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Monday, April 13, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 09:15 - 09:45 | Workshop introduction - Mathieu Gautier, Josefa González & Thomas Flatt | |
| 09:45 - 11:00 | DrosEU working groups - Phenotyping - Thomas Flatt, Nico Posnien | (+) |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | › Population Genomics and Local Adaptation of European Drosophila Melanogaster Populations - Siddharth Murali, Georg-August-University of Göttingen = Georg-August-Universität Göttingen | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | › Local and regional variation in parasitoid resistance and cellular immunity of Drosophila melanogaster across Europe. - Vincent Montbel, Institute of Entomology [České Budějovice], University of South Bohemia [České Budějovice, Czechia] | |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | › Heat-induced fertility loss in males of the DrosEU Phenotyping Panel - JULIAN MENSCH, Universidad de Buenos Aires | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | › Evolution and Plasticity of Testis Colour in Drosophila: Comparative Patterns, Environmental Drivers, and Genetic Mapping using DPP lines - Bahar Patlar, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg - Martin-Luther-University Halle Wittenberg | |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | › The genetic regulation of phenotypic variance across the Drosophila G-P map - Luisa Pallares, Max-Planck-Institut fur Biologie = Max Planck Institute for Biology [Tübingen] | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | DrosEU members Short talks | (+) |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | › Interactions between ecology and sexual conflict across european D. melanogaster populations - R. Axel W. Wiberg, Stockholm University | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | › Divergence of Ejaculate Female Interactions Across Populations of Drosophila melanogaster - Emma Whittington, School of Biology [University of St Andrews] | |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | › Seasonal wing size variation in three Drosophila species in the tropics - Anna Antinoja, University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology | |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | AI Co-Fly: Citizen science and AI for the identification and classification of Drosophila. - Roberto Torres, "Melanogaster Catch The Fly" (CS), and "La Ciència Al Teu Món" (Sci-Comm) Barcelona. | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Invited talk - Speciation with gene flow, assortative mating, and chemical senses: insights from genomics - Carole Smadja | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | DrosEU working groups - Microbiota - Oleksandr Maistrenko and Svitlana Serga | |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | DrosEU members Short talks | (+) |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | › Sex & Germs & Speciation: The Wonderful World of Neotropical Wolbachia and other influential bugs - Wolfgang Miller, Medical University of Vienna | |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | › The role of endosymbionts in Drosophila host susceptibility to the trypanosomatid parasite - Venera Tyukmaeva, University of Liverpool | |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | › Quantifying the impact of insect host genotype on Wolbachia titer - Mountassira MATIN, Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | DrosEU working groups - Sampling - Katja Hoedjes & Mathieu Gautier | |
| 17:00 - 18:30 | DrosEU working groups - Building a COST Action for DrosEU: Connecting Genomics, Collections, and Citizen Science - Roberto Torres and Nora Nader | |
| 20:00 - 23:00 | Dinner |
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | DrosEU working groups - Population Genetics - Alan Bergland & Luke Proud | (+) |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | › The molecular axis of endemism is governed by the opposing forces of purifying and balancing selection - Alan O. Bergland, Luke A. Proud, Julia Beets, Jingqi Liu, Dylan Hyland, Andrew Croitoru, Hannah Makowski, Emily K. Longman, Courtney Tern, Marta Coronado-Zamora, Josefa Gonzalez, Paul Schmidt, Thomas Flatt, Joaquin C. B. Nunez | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | DrosEU members Short talks | (+) |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | › The temporal dynamics of a balanced inversion polymorphism - Harshavardhan Thyagarajan, University of Fribourg | |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | › Exploiting the demographic past of natural populations to understand the adaptive architecture - Christian Schlötterer, Institut für Populationsgenetik [Vienna] | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | › Microbiome composition of urban Drosophila - Nadiia Chernobai-Vashchenko, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University | |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | › The Natural History of D. melanogaster in its Ancestral Range - Paul Schmidt, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania - Thomas Flatt, Department of Biology, University of Fribourg | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | DrosEU members Short talks | (+) |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | › Dissecting the Metabolic and Regulatory Basis of Cold Adaptation in Drosophila - Sonja Grath, LMU Munich, Faculty of Biology, Division of Evolutionary Biology, Grosshaderner Str. 2-4, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Genomic Prediction of Population-Specific