International Conference on Integrative: Approaches of Rodent Studies ( Archive )
The Institute of Applied Zoology and the Biology Department of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, in collaboration with the National Museum of Natural History of Paris, the Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases of Pasteur Institute of Iran and the Iranian Biology Society, are organizing the “International Conference on Integrative Approaches of Rodent Studies”. The conference will be held at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran on January 27-29, 2018. It will be an exciting opportunity for attendees to network and share knowledge on different aspects of research carried out on Rodents. The conference will include International plenary speakers, special sessions for oral presentations, poster sessions, training workshops and awards for the best oral and poster presentations. The official languages of the conference will be English and French.
Sessions
-Taxonomy and Phylogeny
Organizers: Drs. Violaine Nicolas-Colin, Christiane Denys, Boris Krystufek, Jamshid Darvish and Mansour Aliabadian
-Taxonomy and Phylogeny
Organizers: Drs. Violaine Nicolas-Colin, Christiane Denys, Boris Krystufek, Jamshid Darvish and Mansour Aliabadian
-Host and Parasites Interactions
Organizers: Drs. Jean-Pierre Hugot, Gholamreza Mowlavi, Gholamreza
-Epidemiology and Rodent-borne Diseases
Organizers: Drs. Aude Lalis, Ehsan Mostafavi
-Neogene and Quaternary Rodents
Organizers: Drs. Christiane Denys and Marjan Mashkour
-Pest Management
Organizers: Drs. Christiane Denys, Omid Mirshamsi
-Evolution and Ecology
Organizers: Drs. Julien Claude, Fereshteh Ghasemzadeh, Roohollah Siahsarvie and Faezeh Yazdani Moghadam
Training workshops
-Field Trapping Protocols and Sampling Methodologies of Rodents and Their Parasites (a post-conference two-day fieldwork)
-Integrative Identification of Rodents
-Geometric Morphometrics with R Program