Annual IFA Conference and Annual Fire Ant CoP Member Meeting
Meeting Announcement
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The 2012 Annual Imported Fire Ant Conference will be held April 16-19, 2012 in Nashville, Tennessee. The Conference hotel and meeting site is the Holiday Inn Express Nashville Downtown. Meeting arrival is April 16th with an evening reception from 6 to 8 pm. Conference presentations will be given on April 17-18 with April 19 reserved as a workday for the eXtension Imported Fire Ant Community of Practice.
The Imported Fire Ant Conference provides a great opportunity for research scientists, students, Extension specialists, and industry representatives to interact and exchange ideas and research findings.
For the 2012 Conference, we have organized a special morning session on other invasive ant threats, which will include guest presentations by Dr. Pat Zungoli (Clemson University), Dr. Karen Vail (University of Tennessee), and Dr. David Oi (USDA-ARS Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology). The morning session will be followed by contributed presentations and posters on imported fire ant and other invasive ants.
We expect this to be a very informative, exciting, and interesting meeting on imported fire ants and other invasive ant issues.
Meeting Registration and Presentation Submission
To register for the Conference, please go to: Registration
(Deadline for registration is March 10, 2012)-
To submit an oral or poster presentation, please go to: Presentation Submission
(Deadline for presentation submission is February 29, 2012)
Hotel Reservations
To make your room reservations by phone, please call the Holiday Inn Express Nashville Downtown at 615-244-0150. The cut-off date for reserving your room to receive the group rate of $107 per night per room (plus 15.25% sales tax and $2.50 city tax) is March 25, 2012. Please provide the group name, Imported Fire Ant Group block when making your reservations. Hotel check in time is 3 p.m. CST and check out time is 11 a.m. CST.
To make your room reservations online, please visit the Imported Fire Ant Group page. The group code IFA and the conference rate of $107 per night (+ tax) are already set up on the registration page.
Hotel Parking
Parking is $10 per day for meeting attendees. Indicate you are with the Imported Fire Ant Group at the hotel registration desk to receive the discounted parking tag.
Other Hotel Amenities
Wireless internet is complimentary throughout the hotel including all meeting rooms. A complimentary continental breakfast is served weekdays from 6:30 - 9:30 a.m.CST. The hotel also has a free 24-hour fitness center. More information about the hotel can be found at the Holiday Inn Express Nashville Downtown website.
Ground Transportation
The Holiday Inn Express is located 8 miles from the Nashville International Airport. Gray Line Airport Express (615-883-5555) provides service to the Holiday Inn Express every 30 minutes. If you choose Gray Line, indicate you are with the Imported Fire Ant Group to receive a $20 roundtrip / $16 one-way discounted group rate. More information on shuttle services can be found at Airport Shuttle.
Nashville Activities and Attractions
The Conference hotel site is a convenient walking distance (6-8 blocks) from downtown Nashville, where there are many dining and entertainment venues. Click on the links to open printable maps to Downtown Nashville restaurants, Downtown-Vanderbilt restaurants and Downtown Nashville entertainment venues.
The Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau website has comprehensive information on things to do in Nashville, the city’s history, coming attractions, current events and dining. The hotel provides free shuttle service to and from the downtown Nashville area.
Nashville is well known for country music, which has earned it the nickname of “Music City.” As such, there are numerous shops, museums, restaurants, and honky-tonks that center on the country music theme. Nashville is also home to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the Parthenon, the Nashville Zoo at Grassmere, the Frist Center for Visual Arts (across the street from the meeting hotel), The Hermitage, the Grand Ole Opry, the Ryman Auditorium and a host of other museums and attractions. Nashville has something for everyone.
The Local Arrangements Committee is looking forward to seeing you in Nashville for the 2012 Imported Fire Ant Conference.
Contacts:
Hotel
Holiday Inn Express Nashville Downtown
920 Broadway
Nashville, TN 37203
IFA Group Registration
Questions about the Conference
Jason Oliver, (Local Arrangements Chair)
Office phone: 931-668-3572
Alternate Contact:
Holly Hodges, phone 931-815-5140
Past meeting information
Proceedings
The Imported Fire Ant Conference Proceedings have been issued annually since 1984. The link below contains copies of Proceedings from 1984 through 2010.
The citations from the Proceedings from 1984-2001 are provided in a bibliography developed under the direction of Dr. S. Bradleigh Vinson. An index to the numbered citations is also provided to allow users to search for papers on specific topics.
- Bibliography of Imported Fire Ant Conference Proceedings (1984-2001)
- Subject Area Index for Imported Fire Ant Conference Proceedings (1984-2001)
Artwork
- Program cover artwork
- T-shirt artwork (See larger versions of images at BugMugs.org)
