The 14th Annual Meeting, 12-16 July 1997 in Vancouver, Canada will be on the campus of the University of British Columbia. To date, the program consists of 16 symposium talks, 77 oral contributed papers, 42 poster contributed papers, and 3 Plenary lectures. Please remember to return your Room Accommodation request before June 12th if you wish campus housing. The tentative program is as follows.
| Saturday, July 12th | |||
| 1600-1800 | Executive meeting with Councilors, Gage complex | ||
| 1830-2100 | Registration and Reception (food and beverages served), Gage complex | ||
| Sunday, July 13th | Tuesday, July 15th | ||
| 0800-1300 | Registration, IRC Building | 0830-1200 | Symposium 3. Marine Chemical Ecology |
| 0830-0900 | Welcome | 1300-1430 | Symposium 3 (contd.) |
| 0900-1230 | Symposium 1. Chemical Ecology of Scolytidae | 1430-1700 | contributed papers (2 concurrent sessions) |
| 1330-1700 | contributed papers (2 concurrent sessions) | 1930-2100 | poster session 2 |
| 1930-2100 | poster session 1 | ||
| Monday, July 14th | Wednesday, July 16th | ||
| 0830-1200 | Symposium 2. Chemical Ecology of Blood-Feeding Arthropods | 0830-1000 | Plenary Lectures (2) |
| 1030-1115 | ISCE Special Lecture | ||
| 1300-1445 | Symposium 2 (contd.) | 1115-1215 | contributed papers (2 concurrent sessions) |
| 1515-1630 | contributed papers (2 concurrent sessions) | 1315-1700 | contributed papers (2 concurrent sessions) |
| 1630-1730 | Annual Business Meeting of the ISCE | 1830-2200 | Banquet - UBC Museum of Anthropology |
Membership in the Society entitles you to a significant discount on the subscription price of the Journal of Chemical Ecology. Instructions to authors for submission of papers to the journal can be found at our ISCE Website: http://www.cas.usf.edu/ISCE/. The Table of Contents pages of recent issues are also listed there.
-John Romeo
Dr. Walter Soares Leal, the first non-Japanese scientist to be tenured by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries of Japan, is a recipient of the 1997 Award of the Japanese Society of Applied Entomology and Zoology. The honor, given for the first time to a non-Japanese scientist, was in recognition for his outstanding work on "chemical communication of scarab beetles and its potential for pest management".
Dr. Leal has elucidated the pheromones of a dozen economically important scarab species in Japan, of which seven formulations are already commercially available. His interest in understanding and exploring the basis of chemical communication to develop new strategies for pest control has moved his research activities into the molecular biology of chemical communication. Recently, he received the highest individual grant in the Japanese system, the Shousaikisokenkyu (STA) grant for basic research.
Dr. Leal holds more than 20 patents and has published over 50 papers related to chemical ecology. He has previously received awards from the Agricultural Chemical Society of Japan (Technology Prize) and the Entomological Society of Brazil (ESB Award).
Dr. Jeremy McNeil, of Laval University, was recently awarded the Gordin Kaplan Award for the public awareness of Science in Canada. The award was given by the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies. Dr. McNeil has been working with children from kindergarten to high school for over 10 years. He visits local schools and talks about the similarities of insect and human activities.
He was recently the subject of a biography written for children. The book, one in a series in which careers are introduced to young people, follows previous biographies on a ballet dancer, an actor and actress, an Olympic gold medalist, a commentator, and an engineer in the NASA space program. Jeremy McNeil - En Plein Coeur is published by Héritage jeunesse.
At the ISCE meeting in Chile, 1995, there were strong discussions, led by Professor Hermann Niemayer of the University of Chile and with lively contributions at all levels, suggesting the Society contribute to an enhanced role from this region in chemical ecology. Since the Society does not have funds suitable for directly resourcing the necessary activities, it was agreed that under the then President, John Pickett, that a concerted effort should be made to increase the level of collaboration in Latin America. A great number of new interactions were planned at the Chile meeting with many centered around aphids and their predators and parasitoids. Much of this arose from the Workshop held in Santiago prior to the ISCE meeting, under the auspices of the International Foundation for Science. Although several of these new collaborative objectives also involved European partners present at the meeting, planned new collaborations extended to countries as far afield as Japan.
