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Insect Festival 2009

Venue: York Museum Gardens, York.

Event: A festival celebrating the insect world, open to the general public.

The Insect Festival will take place every two years, in the summer, in the North of England.

The event will feature trade and exhibitor stands in the Hospitium, whilst presentations and lectures will take place in the Tempest Anderson Hall. Insect hunts will take place throughout the Museum Gardens.

Convenors:

Julie North click here

Gordon Port click here to contact

Luke Tilley click here to contact

Postgraduate Writing and Publishing Day

Venue: University of Sheffield (linked with Ento '09)

Timetable:
12.00 - 17.00, see below for full schedule details.
                   
Main Convenor:
Rhiannon Pursall
Evolutionary & Ecological Entomology Lab
Dept of Animal and Plant Sciences
University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TN
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Co-convenors:

Duncan Allen- click here to contact
Nina Stanczyk - click here to contact

Ento '09 - RES Symposium on Insect Infection and Immunity: Evolution, Ecology and Mechanisms and RES National ScienceMeeting

Venue: University of Sheffield

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Symposium Convenors
Professor Stuart Reynolds
University of Bath
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Dr. Jens Rolff, University of Sheffield
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National Meeting Convenors
Professor Roger Butlin
University of Sheffield
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Professor Mike Siva-Jothy
University of Sheffield
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Dr. Klaus Reinhardt
University of Sheffield
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Information for poster presentations:

Size of paper: A0
Orientation: Portrait

Joint Meeting with the Royal Horticultural Society "Insect Biodiversity and Conservation in Gardens"

Venue: Lecture Theatre, RHS Wisley, Surrey.

Time: 10.30 to 17.00 (followed by tour of experimental garden plots)

Surprisingly few scientific studies of insects in suburban gardens have been undertaken. The meeting's aim will be to review the existing data sets and investigate the links between garden size, design and floral diversity with insect composition and abundance. Ways to enhance conservation of insects in gardens will be explored.
Posters accepted.

Provisional speakers include:
Dr Ken Thompson (Sheffield)
Mr Andrew Halstead (RHS)
Dr Alvin Helden (Anglia Ruskin)
Dr Juliet Osborne (Rothamsted)
Dr Katherine Parkes (British Dragonfly Society)
Dr Jason Chapman (BBSRC)

Convenors:
Andrew Halstead click here to contact
John Badmin click here to contact
Les Allen-Williams click here to contact

Climate Change Special Interest Group

Venue: Food & Environment Research Agency,(formerly CSL), Sand Hutton, York

Time: 9.30 Coffee for 10.30 start and will end at 16:45.

Convenors:

Dr Howard Bell,
CSL
Sand Hutton,
York
YO41 1LZ
Email: howard.bell@fera.gsi.gov.uk

Dr Richard Harrington
Rothamsted Research,
Harpenden
Hertfordshire
AL5 2JQ
Email: richard.harrington@bbsrc.ac.uk

Dr Keith Walters
CSL
Sand Hutton,
York
YO41 1LZ
Email: k.walters@csl.gov.uk

Orthopterists' Special Interest Group meeting and supper.

Venue: Dorothea Bate Room, Natural History Museum, London

Invited Speaker: George Beccaloni (Natural History Museum)- "Collecting new Orthopteroidea in Madagascar"

The group provides a forum for the discussion of all aspects of research on Orthoptera, including neurophysiology, acoustics, behaviour, ecology and taxonomy. There is an annual meeting, with a lecture, poster session, short paper session, demonstrations and a buffet supper. All the sessions are informal and the group encourages research students to contribute. For further information contact the convenor.

Convenors:

David Robinson (The Open University)
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Judith Marshall (Natural History Museum)
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Aphid Special Interest Group.

Venue: Rothamsted Research, Harpenden.

If you would like to offer a paper or poster contribution on this theme, please contact the convenors:

Richard Harrington (Rothamsted Research)
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Lin Field (Rothamsted Research)
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Insect Ecology

Special Interest Group.

"Insect Spatial Ecology"

Venue: Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford

Understanding the distribution and abundance of insects has predominantly focussed on local processes such as density dependence in birth and death rates.  However, it is well-known that spatial processes of dispersal, migration and immigration also affect the population biology of species.

Over the last two decades the metapopulation paradigm has become central to our understanding of spatial dynamics.  Insects have been widely used as model systems to test theories on spatial ecology and, more pragmatically, to develop conservation planning and strategy.

Mike Bonsall (University of Oxford)
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 Verrall Lecture

Professor Chris Thomas (University of York)

Venue: Flett Theatre, Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London.

Time: Tea will be served at 16.00, followed by the lecture at 16.30.

 Marking & Tracking Insects

Venue: RES HQ, Mansion House, Chiswell Green Lane, St Albans, AL2 3NS

Time: TBC

Convenor: Dr Mark O'Neill click here to contact

 Annual General Meeting and President's Address.

Venue: Rothamsted Research, Harpenden

Time: 15:00 to 18:00.

 National Insect Week 2010

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 Ento '10 - RES National Science Meeting

Venue: University of Swansea

Convenor: Dr Miranda Whitten click here to contact

 9th European Congress of Entomology

Venue: Budapest, Hungary.

RES Representative: Dr Scott Johnson

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