XI International Symposium on Pollination

Registration Form [Word]

Dates

Monday April 16 through Friday 20, 2018

Venue

Botanical Gardens in Berlin (Dahlem), GERMANY

Getting there: https://www.bgbm.org/en/how-get-here
Hotels: List of Hotels
Restaurants: more information coming soon

Schedule

Preliminary schedule Final (PDF)

Organizing Committee

Chairs

DR. CARLOS H. VERGARA - DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL-CHEMICAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMERICAS PUEBLA, MEXICO

DR. PETER G. KEVAN - PROFESSOR EMERITUS, UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH, CANADA

DR. JENS PISTORIUS - INSTITUT FOR BEE PROTECTION, JULIUS KÜHN INSTITUT (FEDERAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR CULTIVATED PLANTS), GERMANY

Other Members of the Organizing Committee

DR. PATRICIA NUNES SILVA - SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, ECOLOGY, ENTOMOLOGY, ZOOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH, CANADA
DR. GORDON W. FRANKIE - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, POLICY & MANAGEMENT, UNIVERSITY OF BERKELEY, USA
DR. MARCIA MAUES MOTTA - LABORATÓRIO DE ENTOMOLOGIA, EMBRAPA AMAZÔNIA ORIENTAL ? CPATU, EMPRESA BRASILEIRA DE PESQUISA AGROPECUÁRIA (EMBRAPA), BRAZIL
DR. VERNON THOMAS, INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH, GUELPH, CANADA

Scientific Committee

DR. LUCAS GARIBALDI - DIRECTOR, INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN RECURSOS NATURALES, AGROECOLOGÍA Y DESARROLLO RURAL (IRNAD), SEDE ANDINA, UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE RÍO NEGRO (SA-UNRN), ARGENTINA

DR. ARNON DAG - GILAT RESEARCH CENTER, AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATION, MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, ISRAEL

DR. BRENO FREITAS - DEPARTAMENTO DE ZOOTECNIA - CCA, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO CEARÁ, FORTALEZA ? BRAZIL

DR. YUVAL SAPIR, DIRECTOR, THE BOTANICAL GARDEN, SCHOOL OF PLANT SCIENCES AND FOOD SECURITY TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY, ISRAEL

DR. CASPER VAN DER KOOI - UNIVERSITY OF OF GRONINGEN; GRONINGEN; THE NETHERLANDS

Proposed Sessions

Urban pollination
Pollination of tropical crops
Non-Apis bees as pollinators
Invasive pollinators
Restoring pollination
Pollination and ecological intensification, threats and drivers of bee crop pollinators, promotion of pollinator species and populations.
Pollination with Apis
Plant-pollinator signalling
Paleontology of Pollination
Non-bee pollinators
Abiotic pollination
Pollination and policy following up on IPBES, people/management of restoration/scalable approaches/policies for pollinator protection
Vertebrates and pollination
Biogeography of pollination systems (forest, tropical deserts, boreal, etc.) pollination, pollinators, plant breeding systems.
Mathematics on pollination (connectance patterns)
Pollination and economics
Biovectoring
Interactions between wild and crop pollination systems
Pollination and plant population genetics
Plant mating & breeding systems: pollination & pollinators together
Floral nectar: What do plants do, how do they do it, and what's the evolutionary explanation?
Plant-pollinator mismatches due to climatic changes.

Keynote Speaker

Dr. David Inouye (University of Maryland)

Is pollination a reciprocal parasitism?

Preliminary list

Sessions

Plant-pollinator signalling
Buzz pollination
Pollination by vertebrates
Pollination of tropical crops
Pollination and ecological intensification: threats and drivers of bee crop pollinators
Urban pollinators
Asian honeybees, conservation & management
Pollination and Policy
Apivectoring
Pollination with Apis
Natural threats to pollinators

Workshops

Polynational pollination
Apivectoring
Public outreach
Young Scientists

Abstract submission

Please submit your abstracts as PDF (portable document format) documents formatted strictly according to the instructions below. Email your abstract as a PDF attachment to
InternationalCommissionPPR@gmail.com.

All abstracts must conform to the following guidelines in order to be considered for acceptance. The corresponding author will be informed of acceptance.
Deadline March 5th, 2018
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Abstract Format [PDF]

Abstract submission deadline

March 5th, 2018

Registration fees

Subsidized Full Early Registration until February 28, 2018 - 130 Euro = Registration for participants from Central & South America, Africa, and Asia.

Full Early Registration until February 28, 2018 - 150 Euro = Registration for participants from locations other than above.

Regular Full Registration 175 Euro, after February 28, 2018

Call Scholarships [PDF]

Methods of payment

1. Wire transfers to:

International Commission for Plant Pollinator Relations
Meridian Credit Union, 3710 Stone Road West, Unit 8
Guelph, Ontario N1G 4V9
Canada

Institution No.: 837 or 0837 (the additional zero seems optional/discretionary)
Branch Transit No.: 21112
Account No.: 000388467311
IBAN: 08372 1112 0003 8846 7311
SWIFT Code: CUCXCATTVAN

2. PayPal account

InternationalCommissionPPR@gmail.com