The 2024 annual meeting of the International Pest Risk Research Group will be held in the beautiful city of Malaga, Spain, in association with the Spanish National Research Council and University of Malaga . The meeting will take place at the Institute for Subtropical and Mediterranean Horticulture (IHSM-UMA-CSIC), from 17th to 20th September 2024. We'd love for you to join us! Online abstract submission is open and has been extended to 31 July 2024.
The IPRRG webinar series continues! Anyone can attend one of our webinars by following the webcast link on the "IPRRG Webinar Series" page. Recordings are also available afterward via IPRRG's YouTube channel. ** Interested in presenting? contact one of the Executive Committee officers! **
A new Group project, known by the nickname "Project X", emerged from the IPRRG 2018 meeting in Taichung, Taiwan. The project is intended to focus the skills and talents of IPRRG on a pressing global issue. A full prospectus for the project is available on the Project X page.
Dear IPRRG members, All of us have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools, offices, restaurants and public spaces are closed in many countries, and large social gatherings have been discouraged, if not banned. There are restrictions on both international and domestic travel. In some parts of the world, residents have been ordered to stay […]
The BBC recently posted an interesting article on the clever glass box that “reshaped the world”. The Wardian box was developed by Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, a doctor from London’s East End in the 1830’s. It allowed plants to be transported live across the seas. Previously, 90% of plants transported by ship died. Using the Wardian […]
The Annals of the Entomological Society of America has just published a special collection of papers on geospatial analysis of invasive insects. This collection is of relevance to IPRRG, with more than half of the papers featuring IPRRG members! The special issue, published by Oxford University Press can be found here. N.B. these papers are […]
Please see the announcement below about a Panel on Challenges in Pest Risk Assessment, which will take place at the 60th Anniversary Scientific Session of the Institute of Plant Protection-National Research Institute in February 2020 in Poznań, Poland. The Panel is being organized in cooperation with IPRRG. The announcement includes a link to register for […]
Announcing this year’s award winners Left to right: Robbert van der Dool (Best Poster), Shan-Guan Syu (Best Student Presentation), Andrew Robinson (Best Presentation), and Darren Kriticos (Chair).