Plenaries of Ento

Previous Plenaries included notable researchers, some examples including Rosie Hales (Ento02), Charles Godfray Hon.FRES (Ento06), Dave Goulson (Ento15) and Jessica Ware, then-president of the Entomological Society of America (Ento22).

Ento23 – Exeter University

Year	Keynote/Plenary	Speaker	Institution	Theme/Title	Organiser
2023	Plenary	Jacobus ‘Jaap’ De Roode	Emory University, USA	Migration, microbes and medication in the monarch butterfly	Jason Chapman
2023	Plenary	Elli Leadbeater	Royal Holloway University of London	Does (collective) cognition produce efficiently foraging bees?	Ben Raymond
2023	Plenary	Vanessa Kellermann	La Trobe University, Australia	Adaptation in a warming world: insights from Drosophila and bees.	Ben Longdon
2023	Keynote	Jess Knapp,	Trinity College Dublin	Pollinators	Juliet Osborne and Chris Kaiser-Bunbury
2023	Keynote	Thomas Mathers	Sanger Centre	Insect genetics and genomics	Bartek Troczka and Angela Hayward
2023	Keynote	Johan Stenberg	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	Pests, biological control and IPM	Dave Chandler, Ben Raymond and Michelle Fountain
2023	Keynote	Jenny Regan	University of Edinburgh	Infection and immunity	Megan Wallace and Mark Hanson
2023	Keynote	Anne Duplouy	University of Helsinki	Symbionts and microbes	Ailsa McLean
2023	Keynote	Thomas Schmitt	University of Würzburg	Insect behavioural and evolutionary ecology	Jeremy Field and Jodie Gruber
2023	Keynote	Charlie Outhwaite	UCL	Insect conservation and insect declines	Alan Stewart
2023	Keynote	Shawan Chowdhury	German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research	Insect movement and migration	Johanna Hedlund and Jason Chapman

Ento22 – University of Lincoln

Year	Keynote/Plenary	Speaker	Institution	Theme/Title
2022	Plenary	Professor Jessica Ware	Associate curator in invertebrate zoology, American Museum of Natural History, USA	Diversity in entomology: creating space while studying insect evolution
2022	Plenary	Professor Sylvain Pincebourde	Director of Research, CNRS, France:	The role of microclimate at fine scales in driving exposure of ectotherms to climate change: integrating biophysics, physiology and ecology
2022	Plenary	Professor Nalini Puniamoorthy	Reproductive Evolution Lab, National University of Singapore	Insect reproduction: Understanding evolutionary diversification and seeking sustainable solutions

Ento21 – Online

Conference hosted online only due to Covid19 restrictions.

Ento20 – (Exeter) – rescheduled due to Covid19 restrictions

Ento19 – LSHTM

Year	Keynote/Plenary	Speaker	Institution	Theme/Title
2019	Plenary	Luke Alphey	Pirbright Institute	Genetic Control of vector mosquito populations
2019	Plenary	Nick Hamon	Innovative Vector Control Consortium, Liverpool	Partnering to get life-saving vector control innovations rapidly from bench to impact
2019	Plenary	Raman Velayudhan	Vector Control Advisory Group, WHO Geneva	Implementing sustained vector control for Aedes mosquitos

Ento18 – Edge Hill University

Year	Keynote/Plenary	Speaker	Institution	Theme/Title
2018	Plenary	Professor Stefan Scheu	Georg August University Göttingen	The Good – Below-ground goodies: Ecology and evolution of soil microarthropods
2018	Plenary	Professor Lin Field	Rothamsted Research	The Bad – Aphids as vectors of crop diseases
2018	Plenary	Professor Richard Wall	Bristol University	The Bad – Ticks and tick-bourne disease
2018	Plenary	Dr Jason Dombroskie	Cornell University Insect collection	The Ugly – Yes that’s nice…but look at this! Challenges of generating interest in and relevance to the non-charasmatic microfauna

