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Behaviour SIG Meeting 2023 – Online Event
26 April 2023 @ 10:00 – 17:00
Behaviour SIG Meeting 2023 – Online Event
The role of microbes (environmental and endosymbionts) in insect behaviour
Call for abstracts
(Deadline for abstract submissions: March 31st, 2023)
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
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.
Microbes play key roles in insect physiology, behaviour, ecology and evolution. This meeting will look at how the inter-kingdom interactions between the various microbe and insect taxa affect insect behaviour from the molecular to the population level.
Speakers
| 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 |
KU Leuven, Belgium
University of Guelph, Canada
Insect and Chemical Ecology – Universität Bremen
Professor of Entomology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Co-founder of Molecular Attraction
NRI, University of Greenwich
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Associate Prof. and Extension Specialist in the Department of Entomology
University of Maryland
Programme
Call for abstracts
Would you like to present your work at our meeting?
Click here to submit your abstract details
(Deadline for abstract submissions: February 28th, 2023)
Along with submitting your presentation abstract form, please also send your talk documents to info@royensoc.co.uk with subject ‘Behaviour SIG 2023 Abstract Submission’ as soon as possible.
Please note: Submitting your abstracts does not automatically provide a presentation space and you will be contacted by the organisers in the weeks post-deadline to confirm a date/time slot if your abstract is chosen.
Important note: All presenters are required to register. These expenses cannot be reclaimed by the Royal Entomological Society.
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