
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Organizer | Shaonpius Mondal | TO BE ANNOUNCED |
Co-Organizer | Elizabeth Cieniewich | TO BE ANNOUNCED |
Alberto Fereres | TO BE ANNOUNCED | |
Murad Ghanim | TO BE ANNOUNCED | |
William Wintermantel | TO BE ANNOUNCED | |
Lava Kumar | TO BE ANNOUNCED | |
Michelle Heck | TO BE ANNOUNCED | |
Prof. Anna Whitfield | TO BE ANNOUNCED | |
Varvara Maliogka | TO BE ANNOUNCED |


Role | Name | Lecture title |
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Organizer - Lead speaker | Prof. 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 | Soybean Protection: pathogen charaterization, germplasm evaluation, and host resistance |
Speaker | Henryk Flachowsky | Status, difficulties and prospects for improving resistance against diseases in apple from a German perspective |
Speaker | Oliver Trapp | New disease-resistant grapevine varieties for a more sustainable viticulture |




Role | Name | Lecture title |
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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 | |
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 |
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Organizer | Xueping Zhou | TO BE ANNOUNCED |
Lead speaker | Rosa Lozano-Durán | TO BE ANNOUNCED |
Speaker | Jesús Navas-Castillo | TO BE ANNOUNCED |
Speaker | Andreas Voloudakis | TO BE ANNOUNCED |
Speaker | Supriya Chakraborty | TO BE ANNOUNCED |
Speaker | Xiuling Yang | TO BE ANNOUNCED |
Speaker | Xiaorong Tao | TO BE ANNOUNCED |





16. Vascular wilts






Role | Name | Lecture title |
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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 | Akif Eskalen | Current Etiology of Aspergillus Vine Canker and Sour Rot of Table Grapes in California |
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 and first results of sustainable management approach |
Speaker | Juan Moral Moral | From branch canker to “Escudete” olive diseases caused by Botryosphaeriaceae |
Speaker | Carlos Agusti Brisach | Biological Control and Bioprotection Strategies Against Pest and Plant Diseases in Agricultural Crops |
Speaker | David Gramaje | Recent advances in the management of grapevine trunk diseases |






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


Role | Name | Lecture title |
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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 | EImpact of global warming on susceptibility of European maize cultivars to corn smut infections |
Speaker | Van Schepler-Luu | Improving rice resistance against major and emerging diseases in Asia |
Speaker | XXX | Phenotypic or physilogical responses to pathogens – to be announced |
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 | Rosemarie W. Hammond | Strategies using virus-induced gene silencing and CRISPR tools to improve plant defense signaling pathways against viroid pathogens |
Speaker | Maeli Melotto | CRIPR/Cas9-assisted engineering for disease resistance |


Role | Name | Lecture title |
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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 |





30. Grapevine Trunk Diseases








































Role | Name | Lecture title |
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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 | Ecological components of IRM programs in an IPM framework |
Speaker | Johnnie Van Den Berg | Managing the changing Lepidoptera maize pest complex in Africa: short and long-term strategies |
Speaker | Adeney Bueno | Components of IPM program in high input systems of soybean in Brazil |
Speaker | Katelyn A. Kesheimer | Extension as a tool in IPM programs |
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 cotton production in the U.S. |

Role | Name | Lecture title |
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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 |
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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 |

