Last Meeting: 1 November 2011.
Aims: Insect immunity receives currently interest from a diversity of research perspectives such as molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology and medical entomology to ecology, evolution and behaviour. This multitude of different approaches promises a wealth of insight, however, the different disciplines collaborate too rarely. Interdisciplinary research and crosstalk will facilitate even more insight into the question in which we are all interested: how insects interact with their pathogens and parasites. Facilitating and fostering such interdisciplinary exchange is the aim of this special interest group which was launched in Edinburgh in July 2007.
Convenors:
Jens Rolff
Animal and Plant Sciences
University of Sheffield
S10 2TN Sheffield, UK
email: jor@sheffield.ac.uk
Petros Ligoxygakis
Genes & Development Laboratory
Department of Biochemistry
University of Oxford
Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK
email: petros.ligoxygakis@bioch.ox.ac.uk