Covariates using Bayesian Hierarchical Linear Regression Models - Mathieu Gautier, Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | DrosEU working groups - Bioinformatics - Alan Bergland, Martin Kapun, Mathieu Gautier, Joaquin Nunez | (+) |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | › DESTv3 – Updates & Goals - Alan Bergland, Martin Kapun, Mathieu Gautier, Joaquin Nunez | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Kissing X chromosomes specify sex-specific gene expression patterns in flies - Benjamin Prud'homme | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | DrosEU working groups - TE - Josefa González, Séverine Chambeyron | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | DrosEU members Short talks | (+) |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | › Locus-specific, polymorphic transposable element expression in somatic tissues across Drosophila natural strains - Louis Barolle, Institut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule | |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | › Population-scale genome analysis in Drosophila reveals heterogeneity in TE activity - Artem Ilin, Stockholm University | |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | › The Rise and Fall of the P-Transposon in Neotropical Drosophila Reservoirs - Stéphane Ronsseray, Institut de Biologie Paris Seine, Dev2A laboratory | |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | › Host–transposable element coexistence: Distinct ecological niches exploited by endogenous retroviruses - Séverine Chambeyron, Institut de génétique humaine, Marion Varoqui, Mourdas Mohamed, Maelys Lemoine, Alain Pélisson, Charlotte Grimaud, Bruno Mugat | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | DrosEU Business Meeting - Closing - Josefa González & Thomas Flatt |
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Conference Introduction - Organizing committee | |
| 09:20 - 10:20 | Flies in the Frost: Genomic and Phenotypic Signals of Seasonal Adaptive Tracking in an Invasive Drosophila - Joaquin Nunez | |
| 10:20 - 11:00 | D. suzukii - Population genetics | (+) |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | › Adaptive Challenges of Past and Future Invasion of Drosophila suzukii: Insights From Novel Genomic Resources and Statistical Methods Combining Individual and Pool Sequencing Data - Louise Camus, Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations | |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | › Genomic prediction of population level categorical traits: application to the host fruit of origin of Drosophila suzukii population samples - Lilou Zulewski, Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | D. suzukii - Population genetics | (+) |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | › Evolution of genetic constraints on wing shape during D. suzukii's worldwide invasion - Antoine Fraimout, Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations | |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | › Tracking the invasion and geographic expansion of Drosophila suzukii along a latitudinal gradient in Chile - Luis E. Castañeda, Universidad de Chile = University of Chile [Santiago] | |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | › On the importance of taxon proximity in pest phylogenomics: data from sister species helps redefining some evolutionary traits in Drosophila suzukii and other Drosophila - Omar Rota Stabelli, Centre Agriculture Food Envrionment (CAFE-C3A), University of Trento | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Who controls cytoplasmic incompatibility? Host genetic effects on Wolbachia-induced sterility in Drosophila suzukii - Svitlana Serga | |
| 15:00 - 16:15 | D. suzukii - Host-Microbiota Interactions | (+) |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | › When larvae feed adult flies: unexpected facilitation between life-stages - Simon Fellous, Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations (CBGP) | |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | › D. suzukii harbour a niche-specific fungal community and a core bacterial community in natural conditions - Sido Dunis-Quarré, Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations | |
| 15:40 - 16:10 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:10 - 17:30 | D. suzukii - Molecular genetics | (+) |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | › Transposable elements modulate gene expression in response to oxidative stress in D. suzukii - Miriam Merenciano, Laboratory of Biometry and Evolutionary Biology (LBBE) | |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | › Genetic and developmental basis of ovipositor sensory diversity in D. suzukii - Natascha Turetzek, LMU Munich, Faculty of Biology, Evolutionary Ecology | |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | › Synthetic Biology Platforms to Accelerate Functional Genomics and Genetic Control in Drosophila suzukii - Ying Yan, Department of Insect Biotechnology in Plant Protection, Institute for Insect Biotechnology, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Current address: Insect Pest Control Section, Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, International Atomic Energy Agency | |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | › Scalable, Biosafety-by-Design Genetic Control for Drosophila suzukii - Gerard Terradas, Biocentis - Andrew Hammond, Biocentis, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health [Baltimore], Imperial College London |