Ento17 – Newcastle University

Year	Keynote/Plenary	Speaker	Institution	Theme/Title
2017	Keynote	Lars Chittka	Queen Mary, University of London	Analysing plant-pollinator interactions with spatial networks
2017	Keynote	Jenny Hodgson	University of Liverpool	Networks to enable species to survive climate change
2017	Keynote	Catherine Reavey	Oxitec	Nutritional complexity and its role in the mediation of host-parasite interactions
2017	Keynote	Claire Rind	Newcastle University	Great minds don’t all think alike: locusts see differently
2017	Keynote	Sarah E. Barlow	University of Utah	Distasteful nectar toxins deter floral robbery
2017	Keynote	Nina Wedell	University of Exeter	Sex, conflict, and selfish genes
2017	Keynote	David M. Shuker	University of St Andrews	Reproductive interference in insects
2017	Keynote	Angharad M. R. Gatehouse	Newcastle University	New Technologies and Molecules for Crop Protection
2017	Keynote	Ana B. Sendova-Franks	UWE	Ants as a Model of Social Interaction
2017	Keynote	Audrey Dussutour	Université Toulouse	Recent Advances in the Integrative Nutrition of Ants
2017	Keynote	Janice S. Edgerly	Santa Clara University	Silk as Armor and a Web of Adaptation (the Order Embioptera)
2017	Keynote	Ramiro Morales-Hojas	Rothamsted Research	How can molecular ecology help us improve monitoring insect pests of agricultural importance?
2017	Keynote	Yoshifumi Yamawaki	Kyushu University	Decision-making and motor control in the praying mantis: To attack or not to attack.
2017	Keynote	Nicola Nadeau	University of Sheffield	How did the butterfly get its colours? The evolution and genetics of colour and pattern in Heliconius butterflies
2017	Keynote	Mathieu Lihoreau	University of Toulouse	Nutritional interactions in insect societies
2017	Keynote	Darren Evans	Newcastle University	Merging DNA metabarcoding and ecological network analysis to understand and build resilient terrestrial ecosystems

Ento16 – Harper Adams

Year	Keynote/Plenary	Speaker	Institution	Theme/Title
2016	Plenary	Peter Witzgall	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	Pathogens, insects and volatiles
2016	Plenary	Saskia Hogenhout	John Innes Centre, Norwich	How virulence protiens modulate plant processes to promote insect colonisation
2016	Plenary	Helen Roy	Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford	Citizen Science and invasive species

Ento15 – Trinity College Dublin

Year	Keynote/Plenary	Speaker	Institution	Theme/Title
2015	Plenary	Dave Goulson	University of Sussex	Global threats to insect pollination services
2015	Plenary	Alexandra-Maria Klein	University of Freiburg	Biodiversity and pollination services
2015	Plenary	Lynn Dicks	University of Cambridge	How much flower-rich habitat is enough for wild pollination? Answering a key policy question with incomplete knowledege
2015	Plenary	Simon Leather	Harper Adams University	Influential Entomology – the scientific, societal, economic and educational services provided by entomology and entomologists: a review
2015	Plenary	Jan Bengtsson	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	Biological Control in  a landscape perspective
2015	Plenary	Sarina Macfadyen	CSIRO	Temporal patterns in plant growth and pest populations across agricultural landscapes in Australia
2015	Plenary	Charles Midega	International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya	Companion cropping for sustainable pest management: experiences from Eastern Africa
2015	Plenary	Jerry Cross	East Malling Research	Arthropod ecosystem services in apple orchards and their economic benefits
2015	Plenary	Michael D. Ulyshen	USDA Forest Service	Wood decomposition and nutrient cycling as influenced by insects
2015	Plenary	Craig Macadam and Jenni Stockan	Buglife/James Hutton Institute	More than just fish food – the contribution of aquatic insects to freshwater ecosystems
2015	Plenary	Sarah Beynon	Dr Beynon’s Bug Farm Ltd	Ecosystem services provided by dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in agro-ecosystems
2015	Plenary	Thomas Bolger	University College Dublin	The delivery of ecosystem services by soil arthropod communities – management and conservation activities at different spatial scales

Ento14 – ECE York

European Congress of Entomology took place of Ento14.

