Role | Name | Lecture title |
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Organizer | Srinivasan Ramasamy | Challenges and prospects for implementing Vegetable IPM in Asia |
Speaker | Wubetu B. Legesse | Vegetable grafting, a potential IPM component for the management of soil-borne diseases of tomato in Ethiopia |
Speaker | Ricardo Oliva | Tracking soil-borne pathogens in the vegetable agroecosystem |
Speaker | Aparna Shivanna | From Paper to Practice: Challenges associated with IPM implementation in Indian Vegetable cultivation |
Speaker | Simon Boniface | Development and validation of an integrated pest management (IPM) strategy against the invasive South American tomato leaf miner, Phthorimaea absoluta in northern Tanzania |
Speaker | Asokan Ramasamy | Newer genome editing approaches in vegetable pest management |
Speaker | Lourena Maxwell | Enhancing plant defense mechanisms: integrating resistant varieties, biocontrol agents, and plant activators for sustainable Southern blight management |
Speaker | Sopana Yule | The potential of trap crops against leafhopper (Amrasca devastans) and whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) on eggplant under field condition in Thailand |
Speaker | Karthikeyan Gandhi | Prevalence and diversity of viruses infecting vegetable crops in India and their integrated management strategies |

Role | Name | Lecture title |
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Organizer - Speaker | Altier Nora | Final considerations: How do microbiomes contribute to the plant protection sciences and the concept of One Health? |
Organizer | Eduardo Abreo | Microbiomes in agricultural settings: invisible partners revealed |
Organizer - Speaker | Linda Kinkel | The microbiome as more than the sum of its populations: network structure as a key factor in managing the functional potential of plant microbiomes |
Lead speaker | Víctor Carrión | Engineering Microbiomes for Sustainable Agriculture |
Speaker | Gabriele Berg | Microbiome connections from farm to fork – a one and planetary health perspective |
Speaker | Rodrigo Mendes | The rhizosphere microbiome as an extension of the plant defensive system |
Speaker | Doreen Babin | Managing soil and plant-associated microbiomes in agroecosystems |
Speaker | Patricia Vaz | The microbiomes of South American Pampa grasslands and their responses to common agricultural practices |




Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Organizer | Trevor Jackson | |
Speaker | Laura Villamizar | Overcoming constraints and meeting the potential of microbes for plant protection |
Speaker | Selcuk Hazir | Leveraging the power of two bacterial symbionts in plant protection: Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus |
Speaker | Arne Peters | Advances and challenges in biopesticide production - a producer perspective |
Speaker | Federico Rivas | The Multifunctionality of Entomopathogenic Fungi: the Case of Metarhizium |
Speaker | Lucca Ruiu | Microbial control agents as a tool for insecticide resistance management |

Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Speaker | Rogelio Trabanino | Biological control of insect pests in Hondurus |
Speaker | David Hughes | The use of Artificial Intelligence for plant protection in Africa |
Speaker | Malvika Chaudhary | Horizon scanning and pest risk analysis under climate change |
Speaker | Ramona Stephanie O’Connor Sulifoa | An overview of priority pests and diseases from the Pacific region |
Speaker | Trevor Jackson | An impending threat to the coconut palms |
Speaker | Alison Watson | Bioprotection research alliance for Asia and the Pacific |
Speaker | Trevor Jackson | Coconut rhinoceros beetle in the Pacific |

Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Organizer | Tamo Manuele | TO BE ANNOUNCED |
Organizer | Souleymane Nacro | TO BE ANNOUNCED |
Lead speaker | Sunday Ekesi | TO BE ANNOUNCED |
Speaker | Henri Tonnang | Advancements in Insect Science for Transboundary Resource Management and Resilience - (2) Multi-way dynamics between insect pests and crops to estimate yield losses in a changing climate |
Speaker | Saliou Nyassi | Indigenous methods for sustainable management of the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda J.E. Smith) in Africa |
Speaker | Hilaire Kpongbe | Clavigralla pheromones for the control of legume pests |
Speaker | Sévilor Kekeunou | Shade trees help to control subterranean pest termites in cocoa agroforestry systems in Central Cameroon |
Speaker | Estelle Loko | Integrated Pest Management of the yam chip beetle Dinoderus porcellus Lesne (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) |
Speaker | Srinivasan Ramasamy | Challenges and opportunities in implementing Vegetable IPM in Africa |
Speaker | Eveline Compaore | Behavior and attitude toward Integrated Pest Management in Burkina Faso: A gender length perspective in the cascade region |
Speaker | Ana Lopez Llandres | Intercropping cotton and soybean in organic production systems to favor pest control management |
Speaker | Nehal Djaouga | Distribution of Fusarium wilt of cotton and plant-parasitic nematodes associated with in Benin |
Speaker | Antoine Sanon | Integrated management of Spodoptera frugiperda in Burkina Faso: Contribution and potential of indigenous beneficial agents |


Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Organizer | Shaonpius Mondal | Understanding wheat curl mite transmitted viruses and their co-infection dynamics in wheat |
Co-Organizer | Elizabeth Cieniewich | Exploring the role of pollinators and thrips in spreading pollen-borne viruses in fruit crops in the Southeast U.S. |
Speaker | Alberto Fereres | Impact of double virus infections on the yield of melon plants subjected to water stress |
Speaker | Murad Ghanim | Molecular mechanisms underlying transmission of liberibacter by psyllids |
Speaker | William Wintermantel | Biological, epidemiological, and environmental factors drive the prevalence and dominance of whitefly-transmitted viruses in cucurbits |
Speaker | Lava Kumar | TO BE ANNOUNCED |
Speaker | Alana Jacobson | Seasonal spread of cotton leafroll dwarf virus by the cotton aphid in the United States |
Speaker | Anna Whitfield | The molecular interplay between plant viruses and insect vectors |
Speaker | Varvara Maliogka | TO BE ANNOUNCED |


Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Organizer - Lead speaker | Frank Ordon | |
Speaker | Thomas Miedaner | Genetic improvement of the resistance of cereal cultivars in relation to the population dynamics of the fungal pathogens |
Speaker | Kostya Kanyuaka | Dissecting wheat-Septoria interactions |
Speaker | Janine König | Identification of new sources of resistance in asparagus (Asparagus officinalis) and pea (Pisum sativum) and what is important for successful resistance breeding |
Speaker | Shuxian Li | Phomopsis Seed Decay Of Soybean: Pathogen Characterization, Germplasm Evaluation, And Development Of Improved Soybean Lines With Resistance |
Speaker | Henryk Flachowsky | Status, difficulties and prospects for improving resistance against diseases in apple from a German perspective |
Speakers | Oliver Trapp, Reinhard Töpfer | New disease-resistant grapevine varieties for a more sustainable viticulture |


Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Organizer - Lead speaker | Rajan Sharma | Biosecurity for Food Security: Safeguarding Crop Genetic Resources from Invasive Biological Threats |
Co-Organizer | Lava Kumar | |
Speaker | Sunil Chandra Dubey | Biosecurity Challenges and Way Forward |
Speaker | Monica Mezzalama | Role of Research Laboratories to Foster Biosecurity and Biosafety |
Speaker | V. Celia Chalam | Quarantine Regulations and Diagnostics for Plant Biosecurity against Transboundary Pests: Challenges and Preparedness |
Speaker | S. N. Sushil | Emerging Threat of Invasive Insects to Indian Agriculture: Present Status, National Regulatory System and Way Forward |
Speaker | Godshen Pallipparambil Robert, Danesha Seth Carley | Emerging Pests: Building Resilient Biosecurity Systems through Data and Decision Support Systems |
Speaker | B. Sarath Babu | Imminent Biosecurity Measures Envisaged against Invasive Pests Posing Serious Threat to Rich Diversity of Plant Genetic Resources in Eastern Ghats of India |
Speaker | Gururaj Katti | Innovative Rice Plant Health Management: Comprehensive Biosecurity Approach for India |


Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Organizer - Lead speaker | Moriyama Hiromitsu | Potentialities of mycoviruses found in lower eucaryotic organisms including fungi as well as plants and insects as biocontrol agents |
Co-Organizer | Tsutomu Arie | To be announced |
Speaker | Kazuki Fujiwara | Challenges and Prospects for Control of Citrus Greening Disease in Japan |
Speaker | Youichi Kobori | Development of sustainable management techniques against transboundary pests and diseases based on the environmental characteristics of newly invaded areas |
Speaker | Kazuhiko Matsuda | TO BE ANNOUNCED |
Speaker | Yoshihiko Shimono | The role of weed seed contamination in grain commodities as propagule pressure |
Speaker | Kyoko Watanabe | Challenge to Fusarium wilt of banana and pod rot of cacao in the Philippines |
Speaker | Liliana Maria Aragon Caballero | Diseases and Pests Occurring in Banana Cultivation in Peru and Their Control |
Speaker | Nga Nguyen Thi Thu | Important bacterial diseases on rice , vegetables and fruits in Viet nam and their management |
Speaker | Le Phuoc Thanh | Phytophthora and Pythium associated with citrus in the Mekong delta of Vietnam |
Speaker | Le Van Vang | Sex pheromones: an effective tool for sustainable management of agricultural harmful insect pests in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam |
Speaker | Dionisio Alvindia | Status of banana and cacao industry in the Philippines |
Speaker | Ioly Kotta-Loizou | A mycovirus induces systemic resistance in oilseed rape against phoma stem canker |


Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Organizer - Speaker | Xueping Zhou | Knock-out of the virus replication-related genes UbEF1B and CCR4/NOT3 by CRISPR/Cas9 confers high-efficiency and broad-spectrum resistance to geminiviruses |
Lead speaker | Rosa Lozano-Durán | Unravelling the plant manipulation by geminiviruses |
Speaker | Xiaofeng Wang | Protein, lipid, and membrane interactions in positive-strand RNA virus genome replication |
Speaker | Fei Yan | Occurrence, prevention and control of pepper virus diseases in China |
Speaker | Andreas Voloudakis | dsRNA-mediated resistance against plant viruses |





16. Vascular wilts
Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Speaker | Marc Valls Mathe | Virulence strategies and resistance mechanisms in the bacterial wilt disease |
Speaker | Sotiris Tzamos | Epigenetics in biological control of vascular wilts: the case of Bacillus velezensis K165 against Verticillium dahliae |
Speaker | Frank Takken | TO BE ANNOUNCED |
Speaker | Murray Grant | Dissecting Xanthomonas campestris infection strategies, an imaging based approach |
Speaker | Vardis Ntoukakis | A MYST Histone Acetyltransferase modulates root immunity responses |




Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Organizer | Spyros Fountas | |
Speaker | TBA | Optimizing Crop Protection: A Comprehensive Study of Spraying Drones in Vineyards |
Speaker | TBA | TBA |


Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Speaker | Florent Trouillas | Epidemiology and management of fungal canker diseases of sweet cherry in California |
Speaker | Vladimiro Guarnaccia | Fungal pathogens causing trunk diseases in Northern Italy, species diversity and temperature interaction |
Speaker | Josep Armengol | Fungal trunk and canker diseases of fruit, nut and vine crops in Spain: Causes and solutions |
Speaker | Giorgio Gusella | Status of citrus canker disease in Sicily |
Speaker | Juan Moral Moral | From branch canker to “Escudete” olive diseases caused by Botryosphaeriaceae |
Speaker | Carlos Agusti Brisach | Canker diseases in olive and tree nuts in southern Spain |
Speaker | Florence Fontaine | Botryosphaeriaceae dieback agents: understanding of their aggressiveness and recent advances in management |
Speaker | Jose Ramon Urbez Torres | Sustainable management of grapevine canker diseases |

Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Organizer - Speaker | Maria Lodovica Gullino, M. Pugliese | Climate change, plant diseases and their management |
Speaker | Monica Hofte | Advances in biological control |
Speaker | Lise Korsten | New challenges to food security |
Speaker | Ramon Albajes | Advances in pest management or Ecosystem services |
Speaker | Mariangela Ciampitti | Biosecurity issues, with special emphasis in the entomological sector |
Speaker | TBA | TBA |
Speaker | TBA | TBA |

Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Organizer/speaker | Corné Pieterse | The rhizosphere microbiome and plant immunity |
Organizer/speaker | Ioannis Stringlis | Plant-microbiome communication in the rhizosphere |
Speaker | Hanna Roeverich | The roles of fungal effectors in microbiota manipulation |
Speaker | Omri Finkel | Designing a balanced microbiome for disease protection |
Speaker | Kalliopi Papadopoulou | Plant Microbiomes: Τackling (crop) plant diseases with molecular insights |


Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Speaker | Xiaoping Hu | Mechanism of Cotton Leaf Defoliation Caused by Verticillium dahliae defoliating strain |
Speaker | Chen Tangk | Molecular insights into the Verticillium dahliae - smoke tree interactions |
Speaker | Dandan Zhang | Secretome: the miraculous arsenal of Verticillium dahliae during host infection |
Speaker | Steve Klosterman | Comparative genomics of Verticillium spp. for analyses of microsclerotia production |

Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Speaker | Yonglin Wang | Integrated management of the smoke tree wilt |
Speaker | Steve Klosterman | Nitrogen dioxide treatments for reducing Verticillium dahliae in spinach seed |
Speaker | Juan A. Navas-Cortes | Modeling distribution and early detection of Vascular pathogens: The case of Verticillium dahliae and Xylella fastidiosa |
Speaker | Krishna Subbarao | Do we define races on the basis of single Avr genes or on their phylogenetic lineage? |
Speaker | Franco Nigro | TBA |
Speaker | Andreas von Tiedemann | TBA |

Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Organizer | Abraham Gamliel | Risk management of emerging pests with relevance to effective response and recovery plan |
Organizer - Lead speaker | ames Stack | Plant Health in the more inclusive One Health Concept: Implications for biosecurity and food security |
Speaker | Simon Mckirdy | Developing an effective biosecurity system to address introduction of emerging pests |
Speaker | Michael Jeger | Risk assessment, pest alerts and emergence: what determines the timelines? |
Speaker | Sigal Brown | Emerging of new plant parasitic nematodes as a complex with parasitic fungus |


Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Organizer - Lead Speaker | Shuxian Li | |
Speaker | Timothy Murray | Screening wheat and its wild relatives for resistance to the eyespot pathogens Oculimacula yallundae and O. acuformis. |
Speaker | Karina Van Der Lind | Impact of global warming on susceptibility of European maize cultivars to corn smut infections. |
Speaker | Van Schepler-Luu | Combating major and emerging rice diseases in Asia using Advanced Genetic Technologies |
Speaker | Qijian Song | Development of high-throughput genotyping assays for genetic mapping of disease resistant genes and accelerating soybean and bean breeding for disease resistance |
Speaker | Maeli Melotto | CRIPR/Cas9-assisted engineering for disease resistance |
Speaker | Rosemarie W. Hammond | Strategies using Gene Silencing and CRISPR Tools in tomato to understand and improve plant defense against Viroids |

Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Co-Organizer - Speaker | Laura Iles | Networking for Effective Integrated Pest Management: Spotlight on Working Groups in the Regional IPM Centers |
Co-Organizer - Speaker | Daren Mueller | Enhancing Crop Protection: The Collaborative Impact of the Crop Protection Network (CPN) |
Speaker | Lynnae Jess | Pest Management Strategic Plans and Crop Profiles: Bridging the Gap in IPM Data Collection for Enhanced Pest Management Practices |
Speaker | Emily Unglesbee | Integrated Weed Management with GROW: Getting Rid of Weeds |
Speaker | Joe LaForest | Developing Tools to Empower Stakeholders for Effective Pest Management and Ecosystem Health |
Speaker | Marty Draper | TO BE ANNOUNCED |
Speaker | Teresa Meadows | TO BE ANNOUNCED |
Speaker | Sam Markell | TO BE ANNOUNCED |


Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Organizer | Rafael M. Jiménez-Díaz | |
Speaker | Dimitris Tsaltas | Plant Doctor: An expert of Agroenvironmental systems needed for one Health |
Speaker | Amanda Hodges | DPM-Interns and Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Plant Health Solutions |
Speaker | Jeffrey Bradshaw | Seeding the future: Education of practitioners in plant health |
Speaker | Ramon Albajes | One Health: a new perspective to highlight the successes of plant health and the need for a new qualification in this field |



29. Grapevine trunk diseases
Role | Name | Lecture title |
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Speaker | Gramaje David | Recent advances in the management of grapevine trunk diseases |
Speaker | Aiello Dalia | Grapevine Trunk diseases affecting table grape: current knowledge and future perspectives in Italy |
Speaker | Eskalen Akif | Current etiology of Aspergillus Vine Canker and Sour Rot of table grapes in California |
Speaker | Fontaine Florence | Strategies for the development of a new formulation friendly for the environment and preliminary results from greenhouse to vineyard |
Speaker | Di Marco Stefano | Effect of macro and micro elements on Esca of grapevine |
Speaker | Eichmeyer Ales | Antifungal Effects of Nanocomposites Against Fungal Trunk Pathogens |
Speaker | Rey Patrice | Agroecological Protection To Control Esca, A Grapevine Trunk Disease |
Speaker | Kanetis Loukas | The status of grapevine trunk diseases in Cyprus: Etiology and disease management efforts |
Speaker | Akgul Soner | An overview of grapevine trunk disease and Fusarium root-basal rot pathogens in Turkish grapevine nurseries |


Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Organizer | Dimitris Tsitsigiannis | |
Organizer | Paola Batilani | |
Speaker | Marco Camardo Leggieri | TBA |
Speaker | Alejandro Ortega-Beltran | TBA |
Speaker | Hao Zhang | TBA |



Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Organizer - Speaker | Anna Maria D'Onghia | Precision systems for monitoring Xylella fastidiosa in olive groves |
Organizer - Speaker | Maria Holeva | Ten years of implementation of diagnostic checks to prevent entry of Xylella fastidiosa in Greece |
Speaker | Alberto Fereres | Philaenus spumarius: the most polyphagous insect herbivore has become an unforeseen vector of Xylella fastidiosa in Europe. |
Speaker | Maria Saponari | Insights into the molecular mechanisms of resistance to Xylella fastidiosa in olives and advances in the breeding programs |
Speaker | Baldissera Giovani | Capacity building and collaboration on Xylella fastidiosa through Euphresco |
Speaker | Maroun El Moujabber | Capacity Building and networking for Xylella fastidiosa containment in Europe and in third Countries: the impact of H2020 CURE-XF project |
Speaker | Giorgio M. Balestra | ANCoSIX Italian project: advancing sustainable and innovative control of Xylella fastidiosa |
Speaker | TBA | Xylella fastidiosa Requires the Type II Secretion System for Pathogenicity and Survival in Grapevine |
Speaker | Blanca Landa | The current status of Xylella fastidiosa in the Euro-Mediterranean region |


Role | Name | Lecture title |
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Organizer | Jiorgos Kourelis | |
Organizer | Lida Derevnina | |
Speaker | Ksenia Krasileva | Evolution in overdrive: NLR diversity generation and maintenance |
Speaker | Eunyoung Chae | TBA |
Speaker | TBA | |
Speaker | TBA |











Role | Name | Lecture title |
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Organizer | Panos Milonas | |
Speaker | David Andow | Estimating predation rates for arthropod predators using molecular gut content data |
Speaker | Rob Tanner | Assessing the benefits and risks of non-indigenous biological control agents for the EPPO region |
Speaker | TBA | |
Speaker | TBA |



Role | Name | Lecture title |
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Organizer | ANTONINO CUSUMANO, PANOS MILONAS | |
Speaker | Velemir Ninkovic | Unexplored phenomenon of plant resistance to pests through plant-plant communication |
Speaker | Giannoula (Anni) Bogka | Friends or foes? Use of host and host plant-derived volatiles by an olive fruit fly parasitoid |
Speaker | Evgenia Sarakatsani | Impact of nectar-inhabiting bacteria on insect parasitoids |
Speaker | Torsten Meiners | Using chemical diversity approaches to control pollen beetle (Brassicogethes aeneus) and Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) |
Speaker | Foteini Pashalidou | Insect derived cues affect plant responses |
Speaker | Taiadjana Marques Fortuna | TBA |


Role | Name | Lecture title |
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Organizer - Speaker | Zisis Vryzas | Novel approaches in remediation of pesticide residues by biological systems |
Speaker | Carme Sans | Green approaches for pesticides control in agroindustrial effluents |
Speaker | Horacio Heinzen | Strategies to lower the LOQs in environmental samples analysis |
Speaker | Maria Veronica Cesio | Is it enough the analysis of pesticide residues in freshwater to evaluate the contamination status of the aquatic environment? |
Speaker | Silvina Niell | Honey bees risk assessment of pesticide residues from agroecosystems biomonitoring |
Speaker | Nataša Stojić | Determination and risk assessment of pesticide residues in agricultural soil next to irrigation canals |
Speaker | Lucía Pareja | Strategies to reduce fungicide residues and mycotoxins in winder cereals |





Role | Name | Lecture title |
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Organizer | Christos G. Athanassiou | |
Organizer | Samir Droby | |
Speaker | William R. Morrison III | Using behavior and Microbial ecology to help improve Surveillance and management programs for stored product insects in a warming world |
Speaker | TBA | TBA |


Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Organizer - Speaker | Fani Hatjina | Laboratory and field tests for determining the adverse effects of sulfoxaflor on honey bees health |
Organizer - Speaker | Antonios Tsagkarakis | Entomopathogenic nematodes as plant protection agents and their impact on honeybees |
Organizer | Noa Simon-Delso | ΤΒΑ |
Speaker | Alemayehu Gela | The impact of commonly used agricultural pesticides on honeybees (Apis mellifera) in Ethiopia |



Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Speaker | TBA | How cover crop mixtures can be an important tool of sustainable weed and crop management in perennial crops? |
Speaker | TBA | Long-term studies on IWM effectiveness in maize |
Speaker | TBA | The GOOD project for agroecological weed management: concept and Living Labs in Greece |


Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Organizer - Speaker | Sotiris Tjamos | Bacillus velezensis K165: a multitask biocontrol agent |
Organizer - Speaker | Panos Sarris | Endophytic microbes of Halophytes: A source of Biocontrol agents for both Biotic and Abiotic stress |
Speaker | Jane Debode | How to combine Trichoderma-based biocontrol products with other non-chemical methods |
Speaker | Gerardo Puopolo | Microbe-microbe interactions in the rhizosphere influence biocontrol activity of Lysobacter capsici AZ78 by modulating its metabolome and transcriptome |
Speaker | Silvia Proietti | Tomato-beneficial fungus-biotic stressor interaction: untangle the complex network of molecular mechanisms by -omics studies |


Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Organizer - Lead speaker | Silvana Paula-Moraes | Components of IRM programs in an IPM framework: introduction of the session, concepts, and objectives of the discussion |
Speaker | Francis Peter Fortnum Reay-Jones | Resistance evolution to Bt maize in the southern United States: the case of the ubiquitous Helicoverpa zea |
Speaker | Johnnie Van Den Berg | Managing The Changing Lepidoptera Maize Pest Complex In Africa: Short- and Long-Term Strategies |
Speaker | Adeney de Freitas Bueno | Components of IPM program in high input systems of soybean in Brazil |
Speaker | Katelyn A. Kesheimer | Extension as an IPM tool: The Land Grant University program and its role in pest management |
Speaker | Dominic Reisig | Farmers perspectives on information sources and IRM practices |
Speaker | Sally Taylor | Supporting IPM/IRM for cost effective and environmentally acceptable practices in U.S. cotton production |

Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Organizer | Markellou Emilia | TO BE ANNOUNCED |
Organizer | Jay Ram Lamichhane | TO BE ANNOUNCED |
Lead Speaker | Stephen Wegulo | TO BE ANNOUNCED |
Speaker | Vittorio Rossi | TO BE ANNOUNCED |
Speaker | Martin J. Barbetti | TO BE ANNOUNCED |
Speaker | Daniel Bebber | TO BE ANNOUNCED |








Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Organizer | Federico Tomasetto | ΤΒΑ |
Organizer | Prof Nick Roskruge | ΤΒΑ |
Organizer | Trevor Jackson | ΤΒΑ |
Speaker | Alessio Mengoni | ΤΒΑ |



Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Lead Speaker | Stéphane Compant | Bacterial-fungal interactions and impacts on plant growth and health |
Speaker | Rana Haidar | Bacteria associated with wood tissues in grapevines: functional diversity and synergy with Fomitiporia mediterranea to degrade wood components |
Speaker | Ouiza Mesguida | Antagonistic mode of actions of grapevine wood-bacteria to biocontrol Fomi-poria mediterranea |
Speaker | Alessio Mengoni | When biodiversity preservation meets biotechnology: the challenge of developing synthetic microbiota and the case of symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria |
Speaker | Ken-ichi Yoshida | Coinoculation of Bacillus velezensis strain S141 and Bradyrhizobium strains promotes nodule growth and nitrogen fixation |


Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Speaker | Matteo Garbelotto | Novel, large-scale tree mortality in California is caused by latent pathogens triggered by climate change |
Speaker | Salvatore Moricca | Thousand Cankers Disease threatens Juglans species across Europe: monitoring and control efforts for protecting EU uncontaminated areas |
Speaker | Rodrigo Ahumada | Disease Management in Pinus radiata plantations in Chile |
Speaker | Bruno Scanu | The panglobal plant pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi threatens Mediterranean forest ecosystems |
Speaker | Patrick Bennett | Early detection, monitoring, and modeling of forest pathogens enable the development of proactive forest health management strategies |
Speaker | Baldissera Giovani, Salvatore Moricca, Rodrigo Ahumada, Bruno Scanu, Patrick Bennett | Round Table - TBA |

Role | Name | Lecture title |
---|---|---|
Organizer | Nutan Kaushik | |
Organizer | Dr. Azucena | |
Organizer | Naceur Djebali |
