The Australian Section of the IUSSI invites you to join us at the Union’s 17th Congress in Cairns, Australia. Cairns is a medium-sized, tropical city adjacent to the World Heritage listed Queensland Wet Tropics and Great Barrier Reef. The surrounding area is a naturalist’s paradise, replete with social insects of all kinds. Cairns enjoys direct air routes to Australian, New Zealand and Asian hubs, with onward connections to all parts of the world.

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The discussions at this workshop will focus on the molecular mechanisms of insect hormone and neuropeptide action.  This meeting is an updated version of the long-running International Ecdysone Workshop.  While ecdysone function will continue to be a central theme of the workshop, we will also consider how ecdysone signaling is integrated with juvenile hormone, insulin, and other neurohormone and peptide signals as they pertain to insect development, developmental behaviors, growth, reproduction and physiology.  We anticipate that this workshop will be of interest to developmental geneticists and cell biologists working on many model systems including, but not limited to, Drosophila, Tribolium, Bombyx, Manduca, Culicidae, and Blattaria.

http://www.cbs.umn.edu/gcd/insect-hormones-ecdysone-workshop