2021 International Congress on Invertebrate Pathology and Microbial Control & 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology

June 28, 2021 - July 02, 2021

Conference

France

Presentation

VIRTUAL MEETING - The registration is mandatory and will only be confirmed upon receipt of payment.

Since 1967, the Society for Invertebrate Pathology (SIP) has brought together members from diverse scientific backgrounds under the unified discipline of invertebrate pathology. The SIP has 7 Divisions: Bacteria, Diseases of Beneficial Invertebrates (DBI), Fungus, Microbial Control, Microsporidia, Nematode and Virus, which promote scientific knowledge of pathology of invertebrate animals, including pest species and species of commercial interest.

Despite the current pandemics, the Society for Invertebrate Pathology has decided to hold its annual meeting but this should take place on line. It is therefore our pleasure to invite you to attend the 2021 International Congress on Invertebrate Pathology and Microbial Control & SIP2021 - the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology to be held virtually from 28th of June to 2nd of July 2021 in Tours, Loire Valley, France with the participation of Le Studium, IRBI, CNRS, University of Tours and the University of Guanajuato (Mexico).

As always, the meeting will offer an exciting scientific program exploring the latest fundamental and applied findings in invertebrate pathology, including microbial control, diseases of beneficial invertebrates, and advances in fundamental research on host-pathogen interactions. Among the scientific highlights, the society's divisions have put together stimulating symposia and the plenary symposium will be on ‘Current challenges for the microbial control of Spodoptera frugiperda’. All symposia will be held live on the zoom platform and pre-recorded contributed talks and posters posted for viewing prior to live chat sessions.

This conference is organised in partnership with EntomoCentre, a Research Thematic Network, focused on Entomology and funded by the Centre-Val de Loire Region. The network aims to promote studies in entomology in relation to global changes and innovative technologies.

Key words

Microbial Control, Spodoptera frugiperda, invertebrate pathology, Insect for food and feed, Sustainable Development goal: zero hunger

Convenors

Dr Cristina Del Rincón Castro, LE STUDIUM / Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow
FROM: University of Guanajuato - México
IN RESIDENCE AT: Insect Biology Research Institute (IRBI), University of Tours / CNRS - FR
Dr Elisabeth Herniou,
Insect Biology Research Institute (IRBI), University of Tours / CNRS - FR

Pricing

Regular non-member of SIP	100 EUR
Students non-member of SIP	50 EUR
SIP members registration	55 EUR
SIP student members registration	25 EUR

Programme

Plenary symposium: Current Chalenges for the microbial control of Spodoptera frugiperda (Monday 28th of June - 13:30 -> 16:45)

13:30 How not to waste a crisis: A pest invasion as an opportunity to scale up biopesticides - Dr Buyung Hadi, UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Itally
14:00 Know your enemy: Integrative study of plasticity, adaptive evolution and speciation in the Fall armyworm. - Dr Emmanuelle D’Alençon, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE) - France
14:30 Reclaiming an ancestor’s legacy: Fortifying the maize microbiome against fall armyworm herbivory using teosinte microbiota - Prof Julio Bernal, Texas A&M University - USA
15:15 Two decades of collaborative research on Spodoptera frugiperda MNPV. - Dr Trevor Williams, Institute of Ecology - Mexico
15:45 How SfMNPV has moved from a concept to a control method of Spodoptera frugiperda - Dr Holly Popham, AgBiTech - USA
16:15 Challenges and opportunities for bacterial control of Spodoptera frugiperda - Prof Juan-Luis Fuentes, The University of Tennessee - USA

Diseases of Beneficial InvertebratesDivision Symposium: Pathological advances in carcinology (Monday 28th of June - 17:00 -> 19:00)

17:00 Disease slows crawling crabs and alters modeled connectivity between North American Callinectes sapidus populations - Andrew Kough, Shedd Aquarium - USA
17:20 Floridian blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) diseases across freshwater and marine environments - Erin Walters, Florida Wildlife Research Institute - USA
17:40 Diversity and disease of mobile benthic fauna in Florida Bay after harmful cyanobacteria blooms degrade hardbottom habitat - Elizabeth Duermit-Moreau, University of Florida - USA
18:00 Emergence of paramoebiasis in edible crabs (Cancer pagurus) from UK waters - Kelly Bateman, Cefas - UK
18:20 A widely distributed pathogenic reovirus affecting the Atlantic blue - Mingli Zhao, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology - USA
18:40 Disease connectivity: Investigating disease dynamics in shore crabs, Carcinus maenas - Charlotte Davies, Swansea University, UK

