About the Conference

The 9th International Pollination Symposium on Plant-Pollinator Relationships - Diversity in Action, will be hosted in Ames, Iowa, on June 24-28, 2007. The Symposium will be held at the Scheman Building on the Iowa State University campus. The Symposium is expected to attract worldwide about 300 major scientists, their graduate students, and their postdoctoral fellows.

This Symposium is under the auspices of the International Commission for Plant-Bee Relationships (I.C.P.B.R.), a Commission whose history goes back to 1950. The Commission consists of a General Assembly (made up of all of its members), three working groups (Pollination, Nectar, and Bee Protection), and the Council. The three working groups meet on a frequent but irregular basis at different locations around the world, and the Symposium, the one planned at Iowa State University will be the 9th, meets less frequently and incorporates the subject areas of the three working groups. It represents the unifying meeting for all working groups.

The theme of the 9th Symposium and the sub-theme topics identified and explained on the Sub-Themes page include a variety of areas that relate to gene flow, transgenes, mating system dynamics, molecular and statistical genetic advances, conservation of plant genetic resources as well as pollinators, gene bank management, and a variety of molecular methodologies utilizing a broad base of genetic information. The Symposium will consist of one keynote speaker, four plenary speakers, 29 invited speakers, and about 200 participants who are expected to contribute between 50 to 75 individual posters.

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