Events

The 8th International Conference on Sustainability Science (ICSS 2022) is going to be held online from 18 January - 20 January, 2022. The event aims as 'Biodiversity as a source of solutions to sustainability challenges in urban, peri-urban and rural areas'.

The Conference will facilitate creative discussions between academics, policy-makers and practitioners on how biodiversity-based solutions can contribute to sustainable development. As such the outcomes of the conference are expected to feed into the current international discourse of the post-2020 agenda on biodiversity.

The ICSS conference is co-organized by the Institute of Future Initiatives and Tokyo College at the University of Tokyo, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Stockholm Resilience Centre at the Stockholm University, Future Earth, Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat, Kunming Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and International Union of Biological Sciences. The conference is the continuation of the 5th Forum for Biodiversity and the Eighth International Conference on Sustainability Science held in April 2021.

Under the aegis of the IUBS Centenary celebrations, the IUBS Working Group on Gender Equality is launching the first webinar of a series on “The Gender Gaps and the Biological Sciences”.
The webinar will consist of talks by experts, moderated round table discussion, and a Q&A session. The fist webinar of this series is scheduled on 25 November 2021. 
Join us for this very important discussion. The webianr will also be live-streamed on multiple platforms such as the websites and selected IUBS social media channels. Relevant links will be added closer to the webinar date.

Date: 25 November 2021

Time: 8:00-10:00 AM GMT | 10 AM- Noon SAST | 1:30-3:30 PM IST

This webinar will be hosted on Zoom. Please use the links below to register for this event:

1. Zoom: Click here to register.
2. Zoho: Click here to register. Note: this option will close on 20 Nov, 2021

There is no registration fee to attend the webinar.

The 23^rd International Congress of Zoology (ICZ) by the Zoological Society of Southern Africa, which was supposed to be held in Cape Town, South Africa in July 2020 is now rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event is rescheduled on 21 to 26 November 2021

Visit the event website for more.

The '26^th International Diatom Symposium' to be organized in Japan, has been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and could be organized in 2021 online, probably on August 23rd to 25th. IUBS supports the conference and also sponsors the participation of young scientists in it.

More information about the event can be found here.   

The International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) was established in 1919 as a non- governmental and non-profit organization comprising of National Academies and international scientific Associations and Societies. Since then IUBS is functioning as a global platform of scientists from all disciplines and nationalities for cooperation, interaction and collaboration to promote research, training, and education in biological sciences.

To commemorate completion of 100 years of promoting excellence in biological sciences, IUBS has launched a Webinar Series bringing the best of all disciplines to discuss evolution, taxonomy, ecology, biodiversity, and other topics that represent unified biology and the topics of prime importance to address contemporary problems such as climate change, endangered species, food and nutrition, health etc.

The third lecture in the IUBS Webinar Series will be delivered by Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, on 27th April 2021, at 1:30 pm GMT.  The title of the webinar is: “Gombe and Beyond”. An ethologist and environmentalist, with ongoing research spanning more than six decades, Dr. Goodall is a pioneer in studying the behavior, social organization, and cognitive abilities of chimpanzees. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace.

The second lecture of the Webinar Series was delivered on 10th March 2021 by Sean B. Carroll, an award-winning biologist, educator, film producer, author and science communicator on “The Serengeti Rules: The Regulation and Restoration of Biodiversity".

The first lecture of the webinar series was delivered by Rattan Lal, 2020 World Food Prize Laureate on “Forgetting How to Tend the Soil” on 2nd October 2020.

More about IUBS Centenary Webinar Series

IUBS and the International Society of Zoonotic Sciences (ISZS) organise a Virtual Mini-symposium on Zoonotic Disease and 12^th International Symposium of Integrative Zoology (ISIZ)  on 26th April 2021.

The theme of this program is to promote integrative studies on zoonotic diseases among scientists of different disciplines, so as to reveal the transmission pattern and dynamic of key zoonotic diseases which are imposing a high threat to humans. Serial mini-symposia (held on 26 April and 27 September 2021) are a part of the activities for the ISZS/IUBS Zoonotic Diseases Working Group.

The program is free and open to all.

Event video recording here.

The joint fifth Science-Policy Forum for Biodiversity and the eighth International Conference on Sustainability Science (ICSS 8) will include five virtual sessions to be held on 13, 14, 19, 21 and 23 April 2021. The sessions will last up to 120 minutes, starting at 6 am (Montreal Time). The event is financially supported by University of Tokyo and IUBS.

The objective of this Science-Policy dialogue would aim to provide space for scientists, policy makers and other relevant stakeholders to discuss and make recommendations on how science, technology and innovation could contribute to the effective implementation of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework in order to bend the curve of biodiversity loss and obtain positive biodiversity outcomes and foster transformative change towards achieving the 2050 Vision. 

Register here (free and open to all)

The International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) was established in 1919 as a non- governmental and non-profit organization comprising of National Academies and international scientific Associations and Societies. Since then IUBS is functioning as a global platform of scientists from all disciplines and nationalities for cooperation, interaction and collaboration to promote research, training, and education in biological sciences.

