IPPS Admin

Location for 18th WCPP in 2026

We are asking the IPPS community to select the location of the 18th World Congress on Parasitic Plants, scheduled for 2026 to take place in Southern or Northern America. We have two outstanding candidate locations:

Ilha Bela, Brazil – organized by Gregorio Ceccantini (USP, Brazil), Domancar Orona-Tamayo (CIATEC, Mexico), and Francisco Fonturbel (PUVC, Chile).

San Diego, USA – organized as joint meeting of the International Parasitic Plant Society and the International Congress on Strigolactones at UC San Diego by Dave Nelson (UC Riverside, lead organizer), Siobhan Brady (UC Davis), Yanran Li (UC San Diego), Nitzan Shabek (UC Davis), and Neelima Sinha (UC Davis).

Please vote here for your favorite location until Friday, June 07 – 5:00 PM, Japan time:

Location for 18th WCPP