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Behaviour SIG Meeting 2023 – Online Event
26 April 2023 @ 10:00 – 17:00
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Behaviour SIG Meeting 2023 – Online Event
The role of microbes (environmental and endosymbionts) in insect behaviour
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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
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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 |
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KU Leuven, Belgium
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University of Guelph, Canada
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Insect and Chemical Ecology – Universität Bremen
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Professor of Entomology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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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
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Programme
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Call for abstracts
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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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