The 4th European
Mosquito Control Association Workshop will
take place in Prague, Czech Republic,
at the Congress Center of the Czech University of Agriculture in Prague
- Suchdol
The Meeting will take palce from the 11th
to the 14th of September 2007.
The 4th European Mosquito Control Association Workshop will be organized
by the the National Institute of Public Health, Prague and the Czech University
of Agriculture.
The objctives of the workshop are to gather specialists from different
countries involved in mosquito (and black fly) control, to exchange experience
and ideas.
In planned symposia a range of the currently most important topics of
mosquito control and related subjects, such as the use of GIS/GPS and
remote sensing in mosquito control programmes, action plans against mosquitoes
in specific ecosystems, application techniques – tools and products
available, needed, missing, etc., will be discussed in plenary sessions.
More information about the 4th EMCA Workshop, the
First Announcement and Call for papers/contribution will be available
on the website of the Czech University of Agriculture
http://unicoagric.czu.cz/emca2007/
If you require any further information please contact:
Frantisek Rettich, the Chairman of the
Organizing Committee
Tel:+420267082283 Fax: +420267082566
e-mail address: rettich@szu.cz
Rice Fiels Working Group
The first European Symposium on ricefiel mosquito
control
was held in collaboration with the Department of Environment and Life
Science of University of Piemonte Orientale di “Amedeo Avogadro”
Alessandria on 12 October 2006
For more information contact Asghar TALBALAGHI at talbalaghi@libero.it or emca.italia@virgilio.it
Black Fly Working Group
The 2nd International Simuliidae Symposium, was held in Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro, from the 3rd to the 6th of September 2006, in the organization of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad.
You can find 18 presented scientific papers in the Supplement volume of the journal Acta Entomologica Serbica, at http://www.bio.bg.ac.yu/EDS/acta/Vol11Suppl/Vol11SupplContents.htm
Photo album of the Symposium can be found on the website of the Faculty of Agriculture http://polj.ns.ac.yu/english/news.htm
The main objective of the
event was to gather scientists from different countries involved in black
flies studies, exchange of experience and ideas. The invitation was directed
to the members of the existing European groups of simulidologists (British
Simuliid Group, Central European Simuliid Group, and European Mosquito
Control Association – Black Fly Working Group), the North American
Black Fly Association and to anyone interested or involved in black fly
studies.
If you require any further information
please contact:
Aleksandra Ignjatovic Cupina, the Secretary of the Symposium
Tel/Fax : +381 21 45 08 09
e-mail address: cupinas@polj.ns.ac.yu