!Postponed! Symposium on Insect-Plant Interactions – SIP 2020

The 17th Symposium on Insect-Plant relationships in Leiden has been postponed due to the pandemic of the corona-virus. It will be held now from the 25th to the 29th of July 2021. 

Venue: Kamerlingh Onnes Building
Early bird registration & abstract submission deadline: 1 May 2020
Early bird fees: € 275 for students (MSc and PhD); € 420 for others; Additional € 60 for the excursion and conference dinner, if you attend these.
Organizers: Institute of Biology Leiden & Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Organizing committee: Peter Klinkhamer, Klaas Vrieling & Koos Biesmeijer

More information and registration: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/sip2020

SIP 2020 will address the latest developments in research on the relationships between plants, insects and associated microorganisms, from physiological mechanisms to ecological and evolutionary processes.

Confirmed speakers

  • Prof.dr André Kessler – Cornell University, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, United States
  • Prof.dr Nicole van Dam – Friedrich Schiller University Jena & German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany
  • Dr. Heiko Vogel – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Department of Entomology, Jena, Germany
  • Prof.dr Caroline Müller – Bielefeld University, Department of Chemical Ecology, Bielefeld, Germany
  • Prof Dr Consuelo De Moraes – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Department of Environmental System Zürich, Switzerland
  • Prof Dr Ruth Hufbauer – Colorado State University, Department of Agricultural Biology, Fort Collins, United States
  • Prof.dr Niklas Janz – Stockholm University, Department of Zoology, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Prof Dr Geraldine Wright – Oxford University, Department of Zoology, Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Prof.dr Matthias Erb – Bern University, Department of Biology, Bern, Switzerland
  • Prof.dr Marcel Dicke – Wageningen University & Research, Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Sunday, July 26, 2020 through July 30
for time see website
Leiden University
Rapenburg 70, Leiden