Time to renew your membership for 2025!

It’s that time again! Time to renew your IOBC-NRS membership for 2025 if you haven’t yet done so. Applications can be found here: 2025-IOBC-Application-For-Membership-or-Renewal

Join us for our Annual Meeting at EntSoc 2024

Come and join us for the Annual IOBC-NRS Meeting at ESA: 

Check out the latest newsletter of IOBC-NRS from Summer 2024

The Summer 2024 IOBC-NRS is available here.

2023 IOBC-NRS Award Winners

MS Award – Emily Le Falchier

Ph.D. Award – Dr. Sara Salgado

Distinguished Scientist Award –  Dr. Juli Gould

IOBC-NRS Honorary Member – Dr. Ann Hajek

IOBC-NRS Sponsors Insect Pathology Short Course at Cornell

The Insect Pathology Short Course will be held on the campus of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, June 4-9, 2023. The course is intended for students at the graduate level and researchers at any level who are interested in learning about insect pathogens. Each pathogen group will be covered in a lecture format using handouts and PowerPoint presentations. Participants will learn diagnostic techniques for each pathogen group in hands-on laboratory sessions using live material (hosts and pathogens), and archived material (slides). You can find out more information here, including how to register: PDF

2023 FAO Publishes Guidance on Sustainable Use and Conservation of Biocontrol Agents

Action on the part of a range of stakeholders, including national governments and intergovernmental bodies, is urgently needed to address the numerous knowledge gaps, resource limitations and legal, policy and institutional weaknesses that constrain the development of biological control and to tackle the numerous threats facing biocontrol agents. Read more here, or click here.

2022 IOBC-NRS Award Winners

MS award – no winner

Ph.D. Award – Dr. Kelly Carruthers

Early Career Award – Dr. Ivan Milosavljevic

Distinguished Scientist Award – Dr. Raymond Cloyd

Release of the 6th International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods (ISBCA) (2022) Proceedings

The Proceedings was released in March 2022. You can access the full text of the proceedings here on Research Gate: https://tinyurl.com/mfw67kfd.

IOBC Global

The International Organization for Biological Control (IOBC) was established in 1956 to promote environmentally safe methods of pest and disease control in plant protection. The Global Council sponsors many international working groups and publishes a newsletter. For more information about the working groups and IOBC-Global, follow this link.