The 10th international congress of Orthopterology
03/04/08 14:42 | Permalink
It will be held at Antalya, Turkey, on 21-25 June, 2009. This congress is organized by the Orthopterist's Society and Akdeniz University. The web site for this scientific event is now opened. www.ico2009.org
LOCUST RABAT: BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR LOCUST CONTROL
02/04/08 15:39 | Permalink
LOCUST RABAT
BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR LOCUST CONTROL
(A Frank F. Richards Symposium topic)
The Golden Tulip Farah Hotel
Rabat, Morocco
1-3 July 2008

Draft program, pdf

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Fiche sur le Projet: Biotechnologie comme moyen de lutte contre le Criquet pèlerin
02/04/08 15:01 | Permalink

French


Initie en 2007 en collaboration avec l'Universite de Californie (USA), le projet de recherche relatif a l'utilisation des outils de la biotechnologie comme moyen de lutte contre le Criquet pelerin se fixe comme objectif d'utiliser les methodes modernes de la transformation genetique pour rendre le Criquet pelerin inoffensif lors des phases de son developpement qui le conduisent a la gregarisation et a la migration. Cette methode, qui s'inscrit sur le long terme, pourrait venir en appui aux methodes essentiellement chimiques utilisees actuellement contre le fleau acridien.

More information: Fiche sur le Projet Biotech Criquet.pdf

English (Translated by Google)


Initiated in 2007 in collaboration with the University of California (USA), the research project on the use of biotechnology tools as a means to combat locust has set itself the objective using modern methods of processing genetic to make harmless at Locust phases of development which leads to the gregarizing and migration. This method, which falls in the long term, could come to support the primarily chemical methods currently used against locust.

More information: Translated-Fiche sur le Projet Biotech Criquet.pdf
EU COST: the first Management Committee (MC) meeting
23/01/08 14:21 | Permalink
Kostas Bourzis was just informed by the EU COST office that since more than the minimum number of sets of nominations has been received for the Action FA0701: Arthropod Symbiosis: From Fundamental Studies to Pest and Disease Management, the COST Office has started arranging the first Management Committee (MC) meeting to bring representatives together and start Action planning.
 
The Science Officer for Life Sciences, Dr. Ioanna Stavridou, has made a provisional booking for a room in the COST Office, Brussels, for the 26th of March, 2008.
 
The Officer has created a poll in a website that will allow us to know very easily the availability of people for the 26th of March, 2008. In case that this date is not very suitable for the other MC members, the meeting can be postponed to a later date so as to have a good country representation involved in the Action in this first MC meeting.

http://www.cost.esf.org/index.php?id=181&action_number=FA0701
 
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Workshop on Genetically Engineered Organisms, Wildlife, and Habitats.
15/10/07 17:50 | Permalink
Monday and Tuesday, 5-6 November 2007
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies, UC Irvine, CA

Sponsored by United States Geological Survey, this Workshop will focus on identifying research needs for the effects of genetically modified organisms on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

The results of the Workshop will be summarized in a proceedings booklet to be produced by the National Academy of Sciences (in Washington DC).

See the agenda (pdf)
For further information, or if you would like to attend, please contact Susan Park (spark@nas.edu, 202-334-2742).