Programme
5th Annual Biocontrol Industry Meeting (ABIM) Lucerne, Switzerland October 25-26, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
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Programme |
14.00 - 16.30
Clubroom 8 |
IBMA 2010+ meeting (Sunday) Integrated Pest Management (IPM) (IBMA members only) |
17.00 - 19.00
Clubroom 8 |
IBMA ECM meeting (Sunday) (ECM members only) |
Monday, October 25, 2010
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Programme |
08.00 - 10.00
Clubroom 8 |
IBMA Microbial Biocontrol Agents (MBCA) Professional Group Meeting |
9.30 - 10.00
Clubroom 3 |
IBMA Semiochemicals Professional Group Meeting |
10.00 - 11.30
Clubrooms 7 |
IBMA Integrated Pest Management Working Group Meeting |
10.00 - 12.30
Clubrooms 8 |
IBMA Semiochemicals TASK FORCE Meeting (task force members only) |
11.30 - 12.30
Clubroom 5 |
IBMA Natural and Biochemical Products (excluding Semiochemicals) Professional Group Meeting |
11.30 - 12.30
Clubroom 6 |
IBMA Invertebrate Biocontrol Agents (IBCA) Professional Group Meeting |
13.30 - 13.45
Auditorium Foyer |
Welcome to ABIM 2010
- Denise Munday (President IBMA): Objectives of IBMA and ABIM 2010
- Lucius Tamm (FiBL): Welcome on behalf of the organizing committee
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13.45 - 15.00
Auditorium Foyer
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Plenary session 1: (Chair: Denise Munday)
New developments in regulation and policy
- Ulf Heilig (IBMA): National Action Plans
- Iain Weatherston (BPIA): US-Perspective on Biocontrol Regulation
- Michael Flüh (DG Sanco): New Developments in EU Regulations
- Karel Bolckmans (IBMA-IPM working group): IBMAs IPM Strategy
- Podium/Question Time
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15.00 - 15.45
Auditorium Foyer
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Plenary session 2: (Chair: Bernhard Blum)
Market development opportunities and threats for biocontrol
- Joop van Lenteren (Wageningen University): Implications for Biocontrol of Access and Benefit Sharing under the Convention for Biodiversity
- Anita Maric (Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture): Further Implications for the Biocontrol Industry of Access and Benefit Sharing
- Gilles Delhove and Sabine Helbig (COLEACP): The PIP2 Project
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| 15.45 - 16.45 |
Coffee break in the Lucerne Hall |
16.45 - 18.45
Auditorium Foyer |
Plenary session 3: (Chair: David Cary)
Gaps and new market opportunities
- Roma Gwynn (Rationale): New Market Opportunities and Gaps
- NN (Marks & Spencer): Problem Areas for the Retailer and Consumers
- Ralf-Udo Ehlers (e-nema): Entomopathogenic Nematodes – Step Outside!
- Mike Miille (AgraQuest): Going Beyond Mainstream Crop Protection
- Hadyn Parry (Oxitec): Sterile Insects Technology
- Clare Storm (Exosect/Sylvan): Seed, Grain and Food Storage
- Pam Marrone (Marrone Bio Innovations): Novel Microbial Bioherbicides
- Felix Wäckers (Biobest): Bumble Bees - a Dispersal Agent for Biocontrol Products
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19.00 - 20.30
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Apéritif, offered by IBMA in the Lucerne Hall |
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
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Programme |
08.00 - 10.00
Auditorium Foyer |
Plenary session 4: (Chair: Sergio Franceschini)
New Products: Microbials
- Julie Versman (Marrone Bio Innovations): Zequanox a Microbial Molluscicide
- Qiang Xiao (TRI CAAS): Application of EoNPV Against Tea Looper Ectopis obliqua in China
- Edith Ladurner (Intrachem Italia): Naturalis Beauveria bassiana: Effective Against Tetranychid Mites and Harmless to Predatory Phytoseillid Mites
- Shawn Semones (Novozymes): Metarhizium anisopliae on Thrips, a Biological Tool for IPM
- Dirk Avé (Valent BioSciences): Quality of Bacillus thuringiensis Products
- Rodolphe Royer (Becker Underwood): Biological Seed Treatments
- Kartik Laijawala (Nico Orgo Manures): Trichoderma viride and Paecylomyces lilacinus
- Sara Reiter (AgraQuest): Soil Applications of Serenade for Disease Control, Crop Yield and Quality Enhancement
- SK Ghosh (BCRL, PCI): Grub X, Granular Metarhizium anisopliae
- Margareta Hökeberg (MASE Laboratories): A New Biological Seed Treatment Against Pea Diseases.
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| 10.00 - 10.30 |
Coffee break in the Lucerne Hall |
10.30 - 12.00
Auditorium Foyer |
Plenary session 5: (Chair: Johanette Klapwijk)
New products: Macrobials, Botanicals, Natural Substances and Semiochemicals
- Jürgen Köhl (Plant Research International): Screening Criteria for the Development of Commercial Products for Biocontrol of Plant Pathogens
- Vanda HP Bueno (Federal University of Lavras): BioControl in Brazil
- Nicolas de Menten (Viridaxis): Fresa Protect: A Case Study of the Use of a Cocktail of Parasitoids Against Aphids in Strawberries
- Marco Most (BioPlanet): New Parasitoids of Tuta absoluta
- Danilo Scacalossi Pedrazzoli (Bug Agentes Biologicos): Trichogramma pretiosum and Apanteles gelechiididoris for Control of Tuta absoluta
- Nayem Hassan (Russel IPM): Tuta absoluta Pheromone-Mediated Strategy
- Venkatesh Devanur (AgriLife): Biopesticides – an Emerging Business Opportunity
- Wolfgang Vaas-Ruchti (Organics International): Natural Products in Germany Pre- and Post New Legislation
- Moshe Reuveni (Stockton-Biomor): New Generation of Plant Extract Fungicides
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| 12.00 - 13.30 |
Exhibition in the Lucerne Hall |
13.30 - 15.30
Auditorium |
IBMA Annual General Assembly Meeting |
Exhibition and poster session will be open from Monday 12.00 to Tuesday 13.30.