Microbial Control Division Symposium: Promising microbial control options for fall armyworm, a global perspective (Tuesday 29th of June - 14:00 -> 16:00)

14:00 An a priori strategy for using market-ready microbial biocontrol products for FAW control: technical, economic and end-user consideration - Roma Gwynn, Rationale, UK; Michael Brownbridge, Bioworks, USA & Travis Glare, Bioprotection Institute, New Zealand
14:30 Beauveria bassiana for FAW in Cambodia: from on-station experiments to farmer-led experiments and work with non-farmer stakeholders 2017-2020 - Rica Joy Flor, IRRI, Cambodia
15:00 A Kenyan and regional perspective of activities on using microbial control agents against FAW: product development and farmer adoption - Subbi Sevgan, ICIPE, Kenya
15:30 Progress in Brazil for the control of FAW with microbial pathogens - Italo Delalibera, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Virus Division symposium: Place of baculoviruses in the fight against Covid-19 (Tuesday 29th of June - 17:00 -> 19:00)

17:00 Four decades of the Baculovirus Expression System – from early beginnings to being at the forefront of global efforts against COVID-19 - Linda King, Oxford Brookes University, UK
17:35 Two-component nanoparticle vaccine displaying glycosylated spike S1 domain induces neutralizing antibody response against SARS-CoV-2 variants - Gobern Pijlman, IWageningen University,Laboratory of Virology, Netherlands
18:10 Baculovirus-Sf9 Insect Cell Technology in the Development of a COVID-19 Vaccine - Gale Smith, Novavax – USA

Fungi Division symposium: New Advances in the World of the Entomophthorales (Wednesday 30th of June - 14:00 -> 16:00)

14:00 The patient puppetmaster: how Massospora spp. infect and manipulate cicada hosts - Brian Lovett, West Virginia University- USA
14:20 Taking control: Mechanistic insights into the behavioral hijacking of fruit flies by the zombie fungus Entomophthora muscae - Carolyn Elya, Harvard University - USA
14:40 The entomopathogenic fungus Entomophthora muscae uses volatiles to fatally attract and trick house fly males to mate with contagious female cadavers - Andreas Naundrup, University of Copenhagen- Denmark
15:00 Fermentation and formulation of Pandora sp. nov. for biological psyllid pest control - Linda Muskat, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld- Germany
15:20 Can fungal epizootics reduce yield loss caused by aphids in cereals? Stéphanie Saussure, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research - Finland
15:40 Batkoa major infecting spotted lanternflies: Host range and population structure. - Ann E. Hajek, Cornell University - USA

Microsporidia Division symposium : Microsporidia of invertebrate hosts in aquatic and terrestrial habitats (Wednesday 30th of June - 17:00 -> 19:00)

17:00 Comprehensive survey of microsporidia reveals extensive ecological and phenotypic diversity - Aaron Reinke, University of Toronto - Canada
17:20 Microsporidia in trematodes: an overview and new findings in the USA and Russia - Yuliya Sokolova, NIDCD, NIH - USA
17:40 A new microsporidian parasitizing invasive Carcinus sp. in the Argentinian Atlantic - Jamie Bojko, Teesside University - UK
18:00 Specific mosquito gut microbiome members are associated with microsporidian infection - Artur Trzebny, Adam Mickiewicz University - Poland
18:20 A review of research on microsporidia infecting pest insects in Bulgaria - Daniela Pilarska, New Bulgarian University – Bulgaria
18:40 How do microsporidia of insect hosts interact with insect parasitoids? - Yuri Tokarev, All-Russian Insitute of Plant Protection – Russia

Diseases of Beneficial Invertebrates and Virus Cross-Division Symposium: Viruses of Pollinators (Thursday 1st July - 14:00 -> 16:00)

