Scientific Program
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM APHIDOPHAGA 16
Monday 8th September
3:00-4:30 PM – Registration
4:30-5:30 PM – Opening remarks
5:30-7:30 PM – Welcome cocktail
Tuesday 9th September
8:30 AM – Registration
9:00 AM – Introduction and welcome address
9:10-9:50 AM – Keynote by Alberto Urbaneja García: “Advancements in plant-aphid interactions: exploring the role of induced defense signals for enhanced resistance”
Scientific session: Landscape studies
9:50-10:10 AM – Mengxiao Sun: “Abundance of aphid natural enemies on flowering service plants is associated with aphid prey and floral resources”
10:10-10:30 AM – Shuangshuang Jia: “Effects of woody and herbaceous habitat on aphids and natural enemies during aphid population buildup, peak, and decline in cotton”
10:30-10:50 AM – Blas Lavandero Icaza: “Landscape complexity modulates the effects of local management on two aphid pest and their natural enemies”
10:50-11:20 AM – Coffee break
11:20-12:00 AM – Keynote by Jen White: “Aphidophagous communities respond to intraspecific variation in aphid defense”
12:00-12:20 PM – Jessica Fraser: “Effects of sweet alyssum strips on aphid populations and their natural enemies in conventional field lettuce production”
12:20-12:40 PM – Mary Gardiner: “Does greening vacant land influence recruitment of native and alien Coccinellidae?”
12:40-1:00 PM – Xavier Pons: “Influence of local and landscape characteristics on the alfalfa aphids and their main natural enemies: the spring season”
1:00-2:30 PM – Lunch
2:30-3:10 PM – Keynote by Kristopher Giles: “Disruption of biocontrol based IPM cereal systems in the US”
Scientific session: Aphidophaga in IPM 1
3:10-3:30 PM – Francesco Lunardelli: “Essential oils: a lucky double-edged sword for aphids and hoverflies”
3:30-3:50 PM – Léa Poirier: “Biocontrol or bio-oops: Lethal and sublethal effects of surfactin on crop pest and crop auxiliaries”
3:50-4:10 PM – Roberto Rosamilia: “Trophic transfer of fipronil and its effects on Cucurbita pepo, Aphis gossypii, and the parasitoid Aphidius colemani”
4:10-4:40 PM – Coffee Break
4:40-5:00 PM – Mohammed Alabbasi: “Unlocking the bioprotection potential of wool”
5:00-5:20 PM – Mst Atikunnaher: “Integrated pest management of willow carrot aphids (Cavariella aegopodii)”
5:20-5:40 PM – Eleonora Fabris: “Chemical alarm signalling in Dysaphis plantaginea: characterization and ecological implications”
6:30-8:00 PM – Bologna City Tour
Wednesday 10th September
Free morning
2:00 -11:30 PM – Excursion and social dinner
Thursday 11th September
9:00-9:40 AM – Keynote by Megha N. Parajulee “Aphidophagy in cotton agroecosystems: Cropping system diversification and conservation biological control for cotton aphid population suppression”
Scientific session: Aphidophaga in IPM 2
9:40-10:00 AM – Shuangshuang Jia: “Intercropping cotton with wheat or maize enhances biological pest control in cotton”
10:00-10:20 AM – Kay Moisan: “Combining macrobial and microbial biological agents to control aphids in integrated pest management strategies”
10:20-10:40 AM – Wopke van der Werf: “Ladybeetle dispersal from adjacent wheat or maize fields into cotton enhances biological control of cotton aphid”
10:40-11:00 AM – Nina Haas: “Preliminary results of inundative release of beneficial insects in apple orchard”
11:00-11:30 AM – Coffee break
11:30-12:10 PM – Keynote by J.P. Michaud “Reciprocal synergism between plant resistance traits and biological control of aphids on annual crops”
12:10-12:30 PM – Kalliopi Arkoumanea: “Successful integration of macrobial and microbial biological control agents against the cannabis aphid, Phorodon cannabis”
12:30-12:50 PM – Oldřich Nedvěd: “Specialist versus generalist predators”
12:50 – 2:30 PM – Lunch
2:30-3:10 PM – Keynote by Maria Angeles Marcos García “Hoverflies as key players in integrated aphid control”
Scientific session: Coccinellids
3:10-3:30 PM – John Slogget “Habitat preference and intraguild predation of the 5-spot ladybird, Coccinella quinquepunctata”
3:30-3:50 PM – J.P. Michaud: “Modelling the evolution of cannibalism in Coccinellidae with life tables”
3:50-4:10 PM – Oldřich Nedvěd: “Quantification of toxicity of Harmonia axyridis”
4:10-4:40 PM – Coffee break
4:40-5:00 PM – Audrey A. Grez: “Spatio-temporal variability of aphidophagous coccinellid communities and aphids in agricultural landscapes”
5:00-5:20 PM – Rik Lardinois: “Sequestration of prey chemicals for defence by ladybird beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)”
5:20-5:40 PM – Naoya Osawa: “Bet-hedging and context-dependent maternal resource allocation via unhatched smaller eggs in the ladybird beetle Harmonia axyridis”
5:40-6:00 PM – Anaïs Sion: “Sexual communication in coccinellids: mechanisms, triggers, and evolutionary conservation”
Friday 12th September
9:00-9:40 AM – Keynote by Gerben Messelink: “Preventive strategies for biological control of aphids in greenhouse crops”
Scientific session: IPM of Aphidophaga 2
9:40-10:00 AM – Long Yang: “Ecologically based management of cotton aphid in china”
10:00-10:20 AM – Ainara Peñalver-Cruz: “Resource availability in apple orchards: Key for understanding parasitoid-pest interactions”
10:20-10:50 AM – Coffee break
Scientific session: Aphidophaga parasitoids
10:50-11:10 AM – Nickolas Kavallieratos: “The role of lateralization in the successful copulation of Praon volucre”
11:10-11:30 AM – Sabrina Celis: “Impact of the hyperparasitoid Alloxysta brevis on Aphelinus certus, a natural enemy of the soybean aphid”
11:30-11:50 AM – Kelley Tilmon: “A Historical consideration of the aphid parasitoid work of Maud Doria Haviland”
11:50-12:10 AM – Nina Vázquez: “Further development of sampling plans for aphid natural enemies in grain sorghum”
12:10-12:30 PM – Concluding remarks
12:40-1:00 PM – Closure and farewell
From 1:00 PM – Light Lunch