At each workshop, the Scientific Advisory Committee names the Karlson Lecturer, honoring their scientific achievement in the field of insect hormone research. The lecture is named after Peter Karlson (1918–2001), who was the first to purify and characterize ecdysone.
2025 LECTURER
RYUSUKE NIWA
UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA, JAPAN
PREVIOUS LECTURERS
2023 LECTURER
PIERRE LEOPOLD
INSTITUT CURIE, PARIS, FRANCE
2019 LECTURER
XAVIER BELLES
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona, Spain
2017 LECTURER
MAREK JINDRA
Institute of Entomology, Ceske Budejovice, Czech
Republic
2015 LECTURER
MICHAEL B. O’CONNOR
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
International Insect Hormone Workshop 