| Division
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| Organizer
| Speakers
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| Plenary |
Diseases of Mass-Reared Insects for Sterile Insect Technique |
Adly Abdallah (IAEA),
Johannes A. Jehle (Julius Kühn Institute) |
- Rui Cardoso Pereira, Insect Pest Control Section, Joint FAO/IAEA Center, Austria: “The Sterile Insect Technique: its application and challenges”
- Erin Schuenzel, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA: “The application of culturing, DNA and RNA community sequencing in identifying and developing diagnostic assays for microbial pathogens in Anastrepha ludens mass-rearing facilities”
- Irene Meki, Animal Production and Health Section, Joint FAO/IAEA Centre, Austria: “Management of viruses in insect mass rearing facilities for the sterile insect technique: Glossina pallidipes salivary gland hypertrophy virus (GpSGHV) as an example”
- Sean Moore, Citrus Research International, South Africa: “Challenges and solutions to viral contamination in mass rearing of codling moth and false codling moth for the sterile insect technique”
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| Microsporidia |
Current and future Applications of Microsporidia Research |
Susan Bjornson |
- Jamie Bojko, National Horizons Centre, Teesside University, UK : “Microsporidian Taxonomy: Things to tie up”
- Courtney MacInnis & Stephen F. Pernal, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Beaverlodge, Canada: “Effects of Vairimorpha (Nosema) ceranae and Lotmaria passim infections on honey bee behaviour and physiology”
- Amjad Khalaf, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK: “Microsporidian Genome Polyploidy: Tales of polyploidy, rearrangements, and recombination”
- Tian Li, State Key Laboratory of Resource Insects, Southwest University, Chongqing, China: “The molecular mechanisms underlying the vertical transmission of Nosema bombycis in silkworms provide an opportunity for molecular breeding”
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| Viruses |
Endogenized Viruses |
Monique van Oers Salvador Herrero |
- Elisabeth Huguet, University of Tours, UFR, Insect Biology Research Institute, France: "Endogenized nudiviruses in parasitic wasps and their fate in caterpillar hosts"
- Julien Varaldi, Laboratory of Biometry and Evolutionary Biology, Lyon, France: "Filamentoviridae, an ancient family of DNA viruses that influence both the short- and long-term evolution in host-parasitoid systems"
- Mariangela Bonizzoni, University of Pavia, Italy “Endogenous Viral Elements in arboviral vectors: from discovery to functions”
- Clément Gilbert, CNRS-IRD-Université Paris Saclay, France: "The diversity and impact of endogenous viral elements in insects"
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| Diseases of Beneficial Insects |
Sex-distorting Parasites: pathological and ecological Consequences |
Jamie Bojko |
- Richard Cordaux, Institut Diversité Ecologie et Evolution du Vivant, IDEEV Université Paris-Saclay France: "Sex ratio distorters and the evolution of host sex determination mechanisms"
- Markus Riegler, Western Sydney University, Australia: "A tale of two endosymbionts that affect host fitness and sex allocation via egg-size provisioning in a haplodiploid insect species"
- April Blakeslee, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA: "Invasion of the body snatchers: the role of parasite introduction in host distribution and response to salinity in invaded estuaries"
- Jirka Petersen, Wageningen University & Research - WUR, The Netherlands: "Pathological dynamics of the sexually transmitted betanudivirus HzNV-1"
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| Nematodes |
Past, present and future of entomopathogenic Nematodes: 100 years of Research |
David Shapiro-Ilan
Ivan Hiltpold |
- Selcuk Hazir & David Shapiro-Ilan, Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Turkey: “Past, Present and Future of Xenorhabdus and Photorhabdus bacteria”
- Patricia Stock, California State University, Chico, USA: “How molecules and molecular tools have intertwined in in the discovery and life history of entomopathogenic nematodes”
- Dana Ment, Agricultural Research Institute ARO, Volcani Institute, Israel: "Bringing EPNs to higher levels – research for off-ground application”
- David Shapiro-Ilan, USDA, Fruit and Tree Nut Research, USA: “Advances in Formulation and Application Technology for Entomopathogenic Nematodes”
- Ivan Hiltpold, Agroscope, Switzerland: “EPN chemical ecology”
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| Fungi |
Fungal Interaction and Management of beneficial Insects |
Nemat Keyhani
Jae Su Kim |
- Charissa de Bekker, Utrecht University, The Netherlands: "Integrative investigations into the strategies of zombie-making Ophiocordyceps to manipulate carpenter ant behavior"
- Pablo Cruz-Morales, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby , Denmark: "A biosynthetic survey of entomopathogenic fungi"
- Ibtissem Ben Fekih, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liege, Gembloux, Belgium: "Entomopathogenic fungi and insect predators teaming up against aphids: Friend or foe?"
