June 11, 2017	June 12, 2017	June 13, 2017	June 14, 2017	June 15, 2017
Registration at Agruni	7.30-8.00 Transportation to Agruni	7.30-8.00 Transportation to Agruni	7.30-8.00 Transportation to Agruni	9.00-20.00 Excursion to Kazbegi
	8.00-9.00 Registration	8.30-10.15 Oral Session 2	8.30-10.00 Oral Session 6
	9.00-9.30 Opening Ceremony
	10.00-10.30 Coffee Break	10.15 -10.45 Coffee Break	10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
	10.30-12.30 Plenary Session	10.45-12.30 Oral Session 3	10.30-11.30 Plenary Session
			11.30-13.30 Business Meeting and Closing
	12.30-14.00 Lunch	12.30-14.00 Lunch	13.30-14.30 Lunch
	14.00-16.00 Oral Session 1	14.00-15.30 Oral Session 4	14.30-18.00 Excursion to Jvari and Mtskheta
	16.00-16.30 Coffee Break	15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
	16.30-18.30 Poster Session	16.00-17.30 Oral Session 5
17.30-18.00 Convenors Meeting		17.30-20.00 Transfer to  Old Tbilisi. City Tour
18.00-19.00 Mixer	19.00- Transfer to hotels	20.00- Transfer to hotels	19.00-22.00 Banquet
19.00- Transfer to hotels			22.00- Transfer to hotels

 

 

Program

JUNE 11, 2017

 

16:00 - Registration

 

17.30 - Convenors Meeting

 

18:00 - Mixer

 

19:00 - Transfer to hotels

 

 

 

JUNE 12, 2017

 

8.00 Registration

9.00 Opening Ceremony  (Medea Burjanadze, Johannes Jehle, Giselher Grabenweger)

9:30 PL-0. Giselher Grabenweger- Introduction to IOBC

10.00 Coffee Break

 

 

 

PLENARY SESSION: BIOCONTROL AND IPM 
(Convenor: Johannes Jehle)

10:30 PL-1. Tsisia Chkhubianashvili- Development of Microbial Control Agents to Plant Protection from Pest Insects in Georgia: Past and Future

11:00 PL-2. Heiri Wandeler- Including Baculoviruses in Insect Control Strategies – Opportunities and Challenges

11:30 PL-3. Itamar Glazer - Efficacy and Persistence of Entomopathogenic Nematodes (EPNs) Against Burrowing and Sedentary Insects

 

12:00 PL-4. Stefan Jaronski - Using Insect Pathogenic Fungi to Manage Insect Pests “Where Are We Going? (Where SHOULD We Be Going?)

 

12:30 Lunch

 

 

 

ORAL SESSION: BACTERIA.
(Convenor: Medea Burjanadze)

 

14:00 OP-1. Ardahan Eski - Bacterial based biopesticide production for pest management

 

14:15 OP-2. Ebru Guney - Bacterial isolation from Capnodis tenebrionis and determination of the insecticidal effects of these bacteria

 

14:30 OP-3. Rami Horowitz - Effect of UV-stabilized BtK on Helicoverpa armigera larvae after exposure to sunlight

 

14:45 OP-4. H. M. Kariithi - Identification of Cultivable Tsetse Gut Microbiota and Assessment of Their Probiotic Potential to Improve Fly Quality and Performance

 

15:00 OP-5. Monika Maurhofer - Root-colonizing fluorescent pseudomonads as biocontrol agents of insects

 

15:15 OP-6. Zane Metla - Analysis of the bacterial community associated to different life stages of the forest pest Lymantria dispar.

