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VI-TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTHROPODS: CHEMICAL, PHYSIOLOGICAL, BIOTECHNOLOGICAL
AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS

Stefan Kopeć Memorial Conference

June 21-26, 2009,Ochotnica Dolna, Poland

Prof. Danuta Konopińskachair
e-mail: dk@wchuwr.pl
Faculty of Chemistry
University of Wrocław
Joliot-Curie 14
50-383 Wrocław, Poland
phone:+48 71 3757-250

fax:+48 328 23 48

Dr Mariola Kuczer  - secretary
e-mail: km@wchuwr.pl
Faculty of Chemistry
University of Wrocław
Joliot-Curie 14
50-383 Wrocław, Poland

phone:+48 71 3757-339

Scientific Committee:
D. Borovsky (USA),
A. De Loof (Belgium), G. Gäde (South Africa),  J. Giebultowicz (USA), G. Goldsworthy (UK), D. Konopińska* (Poland), A.B. Lange (Canada), P. Migula (Poland), R.J. Nachman (USA), J. Nawrot (Poland), R. Olszak (Poland), I. Orchard (Canada), G. Rosiński (Poland), F. Sehnal (Czech Republik), K. Slama (Czech Republik), E. Tęgowska (Poland),  Cz.  Wawrzeńczyk (Poland)  and D. Zitnan (Slovakia)
Local Organizing Committee:
D. Konopińska*, S. Ignatowicz, P. Migula, B. Leszczyński, J. Łukasiak, R. Olszak, A. Plech, G. Rosiński, M. Szczepanik, E. Tęgowska, C. Wawrzeńczyk


Plenary Speakers

Maciej Pszczołkowski (USA/Poland) - Stefan Kopeć Memorial Lecture
A new role for juvenile hormone: postcoital sexual selection


William G. Bendena (Canada)
Allatostatin-like receptors and their influence on behavior

Graham Goldsworthly (UK)
Sickness behaviour in insects

Matthias Lorenz (Germany)
 The role of adipokinetic hormones in the regulation of larval development and reproduction

Paweł Migula (Poland)
Biomarkers in Arthropods as early warning tools assessing the levels of pollution-induced stress

Yoonseong Park (USA)
 Evolutionary processes of the partnerships between neuropeptides and their receptors
        
Dick Van der Horst (Netherlands)
 Lipid transport in insects: lipoprotein assembly and function in an evolutionary perspective
Secretariat:
M. Kuczer*, A. Kluczyk,  K. Dziubasik

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