The 15th annual meeting of the Society will be held from Saturday 20 June through Wednesday, 24 June, on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca. Our host Alan Renwick has lined up an exceptionally strong program of invited speakers, listed below, in addition to the submitted oral presentations and posters. All Society members should have received a set of enclosures with the last Newsletter. The enclosures provide all the information required for accommodation, registration, and submission of abstracts. The information and forms are also posted on the website, www.isce.ucr.edu/meetings/98/.
| John Simeone | Chemical Ecology - In the Begining |
| Tom Eisner | Chemical Ecology: in Retrospect and Prospect |
| Daniel Janzen | Biodiversity Development and Conservation of a Costa Rican Conservation Area as a Garden |
| Jo Handelsman | Discovering the Chemical Repertoire of Microbial Biodiversity in Soil: A Metagenome Approach |
| Baldomero Olivera | Cone Snail Venoms: Fifty Million Years of Drug Development |
| Walter Leal | Chemical Diversity in the Sex Attraction of Scarab Beetles |
| Jim Tumlinson | Tritrophic Interactions and Plant Signalling |
| Ritsuo Nishida | Chemistry of Plant-Insect Associations: Phytochemical Niches in Butterflies |
| John Clardy | Natural Products and Their Macromolecular Receptors |
| David Cane | Making Sense of Nature's Scents: How Nature Makes Terpenes |
| Koji Nakanishi | Natural Products Chemistry: Past, Present, and Future |
| Charles Arntzen | Creating Transgenic Plants for Pharmaceutical Production |
| Ashit Ganguly | Drugs from Natural Sources |
Contributed papers cover a wide range of topics in chemical ecology. Those members who expressed a preference for oral presentation and who registered before the deadline have been accommodated. Due to the overwhelming response to the call for poster presentations, some time slots are still available in the program for oral presentations. Additional abstracts and oral presentations can still be worked in at this time. Should you wish to submit a presentation, please contact Alan Renwick immediately, Email jar14@cornell.edu.
The Executive Committee meeting will be held at 2:00 PM on Saturday, 20 June. The meeting will start officially with a welcome reception and registration in Mary Donlon Hall at 7:00 PM on Saturday, 20 June. The opening session will begin on Sunday morning at 9:00 AM in Kennedy Hall. The final official event of the meeting will be the banquet in the evening of Wednesday, 24 June in the Statler Ballroom. The following day will be devoted to the post-conference tours and wine-tasting expeditions.
The Chemical Ecology of Nicotiana attenuata; An Example of Adaptive Plasticity.
For those participants arriving at the Ithaca airport, transportation to Mary Donlon Hall (North Campus) is available at a cost of $8 per person. For early arrival (Friday), participants should check in at the Conference Services desk in the Robert Purcell Community Center (next to Mary Donlon Hall). Transport from the airport to the various hotels is provided by hotel vans. The hotels will also provide transportation to the campus when needed. Local maps will be available at the conference site.
For participants arriving by automobile, detailed directions are given on the Cornell University web site at www.info.cornell.edu/CUHomePage/Visiting.html. Other information about Cornell and the Ithaca area is also provided at this site.
Parking will be easy on Saturday and Sunday, but from Monday to Friday, parking permits for the CC lot (near the Robert Purcell Community Center) should be purchased at the registration desk. The walk from RPCC or Mary Donlon Hall to Kennedy Hall takes about 10 minutes. However, in case of bad weather or difficulty walking, bus service throughout campus (Monday to Friday) is available to registrants at no charge. If needed, special help with transportation should be requested at the registration desk.
There has been considerable interest in the two post-conference activities. On Thursday, 25 June, a tour of the Finger Lakes wineries will include a stop at the Wagner Winery, where participants can eat lunch as they look out over Seneca Lake. Those who sign up for the gorge tour will be taken to some of the spectacular waterfalls in the region and will have an opportunity to walk through one of the gorges.
The next meeting is tentatively scheduled for November 13-16, 1999, in Marseille, France. Further details will appear in the next Newsletter. The millennium meeting in 2000, will be held in Brazil, and coordinated with the International Congress of Entomology, to be held in southern Brazil at Iguassu Falls in late August. The 2001 site will be Lake Tahoe, USA, and 2002 is tentatively scheduled for Kenya.
As a service to members, we have started listing positions available on the website. Full details for submission of postings can be found on the webpage. Please make sure that you provide as much detail as possible about the position, to provide the best chance of finding the most suitable candidates. Please also note that this service will only be provided to Society members. If you have any questions, please contact the Secretary by Email at jocelyn.millar@ucr.edu.
Graduate research assistant, MS or PhD level, to study floral or insect chemical ecology. Experience with GC-MS & HPLC preferred. Start date: Fall 1998 or spring 1999, stipend $18,000/yr. Contact Prof. Doug Whitman, 4120 Biology Building., Illinois State University, Normal IL 61761, USA. Phone: +1 309 438-5123, email dwwhitm@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu or www.bio.ilstu.edu/whitman/.
Plenum Publishing Corporation has agreed to sponsor the Silverstein-Simeone Award. This award was created in 1994 in honor of Professors Robert M. Silverstein and John B. Simeone, the founding and long-time editors of the Journal of Chemical Ecology. The award is intended to recognize, publicize, and promote outstanding "cutting edge" research in chemical ecology. Recipients are asked to present a lecture at the Society's annual meeting, and to contribute an article based on their lecture to the Journal of Chemical Ecology. Plenum has sponsored the award since its inception, and the Society is grateful for the continuing support for an award which recognizes excellence in our discipline.
Professor Dr. Thomas Hartmann is a long-time member of the Society, and is the 1998 ISCE Silver Medal winner. He has been very active in Society affairs, including serving as a councilor from 1991-94. Professor Hartmann has served as Professor and Director of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology as the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, since 1976. He received his PhD. from the University of Bonn in 1964, under the direction of Prof. Dr. M. Steiner. He then conducted postdoctoral studies at the University of California at Davis, studying nitrogen fixation by symbionts under the guidance of Prof. C.C. Delwiche. He returned the University of Bonn as a research assistant in late 1965, and over the next several years received several promotions, being named a full professor and Head of the Division of Plant Biochemistry at the Institut für Botanik in 1973. He then moved to his present position in 1976. Since 1976, he has also served as the Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, Pharmacy, and Biology (1980-83), Vice-President of the University (1984-86), and most recently, Dean of the Faculty of Science of the Technische Universität of Braunschweig (1991-93). Professor Hartmann is also a member of the scientific boards of several national research institutions, including the recently founded Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena. In addition, he serves on the editorial board for the journals "Planta" and "Chemoecology".
Professor Hartmann's research encompasses a wide array of subjects relating to the physiology and biochemistry of plant secondary metabolites, with particular emphasis on alkaloids. He is an internationally recognized authority on quinolizidine and pyrrolizidine alkaloids in plants and insects. The underlying theme of much of his work is the development of an understanding of a mechanistic basis for the molecular organization of secondary metabolism, its role in insect-plant interactions, and its phylogenetic origins. He has published approximately 140 papers, reviews, and book chapters.
The ballot for election of Professor Hartmann as Vice-President and President-Elect can be found on the back page of this Newsletter. Please return your ballots to Jocelyn Millar, ISCE Secretary, Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside CA 92521, USA.
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Dr. Jocelyn G. Millar ISCE - Secretary Department of Entomology University of California RIVERSIDE, CA 92521 United States of America |
Tel: +1 909-787-5821 Fax: +1 909-787-3086 jocelyn.millar@ucr.edu Millar Home page |
