International Congresses of Dipterology

Welcome to the homepage of the International Congresses of Dipterology (ICD). These Congresses are held every four years in a different location as a means of enhancing communication among dipterists on an international scale.

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2010 International Congress of Dipterology

[The following was mostly extracted from a report published by Manuel Zumbado in Fly Times 40: 10-11, 2008.]

The 7th International Congress of Dipterology will be held in San José, Costa Rica, from Sunday August 8th to Friday August 13th, 2010. The Chair of Organizing Committee is Manuel Zumbado, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio) (e-mail: mzumbado@inbio.ac.cr).

The venue for ICD7 is the Hotel Ramada Plaza Herradura. It is nestled in the heart of the central valley, amid a breathtaking backdrop of lush green meadows and surrounded by beautiful mountains, five miles away from the Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO), and a short driving distance from San Jose, the capital city of Costa Rica. The hotel has 232 rooms, 4 restaurants, a cafeteria, and an extensive conference center, and there are several other large hotels in the immediate neighborhood. The conference center has already been reserved for our use, with 150 rooms earmarked for conference delegates, at prices estimated to be less than $100 per day per double.

At 1188 sq. m (13,200 sq. ft), the main salon of the conference center is large enough to seat 1000 at a banquet or lecture. It can be divided into 5 smaller rooms – the central space, at 577 sq. m (6400 sq. ft), suitable for plenary sessions, and four smaller lecture rooms, separated by dividers, each with 138 sq. m (1500 sq. ft) for individual sessions. Nearby are three more lecture rooms, each with 76.5 sq. m (850 sq. ft), as well as 9 additional rooms, from 50 to 400 sq. m, distributed in other parts of the hotel. Two lobbies are located at either end of the center; the entrance will be suitable for poster presentation while the other, larger, lobby, with central garden and adjacent kitchen, is large enough to accommodate all the delegates for lunch as well as for coffee breaks.

Invitations to be on the Organizing Committee were sent, and the following dipterists enthusiastically accepted: Dalton de Souza Amorim (Brazil), Stephen Gaimari (USA), Sergio Ibanez-Bernal (Mexico), Maria Angeles Marcos-Garcia (Spain), Jeff Skevington (Canada), Gustavo Spinelli (Argentina), Brian Wiegmann (USA), and Chris Borkent (Canada). Adrian Pont (England) will represent the Council for International Congresses of Dipterology (CICD).

The theme of the meeting will be Neotropical Biodiversity. Registration will take place Sunday afternoon and evening, August 8, followed by an Opening Reception in the evening. On Monday the Opening Plenary Address will be followed by formal sessions. Monday evening will be reserved for posters and commercial sponsors, while Tuesday may be reserved for a BioBlitz in INBioparque. The banquet will be held Wednesday evening and the closing Farewell party Friday evening.

At least one post-congress field trip is planned; the Monteverde Biological Station has been reserved for the second half of August. A specialized tour operator will help participants arrange collecting trips, reservations and transportation to multiples destinations in Costa Rica. Collecting and Export permits are required for sampling in Costa Rica and can be obtained through INBio at a reasonable charge. Lab space for those interested in studying the INBio collection will be available on a limited basis and reservation is required. A website being developed will include online registration, information on Costa Rica and INBio, the conference center, hotels and rates, collecting requirements, etc.

We will do our best to organize a great congress and look forward to seeing you in San José in 2010!

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2006 International Congress of Dipterology

The 6th International Congress of Dipterology was held at the Fukuoka International Congress Center, Fukuoka, Japan, 23-28 September 2006. The "Program and Delegate List" and "Abstracts Volume" from the Congress are available for download below through the courtesy of the Organizing Committee of ICD6. These publications were not originally intended for electronic dissemination on this website.

The print version of the "Program and Delegate List" includes 42 numbered pages plus a cover page and an acknowledgements page. The PDF version offered here is the same as the print version for the first 28 pages (i.e., cover page, acknowledgements page, and pages 1-28), except that the pages are unnumbered. The Delegate List, comprising pages 29-42 in the print version, has been altered in the PDF version by the deletion of e-mail addresses. The Delegate List in the PDF version comprises pages 29-40.

View the PDF of the Program and Delegate List (1.3MB)

The print and PDF versions of the "Abstracts Volume" are almost identical, and both have numbered pages. The print version has a cover page, three unnumbered pages, and 354 numbered pages. The PDF version is the same up to page 336. The Index of Authors and Index of Key Words, comprising pages 337-354 in the print version, occupies pages 337-355 in the PDF version. The Indexes may cause an error message when viewed, which can be cancelled without closing the document.

View the PDF of the Abstracts Volume (4.6MB)

 

Locations of Previous Congresses

  • 6th International Congress of Dipterology
    23-28 September 2006
    Fukuoka International Congress Center, Fukuoka, Japan
    Chair of Organizing Committee: Junichi Yukawa
  • 5th International Congress of Dipterology
    29 September - 4 October, 2002
    University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
    Chair of Organizing Committee: David K. Yeates
  • 4th International Congress of Dipterology
    6-13 September 1998
    Keble College, Oxford, United Kingdom
    Chair of Organizing Committee: David de C. Henshaw
  • 3th International Congress of Dipterology
    15-19 August 1994
    University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
    Chair of Organizing Committee: Steve A Marshall
  • 2nd International Congress of Dipterology
    27 August - 1 September 1990
    Comenius University, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
    Chair of Organizing Committee: Rudolf Rozkosny
  • 1st International Congress of Dipterology
    17-24 August 1986
    Budapest, Hungary
    Chair of Organizing Committee: Tibor Jermy

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the North American Dipterists Society for hosting these web pages on behalf of the International Congresses of Dipterology. There is no formal affiliation between the two organizations.
 

First published on the Internet in June 2003
Last update: 11 January 2009
J.E. O'Hara