ISOP / ISEP 2020 Meeting. CANCELLED
ISOP/ISEP Statement Regarding the Coronavirus Pandemic 12 March 2020 The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 virus epidemic a pandemic yesterday. As a precaution, many restrictions had already been imposed on travel and movement of people, on large...
ISOP / ISEP 2020 Meeting. Statement to Members and Attendants Regarding COVID-19
Given the impacts of COVID-19 on international conferences and travel, we are monitoring possible effects on the 2020 ISOP/ISEP meeting in Cancun, MX, 31 May- 04 June. In the coming weeks we will try to be as transparent as possible, and to provide updates in a timely...
XXXV Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Protozoology Society
The 35th Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Protozoology Society was held jointly with the 46th Annual Meeting on Basic Research in Chagas' Disease at the Hotel Glória, in the City of Caxambu, MG, Brazil, between 4 - 6 of November, 2019. A total of 285 participants...
Eugene B. Small, 1931 – 2019
It is with sadness that I convey news of the death of Eugene B. Small on 1 July 2019, following prolonged illness that degraded his body and mind but that left his inner spirit intact. Gene emerged to prominence as a ciliatologist during an era of species...
Wiliam Trager Award 2016
The International Society of Protistologists and The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology conferred the 2016 William Trager Award on: M. Qi, R. Wang, H. Wang, F. Jian, J. Li, J. Zhao, H. Dong, H. Zhu, C. Ning, and L. Zhang, for publishing the highest impact article...
Prof. Alexander Mylnikov, 1952 – 2019
I am really sorry to inform you that Alexander Mylnikov passed away last week (May 30th) at the age of 66 after suffering from cancer for the last few years. Professor Mylnikov was an outstanding protistologist and scientist. A great expert in the morphology, the...
ISOP Sponsored Events at the VI ECOP – ISOP Joined Meeting, Rome 2019
ISOP funds 2 competitive symposia at every yearly meeting, each with 3/4 speakers. The fall prior to the yearly meeting an open call for proposals is sent to the ISOP membership, evaluated by the ISOP Program Committee (see members below); the top 2 are selected. The...
Revised Classification of Eukaryotes Published
Athens, GA --- The International Society of Protistologists (ISOP) has published a revised classification of eukaryotes in the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. It is available online now as part of the January/February 2019 issue. This revision is the gold standard...
Holz-Conner Travel grant and Hutner Award 2019. Applications and nominations are now being accepted.
Holz-Conner Travel grant: Applications for the ISOP Holz-Conner Travel grant are now being accepted. If you plan to apply for this award, obtain here the application form. Although the deadline is the 9:00 am GMT, 22nd of April, we encourage early applications. Late...
Prof. Jiří Vávra, 1933-2018
Dear friends, It is my sad duty to inform you about the passing away of Prof. Jiří Vávra (born 1933), an eminent Czech scientist, on October 1, 2018. A biologist by soul, parasitologist by profession, protistologist and microscopist by heart, Jiří was my teacher, who...
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