Programme
15 April - Day 1
9h00 - 10h00
Welcome
10h00 - 10h30
BREAK & Poster viewing
10h30 -11h30
Plenary 1
Conservation of Biodiversity in the context of Invasive Alien Species in Oceanic Island Mauritius
Vincent Florens
Session 1: Biology, behaviour and physiology
11h30 - 11h45
Competitive interaction between wild Bactrocera dorsalis and Ceratitis capitata under different temperature regimes and host fruit species
Hafsi, Abir
11h45 - 12h00
Securing transmission of an essential symbiont: possible mediation by oviposition behavior in Olive flies (Bactrocera oleae)
Ben-Yosef, Michael
12h00 - 12h15
The microbiome and tephritid behavior
Yuval, Boaz
12h15 - 12h30
Deterministic and stochastic effects drive the larval gut microbial diversity in cucurbit feeding fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae)
Hendryks, Wouter
12h30 - 12h45
Controlling the response of Bactrocera zonata males to methyl eugenol
Gazit, Yoav
12h45 - 13h00
Development of a novel method of prior exposure of Bactrocera zonata to methyl eugenol and assessing its effectiveness on mating competitiveness and fly response to ME- Baited Traps
Patel, Nausheen
13h00 - 14h00
LUNCH
Session 2 : Chemical ecology
14h00 - 14h15
Comparative olfactomics links ancestral saprophily to derived frugivory in tephritid fruit flies
Dekker, Teun
14h15 - 14h30
Olfactory systems of polyphagous insects are tuned to host discrimination: Case of fruit flies
Ramiaranjatovo, Gaelle
14h30 - 14h45
Odor based strategies for the management of the oriental fruit fly Bactrocera dorsalis
Biasazin, Tibebe Dejene
14h45 - 15h00
Optimal location and distribution of hydrolysed protein in a tree canopy for control of Ceratitis capitata, C. cosyra and Bactrocera dorsalis (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Weldon, Christopher
15h00 - 15h15
Flower and fruit volatiles of cucurbitaceae attract Zeugodacus cucurbitae females (Coquillett) (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Gessese, Yitbarek Woldehawariat
15h15 - 15h30
Comparative transcriptomic analyses of odorant receptors in Tephritidae
Persyn, Emma
15h30 - 16h00
BREAK & Poster viewing
Session 3 : Ecology, hosts, distribution and abundance
16h00 - 16h15
Interspecific competition between Bactrocera zonata and Ceratitis capitata: Which mechanisms mediate larval interactions within the fruit
Hamburg, Mai
16h15 - 16h30
Diversity of fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) infesting cucurbit crops in Maputo and Manica, Mozambique
Bota, Luis Domingos
16h30 - 16h45
Fruit fly species composition, seasonality, and fruit infestations in avocado orchards in Limpopo and Mpumalanga, South Africa
Grove, Tertia
16h45 - 17h00
Detection of low-density populations of the Mediterranean fruit fly
Papadopoulos, Nikos
17h00 - 17h15
An ecoinformatic approach to hierarchize multiscale environmental effects on the annual onset of B. dorsalis population growth in Senegalese Orchards
Caumette, Cecile
17h15 - 17h30