Insect invasions in a changing world

Convenors :

• Dr. Natalia Kirichenko, LE STUDIUM® RESEARCH FELLOW
  on leave from Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia,  in residence at INRA, URZF (Unité de Recherche Zoologie Forestière), Orléans, France.
• Dr. Alain Roques, Research Director
  INRA, URZF (Unité de Recherche Zoologie Forestière), Orléans, France.
• Dr. Sylvie Augustin, Deputy Director
  INRA, URZF (Unité de Recherche Zoologie Forestière), Orléans, France.
• Dr. Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde, Research Scientist
  INRA, URZF (Unité de Recherche Zoologie Forestière), Orléans, France.

Confirmed Speakers:

• Dr. Tea Ammunet
  Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences / Department of Ecology, Uppsala, Sweden
• Dr. Peter Baier
  Insitute of Forest Entomologie, Forest Pathology and Forest Protection / University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
• Dr. Yuri Baranchikov
  Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Forest Zoology department, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
• Dr. Andrea Battisti
  University of Padova / Department DAFNAE-Entomology, Legnaro, Italy
• Dr. Manuela Branco
  Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA), University of Lisbon / Centro de Estudos Florestais (CEF), Lisbon, Portugal
• Dr. Milka Glavendekić
  University of Belgrade / Faculty of Forestry, Belgrade, Serbia
• Dr. Marc Kenis
  CABI-Europe Switzerland / Risk Analysis and Invasion Ecology Section, Delemont, Switzerland
• Dr. Carole Kerdelhué
  INRA, CBGP / Montpellier, France
• Dr. Mathieu Laparie
  INRA / Unité de Recherche Zoologie Forestière, Orléans, France
• Dr. Stig Larsson
  Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences / Department of Ecology, Uppsala, Sweden
• Dr. Erik J. van Nieukerken
  Naturalis Biodiversity Center / Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Leiden, The Netherlands
• Dr. Deepa Pureswaran
  Canadia Forest Service / Laurentrian Forestry Centre,  Quebec, Canada
• Dr. David Renault
  University of Rennes / Rennes, France
• Dr. Christelle Robinet
  INRA / Unité de Recherche Zoologie Forestière, Orléans, France
• Dr. Rodolphe Rougerie
  Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle / Paris, France
• Dr. Axel Schopf
  BOKU-University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences / Institute of Forest Entomology, Forest Pathology & Forest Protection,Vienna, Austria
• Dr. Viktória Tóth
  University of West-Hungary, Institute of Silviculture and Forest Protection / Faculty of Forestry, Sopron, Hungary
• Dr. Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde
  INRA / Unité de Recherche Zoologie Forestière, Orléans, France
• PhD student Julien Haran
  INRA / Unité de Recherche Zoologie Forestière, Orléans, France
• Dr. Natalia Kirichenko
  on leave from Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia,  in residence at INRA, URZF (Unité de Recherche Zoologie Forestière), Orléans, France

Topics:

• Insect invasions in relation to climate change
• Adaptation, phenotypic plasticity and invasion potential
• Genomics of invasion, DNA metabarcoding and early detection
• Pathways and routes of invasion
• Modeling and prediction of invasions
• Ecological and economic impacts and management of invasive insects