At the Prague meeting in 1996, a large contingent of scientists from Latin America were present. Among those were students Eduardo Fuentes Contreras and Ernesto Gianoli. We sincerely hope that such young participants in our meetings will retain the impetus for fostering further mutually beneficial links with Southern and Central American scientists.
John Pickett, F.R.S., Past-President
This is the last issue of the ISCE newsletter for which I will have responsibility. I began doing it in 1990 after the Quebec City meeting. I have enjoyed serving as your Secretary and having the opportunity to interact with so many members over the years. The Secretary position is unique in that the continuity of the Society is largely vested there. Working with a new President each year, assuring that the Society Constitution is followed, communicating with a worldwide membership via correspondence, e-mail, the newsletter, and now the Internet makes for exciting work! A cooperative membership and an energetic leadership has made all of this fun. I have learned a lot. Thanks for your trust and opportunity to have served. I will continue to work for the Society in my new role as JCE editor, and will ensure that a smooth transition of the Secretary function to Jocelyn Millar occurs.
John Romeo
John G. Hildebrand is Regents' Professor, Director of the Division of Neurobiology of the Arizona Research Laboratories, and Professor of Neurobiology, Biochemistry, Entomology, and Molecular & Cellular Biology at the University of Arizona. Since 1980 he has also held an appointment as an Associate in Behavioral Biology at the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology. His A.B. is from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Rockefeller University. He was a postdoctoral fellow of the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation and the A.P. Sloan Foundation in the Department of Neurobiology of Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Hildebrand's research combines molecular, anatomical, neurophysiological, and behavioral methods in a multidisciplinary approach to problems of the organization, physiology, functioning, and postembryonic development of the insect nervous system. Areas of principal interest include physiology, functional organization and development of the olfactory system; chemical ecology of moth-hostplant interactions; sensory control of feeding, mating, and oviposition behaviors; biochemistry of intercellular communication in the nervous system; and neurosecretory control of behavior. He has a long record of commitment to education. Over the past 25 years, he has served as research advisor and educational sponsor for 35 postdoctoral associates, 8 doctoral students, and 38 undergraduate research students.
He has published over 125 papers, reviews and chapters and has edited 4 books He has received a number of awards including: Claude Pepper and MERIT Awards from the National Institutes of Health; the Givaudan Lectureship of the Association of Chemoreception Sciences; an Established Investigatorship of the American Heart Association; the R.H. Wright Award in Olfactory Research; the Max Planck Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; a Wellcome Visiting Professorship at Meharry Medical College; the Jan de Wilde Memorial Lectureship of the University of Wageningen (The Netherlands); the King Solomon Lectureship of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the Kenneth Roeder Memorial Lectureship of Tufts University; the Felix Santschi Lectureship of the University of Zurich: the IFF Award for Innovative Research in the Chemoreception Sciences; and the Founders; Memorial Award of the Entomological Society of America.
Dr. Hildebrand belongs to a number of Profession Societies and is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Microscopical Society (UK), and the Royal Entomological Society (UK). He serves as President of the International Society of Neuroethology (1995-1998) and is President-Elect of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. He has served on the editorial boards of a number of journals and currently is co-editor of the Journal of Comparative Physiology A. Dr. Hildebrand is a long time member of the ISCE. His Website can be found at: http://www.neurobio.arizona.edu/arldn/hildebrand/index.html.
Jocelyn G. Millar is Associate Professor in the Department of Entomology at the University of California at Riverside. He was educated at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada receiving both a B.Sc. and Ph.D. under A.C. Oehlschlager. He did post-doctoral fellowship work with R. Milton Silverstein at SUNY, Syracuse.
Dr. Millar's research focuses on development of insect control strategies which minimize or eliminate pesticide usage. Particular interests include the semiochemical manipulation of insects and the development and implementation of biological control methods. Current projects include: identification and synthesis of sex pheromones of several lepidoptera and development of mating disruption methods; the study of semiochemicals involved in mosquito oviposition; development of improved attractants for Mediterranean fruit fly; studies on the Eucalyptus longhorned borer and its natural enemies, emphasizing the biology and ecology of the borer and its parasitoids. He has published more than 80 papers.
Jocelyn is a long-term member of the ISCE and also of the Entomological Society of America and the American Chemical Society. He currently co-editing a book on chemical ecology methodology emphasizing bioassays.