Final Programme


Saturday, August 4


16.00

Arrival and registration

16.00

Setting up og posters

18.00

Dinner

20.00

Welcome reception


Sunday, August 5


8.00

Registration and setting up of posters continues

8.40

Welcome to Helsingør

8.50

Opening of the symposium
- Erich Städler


Session 1

NEURAL BASIS FOR PERCEPTION OF CHEMICAL STIMULI
Chair: Ian T. Baldwin

9.10

Encoding of plant odour information in insects:
peripheral and central mechanisms
- Hanna Mustaparta

9.50

The neuronal basis of olfaction in the predatory mite Phytoseiulus persimilis
- Michiel van Wijk

10.10

Coding of olfactory information visualized by calcium imaging in the honeybee antennal lobe
- Silke Sachse

10.30

Coffee break


Session 2

CHEMOSENSORY BASES OF BEHAVIOUR
Chair:
Erich Städler

11.00

How do herbivores cope with unpalatable and toxic compounds in their diet?
- John Glendinning

11.40

Chemoreception of feeding stimulants in diamondback moth larvae: different sensory inputs for glucosinolates and flavonoids
- Joop A. van Loon

12.00

Response of female spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana (Lep. Tortricidae), to host and non-host volatiles
- Gary Grant

12.30

Lunch


14.00

Poster presentations

14.00

Posters with unequal numbers

15.30

Posters with equal numbers

18.00

Dinner


Monday, August 6


Session 3

CHEMICAL BASIS FOR HOST PLANT SELECTION
Chair: Hanna Mustaparta

8.40

The chemical world of crucivores: lures, treats and traps
- J. Alan A. Renwick

9.20

The effects of pyrrolizidine alkaloid composition of Senecio species on the cinnabar moth, Tyria jacobaeae
- Mirka Macel

9.40

Why feed on toxic plants: Responses of solitarious and gregarious locusts to the alkaloid hyoscyamine
- Emma Despland

10.00

Coffee break

10.30

Chemometrics analysis of Colorado potato beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata say infestation on different potato, Solanum tuberosum, cultivars
- Maria Pawiñska

10.45

Effects of age, sex, and dietary history on response to cucurbitacin in Acalymma vittatum (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
- Rebecca R. Smyth

11.00

Apple tree surface metabolites and codling moth, Cydia pomonella L. (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) egg laying behavior
- Sylvie Derridj

11.15

Anti-feedants inhibiting feeding in Hylobius pine weevils
- Fredrik Schlyter

11.30

Host- specificity and host recognition in tenthredinid sawflies
- Alison Barker

12.00

Lunch


Session 4

MOLECULAR ECOLOGY OF INSECT-PLANT INTERACTION
Chair: John I. Glendinning

14.00

'Recognition' of attack from herbivores insects by host plants
- Ian T. Baldwin

14.40

Pyrrolizidine alkaloids and adapted insects - molecular evolutionary aspects of plant defense and adaption
- Dietrich Ober

15.00

Coffee break

15.30

Involvement of jasmonate- and salicylic acid dependent signal transduction pathways in indirect defenses of Arabidopsis
- R.M.P van Poecke

15.50

Dissecting plant-insect interactions with expression profiling
- Heiko Vogel

16.10

Cyanogenic glucoside biosynthesis in transgenic Arabidopsis: Using genetic engineering to determine the role of plant secondary metabolites
- David B. Tattersall

16.25

Poster presentations - equal numbers

18.00

Dinner

19.00

Poster presentation - unequal numbers


Tuesday, August 7


Session 5

INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SEVERAL TROPHIC LEVELS
Chair: Ted Turlings

8.40

Chemoecological interactions between plants, ovipositing herbivorous insects, and egg parasitoids
- Monika Hilker

9.20

Induced plant responses affect herbivores, carnivores and neighbouring plants: connecting above- and below-ground interactions
- Marcel Dicke

9.40

Can generalist predators be "induced" to prefer allelochemically-defended prey? Effects of previous experience on the foraging decisions of adult paper wasps
- Linda S. Rayor

10.00

Coffee break

10.30

An often overlooked tritrophic interaction: Brassicaceous plants and insect pathogenic fungi
- Richard Meadow

10.45

Variation in odour blend composition: effect on attraction of predatory mites
- Jetske G. de Boer

11.00

Prey location and prey-related odor preference of the predatory mites Typhlodromalus manihoti and Typhlodromalus aripo in cassava agroecosystem
- Désiré Gnanvossou

11.15

Role of fecal shields in larvae of the chrysomelid beetles Plagiometriona flavescens and Stolas chalybea (Cassidinae)
- Flávia Nogueira de Sá

11.30

The faecal shield of Lily Leaf Beetle larvae: to be conspicuous or not to be conspicuous
- Urs Schaffner

