Programme

Keynote Speakers

Tariq Butt
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SAZ 899, United Kingdom

"Exploiting synergies to optimise the impact of entomopathogenic fungi"

Johannes Jehle
Institute of Biological Control, Julius Kühn Institute, Heinrichstr. 243, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany

"Position and perspectives of biological control in the European plant protection package"

Anant Patel
University of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Alternative Fuels, Dept.of Engineering and Mathematics, Wilhelm-Bertelsmann-Str. 10, D-33602 Bielefeld, Germany

"Encapsulation materials and methods applied to biological insect control von Formulation materials: methods and processes for agrobiologicals"

Ben Raymond
School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdom

"The evolutionary ecology of Bacillus thuringiensis; can social interactions maintain virulence and counteract strain attenuation?"

Stephen A. Rehner
USDA-ARS, Systematic Mycology and Microbiology Laboratory, Rm 212, Bldg 010A, BARC-W, Beltsville, MD 20705 , USA

"Systematics and taxonomy of insect pathogenic fungi: current status, future directions"

Lene Sigsgaard
University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences, Dept. of Agriculture and Ecology, Zoology Group, Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK-1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark

David Shapiro-Ilan
USDA-ARS
Southeastern Fruit and Tree Nut
Research Lab.
Byron, GA, 31008
USA

"The use of entomopathogenic nematodes in the US and issues related to genetic degradation"

Nelson Simões
IBB/CBA, CIRN and Dep. de Biologia, Universidade dos Açores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal

Miklos Toth
Plant Prot. Inst. Hung. Acad. Sci., Budapest, Pf 102, 1525, Hungary

"Click beetles and pheromones - an overview"

Robert Vernon
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre, P.O. Box 1000,
Agassiz, British Columbia, V0M 1A0, Canada

"Wireworm management: mitigating environmental risk with the development of new 'push-pull' strategies"

Stefan Vidal
Georg-August-University, Department of Crop Sciences, Agricultural Entomology, Grisebachstrasse 6, D-37077 Goettingen
Germany

"Entomopathogenic fungi as endophytes: anew plant protection strategy?"

Trevor Williams
Instituto de Ecología, AC, AP 63, Xalapa 91070, Mexico

"Nucleopolyhedrovirus covert infection in Spodoptera exigua: sublethal disease and vertically transmitted infections likely provide unique opportunities for virus-based control on greenhouse crops"

Workshop Leaders

Siegfried Keller
Rheinweg 14, CH-8264 Eschenz, Schweiz

Workshop Fungi: "Identification of Entomophthorales"

Paulina Kramarz
Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, PL-30-387 Krakow, Poland

Workshop Nematodes: "Genetic improvement of biocontrol nematodes – proposal for a new COST Action"

Nikolaus Schallhart, Karin Staudacher, Michael Traugott
Mountain Agriculture Research Unit, Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria

Workshop Wireworms: "Identification of wireworms: morphological and molecular approaches"