Thursday, April 16, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Wings of Change: the invasion ecology of Drosophila suzukii - Marco Valerio Rossi Stacconi | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | D. suzukii - Ecology & Population dynamics | (+) |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | › From wild host plants to crop plants: the domestication of a fly born to be wild? - Olivier Chabrerie, EDYSAN, UMR 7058 CNRS, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 80000 Amiens | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | › Drosophila suzukii alters food quality and affects fruit removal by European native birds - Jana Collatz, Agroscope | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | D. suzukii - Ecology & Population dynamics | (+) |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | › The winning combination of traits: unraveling male phenotypes favored by multivariate sexual selection in Drosophila suzukii - Allan Debelle, Institut Agro Montpellier | |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | › Drosophila suzukii glue as a new model to understand adaptation - Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo, Institut Jacques Monod | |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | › Interspecific larval interaction may mask the primary damage by Drosophila suzukii - Balázs Kiss, Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, HUN-REN | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | D. suzukii - Physiology | (+) |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | › Characterizing the cold acclimated phenotypes in Drosophila suzukii: from bioenergetics to multi-Omics - Hervé Colinet, Ecosystèmes, biodiversité, évolution [Rennes] | |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | › Multiple stressors in invasion success: thermal physiology and insecticide-mediated metabolic responses in Drosophila suzukii - Jose Alruiz, Núcleo Interdisciplinario de Biología y Genética, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas (ICBM), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Research Ring in Pest Insects and Climate Change (PIC2), Santiago, Chile | |
| 14:40 - 16:00 | D. suzukii poster session | (+) |
| 14:40 - 16:00 | › Role of detoxification in xenobiotic adaptation in Drosophila suzukii, the spotted wing - Mingjian LI, Institut Sophia Agrobiotech | |
| 14:40 - 16:00 | › Natural Selection and Invasiveness in Drosophila suzukii - Kit Eller, University of Vermont [Burlington] | |
| 14:40 - 16:00 | › Reproductive and life-history dynamics of a Drosophila suzukii population from northern Patagonia - JULIAN MENSCH, Universidad de Buenos Aires | |
| 14:40 - 16:00 | › Synthetic biology approaches to generate temperature-sensitive alleles for the Sterile Insect Technique - Chun Yin Leung, Department of Developmental Biology, Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach-Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences, Georg-August-University Göttingen | |
| 14:40 - 16:00 | › On the tracks of chromosomal variation in the invasive pest Drosophila suzukii - Mihailo Jelić, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Biology, Belgrade, Serbia | |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Coffee break | |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Wine tasting (Genopolys amphitherater) - Free wine tasting with "La Cave de Villeneuve": https://www.facebook.com/lacavedevilleneuve/?locale=zh_CN | |
| 20:00 - 23:00 | Gala dinner |
Friday, April 17, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Integrated Pest Management of Drosophila suzukii - Michelle Fountain | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | D. suzukii - Integrated pest management | (+) |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | › A model to evaluate control strategies against Drosophila suzukii in cherry orchards - Jules Guilberteau, Université Côte d'Azur, INRAE, CNRS, ISA | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | › Evaluation of Metarhizium anisopliae ICIPE 78 as a biopesticide candidate for the management of Drosophila suzukii - Ibrahim M Farid, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa | |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | › Drosophila suzukii in Morocco: Population Dynamics and IPM Tactics in Raspberry Orchards - Khalid Khfif, National Institute for Agricultural Research, Tangier, Morocco | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 - 12:50 | D. suzukii - Integrated pest management | (+) |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | › Optimising X-ray irradiation protocols for the Sterile Insect Technique in Drosophila suzukii: development and regional adaptation for Trentino–Alto Adige - Asia Colmagro, C3A - Center Agriculture Food Environment, University of Trento, Via Edmund Mach 1, San Michele all'Adige, TN 38010, Italy, Laimburg Research Centre, Laimburg 6, 39040 Ora, Italy | |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | › Investigating Mating Dynamics and Polyandry in Drosophila suzukii: Integrating Behavioural Assays and Stable Isotopes - Gerardo Roselli, University of Trento | |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | › Field Evaluation of Sterile Drosophila suzukii Males for SIT Application in Cherry Orchards - Ghais ZRIKI, Ctifl - Centre de Balandran | |
| 12:30 - 12:30 | › Evaluating the Synergy Between the Incompatible and the Sterile Insect Technique to control D. suzukii - Nicolas Rode, Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations | |
| 12:50 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Round table - Discussion regarding a future D. suzukii meeting |
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