International Ragweed Society

Dear colleagues,

The International Ragweed Symposium, which should have been taken place in Vodice before the Neobiota congress, will be held on Monday, September 14th only by video.

Our French colleagues from the Ambrosia Observatory have accepted to host the organization of this virtual symposium. It will take place from 2.30 pm.

To follow the symposium, please click on the Youtube Live’s link.

Please find the agenda of the symposium here.

We  hope that many of you will take part in our event, sign of your interest in ambrosia.

For the reason of COVID 19, we decided that our IRS symposium will not be organized in VODICE (Croatia) but only online

To participate online, you must join the symposium 30 minutes before with the Microsoft teams link.

The links will be communicated one week before.

If you just want to see the symposium without asking questions, you can join the symposium with the Youtube Live link.

Before the General Assembly, eight oral presentations and one poster will be at the agenda.

Each presentation will be around 20 minutes long.

The following program can be modified in function of presenters : https://internationalragweedsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Communication-IRS-GE.pdf

The IRS will organize its General Assembly on September 14^th in Vodice, Croatia, just before the 11th International Conference on Biological Invasions (Neobotia 2020 : http://www.neobiota2020.biol.pmf.hr/ ).

On this occasion, a short symposium is organized which will deal with Ambrosia topics.

Both oral communication (20 minutes) and poster presentations are welcome.

If you are working on ragweed, you can apply to this call of abstracts to present your work to global Ambrosia experts.

Deadline for abstracts submission: August 1^st

Decision on abstracts: August 14^th

Free Registration (registration form)

See the call for abstract : https://internationalragweedsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/CALL-FOR-ABSTRACTS-V3.pdf

During the international conference EMAPI 2019 Prague, the French Ragweed Observatory interviewed some researchers about Ambrosia species in their country.

The third person interviewed is from Hungary : Zoltán Botta-Dukát D.Sc. From the Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Vácrátót