To commemorate completion of 100 years of promoting excellence in biological sciences, IUBS has launched a Webinar Series bringing the best of all disciplines to discuss evolution, taxonomy, ecology, biodiversity, and other topics that represent unified biology and the topics of prime importance to address contemporary problems such as climate change, endangered species, food and nutrition, health etc.

The first lecture of the webinar series was delivered by Rattan Lal, 2020 World Food Prize Laureate on “Forgetting How to Tend the Soil” on 2nd October 2020.

The second lecture of the Webinar Series will be delivered on 10th March 2021 by Sean B. Carroll, an award-winning biologist, educator, film producer, author and science communicator on

“The Serengeti Rules: The Regulation and Restoration of Biodiversity”

More about IUBS Centenary Webinar Series

Since the establishment in 1919 as a non- governmental and non-profit organization comprising of National Academies and international scientific Associations and Societies, IUBS is functioning as a global platform of scientists from all disciplines and nationalities for cooperation, interaction and collaboration to promote research, training, and education in biological sciences.

To commemorate completion of 100 years of promoting excellence in biological sciences, IUBS has launched a Webinar Series bringing the best of all disciplines to discuss evolution, taxonomy, ecology, biodiversity, and other topics that represent unified biology and the topics of prime importance to address contemporary problems such as climate change, endangered species, food & nutrition, health etc.

The first Lecture of this Webinar Series was delivered by Prof Rattan Lal, this year’s World Food Prize Awardee and he spoke on "Forgetting How to Tend the Soil”, on 2nd October 2020. For details, read more.

“XI Mesoamerican Congress On Native Bees” was held on 27-29 November 2019 in Mexico. This congress was sponsored by IUBS.

(Photo credit:  Waugsberg)

The Sixth International Symposium "Alien Species in the Holarctic: Borok VI" was held during 11th-15th October 2021 in Uglich and Borok, Russia. 

The objectives of the Conference are to promote international collaboration and provide a scientific platform for the study of alien species, consequences of their activity, and actions to predict and control their appearance in new territories and water areas. The event was led by Alexey Kotov, and was attended by 97 participants in online and offline mode. Ten Young Scientists from Russia, Belarus, Czech Republic were supported by IUBS through the Young Scientist Grant. 

The '26^th International Diatom Symposium' to be organized in Japan, has been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and could be organized in 2021 online, probably on August 23rd to 25th. The conference is supported by IUBS and IUBS also sponsors the participation of young scientists in it.

More information about the event can be found here.   

"Natural environment and biodiversity of Mongolia: evolution, ecology and sustainable development"; 5-9 September, 2019 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and 15-17 October, 2019 in Moscow, Russia

"BIOMAT 2019 – 19th International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology", October 21-25, 2019 in Hungary

“BIOMAT 2019 – 19^th International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology” was held from October 21-25, 2019 in Hungary. This symposium was sponsored by IUBS under Young Scientist initiative.

"Natural environment and biodiversity of Mongolia: evolution, ecology and sustainable development” was held on 5-9 September, 2019 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and 15-17 October, 2019 in Moscow, Russia

This event was sponsored by IUBS under Young Scientists initiative.

(Photo: UNESCO)

6^th International Conference on Plants & Environmental Pollution (ICPEP-6)
Lucknow, India, 27– 30 November 2018

IUBS supported the participation of Young Scientists in the Science Forum
Egypt, 23-24 November 2018 

European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB 24)
Granada, Spain, 9– 15 September 2018 

25^th International Diatom Symposium
Berlin, Germany, 25– 30 June 2018

International Symposium on Pollination
Dahlem near Berlin, Germany, 16– 20 April 2018

The 6^th International Conference on Plants & Environmental Pollution (ICPEP-6) took place in Lucknow, India, from 27-30 November 2018. IUBS supported participation of 42 young scientists in this conference.

IUBS sponsored the participation of 4 young scientists in the 4th Science Forum organized during the COP 14  on 23-24 November 2018 in Egypt. Renu Kumari from India, Sameh Hamdy Soror, Mai Abdelmoaz Allam and Mohamed Ezzat Abdelhack, from Egypt actively participated in the forum by facilitating the group discussions during the 2 days.
(Photo: Left to right: Mohamed Ezzat Abdelhack, Sameh Hamdy Soror, Nathalie Fomproix, Renu Kumari and Mai Abdelmoaz Allam)

IUBs sponsored the participation of young scientists in the European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology organized from 5 to 15 September 2018 in Grenada, Spain

25^th International Diatom Symposium, was organized in Seminaries and Botanical Garden Berlin, Germany, from 25th to 30th  June 2018 by the International Society for Diatom Research (ISDR).

BIOMAT 2017 – 17^th International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology
Moscow, Russia, 29 October – 4 November 2017

5^th International Symposium "Alien Species in the Holarctic: Borok V
Uglich, Yaroslavl Area, Russia, 25– 30 September 2017

The 4^th International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology
Moscow Russia, 18– 23 August 2017

The celebration of the  International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2020 was co-organized by UNESCO with the participation of the International Science Council (ISC) at Paris on 7th February 2020.  The invited speakers and participants discussed the issue of gender gap in science, the conclusions of the collaborative global project, “Gender Gap in Science : A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?” by ISC.

