News and Views
- Spring 2008 meeting to be held at Gregynog which is the University of Wales Residential and Day Conference Centre situated six miles north of Newtown in Mid Wales. It is surrounded by the beautiful Montgomeryshire countryside. This year's special symposium will focus on planktonic protists, covering subjects relevant to both marine and freshwater environments. Registration details, together with a call for paper and poster abstracts will be circulated shortly. As usual, we encourage papers and posters on any aspect of protozoology. For further information please contact the local organiser Dr Emily Roberts.
- We have recently changed our name to more accurately reflect the interests of our members, from the British Section of the Society of Protozoologists (BSSP) to the British Society for Protist Biology (BSPB). We are still affiliated with the International Society of Protistologists (ISOP).
- Professor Stephen Phillips retired as president of the BSPB at the Spring Meeting in Coventry this year and we are very grateful for all his work over the last 6 years as vice-president and president. We warmly welcome our new president Professor Tom Cavalier-Smith into his role and our new vice-president Professor Wendy Gibson into the committee once again.
- We had a very successful spring meeting at Coventry with thanks to local organisers Steve Coupe and Humphrey Smith. View meeting abstracts.
- As well as re-designing our website, we have also resurrected the newsletter to keep members informed of everything that is going on.
- For upcoming meetings including the 2007 Spring meeting, the annual meeting of the International Society of Protistologists and the V European Congress of Protistology please see the meetings section.
- Please donate any of your beautiful protist photos for us to put up here on the website. There is a prize for the best photo to be awarded at the Spring meeting 2007.
- Please don't hesitate to contact the committee if you have any questions or comments and especially if you have any announcements for the website.
- We are always keen to recruit new members to the society. Please complete our BSPB application form if you would like to join the BSPB.