Showing posts with label Meiofauna Conference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Meiofauna Conference. Show all posts

Thursday, August 26, 2010

FourtIMCo pictures online!

We received an e-mail just now informing that the FourtIMCo pictures are now posted online!

To see all of them visit the FourtIMCO site here.

Monday, July 19, 2010

FourtIMCo ended! See the official photo!

FourtIMCo ended!

It was a very nice time in Belgium! We hope that everybody enjoyed as much as we did. See below our photo (me and Pri) and also the official one.

Now we should wait for the FiftIMCo in South Korea!


Monday, July 12, 2010

FourtIMCo has began! Win a T-shirt from Meiofauna Brasil!



The most important event of meiofauna this year, the FourtIMCo, started officially yesterday and we from MeiofaunaBrasil are here in Ghent.

We hope that everybody is enjoying the event as we are!

For the traditional raffle we offered a T-shirt from MeiofaunaBrasil. We hope that will make somebody very happy!

More information about the event here.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Only 30 days to FourtIMCo!



Only 30 days separate us from the most important event of meiofauna: the FourtIMCo.

Have you read the FourtIMCo programme?

Have you arranged your hotel reservation?

We, from Meiofauna Brasil, want to see you in Gent!

More information about the event here.

Monday, April 05, 2010

10 days to submit your abstract in FourtIMCo



Just a quick reminder that you have only 10 days left to submit your abstract and complete the registration in FourtIMCo.

We, from Meiofauna Brasil, already completed ours and want to see you there!

More information here.

Monday, January 18, 2010

Swedmark Travel Awards to participation in FourtIMCo



FourtIMCo will be able to provide 10 Swedmark Travel Awards of 250 euro each to 10 master or PhD students. Candidates for these awards should provide a motivation letter and a brief CV until 15 April 2010. The 10 students with best letters and CV will be awarded.

More information here.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

FourtIMCo Registration and Abstract submission Open!



FourtIMCo website has been updated with a provisional programme and information on the final registration procedure. You can complete the registration form and submit your abstract(s) before 15 April 2010. Registration is still possible after this date, however at an increased registration fee.

More information here.

Friday, April 24, 2009

FourtIMCo: first news!



Great news! We just received by e-mail the first information about the FourtIMCo.


The International Association of Meiobenthologists is pleased to invite you to participate in its 14th International Meiofauna Conference – FourtIMCo – in Ghent, Belgium, from July 12th – 16th 2010.

The conference will be hosted by Ghent University, Belgium. The city of Ghent is located at the cultural and economic heart of Europe.

The FourtIMCo aims to bring high-quality scientific presentations and discussions in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere, allowing optimal interaction between scientists from different levels, disciplines, etc… The organizers will therefore endeavor to provide a forum both to established experienced scientists and to young researchers in an early stage of their career.

All information about the conference is available through the conference website here.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

The Meiofauna Conferences

Meiobenthologists and visiters of this page probably are informed that the next Internacional Meiofauna Conference will be hold in Brazil, more exactly in Recife.

The event organization has been jointly organized by the Research Groups on Meiofauna from Brazil and will begin in excatly 6 months and 6 days (take a look in the countdown in our site!).

From now, accompany with attention the information that will be added here by Meiofauna Brasil, specially the deadline for abstracts, conference programme, etc.

The meiobenthologists internacional meetings (conferences) begun officially in Tunisia, in 1969, when 28 researchers joined to discuss taxonomy and ecology of meiobenthos. The second meeting occurred 4 years later, in 1973, at York (England). From that year the meiobenthologists used to be meet in regular periods (each 3 years) and the event has been incresing in terms of number of participants and works presented.

Until the present moment 12 Conferences were realized:

1. : Tunis (Tunisia) - 1969
2. : York (England) - 1973
3. : Hamburg (Germany) - 1977
4. : Columbia (USA) - 1980
5. : Gent (Belgium) - 1983
6. : SIMCO: Tampa (USA) - 1986
7. : SVIMCO: Viena (Austria) - 21st to 25th August 1989
8. : EIMCO: Maryland (EUA) - 9th to 14th August 1992
9. : NIMCO: Perpignan (France) - 3rd to 7th July 1995
10. : XIMCO: Plymouth (England) - 27th to 31st July 1998
11. : ELIMCO: Boston (USA) - 15th to 20th July 2001
12. : TWIMCO: Ravenna (Itália) - 11st to 16th July 2004

The last conference, in Ravenna, joint more than 200 researchers from very diverse places and during the meeting was decided that for the first time the event will be carried out in the Southern Hemisphere. The THIRIMCO will be hold in Recife Palace Hotel from 29th July to 2rd August 2007.

The web site of the event is on line for some months and can be visited using our permanent link or here.

The registration for the conference is open and the promocional registration fee will be until 1st May 2007. AT the same way the abstract model is also on-line on the event site.

Visit the site and hope see you all in Recife!