 

15:30 OP-7. Chandrashekhar Patil  - Cloning, Characterization and Expression of a cry1B-type Gene of Bacillus thuringiensis to Combat Capnodis tenebrionis - a Coleopteran Pest of Stone Fruit Trees

 

15:45 OP-8. Luca Ruiu  - Recent findings on Brevibacillus laterosporus toxins and virulence factors

 

16:00 Coffee Break

 

16:30 Poster Session

 

19:00 Transfer hotels

 

 

 

 

JUNE 13, 2017

 

ORAL SESSION: FUNGI
(Convenor: Hermann Strasser)

 

08:30 OP-9. Nona Chkhaidze - First report of enthomopatogenic fungi on the insect vector Hyalesthes obsoletus Signoret in Georgia

 

08:45 OP-10. Deborah Kaiser - Biological control of pollen beetles with the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana – the tricky path to an efficient formulation

 

09:00 OP-11. Vivien Krell - Exoenzymes improvepenetration and colonization of potato plants by endophytic entomopathogenic M. brunneum

 

09:15 OP-12. Natalia Kryukova - Possible variants of the interactions on tree-component system: entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana - great wax moth Galleria mellonella - ectoparasitoid Habrobracon hebetor

 

09:30 OP-13. Johanna Mayerhofer - Non-target effects of Metarhizium brunneum on soil microorganisms

 

09:45 OP-14. Arne Peters - Commercial production of conidia emitting granules for the soil application of Metarhizium brunneum

 

10:00 OP-15. Jaka Razinger - Evaluation of different strategies employing entomopathogenic and soil fungi against spotted wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii)

 

10:15 Coffee Break

 

 

 

ORAL SESSION: FUNGI
(Convenor: Jaka Razinger)

 

10:45 OP-16. Hermann Strasser - Biological Control of Adult Diabrotica- Spray experiments with Metarhizium brunneum strain BIPESCO 5 under real farm conditions

 

11:00 OP-17. Maria Zottele  - Metarhizium brunneum BIPESCO 5: a sustainable and preventive biological control agent to control Diabrotica virgifera virgifera larvae

 

11:15 OP-18. Eustachio Tarasco  - Potential of entomopathogenic fungi and nematodes against Drosophila suzukii in laboratory assays

 

11:30 OP-19. Oksana Tomilova  - Entomopathogenic fungi and natural avermectins are interact as a synergists

 

11:45 OP-20. Maksim Tyurin  - Entomopathogenic fungi Metarhizium spp. from Russia and neighbouring territories, ecological preferences and activity against Colorado potato beetle larvae

 

12:00 OP-21. Eustachio Tarasco  - Potential of entomopathogenic fungi and nematodes against the two cryptic species Parahypopta caestrum and Cossus cossus in laboratory assays

 

12:15 OP-22. Francesca De Luca  - Exon-intron structure and sequence variation of the hsp-90 gene in the entomopathogenic nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora

 

12:30 Lunch

 

 

 

ORAL SESSION: NEMATODE
(Convenor: Arne Peters)

 

14:00 OP-23. Itamar Glazer - Response of Steinernema carpocapsae and Heterorhabditis bacteriophora to physical stimuli by Red Palm Weevil: Behavioral and molecular analysis

 

14:15 OP-24. Oleg Gorgadze  - Susceptibility of the cutworm, Agrotis segetum (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) to entomopathogenic nematodes

 

14:30 OP-25. Baris Gulcu  - Biological Control of Naupactus godmani (Curculionidae), Fuller Rose Beetle, with Entomopathogenic Nematodes

 

14:45 OP-26. Javad Karimi  - Challenges toward implementation of microbial pesticide with emphasis on entomopathogenic nematodes as biocontrol agents in Iran

 

15:00 OP-27. Ivan Kerchev  - Complex of endoparasitic nematodes of four-eyed fir bark beetle Polygraphus proximus, and their impact on its immunity

 

15:15 OP-28. Branimir Njezic  - Efficacy of entomopathogenic nematodes against European cherry fruit fly Rhagoletis cerasi (L.) in laboratory and field conditions

 

15:30 Coffee Break

 

 

ORAL SESSION: NEMATODE/IPM
(Convenor: Itamar Glaser)

 

16:00 OP-29. Martine Rehayem - New insights in biocontrol strategy against Cephalcia tannourinensis, the principal insect defoliator of cedars in Lebanon

 

16:15 OP-30. Rostislav Zemek  - Microbial and nematode control of the Colorado potato beetle

 

16:30 OP-31. Sigal Braun Miyara  -The use of Daldinia concentrica, an endophytic fungus, and its bioactive volatiles against the plant parasitic nematode Meloidogyne javanica

 

16:45 OP-32. Hilfred Huiting - IPM in practical wireworm control; struggle or challenge?

