Events

The next, the 33^rd, General Assembly of the IUBS will take place in Norway in 2019 and will celebrate the centenary of the Union.

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 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).

International Symposium on Pollination, taking place at the Botanical Gardens in Berlin (Dahlem), Germany, from 16-20 April 2018. Organized by the International Commission on Plant Pollinator Relations (ICPPR).

Details on the conference website

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

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

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).

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 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