Dear friends and colleagues, I'd like to second Andrea Battisti's invitation to participate and submit symposium proposals for the next International Congress of Entomology in Helsinki, Finland, from 19-24 July 2020 (http://ice2020helsinki.fi/) This congress is definitely one of the highlights of the entomology conference calendar, and it takes place only every four years (the last one was in Florida in 2016). Several entomologists involved with IUFRO are coordinating congress sections. Andrea is part of the team coordinating "Forest Entomology and Urban Landscape" (Section 8). There is also a section on "Invasive Species and Regulatory Entomology" (Section 12), and various others. Please consider submitting a symposium proposal. Symposium presentations will be 15 minutes each (including time for questions), with the possibility of one 'double-presentation'/keynote talk of 30 minutes (including 10 minutes for questions and discussion). There will be eight presentations per symposium (or seven if a keynote talk is included). See https://ice2020helsinki.fi/call-for-symposia/ for more information. Submission of symposium proposals is via the on-line system at https://submit.peerageofscience.org/conference/ICE_2020 With your proposal please include a justification (why the chosen symposium topic is of interest, etc., (600 characters)), potential speakers and tentative titles, plans for symposium sponsorships, plans for publications or other outputs, etc., (3000 characters)). Note, that the deadline for submission of symposium proposals is 30 October 2018, so not too long to go. Ecki Brockerhoff (Coordinator, IUFRO Division 7 - Forest Health) on behalf the "Invasive Species and Regulatory Entomology" section conveners, Hervé Jactel (Herve.Jactel@inra.fr<mailto:Herve.Jactel@inra.fr>), Eckehard Brockerhoff (Eckehard.Brockerhoff@scionresearch.com<mailto:Eckehard.Brockerhoff@scionresearch.com>), Ian Pearse (ipearse@usgs.gov<mailto:ipearse@usgs.gov>), and Marc Kenis (m.kenis@cabi.org<mailto:m.kenis@cabi.org>) Or Andrea Battisti (Andrea.Battisti@unipd.it<mailto:Andrea.Battisti@unipd.it>), Nathan Havill, Dmitry Musolin, and Heli Viiri, conveners of the "Forest Entomology and Urban Landscape" section. Don't hesitate to contact us if we can be of any assistance. Eckehard Brockerhoff, PhD Principal Scientist Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute) PO Box 29237, Christchurch 8440, New Zealand DDI +64 3 363 0913 | Mobile +64 21 784 750 | Email eckehard.brockerhoff@scionresearch.com<mailto:eckehard.brockerhoff@scionresearch.com> This email and any attachments are intended solely for the addressees named above. It may contain information which is legally privileged, confidential or subject to copyright. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it. As part of Scion's cyber security policy, Scion's IT systems are subject to ongoing monitoring, activity logging and auditing, and may include 3rd party monitoring on our behalf.