshops On Opportunistic Protists (IWOP-8) and International Conference On Anaerobic Protists (ICAP)
June 9-10 2001Bryant College, Smithfield, Rhode Island USA
9th East Coast Protozoology Conference
Read the Summary Report, 9th East Coast Protozoology Conference.
