Other Non-Society Meetings

Non-Society Meetings

SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY - Insect Decline: The Causes and the Role of Agriculture in Mitigation

Venue : Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts, AL5 2JQ
Time: 09.30 to 17.00

This event will discuss to what degree modern agriculture is responsible for insect decline and determine how new technologies and initiatives within the industry can reduce the impact on the insect population

" All things bright and beautiful: the science of colour in biology" - Lecture by Professor Peter Vukusic (University of Exeter)

Venue : Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute

Time: 19.00 for 19.30

Contact: Professor J.J. Davies, Department of Physics, University of Bath. Email: J.J.Davies@bath.ac.uk

The talk will consider physical colours in the animal world, especially insects.

IOBC/WPRS Pheromones and other Semiochemicals Conference

Venue : Bursa, Turkey

The Conference will start with on-site registration and welcome cocktail on September 30 at 7.00pm, followed by 5 days of scientific sessions, gala dinner and an excursion to the Mt. Uludag and ancient Marmara seaside village. It will bring together worldwide professionals and companies working in different areas including but not limited to chemical ecology, entomology, plant pathology, forest pest control and plant protection. Participants would have the opportunity to exchange new information on semio-chemical research as well as novel semio-chemical technologies and products in order to support their use in integrated pest management programmes, particularly in countries with a growing demand of green management methods.

Please kindly note that the deadline for early regisration is May 31, 2012.

For detailed information please visit the symposium web page as below; 

"Evolution on the wing: mimcry in butterflies and others"

Lecture by Peter Forbes, independent science writer

Venue: Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute

Time: 19.00 for 19.30

Contact: Professor S.E.Reynolds, University of Bath, s.e.reynolds@bath.ac.uk

"On these expanded membranes Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species..." Henry Walter Bates

Peter Forbes will talk on the enduring influence of HW Bates' studies of butterfly mimcry in the Amazon, in this 150th anniversary of his great paper. Today, research on Heliconius butterflies is regularly published in Science and Nature, as the connections between genes, the structures they form, behaviour and ecology are unravelled, amply fulfilling Bates' prophecy: "the study of butterflies, creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity, instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science."

Peter Forbes' book on mimicry and camoflague in nature, art and warfare, "Dazzled and Deceived" (Yale University Press), won the 2011 Warwick Prize for writing.

XVII Congress for the International Union for the Study of Social Insects

Venue : Cairns Convention Centre, Cairns, Australia
Congress Contact : ICMS Australasia info@iussi2014.com