POSTPONED ICOP 2022 – 19-24 June 2022 – Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
Upon request of the local organizers for the International Congress of Protistology (ICOP) 2022, this meeting will be postponed until 2025 due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions to South Korea. More details about ISOP meeting plans for 2022 will...
ISEP – PROTIST “Protist Regular Online Talk Informal Series Two”
ISEP is launching the second series of its biweekly online talks. Starting on May 6th, the series will feature talks to be given every other Thursday, with an alternative timeslot at 3 p.m. and 11 p.m. European time (GMT+2) to hopefully accommodate everybody. Two...
ISOP / ISEP Virtual Symposium to Honor Thomas Cavalier-Smith – 23 July 2021
A Special Symposium to honor the life and work of Thomas Cavalier-Smith, one of the most influential scholars in the field of evolutionary protistology, is planned for 23 July 2021, just prior to the ISOP Virtual Meeting 26-30 July 2021. The symposium coordinator is...
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...
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