Announcements

MACE release 8, an add-on mass spectral open-access database for the NIST GC/MS library, has now been released. The database now covers over 620 EI-quadrupole and over 50 EI-Orbitrap spectra, useful in Chemical Ecology and related fields. It contains spectra of semiochemicals, terpenoids, alkaloids, lipids, and others, from arthropods, vertebrates, plants, or microporganisms. It also contains 50 spectra of suspected or proven pheromones of click beetles supplied by the Millar group.

The website can be found here and the data here.

The 41st Annual Meeting will be held from June 21–25, 2026, in Ithaca, NY, USA, and will be hosted by Dr. Rob Raguso and colleagues at Cornell University. Additional information about the meeting will be shared in the coming months on the official meeting website.…

For a tribute to Jeffrey R. Aldrich, please see the video by Walter S. Leal.

The 40th annual ISCE meeting will take place from 18-22 August 2025 at the Christchurch City Town Hall in Christchurch, New Zealand and will be hosted by Drs. Kye Chung Park, Lloyd Stringer, and Adrina Najar-Rodriguez from the New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research. For information about the meeting, please visit the website.

For a tribute to Jeremy McNeil, please refer to the obituary written by Walter S. Leal, published in the latest issue of Antenna, the Bulletin of the Royal Entomological Society.

The International Society of Chemical Ecology (ISCE) awards ISCE Silver Medal Award, ISCE Silverstein-Simeone Award, Applied Chemical Ecology Award, and ISCE Early Career Award are offered annually to scientists working in the field of chemical ecology. Nominations are due by January 31, 2025. For information, please visit https://chemecol.org/awards/call-for-nominations/

The ALAEQ newsletter (December 2024 edition) is available at: https://www.alaeq.org/newsletters/

The Chemical Ecology community lost a passionate supporter on August 30, 2024 – Dr. Robert (Bob) Bedoukian. Bob’s Bedoukian Research and BedoukianBio sponsored symposia and awards, notably the ISCE’s Bedoukian Applied Semiochemical Research Travel Award. An obituary is available here.

The network brings together European chemical ecologists in order to promote the field’s visibility and share knowledge, tools, and platforms. For details, visit: https://e-niche.eu/…

The 19th International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste will be held on 22-26 June 2024 in Reykjavík, Iceland. For details, visit https://www.isot2024.is/…

The International Chemical Ecology Short Course will be held on 3-14 June 2024 at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. For details, visit https://www.huck.psu.edu/institutes-and-centers/center-for-chemical-ecology/ice-2024-short-course…

The 26th Biannual International Plant Resistance to Insects Symposium (IPRI2024) will be held on 22-25 April 2024 in Tainan, Taiwan. For details, visit https://avrdc.org/ipri-2024-about/