Meeting program
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09:15 - 09:45
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Workshop introduction - Mathieu Gautier, Josefa González & Thomas Flatt |
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09:45 - 11:00
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DrosEU working groups - Phenotyping - Thomas Flatt, Nico Posnien |
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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 |
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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] |
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10:15 - 10:30 |
› Heat-induced fertility loss in males of the DrosEU Phenotyping Panel - JULIAN MENSCH, Universidad de Buenos Aires |
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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 |
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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] |
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11:00 - 11:30
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Coffee break |
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11:30 - 12:30
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DrosEU members Short talks |
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11:30 - 11:45 |
› Interactions between ecology and sexual conflict across european D. melanogaster populations - R. Axel W. Wiberg, Stockholm University |
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11:45 - 12:00 |
› Divergence of Ejaculate Female Interactions Across Populations of Drosophila melanogaster - Emma Whittington, School of Biology [University of St Andrews] |
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12:00 - 12:15 |
› Dynamics of embryonic mortality rates in different Drosophila melanogaster stocks under chronic consumption of thiamethoxam-based insecticide at sublethal concentration - Natalia Volkova, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University |
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12:15 - 12:30 |
› 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 |
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12:30 - 14:00
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Lunch |
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14:00 - 15:00
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Invited talk - Speciation with gene flow, assortative mating, and chemical senses: insights from genomics - Carole Smadja |
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15:00 - 15:15
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DrosEU working groups - Microbiota - Oleksandr Maistrenko and Svitlana Serga |
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15:15 - 16:00
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DrosEU members Short talks |
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15:15 - 15:30 |
› Sex & Germs & Speciation: The Wonderful World of Neotropical Wolbachia and other influential bugs - Wolfgang Miller, Medical University of Vienna |
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15:30 - 15:45 |
› The role of endosymbionts in Drosophila host susceptibility to the trypanosomatid parasite - Venera Tyukmaeva, University of Liverpool |
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15:45 - 16:00 |
› Quantifying the impact of insect host genotype on Wolbachia titer - Mountassira MATIN, Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations |
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16:00 - 16:30
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Coffee break |
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16:30 - 17:00
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DrosEU working groups - Sampling - Katja Hoedjes & Mathieu Gautier |
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17:00 - 18:30
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DrosEU working groups - Building a COST Action for DrosEU: Connecting Genomics, Collections, and Citizen Science - Roberto Torres and Nora Nader |
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20:00 - 23:00
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Dinner |
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Event |
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09:15 - 09:45
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DrosEU working groups - Population Genetics - Alan Bergland |
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09:45 - 11:00
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DrosEU members Short talks |
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09:45 - 10:00 |
› The molecular axis of endemism is governed by the opposing forces of purifying and balancing selection - Luke Proud, University of Vermont [Burlington] - Julia Beets, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam] - Joaquin Nunez, University of Vermont [Burlington] - Alan Bergland, University of Virginia |
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10:00 - 10:15 |
› The temporal dynamics of a balanced inversion polymorphism - Harshavardhan Thyagarajan, University of Fribourg |
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10:15 - 10:30 |
› Exploiting the demographic past of natural populations to understand the adaptive architecture - Christian Schlötterer, Institut für Populationsgenetik [Vienna] |
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10:30 - 10:45 |
› Genetic diversity of Drosophila in urban populations - Nadiia Chernobai-Vashchenko, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University |
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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 |
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11:00 - 11:30
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Coffee break |
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11:30 - 12:00
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DrosEU members Short talks |
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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 |
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11:45 - 12:00
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Genomic Prediction of Population-Specific Covariates using Bayesian Hierarchical Linear Regression Models - Mathieu Gautier, Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations |
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12:00 - 12:30
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DrosEU working groups - Bioinformatics - Alan Bergland, Martin Kapun, Mathieu Gautier |
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12:00 - 12:30 |
› DESTv3 – Updates & Goals - Alan Bergland, University of Virginia |
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12:30 - 14:00
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Lunch |
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14:00 - 15:00
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Kissing X chromosomes specify sex-specific gene expression patterns in flies - Benjamin Prud'homme |
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15:00 - 15:30
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DrosEU working groups - TE - Josefa González, Séverine Chambeyron |
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15:30 - 16:30
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DrosEU members Short talks |
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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 |
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15:45 - 16:00 |
› Reverse transcription as a driver of regulatory sequence diversification in LTR retrotransposons - Artem Ilin, Stockholm University |
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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 |