 

17:00 OP-33. Milan Pernek  - Comparison of pathogen abundance between high and low level populations of Ips typographus in Croatia after an ice storm disaster

 

17:30 Transfer to Old Tbilisi. City Tour

 

20:00 Transfer to hotel

 

 

 

JUNE 14, 2017

 

ORAL SESSION: VIRUS
Convenor: Johannes Jehle

 

08:30 OP-34. Zihni Demirbag - Functional Analysis of Putative glycosyl transferase gene (AMV248) of Amsacta moorei entomopoxvirus

 

08:45 OP-35. Cihan Inan - Protein-Protein Interactions Between Attachment (AMV248) and Entry Fusion Complex Proteins of Amsacta moorei entomopoxvirus

 

09:00 OP-36. Michael D. Jukes  - Baculovirus synergism: investigating mixed alphabaculovirus and betabaculovirus infections in the false codling moth, Thaumatotibia leucotreta, for improved pest control l

 

09:15 OP-37. Miguel Lopez-Ferber  - Measuring the fitness cost of type I resistance breaking by CpGV

 

09:30 OP-38. Sean Moore - The isolation of a novel alphabaculovirus and its potential for microbial control of key tortricid moth pests

 

09:45 OP-39. Marcel Tanner  - Integratet Pest and Resistance Management of Helicoverpa zea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) with a Helicoverpa armigera nucleopolyhedrovirus

 

10:00 Coffee Break

 

 

 

PLENARY SESSION: NOVEL TECHNIQUES FOR BIOLOGICAL CONTROL
Convenor: Giselher Grabenweger

 

10:30 PL-5. Johannes Jehle - Deciphering different mechanisms of resistance to CpGV products in codling moth field populations

 

11:00 PL-6. Stefan Vidal  - From lab to registration: an Attract & Kill control strategy for wireworms in field crops: achievements and problems

 

11:30 Business Meeting and Closing

 

13:30 Lunch

 

14:30 Excursion to Jvari and Mtskheta

 

19:00 Banquet

 

 

Poster Presentations  

PP-01: Christina Schuster

Genetic Diversity of Bacillus thuringiensis Isolates from Cuba

 

PP-02: Christina Schuster

Genetic Characterization of cry Gene Diversity in Bacillus thuringiensis Isolates from Kyrgyzstan

 

PP-03: Prof. Kazim Sezen

Isolation and Screening of Extracellular Proteases Produced by different Entomopathogenic Bacillus

thuringiensis isolates

 

PP-04: Dr. Dmitry Voitka

Potential of anamorphic entomopatogenic fungi and biological products on their base in the control of

greenhouse whitefly Trialeurodes vaporariorum West. (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) in Belarus

 

PP-05: Prof. Ismail Demir

Application of Zeolite formulations in combination with Beauveria bassiana, and Trichoderma

asperellum against Tribolium confusum

 

PP-06: Prof. Ismail Demir

Isolation and characterization of entomopathogenic fungi from Pristiphora abietina Christ.

(Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae)

 

PP-07: Prof. Mara Tabakovic-Tosic

Entomopathogenic fungus Entomophaga aulicae as agents in classic biological control of browntail moth

in some broadlief forest in Serbia

 

PP-08: Christina Schuster

Group -I intron based strain-specific diagnosis of entomopathogenic Metarhizium fungi from Cuba

 

PP-09: Prof. Nana Bitsadze, Dr. Mariam Betsiashvili

Preliminary study of selected entomopathogenic fungi for corn (maize) aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis

control

 

PP-10: MS. Anna Moldovan

Isolation and identification of fungal community of alfalfa pest weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in

the Republic of Moldova

 

PP-11: Vivien Krell

Enhanced colonization of tomato plants by encapsulation of endophytic entomopathogenic M. brunneum

 

PP-12: MS Jana Konopicka

The effects of natural substrates and artificial media on the production of conidiospores and

blastospores of entomopathogenic fungus Isaria fumosorosea, strain CCM 8367

 

PP-13: Dr. Sandra Lerche

Soil application of entomopathogenic fungi as an aproach to control the seabuckthorn fruit fly?

 

PP-15: Dr. Mikheil Gogebashvili

Effect of Ultraviolet Radiation and screening tolerance native isolates of Beauveria spp.

 

PP-16: Dr. Stefan Jaronski

Variability of Wheat Cultivars to Host Endophytic Beauveria, Metarhizium

 

PP-17: Dr. Zaneta Fiedler

SIDE EFFECTS OF FUNGICIDES AND INSECTICIDES ON ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNG

 

PP-17: Prof. Danuta Sosnowska

SIDE EFFECTS OF FUNGICIDES AND INSECTICIDES ON ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGI

 

PP-18: Jiri Nermut

The assessment of the effect of entomopathogenic nematodes on bulb mites, pests of garlic and onion

 

PP-19: Dr. Jiri Nermut

Diversity of mollusc-parasitic nematodes of the genus Phasmarhabditis. How to identify them?

 

PP-20: Dr. Stefan Toepfer

Entomopathogenic nematodes to replace soil insecticides in western corn rootworm control

 

PP-21: MS. Mariam Chubinishvili

Entomopathogenic Nematodes Application to Control Sciarid Flies in Mushroom Cropping Systems in

Georgia

 

PP-22: Prof. Ziga Laznik

Are entomopathogenic nematodes (Steinernema and Heterorhabditis) compatible with acaricides?

 

PP-23: Prof. Nona Mikaia

Management of Leaf Curl Plum Aphid, Brachycaudus helichrysi (Hemiptera:Aphididae) by

entomopathogenic nematodes

 

PP-24: Ivana Majic

Compatibility of bio-nematicide and plant stimulant of microbial origin with Heterorhabditis

bacteriophora

 

PP-25: Dr. Regina G. Kleespies

Natural microbial antagonists and model based risk assessment of oak processionary moth

(Thaumetopoea processionea) in climate change

 

PP-26: Dr. Regina G. Kleespies

Neem oil inhibits larval and pupal development of Drosophila suzukii in feeding trials under laboratory

conditions

 

PP-27: Dr. Remziye Nalcacioglu

Nucleopolyhedroviruses from the lackey moth, Malacosoma neustria (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) in

Turkey: A promising biological control agent

 

PP-28: Gozde Bus Elcin

The First Detection of a Baculovirus in Heliothis peltigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) (Bordered Straw)

Larvae

 

PP-29: Dr. Hacer Muratoglu

Determination of Protein Protein Interactions among Protein Kinases of Amsacta moorei

entomopoxvirus (AMEV) and Protein Kinases with the other Proteins of AMEV

 

PP-30: Prof. Johannes Jehle

Effect of temperature on long-term storage of Cydia pomonella Granulovirus (CpGV-M)

 

PP-31: Marcel van der Merwe

Genetic stability of the Cryptophlebia leucotreta granulovirus (CrleGV- SA), after 15 years of commercial

use as a biopesticide

 

PP-32: Prof. Boguslaw Szewczyk

New method for granulovirus differentiation based on Multitemperature Single Stranded

Conformational Polymorphism

 

PP-33: Dr. Alberto Troccoli

Isolation and molecular characterization of the heat shock protein-90 gene (hsp-90) in three

Steinernema species from Georgia

 

PP-34: Prof. Eustachio Tarasco

Differential susceptibility of Popillia japonica 3rd instars to Heterorhabditis bacteriophora (Italian strain) at three different seasons