IMMATURE BEETLES MEETING
is a 2-days international conference on morphology, taxonomy, and ecology of immature beetles. The conference takes place every 2 years at the Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. There are no conference fees at IBM. Both posters & talks are accepted. Conference abstracts are published in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae.
REGISTRATION OPEN FOR IMMATURE BEETLES MEETING 2025
Date: 2. – 3. October 2025
Please note the IBM place change: After 18 years, IBM moves to a new address! Kampus Hybernská, Hybernská 998/4, 110 00 Nové Město, Prague.
Registration from January 2025.
GENERAL INFORMATION ON IBM
The Immature Beetles Meeting was first organized in 2007, and aimed as a meeting to facilitate the discussions of students working on beetle immature stages with more experienced colleagues. Since then, it has been organized every second year, and became pretty international: 63 scientists from Europe, Asia, South America, and New Zealand participated in 2017, for example. The aim is still the same, i.e. to enable communication among people working on immature stages of the different beetle groups, and to get younger students and newbies in contact with more experienced colleagues, enthusiastic amateurs, etc.
Meeting fees:
- None!
PRESENTATIONS, POSTERS, ABSTRACTS
Oral presentation:
- Presentations are the main core of the meeting, hence we are encouraging most participants to prepare a short presentation showing the results of your research, preliminary results of your student project, or simply any interesting finding or piece of information you would like to share and discuss with others.
- Visitors without presentations are welcome as well, as they usually contribute largely to the discussions. Still, we will press all younger participants to take the active rather than passive role, at least until the programme of the meeting is filled in.
- Length of presentation: 5-20 minutes + 5-10 minutes of discussion.
- We leave the decision of the length of the presentation to you – if you would like just to show a small interesting finding you did, go for a shorter time, if you would like to present the results of your larger project, feel free to use 20 minutes.
Posters:
- Posters can be presented, and posters will be presented during coffee breaks. Please prepare your poster at any size up to A0 in the „portrait“ orientation.
Abstracts:
- Abstracts for both oral presentations and posters are required. Abstracts will be available to all participants during the meeting and will be subsequently published in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae in December 2023.
- How to prepare an abstract: Abstracts are supposed to be a short summary (ideally one or two paragraphs) summarizing the contents of your talk/poster. Figures are not expected to be part of the abstracts. See the abstracts of the last IBM meeting and follow the same formatting when preparing your abstract.