The twelfth International Symposium on Insect-Plant Relationships (SIP) will take place in Berlin, Germany, from August 7 to 12, 2004.
For further information visit http://www.biologie.fu-berlin.de/SIP12-Berlin or contact us via e-mail: SIP12@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Deadline: March 31, 2004

Participants are invited to submit abstracts for oral or poster presentations until March 31, 2004. If you intend to submit an abstract, please exclusively use the internet abstract form. (http://abstract.interdv.de/index.php?kongress_id=19)

Abstracts submitted by fax, mail or e-mail are not accepted.

You are invited to submit your contribution to the symposium as a manuscript for the proceedings of SIP 12, which will be published as special issue of Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata (for submission please see below: «proceedings»).

Abstracts should be prepared in the standard form (title, author(s), institute(s), introduction, methods, results, discussion, corresponding author, 250 words maximum).

Please indicate together with the abstract the session to which your contribution belongs. You should also indicate whether you prefer to present:

• oral presentation, 15 minutes long (including 3-5 minutes for discussion)
• poster presentation; posters should be prepared to occupy a space not exceeding 90 by 120 cm (portrait)

• Sensory and Neural Physiology of Phytophagous Insects
• Behaviour and Ecophysiology of Phytophagous Insects
• Plant Responses Induced by Insect Attack
• Plants and Their Pollination by Insects
• Other

You will be informed about the acceptance of your contribution as oral/poster contribution at latest by May 31, 2004. Your abstract can only be accepted when you have registered for the symposium.

Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, and the editors of Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata have agreed to publish a selection of papers from the symposium as a special edition of the journal. The papers to be included will be subjected to the journal’s reviewing procedures and should be of a standard, which would warrant submission to the journal under normal conditions.

Invited keynote speakers will be allocated pages for a mini review. Presenters of short oral communications and posters are invited to submit manuscripts for full research papers. Preparation of manuscripts should follow the guidelines of Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata as set out in the instructions to authors (http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/submit.asp?ref=0013-8703&site=1).

Manuscripts for possible inclusion in the proceedings volume must be submitted in triplicate hardcopy and on (compact) diskette as Word document (doc) or RTF file with embedded tables and figures. If high resolution images are considered necessary for review, please save these files as GIF, JPEG, EPS or TIFF. If you are based at an institution in Asia, please be aware that standard fonts such as Times or Times New Roman for general text, and Symbol for Greek characters should be used. Please submit the manuscripts to:

SIP 12 conference bureau
Freie Universität Berlin
Institute of Biology
Applied Zoology / Animal Ecology
Haderslebener Str. 9
D-12163 Berlin, Germany

Authors may submit the manuscript prior or during the symposium. But please note the deadline:

Manuscripts must be submitted at latest by Sunday, August 8, 2004.