June 11-13, 2009Bristol, Rhode Island (USA)

First North American Section ISOP Meeting

The ISOP- North American Section invites you to participate in its first meeting, which will take place at Roger Williams University (RWU), Bristol, Rhode Island, June 11-13, 2009. The meeting is sponsored by the International Society of Protistologists and Roger Williams University.

New! Full program with abstracts available. (post date: June 5 2009)

Full booklet, with preliminary schedule, registration information, and pricing.

Registration

Early registration (before May 1): $40 for faculty/postdocs, $30 for students, plus $10/day university fee (includes access to computers, gym, and shuttle service).

Regular registration (after May 1, or at the door): $55 for faculty/postdocs, $35 for students, plus $10/day university fee.

To register, fill out the registration form and mail it to:
Cheryl Francis
Department of Biology
Roger Williams University
One Old Ferry Road
Bristol, RI 02809

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, please contact aespinosa@rwu.edu.

Abstracts and Presentation Information

The abstract submission deadline is May 1, 2009. Abstracts should be submitted by email to aespinosa@rwu.edu. Please indicate whether you wish to give a talk or a poster. Full instructions for abstract preparation and submission, as well as other information about presentations, are available.

Lodging and Meals

Breakfasts are provided compliments of the sponsors. A meal plan is available for lunch and dinner (lunch $9.50/day, dinner $12.00/day). To sign up for the meal plan, send your check to Cheryl Francis at the address above.

Several lodging options are available, both on and off campus. Dorm space is available in Willow Hall and Stonewall Terrace, or apartment-style dorms in Bayside Apartments (for descriptions of facilities, visit http://www.rwu.edu/studentlife/residencelife/universityhousing/communities/). To reserve on-campus housing, contact Cheryl Francis.

Additional housing is available at Baypoint Inn and Conference Center, two miles from campus; contact Nancy Medeiros at (401) 683-3600 to place your reservations. Free shuttle service is available. For local hotel options, visit http://www.rwu.edu/admission/visit/plan/placestostay/.

A sheet with pricing information and other details is available.

Other questions?

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Avelina Espinosa
Department of Biology
Roger Williams University
One Old Ferry Road
Bristol, RI 02809
Phone (401) 254-3137
FAX: (401) 254-3310
e-mail aespinosa@rwu.edu

June 29-July 13, 2009Shoals Marine Lab, Appledore Island, Maine (USA)

Field Microbial Ecology

The microbial world dominates the biosphere in terms of biomass, diversity, and metabolic flexibility. This course is designed to introduce students to collecting, observing, and identifying live representatives of these fascinating microbial organisms including bacteria, protists, fungi, and microscopic animals. Students will be instructed in the taxonomy and ecology of the basic groups of micro-organisms while learning to collect them in the field for observation, experimentation and culturing. Field observations will be emphasized along with the proper use of light microscopes. Modern molecular methods including Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridization will also be taught. SML is an ideal location for a course of this type due to the many habitats available including marine coastal environments, intertidal environments, and hundreds of small ponds of varying salinity, nutrient status, and oxygenation.

More information about the course is available at http://www.sml.cornell.edu/sml_cc_mme.html

August 23-28, 2009Armação dos Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

ICOP XIII

This meeting will feature 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.

September 14-17, 2009Montbéliard, France

5th International Symposium on Testate Amoebae (ISTA-5)

Following the very successful International Symposium on Testate Amoebae,held in Antwerp, Belgium in 2006, we are please to announce the 5th ISTA.

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

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 (http://www.protist.org.uk/) on the campus of the University of Kent, Canterbury http://www.kent.ac.uk/studying/where/canterbury/). Canterbury (http://www.canterbury.co.uk/) is located in the coastal countryside about 1.5 hour southeast of London and is readily accessible by rail.

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.

Featured sessions to include:

• ISOP Symposium: Alternative Nutritional Strategies.  Chaired by Bob Sanders
• Symbiosis and Evolution of Organisms - Tentative.  Chairs: Laura Katz and Laura Parfrey
• Bioinformatics as aTool to Understanding the Evolution of the Unique Cell Biology & Biochemistry of Free-living and Parasitic Eukaryotic Micro-organisms - Tentative.  Chairs: Burt Goldberg and Tim Paget
• Pushing the Boundaries: Protist Diversity Never Ending.  Chair: Jan Keithly
• Protozoan-systems as Population Models at Empirical and Mathematical Levels.  Chairs: David Montagnes and Steve Wickham

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).