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The role of microbes (environmental and endosymbionts) in insect behaviour

Insect Behaviour is a very broad discipline, cutting across several research areas such as ecology, conservation, insect-plant interactions, pest management, chemical ecology, and genetics.

Speaker	Affiliation	Topic	Website
Prof Bart Lievens	KU Leuven, Belgium	POTENTIAL OF INSECT-MICROBE CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS TO IMPROVE BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF INSECT PESTS	https://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/person/00019097
Dr Brendan Daisley	University of Guelph, Canada	Microbiome disruption and disease occurrence in honey bees	https://www.linkedin.com/in/bdaisley/?originalSubdomain=ca
Marko Rohlfs	University of Bremen	Evolution of microbe management by insects	https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/50years/events/projects/ichbinunibremen/prof-dr-marko-rohlfs
Prof Boaz Yuval	Hebrew University, Israel	The microbiome and fruit fly behaviour	https://entomology.agri.huji.ac.il/boaz-yuval
Prof Noushin Emami	NRI, University of Greenwich	Natural molecular strategies to break disease transmission
Dr Kelly A. Hamby (Associate Prof)	University of Maryland	Behavioral responses of spotted-wing drosophila to free-living fungi

Organisers

NIAB East Malling

Convenors: Jozsef Vuts, Michelle Fountain

Local Organisers: Scott Raffle, Michelle Fountain

RES organisers: Francisca Sconce, Luke Tilley, Richard Harrington

Read about the Behaviour Special Interest Group

Full details TBC

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