11.45

Population dynamics of the omnivorous bug, Anthocoris nemoralis: Effects of host plants and prey
- Liora Shaltiel

12.00

Lunch

13.00

Busses leave for excursions


Wednesday, August 8


Session 6

BEHAVIOUR AND PERFORMANCE ON PLANTS
Chair: Alan Renwick

8.40

A new theory of host-plant selection by phytophagous insects
-
Rosemary H. Collier

9.20

The role of Sinigrin on host plant recognition by aphids during initial plant penetration
- Beata Gabrys

9.40

A geometric analysis of insect herbivore foraging strategies in variable environments: Lessons learned using locusts
- Spencer T. Behmer

10.00

Coffee break

10.30

Adaptive learning of host preference in a herbivorous mite
- Martijn Egas

10.45

Response to a hybrid eucalypt may be mediated by leaf waxes
- Martin J. Steinbauer

11.00

Xylem ingestion by winged aphids
- Glen Powell

11.15

Performance of pine looper Bupalus piniarius L. larvae under population build-up conditions
- Agnis Smits

11.40

Lunch


Session 7

EFFECTS OF PLANT DEFENCES ON INSECTS
(INDIVIDUALS AND POPULATIONS)
Chair: Mark Scriber

13.30

Birch defense: from leaf chemistry to insect performance
- Erkki Haukioja

14.10

A new method for bioassaying the effects of plant defenses on insects using the Eri silkworm: Application to privet-privet specialist herbivore system and other plant defense mechanisms
- Kotaro Konno

14.30

Resistant willow genotypes react with a hypersensitive response and accumulate salicylic acid when attacked by a gall midge
- Olof Ollerstam

14.50

Why do aphid populations crash in July? The plant factor
- A. J. Karley

15.10

Coffee break


Session 7

EFFECTS OF PLANT DEFENCES ON INSECTS
(INDIVIDUALS AND POPULATIONS) continues
Chair: Peter W. de Jong

15.40

Aphid response to ozone and CO2 on woody plants
- Jarmo K. Holopainen

15.55

Ozone resistance: Interactions with plant suitability for insects?
- Pernille M. Jøndrup

16.10

Phytochemical responses of Fallopia convolvulus to chemical and phsysical stress - influence on the performance of Gastrophysa polygoni
- Marianne Bruus

16.25

Glucosinolate sequestration in the defensive haemolymph of a sawfly
- Caroline Müller

16.40

Coping with glucosinolates
- Andreas Ratzka

18.00

Dinner


Thursday, August 9


Session 8

EFFECTS OF INSECTS ON PLANTS (INDIVIDUALS AND POPULATIONS)
Chair: Rosemary Collier

8.40

Insect-plant interactions on a planet of weeds
- Peter McEvoy

9.20

Performance of, and plant response to, specialist and generalist aphids
- Neil Kift

9.35

Insect herbivory can change the outcome of competitive interactions in birch populations
- Kaarina Prittinen

9.50

Analysis and simulation of cotton plant architectural responses to decapitation by insects
- Peter M. Room

10.05

Coffee break


Session 9

GENETICS OF ADAPTIONS BETWEEN PLANTS AND INSECTS
Chair: Monika Hilker

10.30

Major mutations on the move: The spread of genes for novel host plant use in a phytophagous insect
- Peter W. de Jong

11.10

Genetics of host selection of Helicoverpa armigera and H. assulta
- Chen-Zhu Wang

11.30

Anti-herbivore defence in hybrids of Senecio jacobaea and Senecio aquaticus and their parental species
- Klaas Vrieling

11.50 How variable are the mutulistic endosymbionts of aphids (Buchnera) in their capabilities to provide their host with nutrients?
- J. P. Sandström
12.10

Lunch


Session 10

EVOLUTION OF INSECT - PLANT RELATIONSHIPS
Chair: Erkki Haukioja

14.00

Evolution of insect-plant relationships, chemical contraints, coadaptation, and concordance of insect/plant traits
- J. Mark Scriber

14.40

Geographic variation of plant faunas and host ranges in assemblages of flowerhead-feeders on Asteraceae in Brazil
- Thomas M. Lewinsohn

15.00

Coffee break

15.30

The phylogenetics and biochemistry of host plant specialization in melitaeine butterflies
(Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)
- Niklas Wahlberg

15.45

The role of a food plant as cause of adaptation to laboratory conditions of the tropical butterfly Bicyclus anynana
- Rinny E. Kooi

16.00

When leaves act like flowers: How dwarf palms attract their pollinators
- Mathilde Dufay

16.15 Repeated evolution of sequestration of pyrrolizidine alkaloids and iridoid glycosides in Longitarsus flea beetles
- Susanne Dobler
16.30

Closing address
- Louis M. Schoonhoven

16.50

Final word

19.00

Conference dinner


Friday, August 10


Delegates depart


Please note that the content and timings of the programme may change prior to the event.