ISBE 2010
26 September - 1 October 2010
Message from the Organising Committee
September 2010 is fast approaching and Perth, Western Australia is the place you will want to be!
Perth has a strong and active community of biologists engaged in Behavioral Ecology research. The Centre for Evolutionary Biology at the University of Western Australia, hosts over 25 faculty and research students. The Perth Organising Committee is preparing a stimulating programme with a difference, and the meeting will be memorable for both its social and scientific content.
The Perth Convention Exhibition Centre has been confirmed as the venue for the Congress. The Centre is purpose built and located in the heart of the city. With the Centre’s advanced technical facilities and communications infrastructure as well as first class catering and service, it meets all the requirements needed for an enjoyable and productive working environment.
Western Australia is adored for its brilliant blue skies, warm sunny climate and white sandy beaches. It is a land blessed with some of the world's most precious natural phenomena including the dolphins of Monkey Mia within the World Heritage Area of Shark Bay, the 350-million-year-old Bungle Bungle range, and the towering Karri forests of the South West.
The South West of Western Australia is one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. Our meeting is to be held in spring, at the peak of the wildflower season and coinciding with the King’s Park wildflower festival. Our logo depicts Mangle’s Kangaroo Paw, the State’s flower emblem, and host to an endemic pollen feeding bushcricket that has been used as a model system in behavioral ecology research. Both species will be at the peak of their reproductive seasons during the congress, providing the opportunity to view these biological systems at first hand in the city’s bushland reserve of King’s Park. For more adventurous delegates, there are countless other outstanding biological systems in the wider environs of Western Australia.
Perth, the capital city of the State, is home to 1.38 million people and enjoys more hours of sunshine than any other capital city in Australia. Sophisticated yet uncomplicated, the lifestyle in Western Australia is a relaxed one. Perth offers visitors a variety of multi-cultural restaurants, cafes, bars and nightclubs. Free time can be spent shopping, cruising on the Swan River, relaxing on a secluded beach, sampling some of the world’s finest wines, or playing a round of golf on one of Perth's many courses.
You will be glad you came to Perth, the most isolated city in the world and Australia’s safest and sunniest.
We look forward to welcoming you and your families to Perth in September 2010 for what promises to be an exciting International Congress with a difference!
The Organising Committee
Leigh Simmons (Chairman)
Dale Roberts
Jonathan Evans
Joseph Tomkins
Jason Kennington
Boris Baer
Paco Garcia-Gonzalez
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