Events

“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 Cairo Science Forum: Science Diplomacy and Recent Developments in Biology" held on 19-21 November 2019 in Cairo, Egypt was co-sponsored by IUBS. The conference promotes exchanges between colleagues from all over the world and from all biological sub-disciplines – and beyond – in order to promote biological research across these disciplines.

The 'Conference on Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?' presented the results of a three-year collaborative project (2017-2019), funded by the International Council for Science, of eleven major scientific international unions and organizations including IUBS. Final meeting meeting included findings and acheivements, discussions over the resutls, conclusions and recommendations.

Presentation and reports of the conference are avaialble at: http://indico.ictp.it/event/8731/other-view?view=ictptimetable

Other information related to the project and the conference is available at:

https://gender-gap-in-science.org

https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2019/11/gender-gap-science.aspx

“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.

Annual meeting of the German Zoological Society was held on September 10th to 13th, 2019 in Germany. Thi event was co-sponsored by IUBS.

“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

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 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

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).

(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