The International Organization for Biological Control of Noxious Animals and Plants (IOBC - www.iobc-global.org) is represented in Latin America by the Neotropical Section (NTRS). The NTRS/IOBC was proposed after a series of discussions initiated during the First Round Table for Biological Control organized by Mario Vaughan (FAO), in Santiago, Chile, in 1984. As a result of the propositions from this initial discussion, Jack Coulson (IOBC-Global President) and Jean-Paul Aeschlimann (IOBC-Global Secretary) initiated contacts with biological control specialists in 1988 for the establishment of the Neotropical Regional Section (NTRS). The NTRS was officially formed in 1989 during the 2nd Round Table for Biological Control, held in Tucumán, Argentina.


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9th Molecular Insect Science Conference
Bridging Borders in Insect Molecular Research 27-29 April 2026 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
BIOSUMMIT 2026
Nos dias 06 e 07 de maio de 2026, o BioSummit reúne em Campinas – SP os principais especialistas, produtores, pesquisadores e empresas para discutir o que realmente importa: como produzir mais, cuidando do solo, das pessoas e do planeta.
SLCB 2026
Simposio Latinoamericano de Control Biológico se realizará entre los días 20 y 22 de mayo de 2026 en la ciudad de Guayaquil, Ecuador y es organizado por IOBC-NTRS y la Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral en Ecuador, ESPOL-Ecuador.
3LatAmCB
El Simposio Latinoamericano de Control Biológico nace en Chile en el año 2019, donde se llevo a cabo la primera versión organizada por IOBC-NTRS en conjunto con el Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias INIA-Chile.
ISBCW 2026
XVII International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds, 8 - 13 March 2026 - Rotorua, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Medtrop 2026
61º Congresso da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical que será realizado no Centro de Convenções Ulysses Guimarães em Brasília, de 16 a 19 de agosto de 2026.
XXX CBE
A Sociedade Entomológica do Brasil (SEB) promove, de 19 a 23 de novembro de 2026, no Recife Expo Center, em Recife – PE, o XXX Congresso Brasileiro de Entomologia.

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