We want updates about your research for the next IOBC Newsletter!
Please, send in your research updates, modelling them on the format of the prior newsletter (here), to Sara Salgado: sara.salgadoast@ufl.edu Preference will be given to those who submit their updates by November 22, 2024.
Time to renew your membership for 2025!
It’s that time again! Time to renew your IOBC-NRS membership for 2025 if you haven’t yet done so. Applications can be found here: 2025-IOBC-Application-For-Membership-or-Renewal
Join us for our Annual Meeting at EntSoc 2024
Come and join us for the Annual IOBC-NRS Meeting at ESA:
Check out the latest newsletter of IOBC-NRS from Summer 2024
The Summer 2024 IOBC-NRS is available here.
2023 IOBC-NRS Award Winners
MS Award – Emily Le Falchier
Ph.D. Award – Dr. Sara Salgado
Distinguished Scientist Award – Dr. Juli Gould
IOBC-NRS Honorary Member – Dr. Ann Hajek
IOBC-NRS Sponsors Insect Pathology Short Course at Cornell
The Insect Pathology Short Course will be held on the campus of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, June 4-9, 2023. The course is intended for students at the graduate level and researchers at any level who are interested in learning about insect pathogens. Each pathogen group will be covered in a lecture format using handouts and PowerPoint presentations. Participants will learn diagnostic techniques for each pathogen group in hands-on laboratory sessions using live material (hosts and pathogens), and archived material (slides). You can find out more information here, including how to register: PDF
2023 FAO Publishes Guidance on Sustainable Use and Conservation of Biocontrol Agents
Action on the part of a range of stakeholders, including national governments and intergovernmental bodies, is urgently needed to address the numerous knowledge gaps, resource limitations and legal, policy and institutional weaknesses that constrain the development of biological control and to tackle the numerous threats facing biocontrol agents. Read more here, or click here.
2022 IOBC-NRS Award Winners
MS award – no winner
Ph.D. Award – Dr. Kelly Carruthers
Early Career Award – Dr. Ivan Milosavljevic
Distinguished Scientist Award – Dr. Raymond Cloyd
Release of the 6th International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods (ISBCA) (2022) Proceedings
The Proceedings was released in March 2022. You can access the full text of the proceedings here on Research Gate: https://tinyurl.com/mfw67kfd.
IOBC Global
The International Organization for Biological Control (IOBC) was established in 1956 to promote environmentally safe methods of pest and disease control in plant protection. The Global Council sponsors many international working groups and publishes a newsletter. For more information about the working groups and IOBC-Global, follow this link.