Topical Advisory Panel

Members


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Biotechnology and Biological Control Agency, Rome, Italy
Interests: biological control of weeds and insects; sterile insect technique; integrated weed and pest management
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Department of Entomology, Ohio State University, Wooster, OH 44691, USA
Interests: evolutionarygenetics; population genetics; quantitative genetics; demography inference; adaptation; machine learning

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Department Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Via del Borghetto 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Interests: biological control of vineyard pests; semiochemicals; beneficial insects; IPM
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Thünen Institute of Biodiversity, Braunschweig, Germany
Interests: bumblebees; agroecology; pollination services
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1. Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 2TZ, UK
2. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba 80060-000, Brazil
Interests: holometabolous insects; larval nutrition; life-history traits; nutritional ecology; trade-offs; machine learning; foraging; insect-microbiome interactions; speciation; ecological specialisation; physiological adaptations; transcriptomics; genomics; proteomics
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CSIC-UPF, Instituto de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE), Barcelona, Spain
Interests: developmental biology; evolution; Drosophila; Tribolium; genetics; cell signalling and insect hormones
Department of Biotechnology, National Formosa University, Yunlin, Taiwan
Interests: insect development; sex determination; evolution and development; endosymbionts; agro-ecosystems; IPM
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Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Interests: ant systematics and evolution; community ecology; comparative genomics; insect-plant interaction; population genomics

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Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 51 Mill Pond Road, Hamden, CT 05614, USA
Interests: insect phenology; community ecology; spatial modeling; dispersal; risk analysis
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Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32643, USA
Interests: IPM; macroecology; entomopathogens; genetics; honey bee morphometrics and genetics; biodiversity and conservation; phylogenetics


Laboratory of Agricultural Zoology and Entomology, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, 11855 Athens, Attica, Greece
Interests: insect behavior; stored-product pests; stored-product protection; agricultural pests; chemical control; non-chemical control; trapping and sampling
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Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
Interests: insect parasitic nematodes; entomopathogenic nematodes; mollusc parasitic nematodes and biological control of invertebrate pests (insects and molluscs)
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Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Interests: zoology; entomology; biodiversity; diptera; phylogeny

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Department of Biological Sciences (BIO), University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Interests: ecosystem services; pollination; conservation biological control; IPM; biodiversity; alpine ecosystems; ground beetles; molecular methods

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New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Elizabeth MacArthur Agricultural Institute, PMB 4008, Narellan 2567, Australia
Interests: genetics of pesticide resistance in agriculture pests; monitoring insecticide resistance genes in field insect population

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Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
Interests: RNA interference; insects; pest management; RNAi delivery; RNAi safety
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Crop Research Institute, Drnovska 507, 161 00 Prague, Czech Republic
Interests: IPM; stored product pests; fumigation; packages
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Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Wimauma, FL 33598, USA
Interests: virus vectors; plant virology; population genetics; agricultural entomology

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Instituto Pasteur, Sao Paulo 01027-000, Brazil
Interests: plasmodium; avian malaria; phylogenetic diversity; vector borne disease; morphometry; mosquitoes; DNA barcoding
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Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and the Environment (DAFNAE), University of Padova, 35020 Padova, Italy
Interests: microbiota; symbiotic bacteria; alien invasive pest; genetic diversity; population structure

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Kingsville Citrus Center, Texas A&M University, 312 N International Blvd, Weslaco, TX, USA
Interests: integrated pest management; invasive species; vector biology; biosecurity
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Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia, 1051 Budapest, Hungary
Interests: insect (neuro)endocrinology; insect physiology; lepidopteran pheromonogenesis; effects of sublethal concentrations of traditional and new types of pesticides

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Department of Entomology, Fruit Research and Extension Center, Pennsylvania State University, Biglerville, PA 17307-0330, USA
Interests: insect plant interactions; integrated pest management; biological control; tree fruit insect pests; insects rearing; laboratory and field bioassays; invasive insect pests; pesticide resistance (moth, brown marmorated stink bug)
Department of Physical Sciences, Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL 36104, USA
Interests: human postmortem microbiome; monitoring the microbial diversity in the soil under the decomposing cadavers at varying time intervals and forensic entomology

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Centre Technique Interprofessionnel des Fruits et Légumes, Montpellier, France
Interests: entomology; sterile insect technique; mosquitoes; insect reproduction

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IRTA Sustainable Plant Protection (Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology), 08140 Cabrils, Spain
Interests: conservation biological control; trophic interactions; omnivorous predators; agroecology; ecosystem services; landscape ecology

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Department of Biology, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723, USA
Interests: entomology; systematics; biodiversity; natural history; morphometrics
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan
Interests: insect reproduction; sexual conflict; seminal fluid substances; sterile insect technique; Coleoptera; Hemiptera; Diptera; termite

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Zoological Museum, Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland
Interests: taxonomy; phylogenty; comparative biology; Coleoptera; Tenebrionoidea

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Entomology Institute, Biology Centre of Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
Interests: insectivorous predation; trophic interactions; manipulative experiments
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