The website for the 22nd International Diatom Symposium to be held in Ghent (Belgium) from the 26-31st August 2012 is now available at http://www.vliz.be/events/ids2012. Note that registration will start on the 1st February 2012.

We are especially happy to announce the following confirmed invited speakers: Martyn Kelly (Bowburn Consultancy, UK), Peter Kroth (University of Konstanz, Germany), Isabelle Lavoie (INRS Eau Terre Environnement, Canada), Marina Montresor (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy), Nicole Poulsen (Dresden University of Technology, Germany), Jeroen Raes (VUB/VIB, Belgium), Rosa Trobajo (IRTA, Spain), Graham Underwood (University of Essex, UK) and Elie Verleyen (Ghent University, Belgium).

We hope to attract an equally diverse field of participants!

More detailed information will be available soon; updates to the website will be announced here and elsewhere (Diatom-L).