The ISH symposium at ESA

As most of you are aware the Society typically hosts a hymenopterist symposium every year at the Entomological Society of America annual meeting. This year is no different, of course, and we have an interesting line-up of engaged speakers:

• 1:30 - Welcoming remarks
• 1:35 - Benjamin Wipfler and Rolf G. Beutel - Innovative morphological methods and their contribution to the placement of Hymenoptera
• 1:55 - Andy Deans et al. - New tools for deploying the HAO
• 2:15 - John Heraty Ant lust - tales of their eucharitid parasitoids
• 2:35 - Sébastien Patiny Supermatrix - supertree analysis of the bee Hymenoptera) phylogeny
• 2:55 - Mike Sharkey HymAToL results
• 3:15 - Phylogeny Roundtable: Where do we go from here?
• 3:35 - Business meeting
• 4:35 - Foraging and pollination

The symposium will be held Sunday, November 13, 2011, 1:30-5:30 PM, in Room D9 of the Reno-Sparks Convention Center. Hopefully we can post an updated schedule soon that includes details about the business meeting (lots of good stuff, we promise!) See you then!

Hamuli vol. 2 issue 2 published!

Members should have received a link to the latest issue of Hamuli, the ISH newsletter. It's 28 chock-o-block pages of exciting, hymenopterist-relevant content. With its release the last issue now becomes available for anyone to download: http://hymenopterists.org/publications.php

On another note - we need a better system for reminding members to renew their membership. If you're curious as to whether you yourself are current check out this page - http://members.hymenopterists.org/
If your name is missing then you owe for 2011. We're working on a system (behind the scenes) that will help with email reminders. We're always looking for other ideas, though. Stay tuned!

Have an article for the next issue of our newsletter?

Have content for the next issue of Hamuli? The deadline for the July issue is June 30th! Instructions for submission are printed on the back of the last issue:

Have an article, note, opinion piece, news item, story, photo, poem, joke, or other item you’d like to publish in Hamuli? Current members of the International Society of Hymenopterists are welcome to submit materials for publication at no cost. Just send your text to the editor (adeans@gmail.com) as .rtf or .doc files, and please send include images as separate .jpg or .tif files (i.e., not embedded in the word processing file). Make sure images are of a reasonable resolution: larger than 500 x 375 pixels, with a resolution of 72 pixels per inch (or 28 pixels per cm).

Not a member of ISH? No problem! You can use the form below to become a member, or you can visit our website (http://hymenopterists.org) to join / pay dues electronically.

Don’t want to become a member, but you still want to publish in Hamuli? Or perhaps you want to advertise in Hamuli? Still not a problem! Just send an email to the editor (adeans@gmail.com) for an estimate.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Curator of Hymenoptera position available

Curator of Hymenoptera

The Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn seeks to fill a new research position in the Department of Arthropods. The position is available immediately. Potential candidates will hold a PhD in zoology or related areas, have their research focus preferably on systematics of parasitic Hymenoptera, and present a substantial publication record in taxonomy, phylogenetics and other biosystematic disciplines. The candidate is expected to work in these fields from a sound theoretical basis and be able to apply an array of appropriate modern methods. He/she should be able to combine collection-based work with modern phylogenetic and/or ecological approaches. The candidate is also expected to integrate into ongoing research projects at the ZFMK and teaching programs at the University of Bonn, and to obtain competitive grant funds.

As a curator, the successful candidate will be responsible for caring, managing and further increasing and developing the Hymenoptera collections at the ZFMK. He/she will also be involved in the self-administration of the institute and is expected to demonstrate commitment to community engagement in his/her field of research.

The successful candidate will be employed for an initial period of five years, after which he/she will obtain tenure depending on his/her performance. Salary corresponds to grade TV-L/13 in the German Public Service scheme.

The ZFMK is a fellow institute of the “Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz” (WGL Science Community) and works in close cooperation with the University of Bonn. It comprises internationally important scientific collections, libraries, electron microscopy unit, and bioacoustic, histological and molecular laboratories.

Interested applicants should submit a CV, complete publication record, a statement of teaching experience and research funding, certificates of university degrees, and selected publications in hard copies to the following address:
Heike Lenz
Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig
Adenauerallee 160
D-53113 Bonn, Germany

E-mail inquiries: <h.lenz.zfmk@uni-bonn.de >

applications due: April 15 2011

We have a new president elect!

Dear Colleagues,

99 ballots were received in the recent ISH election for President-Elect.

All three candidates received very strong support. As one of you mentioned, with three candidates of this caliber, we couldn't lose.

But John Heraty had a substantial margin, and he is the next President-Elect of ISH. Congratulations, John! John will take over from President MIke Sharkey at the end of 2012.

Our thanks to all of you that voted, and best wishes to you all,

Jim Woolley

Proctos newsletter now available

Thanks to Michael Elliott at the Australia Museum we now have several issues of Proctos, the proctotrupoid newsletter, scanned as PDFs and available for your perusal. Based on the volume/issue numbers we have I suspect we're missing a few. As far as I can tell, Proctos isn't available on the Web anywhere. Do you know where we can find any missing issues? (see also the ISH publications page)

• volume 1, issue 1 (PDF)
• volume 1, issue 2 (PDF)
• volume 2, issue 1 (missing?)
• volume 2, issue 2 (PDF)
• volume 3, issue 1 (PDF)
• others?

Update: We got a copy of volume 2, issue 1, so now the question is - are there any issues after volume 3, issue 1?

Hamuli volume 2, issue 1 published

The next iteration of the ISH newsletter, Hamuli, was published today - a beefy 35 pages worth of articles, photos, and miscellanea. If you were a member last year you should have gotten the link as an email from the secretary (me!). This issue will be available to members only until August, 2011, and future issues will open for members in good standing to publish free of charge. Membership has its privileges! Why not join or renew today? There are multiple ways to join or renew membership in the International Society of Hymenopterists:

• electronically via Paypal
• old skool way, by check (with the membership form PDF)