- Chengshu Wang, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China: “Isolation of a probiotic bacterium to protect silkworms against fungal parasites”
- Natalia González Mas, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain: “Interaction of endophytic Beauveria bassiana with predators and parasitoids for hemipteran pest control in horticulture”
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| Bacteria |
Physiology, Safety and Taxonomy of bacterial Pesticides |
Ben Raymond
Bill (William) Moar |
- Monika Ehling-Schulz, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria: ”Bacillus thuringiensis at the cross roads: Insights into enteropathogenicity of Bacillus cereus group”
- Leyla Slamti, French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE), Microbiologie de l'Alimentation au Service de la Santé Humaine (MICALIS): "Phenotypic heterogeneity during the infection cycle of Bacillus thuringiensis"
- Conceptción (Conchi) Novillo, Bayer Crop Science, Madrid, Spain: "Assessing insecticidal protein safety without HOSU or source organism"
- Annika Gillis, Université Catholique de Louvain Belgium, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: “Towards a consensus taxonomy of the Bacillus cereus group of bacteria in the sequencing era”
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| Microbial Control |
Microbial Marvels: Shaping the Future of Integrated Pest Management |
Chad Keyser |
- Eleanor Dearlove, ADAS Sustainable Agricultural Systems, Mansfield, UK: “Getting more for your money. Can we exploit interactions of microbial and chemical pesticides for increased pest control?”
- Edith Ladurner, CBC (Europe) - BIOGARD Division, Italy: “Testing Microbial Pest Control Products as components of IPM programs: considerations for appropriate trial design”
- Roma Gwynn, Biorationale, Edinburgh, UK: “Future position of Biocontrol in Integrated Pest Management”
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| Division
| Title
| Organizer
| Speakers
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Viruses
Diseases of Beneficial Insects Bacteria |
Diseases in Invertebrates for Feed and Food: Global Perspectives |
Vera Ros
Helen Hesketh
Christina Nielsen-LeRoux |
- Elisabeth Herniou, University of Tours, France: "Challenges of pathogens detection in insect mass rearing: Advances from the Insect Doctors program for improved diagnostic"
- Chrysanthus Mbi Tanga, ICIPE, Nairobi, Kenya: “Emerging threats to black soldier fly farming in Africa”
- Kelly S. Bateman, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), UK: “Diseases in shrimp aquaculture”
- Edouard Bessette, University of Exeter, UK: “Microsporidia and protist parasites in reared insect hosts”
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Nematodes
Microbial Control |
New under the Sun - Progress in Mass production and formulation of Microbials |
Dana Ment
Patricia Navarro
Chad Keyser |
- Enrique Quesada-Moraga, Universidad de Córdoba, Spain: “Worldwide microbial pest control agents or environmentally competent ones?"
- Omri Mayer, BioDalia Microbiological Technologies, Yokneam Illit, Israel: “Novel Bt product quest“
- Sean Moore, Citrus Research International, Mpumalanga, South Africa: “Virus production challenges and formulation“
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