Lea K. Bleyman, 1936 – 2020
Lea K. Bleyman on November 6, 2020, three days short of her 84th birthday. Professor Emerita, Department of Natural Sciences, Baruch College; past-President International Society of Protozoologists (as it was then known). Lea was born in Halle, Germany, November 9,...
Victoria Accattatis: Tracking a Microscopic Invader in South America
The ISOP Prize for Best Online Student Presentation at the Online Poster Session on Protists is awarded to Victoria Accattatis, Instituto Nacional de Limnología (UNL-CONICET), for the presentation “Tracking a microscopic invader in South America: Ceratium furcoides.”...
ISOP endorses the Microbiologists’ Warning to Humanity Consensus Statement
The Society hereby endorses the Consensus Statement published in Nature Reviews Microbiology, entitled “Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: Microorganisms and Climate Change.” The article was intended to raise awareness of the microbial world and to assert a call to...
Wiliam Trager Award 2017
The International Society of Protistologists and The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology conferred the 2017 William Trager Award on: Kensuto Seto, Maiko Kagami, and Yosuke Degawa, for publishing the most cited article of 2017 entitled: “Phylogenetic Position of...
The International Society of Protistologists calls on Clarivate to reinstate the Journal Impact factors of Zootaxa and IJSEM
The International Society of Protistologists, which publishes the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, calls on Clarivate (owner of Web of Science) to reinstate the Journal Impact factors of Zootaxa and the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary...
Online Poster Session on Protists
We would like to invite you to the upcoming Online Poster Session on Protists which will take place on August 10 – 14, 2020 on Twitter and Facebook. Link to registration below. This is an event organized by a group of early-career protistologists which aims at...
Young Scientists Are Essential to Revitalizing Protistology
The ISOP Executive Committee continues to reinforce its commitment to fostering the development of young scientists by encouraging and rewarding high-quality research as exhibited by conference presentations and publication efforts, funding travel to ISOP meetings and...
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...