Ento13 – St Andrews University

Plenaries not listed in Programme.

Ento12 – Anglia Ruskin University

Summary from Meeting Report.

Year	Keynote/Plenary	Speaker	Institution	Theme/Title
2012	Plenary	Dr Andrew Liebhold	US Forest Service	“issues and concerns of global insect invasions”
2012	Plenary	Professor Ingolf Steffan Dewenter	University of Würzburg	“Global change is presently affecting many organisms, in particular insect biodiversity”
2012	Memorial Lecture	Helen Roy

Ento11 – Greenwich University

No Keynotes or Plenaries listed in archives, additional invited speakers present.

Year	Keynote/Plenary	Speaker	Institution	Theme/Title
2011	President’s invited Speaker	Xavier Belles	Barcelona	Regulation of insect metamorphosis. From Maria Sibylla Merian to Alexander Calder

Ento10 – Swansea University

Year	Keynote/Plenary	Speaker	Institution	Theme/Title
2010	Plenary	Sharmilla Bhattacharya	NASA Ames Research Centre	Using fruit flies to evaluate the space flight environment
2010	Plenary	Norman Ratcliffe	Swansea University	Natural products and processes from insects: raising the profile of beneficial species

Ento09 – Sheffield University

Summary from Meeting Report.

Year	Keynote/Plenary	Speaker	Institution	Theme/Title
2009	Plenary	Hannah Rowland	University of Liverpool	Behavioural traits to avoid detection:  Investigating the phototactic behaviour of countershaded caterpillars
2009	Plenary	Niels Kristensen	Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen	“Morphology and insect systematic in a molecular era”
2009	Plenary	Naomi Pearce	Harvard University	Nabokov meets Darwin: origin and evolution of blue butterflies

Ento08 – Plymouth University

More information to be found in Antenna.

Ento07 – Edinburgh University

More information to be found in Antenna.

Ento06 – Bath University

Year	Keynote/Plenary	Speaker	Institution	Theme/Title
2006	Plenary	Tim Karr	Bath	Sperm’s eye view of evolution
2006	Plenary	Charles Godfray	Imperial College	The coevolutionary dance between parisitoids and their hosts
2006	Plenary	Greg Hurst	UCL	Insect Evolution in the fast lane: the dynamic conflict between a male-killing bacterium and its butterfly host

Ento05 – Sussex University

More information to be found in Antenna.

Ento04 – University of York

Year	Keynote/Plenary	Speaker	Institution	Theme/Title
2004	Plenary	Prof. Curtis	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	Insecticide treated nets for malria mosquito control
2004	Plenary	Dr Ian Woiwod	Rothamsted Research	Are GM crops bad news for insects?

Ento03 – Reading University

Year	Keynote/Plenary	Speaker	Institution	Theme/Title
2003	Plenary	John Whittaker	Lancaster	Floods, fumes and Fungi; some hazrds of an insect herbivore
2003	Plenary	Dr Paul Eggleton	NHM	Eating soil: rainforests and thw evolutionary ecology of termites

Ento02 – University of Cardiff

Summary from Meeting Report.

Year	Keynote/Plenary	Speaker	Institution	Theme/Title
2002	Plenary	Robert Woottton		an amusing and animated account of how insects control flight by modifying wing shape’
2002	Plenary	Rosie Hails		“the many factors that need to be considered when growing genetically improved crops”

Ento01 – University of Aberdeen

Year	Keynote/Plenary	Speaker	Institution	Theme/Title
2001	Plenary	John Pickett	Instute of Arable Crops Research	The blurring of the distinction between insect pests of animals and plants (Not official title)

Ento2000 – Liverpool Hope University College

More information to be found in Antenna.

Ento99 – Imperial College, University of London

More information to be found in Antenna.

Ento98 – Exeter University

More information to be found in Antenna.

Ento97 – University of Newcastle

Details of Speakers in Antenna Report, but not which ones are Keynotes/Plenaries.