The Scientific Committee invites abstract submissions for the 38th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Chemical Ecology (ISCE 2023), being held from 23 – 27 July 2023 at Bengaluru, India.
To be considered for presentation at the congress, abstracts must be submitted online for review by 10 April 2023 and should follow strictly the guidelines below.
Preparing Your Abstract
Themes and Subthemes
All abstracts should have content suitable for submission under one of the Symposia listed below.
If you have been invited to speak at a specific Symposium, then you must choose that Symposium from the list immediately below.
- 01. Semiochemicals and Their Application in Insect Pest Management (Aijun Zhang, Jian Chen, Dong Cha)
- 02. Chemical Ecology of tephritid fruit flies (Alvin Hee)
- 03. Chemical Defences in Plant-Insect Interactions (Jyothilakshmi Vadassery)
- 04. Nematode chemical ecology in agroecosystems (Baldwyn Torto, Jessil Ann Pajar)
- 05. Bio-organic Chemistry: Synthesis, Methods, and Applications in Chemical Ecology (Radhika Venkatesan)
- 06. Chemical ecology of insects and their microbial symbionts (Shantanu P. Shukla, Radhika Venkatesan)
If you have NOT been specifically invited to speak at a symposium, please choose the particular Symposium that best describes your abstract from those below.
- 07. Multidisciplinary approach to pest management (Claire Dumenil)
- 08. Endosymbiont-driven host adaptations to changing climate and challenging environments (Vartika Mathur, Vinay Kumar)
- 09. Evolution and mechanisms of social signalling in social insects (Etya Amsalem, Nathan Derstine)
- 10. Cooperation and competition among microbes (Samay Pande, Krithi Nandimath)
- 11. Herbivory-induced plant volatiles in crop protection: exploiting scents for sustainability (Mary Clancy, Carla Arce)
- 12. Chemical and Molecular Ecology of Plant-Herbivore-Natural Enemy Interactions (Ricardo A. R. Machado)
- 13. Chemical Ecology of Venoms and Poisons (Kartik Sunagar)
- 14. . Chemical ecology of animal-microbiome interactions (Shantanu P. Shukla)
- 15. Consequences of plant domestication on plant metabolites and herbivore-natural enemy interactions (Betty Benrey, Cesar Rodriguez-Saona)
- 16. Chemical ecology of mutualisms
- 17. Chemical ecology of tritrophic interactions
- 18. Microbial chemical ecology
- 19. Chemical ecology of the soil and plant interface
- 20. Chemical ecology in agriculture
- 21. Anthropogenic impacts on chemical signals
- 22. Insect chemical ecology
- 23. Chemical ecology and pest control
- 24. Aquatic chemical ecology
- 25. Chemical ecology with human medical implications
- 26. Pheromones
- 27. Frontiers in techniques in chemical ecology
- 28. Intra-and-interspecific chemical communication of bark beetles as forest pest in global change (Anna Jirošová, Dineshkumar Kandasamy)
Language – Abstracts must be written in UK English
Originality – All abstracts must be original work.
Format of Abstract
- Title – The title of the abstract should be as brief as possible, with a maximum of 100 characters including blank spaces, preferably less.
- Body – the body of the abstract should be a maximum of 350 words (excluding the title) of plain text without any diagrams, charts, footnotes or references.
An abstract must be self-contained so that if published it will be complete, independent of presentation. The abstract should not contain statements alluding to results or conclusions not presented within the text.
Submitting Your Abstract
Abstracts must only be submitted online through the submission forms on the website: www.isce2023.org.
Online Submissions will be acknowledged by automatic e-mail to the presenting author.
A maximum of two abstracts will be accepted from a presenting author. If two abstracts are submitted, one must be for Poster-only (See Presentation Formats below)
The abstract should be submitted only by the Presenting Author.
Presenting Author
The presenting author is the one who will personally present the paper at the conference, at either an oral or poster session. The presenting author need not be the primary (first) author. All communication from the conference will be only with the presenting author. The presenting author’s contact details must be listed when submitting the abstract on-line.
The Congress Secretariat will communicate with the presenting author through the e-mail address entered in the online submission form. The presenting author should mark the secretariat’s email address as “Not a Spam Source” or equivalent in his/her email software.
After Submission
Opening and Closing Dates
The abstract submission system will open on 1 February 2023 and close on 10 April 2023 at 6.00 pm Indian Standard Time (GMT+ 5 hrs 30 mins). Submissions will not be accepted after the closing date/time. Abstracts may be edited or deleted/replaced online as often as desired up to the closing date/time.
Presentation Formats
Presentations based on the abstract will be in Oral or Poster format. When submitting an abstract online, presenting authors may request:
- “Oral or Poster as decided by Committee”
- or “Poster only”
The Scientific Committee retains the right to decide whether the abstract is more suited for Oral or Poster presentation.
Authors who have papers accepted for Oral presentations should prepare Microsoft Powerpoint slides. Mac users please convert to PowerPoint (https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT202220). Presenting authors, both Oral and Poster, will receive detailed instruction about congress computing facilities, requirements and appropriate guidelines prior to the congress. Oral presenters are limited to 15 minutes plus 5 minutes of audience questions.
Review and Acceptance of Submissions
At the close of abstract submissions, the abstracts will be distributed to reviewers for assessment and comment. Based on these reviews, the Scientific Program Committee will accept or reject the submissions and allocate accepted papers to an appropriate Qral or Poster session. Authors will be notified of the outcome of the review process by 30 April 2023
Registration of Presenting Authors
For a presentation based on the abstract to be included in the program, presenting authors must register for the Congress no later than 31 May 2023. If presenting authors are not registered by that date, the abstract will be deleted from the program and will not be published.
Substitute Presenters
Presenters who are unable to attend the Congress may nominate a substitute presenter, provided the substitute:
– is a co-author of the paper
– is registered to attend the congress
– will have a total of two or less total presentations (oral+poster) including all those for which he/she will be a substitute presenter.
Publication Rights
By submitting an abstract, the authors give the right to the Conference to publish the abstract.
Contact Information
In case of technical difficulties while submitting abstracts, please contact the conference organizers at secretariat@isce2023.org with the Subject: Abstracts in the email.
Summary of Important Dates
| 1 February 2023 | Abstract submission opens |
| 10 April 2023 | Abstract submission deadline / last day to make modifications to abstracts already submitted |
| 30 April 2023 | Acceptance/ rejection notifications will be sent to submitters |
| 31 May 2023 | Successful authors must complete their registration and confirm their willingness to present by paying their registration fee. |