14:00 Combined impacts of virus and nutrition on honey bee health - Adam G. Dolezal, University of Illinois - USA
14:30 DWV/VDV1 infectious clones and their application for study of bee-virus interactions - Eugene Ryabov, USDA-ARS, Bee Research Lab, Beltsville - UK
15:00 Virus-blocking peptides to mitigate virus burden in the honey bee - Ya Guo, Northwest A&F University - China
15:30 Comparative virus population genetics in A. mellifera and A. cerana in Asia - Lena Wilfert, University of Ulm - Germany

Bacteria Division symposium: Analysis of Vip3A and Cry protein mechanism of action (Thursday 1 st July - 17:00 -> 19:00)

17:00 Mechanism of action of Vip3 proteins inferred from their structures - Patricia Casino, University of València - Spain
17:30 Pesticidal protein mechanism of action – the importance of experimental verification - Neil Crickmore, University of Sussex - UK
17:40 Experimental evidence for Cry protein MoA models - Alejandra Bravo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México – México
18:10 The activity of Cry protoxins - Mario Soberón, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México – México

Nematode Division Symposium: Entomopathogenic nematodes or scavengers: Revisiting the emerging new nematodes classified as EPN (Friday 2nd July - 13:30 -> 15:30)

13:30 Scavenging among entomopathogenic nematode species: Are there better performers? - Ernesto San-Blas, University of O´Higgins - Chile
13:50 Entomopathogenicity and scavenging behaviour of Oscheius nematodes and their competition with entomopathogenic nematodes - Vladimir Puza, Biology Center CAS - Czech Republic
14:10 The enigmatic status of Oscheius onirici (Nematoda: Rabditida) - Giulia Torrini, CREA - Research Centre for Plant Protection and Certification - Italy
14:30 Biological and taxonomic characterization of a superior infective isolate of Acrobeloids spp - Javad Karimi, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad - Iran
14:50 The cost of fighting for surviving in a complex world: entomopathogenic nematodes as scavengers - Raquel Campos-Herrera, ICVV-CSIC – Spain
15:10 Old and new examples of nematodes classified as EPNs - Kyle Anesko, University of Calfornia - USA

SIP Awardee Symposium (Friday 2nd July - 15:45 -> 17:15)

15:45 Welcome and honoring Martignoni Awardee – Vera Ros
15:50 Presentation Mauro Martignoni Awardee bv/odv-e26 is required for virus-induced host behavioral manipulation in lepidopteran nucleopolyhedroviruses - Hiroyuki Hikida, University of Tokyo - Japan
16:10 Laudatio of Early Carreer Awardee 2020 Jörg Wennmann - Johannes Jehle, Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) - Germany
16:15 Deciphering the population structure of baculoviruses by nucleotide polymorphisms - Jorg Wennmann, Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) - Germany
16:40 Laudatio of Early Carreer Awardee 2021 Patricia Golo - Richard Humber, USDA ARS - USA
16:45 Fungi for tick control: what do we know and what do we need to know? - Patricia Golo, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

SIP Business Meeting (Friday 2nd July - 17:30 -> 18:30)

Christina Nielsen Leroux & Helen Hesketh / Announcement of Student Prizes – Vera Ros

Documents

Programme at a glance

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Full Programme

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Booklet of abstracts

Please find the booklet of abstracts of the conference.

Instructions for oral contributions & posters

Please download the instructions for oral contributions & posters.

Students Awards

For the 2021 virtual meeting, the Society for Invertebrate Pathology has decided to organize competitions for the Mauro Martignoni Award, the Early Career Award and for the Best Student Oral Presentation.

Mauro Martignoni Award
PhD students that are in an advanced stage of their PhD can apply for the Mauro Martignoni Award. The rules and requirements for application are indicated here, and the deadline for submission is April 10, 2021.

Early Career Award
Scientists in the early stage of their career (including post-docs) can apply for the Early Career Award. The rules and requirements for submission are indicated here, and the deadline for submission is April 10, 2021.

Best Student Oral Presentation Award
Students (PhD, MSc, BSc) can compete for the Best Student Oral Presentation Award at the annual meeting. The competition is open to all student presenters. The rules and requirements for participating in this competition are indicated here, and the deadline for abstract submission is April 20, 2021.