Meetings

Previous ISAP Congresses had achieved the role of gathering the people with knowledge & skills in the field of applied algal biotechnology and their potential in a commercial, remedial or regulatory context for a further development. The last 2017 Congress was to appreciate the huge phycological biodiversity and the diversity of its biotechnological applications through the prism of a new and promising industrial sector in full development.
Tribute to the past ISAP Congresses, the ISAP 2021 succeed to taking a role in bringing back a place where people who is working on applied algal biotechnology can gather. The 6 days Congress will include oral and poster presentations, exhibitions, post Congress tours, and B to B networking sessions, as well as young algae scientist /entrepreneur sessions .

Due to the current worldwide coronavirus crisis and the likely long-term effect on global travel in its aftermath, the local organisers of IDS 2020, in consultation with the ISDR Council, have decided to postpone the symposium, at least until 2021.

We apologise to those people who have already made travel arrangements or have successfully obtained travel funding, but hope you understand our decision.

The IDS 2020 website will remain accessible throughout this period and updates will be released from time to time. The ISDR Council will also release a statement on their new website in due course.

We sincerely hope that this crisis will end soon and everyone will remain healthy, and that we can meet each other in Yamagata in 2021.

Yours sincerely
Richard Jordan
Host of IDS 2020 & President of ISDR

The next Joint International Paleolimnological Association (IPA)-IAL meeting will take place in Bariloche, Argentina from 22nd to 25th March 2021 with registration open from the afternoon of Sunday 21st March. The conference venue will be the BEC (Bariloche Events and Conferences). The venue is in a fantastic location on the shores of Nahuel Huapi, a large glacial lake surrounded by the Andes Mountains.