IUBS is one of the partners for a global project.The findings of the project can be found here. These findings were presented in a recent Conference held at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy in November 2019.

L S Shashidhara, the president of IUBS and Catharine Jami of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, participated in the event as speakers.

A detailed news by ISC about the event can be found here.

Event Podcasts made by the International Science Council are available here.

IUBS participated in the event organized by Wilton Park and Association of Commonwealth Universities. It explored the ways in which the higher education sector can actively engage with and be supported to contribute fully to the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals. This event organized in UK, brought together leaders who are leading the strategies of Universities and their international outreach, together with academic and other experts on the SDGs. Dr Nathalie Fomproix represented IUBS in the event.

A downloadable Event Report is available here.

2019 is the centenary year of IUBS, IUA, IUPAC, IUGG and URSI whose first presidents were all French and members of the Académie des sciences. The COFUSI organized an interdisciplinary colloquium at the Academy.

Yvon Le Maho was the representative of IUBS and made a presentation on “Nature as a source of biomedical innovation”.

IUBS participated in the Thematic Sessions Iv. B. “Beyond SDGs - Science For Well-Being” organised by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), International Science Council (ISC). Nathalie Fomproix, the Executive Director of IUBS represented IUBS in the event.

(Photo credit: Kazuyoshi Shimada)

IUBS, as a member organisation, attended the Funding General Assembly of the ICS (International Science Council), that launched in July 2018 as the result of a merger between the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC).

Andres Barbosa organized a workshop between IUBS and Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) during the Polar 2018, SCAR & IASC (International Arctic Science Committee) Conference, in Davos Switzerland, 15 - 18 June 2018. The aim was to discuss the interaction between IUBS programmes such as BCGC and iCCB with SCAR and how IUBS could participate in the new programmes implemented by SCAR.

ICSU CODATA workshop on Data Standards and Integration, London UK, 13 -15 November 2017.

Details on the conference website

IUBS sponsors the attendance of young scientists to the 17^th International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology (BIOMAT 2017) conference, which will be organized from 29^th October to 4^th November in Russia.

Details at the conference website

The International Council for Science (ICSU) invites National, Union Members and other members to attend the 32^nd ICSU General Assembly on 23-26 October 2017. As a member IUBS is taking part in it and looks forward to discuss the union with the International Social Science Council (ISSC) on 25-26 October 2017.

registration and details at ICSU

The 4^th International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology (ICIM4) will take place in the Russian Capital Moscow from 18^th to 23^rd August 2017. IUBS sponsors the conference as well as the attendance of young scientists.

Details at the conference website

The 9^th BCGC Symposium will be held during the The 9^th International Symposium of Integrative Zoology, which is entitled "Response and adaptation of animals to extreme environments". The conference will be held in Xining, Qinghai Province, China, from 27^th to 31^st August 2017. It is organized by the International Society of Zoological Sciences (ISZS), a scientific member of IUBS, and supported by IUBS via its Biological Consequences of Global Change (BCGC) programme.

Details at conference website

Training Workshop: Quantitative approaches to paleontology, conservation, and climate change biology in Africa

The workshop of the iCCB programme of IUBS will bring together paleontologists, ecologists, and quantitative biologists in Nairobi, Kenya, from 6th to 8th March 2017 to discuss how data from paleontology, modern ecology, and conservation biology can be integrated to provide a comprehensive framework for monitoring and measuring ecosystem structure and function through space and time.

Nairobi, Natural History Museum of Kenya, Kenya, 6 - 8 March 2017

Details at iCCB Website

Three international symposia on BCGC during the 22^nd International Congress of Zoology (ICZ), 14-19 November 2016, Okinawa, Japan. Over 1,100 participants from 31 countries and regions attended. They were organized within the BCGC programme of IUBS.

Impact of Landcover Change on Biodiversity: Pollinators & Pollination. 3^rd Science for Biodiversity Forum of International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) and Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 13), Cancun, Mexico. December, 2016. Presented by P. Kevan

8^th International Symposium of Integrative Zoology (ISIZ), 25-29 July 2016, Xilinhaote, Inner Mongolia, China. Over 100 scientists attended.

International training course at the “Research Station of Animal Ecology on Grassland” in Xilinhaote, Inner Mogolia, 29 July to 6 August 2016. Over 20 scientists and students from Germany, Russia, Democratic Republic of the Congo and China attended. The course included lectures, discussions, specimen collection in the fields, classification and analysis of the collected specimen. The workshop was organized within the BCGC programme of IUBS.

The International training course on invasive species 26-28 October 2016 in Hainan, China. Over 50 people from Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Fuji, Samoa, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nigeria, Japan and China attended. The workshop was organized within the BCGC programme of IUBS.

The latest, the 32^rd, General Assembly of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) entitled "Frontiers in Unified Biology" was held in Berlin, Germany, 14–16 December 2015.

Programme: http://www.iubs2015.org/programme.html

Satellite Symposia: http://www.iubs2015.org/satellites.html

Conference Website: http://www.iubs2015.org/index.html