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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 |
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16:30 - 17:00
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Coffee Break |
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17:00 - 18:00
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DrosEU Business Meeting - Closing - Josefa González & Thomas Flatt |
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Wednesday, April 15, 2026
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09:00 - 09:20
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Conference Introduction - Organizing committee |
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09:20 - 10:20
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Flies in the Frost: Genomic and Phenotypic Signals of Seasonal Adaptive Tracking in an Invasive Drosophila - Joaquin Nunez |
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10:20 - 11:00
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D. suzukii - Population genetics |
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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 |
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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 |
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11:00 - 11:30
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Coffee break |
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11:30 - 12:30
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D. suzukii - Population genetics |
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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 |
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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] |
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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 |
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12:30 - 14:00
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Lunch |
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14:00 - 15:00
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Laurence Mounton - replaced by Svitlana Serga |
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15:00 - 16:15
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D. suzukii - Host-Microbiota Interactions |
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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) |
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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 |
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15:40 - 16:10
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Coffee Break |
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16:10 - 17:30
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D. suzukii - Molecular genetics |
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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) |
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16:30 - 16:50 |
› Genetic and developmental basis of ovipositor sensory diversity in D. suzukii - Natascha Turetzek, LMU Munich, Faculty of Biology, Evolutionary Ecology |
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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 |
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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 |
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Event |
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09:00 - 10:00
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Wings of Change: the invasion ecology of Drosophila suzukii - Marco Valerio Rossi Stacconi |
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10:00 - 11:00
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D. suzukii - Ecology & Population dynamics |
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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 |
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10:20 - 10:40 |
› Drosophila suzukii alters food quality and affects fruit removal by European native birds - Jana Collatz, Agroscope |
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11:00 - 11:30
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Coffee break |
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11:30 - 12:30
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D. suzukii - Ecology & Population dynamics |
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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 |
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11:50 - 12:10 |
› Drosophila suzukii glue as a new model to understand adaptation - Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo, Institut Jacques Monod |
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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 |
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12:30 - 14:00
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Lunch |
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14:00 - 14:40
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D. suzukii - Physiology |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
› Characterizing the cold acclimated phenotypes in Drosophila suzukii: from bioenergetics to multi-Omics - Hervé Colinet, Ecosystèmes, biodiversité, évolution [Rennes] |
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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 |
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14:40 - 16:00
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Poster session - networking |
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16:00 - 17:00
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Coffee break |
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17:00 - 19:00
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Wine tasting (Genopolys amphitherater) - Free wine tasting with "La Cave de Villeneuve": https://www.facebook.com/lacavedevilleneuve/?locale=zh_CN |
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20:00 - 23:00
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Gala dinner |
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Event |
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09:00 - 10:00
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Integrated Pest Management of Drosophila suzukii - Michelle Fountain |
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10:00 - 11:00
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D. suzukii - Integrated pest management |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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11:00 - 11:30
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Coffee break |
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11:30 - 12:50
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D. suzukii - Integrated pest management |
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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 |
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11:50 - 12:10 |
› Investigating Mating Dynamics and Polyandry in Drosophila suzukii: Integrating Behavioural Assays and Stable Isotopes - Gerardo Roselli, University of Trento |
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12:10 - 12:30 |
› Field Evaluation of Sterile Drosophila suzukii Males for SIT Application in Cherry Orchards - Ghais ZRIKI, Ctifl - Centre de Balandran |
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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 |
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12:50 - 14:00
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Lunch |
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14:00 - 15:00
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Round table - Discussion regarding a future D. suzukii meeting |
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