Antalya 2010
Before ILS was born, our passion for football was already there! Just a few images remain of the Anyalia 2010 conference, a joint event of the 5th International Food Legumes Research Conference (IFLRC V) and the 7th European Conference on Grain Legumes (AEP VII).
IFLRC and APC 2025 announced!
We are happy to announce the 8th International Food Legume Research Conference (IFLRC) and the 5th Australian Pulse Conference (APC) call for abstract. The double conference will be held in September 2025 in Perth, Australia. Info below and on https://www.iflrc-apc2025.com/
Save the date for the upcoming ICLGG conference (Brisbane, AUS)
We are delighted to inform you that the upcoming 11th International Conference on Legume Genetics and Genomics (ICLGG) will be held in Brisbane, AUS, 30 Sept- 3 Oct 2024.
This conference will bring together up to 400 leading and emerging national and international researchers, educators and agri-food representatives in the field of legume genetics and genomics.
For more info: iclgg2024.org
How to become a member
Membership is automatic if you attend one of our conference, and it lasts three years. So, for example, if you attended ILS2 in 2016 you became a member until ILS3, in 2019. Then your membership expired and had to be renewed.
You can also become a member without attending our conferences. It’s enough to pay a membership fee of 50€ to the ILS bank account, IBAN ES87 0237 0172 2091 6858 6550. Click here for more details.
If you pay the fee don’t forget to notify our treasurer Diego Rubiales (diego.rubiales@ias.csic.es) and our webmaster Nelson Nazzicari (nelson.nazzicari@crea.gov.it)
Special issue for Legume Sciences
As announced in Granada, Legume Sciences is calling for contributions for a special issue titled “Advances in legume sciences: reflections of the International Legume Society conference 2023”. All ILS members can access to a 40% discount on this publication.
Please kindly check the special issue call for paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/26396181/homepage/call-for-papers/si-2023-000931
It is also listed on the journal’s call for paper summary page: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/26396181/homepage/call-for-papers
ILS Conference 5, Dubrovnik 2026
The official dates for the ILS5 conference are June 8-12, 2026 in beautiful Dubronvnik, Croatia. For more info:
https://ils5.info/
Some pictures from Dubrovnik:
Granada 2023
Event associated to the Fourth ILS conference. Here we have some stills from the traditional football competition
Executive Committee 2019-2023
Previous members of the executive committee.
- Paolo Annicchiarico, President, CREA, Lodi, Italy – paolo.annicchiarico@crea.gov.it
- Diego Rubiales, Treasurer and Past President, CSIC, Cordoba, Spain – diego.rubiales@ias.csic.es
- Kevin McPhee, Past President, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA – kevin.mcphee@montana.edu
- Maria Carlota Vaz Patto, Vice President, ITQB, Oeiras, Portugal – cpatto@itqb.uul.pt
- Tom Warkentin, Vice President, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada – tom. warkentin@usask.c
Scientific Committee 2019-2023
- Paolo Annicchiarico, CREA, Lodi, Italy – paolo.annicchiarico@crea.gov.it
- Alfonso Clemente, CSIC, Granada, Spain – alfonso.clemente@eez.csic.es
- Pedro Fevereiro, ITQB, Oeiras, Portugal – psalema@itqb.unl.pt
- Laurent Gentzbittel, ENSAT, Tolouse, France – gentz@ensat.fr
- Bernadette Julier, INRAE, Lusignan, France – bernadette.julier@inrae.fr
- Kevin McPhee, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA – kevin.mcphee@montana.edu
- Ramakrishnan Madhavan Nair, World Vegetable Center, South Asia/Central Asia, Hyderabad, Telangana, India – ramakrishnan.nair@worldveg.org
- Diego Rubiales, CSIC, Cordoba, Spain – diego.rubiales@ias.csic.es
- Chirstophe Salon, INRAE, Dijon, France – christophe.salon@inrae.fr
- Peter Smykal, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic – petr.smykal@upol.cz
- Fred Stoddard, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finalnd – frederick.stoddard@helsinki.fi
- Wojciech Święcicki, Institute of Plant Genetics, Poznan, Poland – wswi@igr.poznan.pl
- Maria Carlota Vaz Patto, ITQB, Oeiras, Portugal – cpatto@itqb.unl.pt
- Ping Wan, Beijing University of Agriculture, Beijing, China – pingwan3@163.com
- Tom Warkentin, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada – tom. warkentin@usask.ca
- Eric J. B. Von Wettberg, University of Vermont, Burlington, USA – eric.bishop-von-wettberg@uvm.edu