Annual Biocontrol Industry Meeting - ABIM 2019, 21 ─ 23 October 2019, Congress Center Basel, Switzerland

Coffee break supported by BIOLINE Agrosciences

Welcome to ABIM 2019

• Sylvia Plak (President IBMA) and Lucius Tamm (ABIM Steering committee): Welcome on behalf of the organising committee.
• IBMA Bernard Blum Award - presented by Owen Jones and David Cary.
• 2019 Bernard Blum Award Winning presentation.

Pre-Aperitif Keynote Address

Urs Niggli, Director FiBL
Can agriculture as practiced today deliver for the future?

Timeslot supported by SUMITOMO CHEMICAL Valent BioSciences Joint sponsors

Plenary session 1
Chair: Sylvia Plak, President IBMA

EU Plant Protection Regulatory Issues

• Domenico Deserio, DG Sante Pesticides Unit: New initiatives in regulating biocontrol.
• Chris Lythgo, EFSA: Developments The General Food Law and implications for biocontrol.
• Ulf Heilig, IBMA: Uniform Principles and Data Requirements relevant to Biocontrol.
• Bas Drukker, DG Agri: Biocontrol in Organic farming.

Session 1 supported byknoell Germany GmbH

Plenary session 2
Chair: Roma Gwynn, IBMA Vice-President

Global Regulatory Issues and Market Information

• Jeroen Meeussen, OECD EGBP: Activities of EGBP and the Bioinformatics Seminar.
• Fabio Domingues, Vigna Brasil: Reforms to the Brazilian regulatory system, the good and the bad areas.
• Bojana Zgonec, Artemisa: Progress and hurdles in biocontrol regulation in Eastern Europe.
• Mark Trimmer, 2B Monthly & Dunham Trimmer: The Biocontrol market and its participant.

Session 2 supported byExponent International Limited

Plenary session 3
Chair: Lieselot van der Veken, Macrobials PG

Invertebrate Biocontrol Agents Professional Group Talks

• John Sutton, Bee Vectoring Technologies International: Bee Vectoring of Biologicals is a highly effective and efficient Crop Protection Tool.
• Caroline Reid, Bioline: Tricholine vitis a new solution to managing grape pests.
• Felix Wäckers, Biobest: Tydeidae: small mites, big potential?

Plenary session 4
Chair: Lara Ramaekers, Natural Substances PG

Natural Substances Professional Group Talks

• Cedric Bertrand, Akinao: Botanicals for bioherbicide development and metabolomics tools for E-fate evaluation of complex mixtures.
• An Vanden Bosch, Arche Consulting: Data requirements for Natural substances – putting in place a tiered approach.
• Jean-Luc Souche, Amoeba: Willaertia magna C2c Makylysate – a new large spectrum biocontrol agent against plant diseases.
• Patrice Sellès, AgroSavfe: AGROBODY biofungicide Bio Fun-1 for effective, sustainable protection against fungal pests.
• Ben Cicora, Vestaron: The power of synthetics, the safety and sustainability of biologicals.
• Richard Milling, Agronaturalis: ECHIQIER - a new biofungicide for use against Fusarium ear blight in cereals.

Session 4 supported by Janssen PMP, a division of Janssen Pharmaceutica NV
 

Plenary Session 5
Chair: Alessandra Moccia, Semiochemicals PG

Semiochemicals Professional Group Talks

• Andrea Iodice, CBC Europe Biogard Division: BIOOTWIN L new biodegradable dispensers for the control of Lobesia botrana in grapes.
• Alessandra Moccia, Suterra Europe: When biocontrol and biodiversity go hand in hand – the success in the Albufera natural park.

Plenary session 6
Chair: Karine Grosbeau, Board of Directors IBMA

A dossier quality improvement exercise for biocontrol applicants with two leading National Competent Authorities

Facilitators:

• Jacobijn van Etten, Ctgb
• Anne Steenbergh, Ctgb
• Lisa Moakes, HSE CRD
• Tom Fisher, HSE CRD
• John Dale, HSE CRD
• Valérie Pavillard-Swaine, HSE CRD

Session 6 supported by ACCERES 
 

Plenary Session 7
Chair: Jennifer Lewis, Executive Director, IBMA

Innovations relevant to bioprotection, their acceptance and use

• Haïssam Jijakli, University Liege: Bioherbicide development.
• Eckhard Koch, JKI: SaatMaisPlus – developing non-chemical seed treatments for maize.
• Johannes Fahrentrapp, ZHAW University of Applied Sciences: Drosophila suzukii, its identification, trapping and control.
• David Calvert, iFormulate: Advances in bioprotection formulations and use of sustainable co-formulants.
• Lucius Tamm, FiBL: The European inputs evaluation: a collaboration of the organic sector and the industry to ensure quality and to prevent scandals.
• Kim Mueller Christensen, Chr. Hansen: Continuous improvement in microbial development for biotic and abiotic stresses.
• Wiesław Ciecierski, Intermag: BioSafeFood – developing technology intended for production of consumer safe fruits and vegetables with the use of new bio-fungicides.

Q and A session with presenters as above.

Session 7 supported by SCC Scientific Consulting Company GmbH

Plenary Session 8
Chair: Matthias von Erffa, Microbials PG

Microbial Biocontrol Agents Professional Group Talks 

• Jürgen Köhl, Wageningen University & Research: The microbial modes of action against plant pathogens.
• Marisé Borja, GAB: The Precautionary Principle application in the microbial biopesticides risk assesment.
• Patrick Kabouw, BASF: Biologicals – everybody seems to like them just where are the regulatory actions?
• Christina Donat, Bioferm: Microbial bioprotectant for post-harvest treatments.
• Erhard Halmschlager, Biohelp / BOKU-University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences: Ailantex - a biocontrol product, based on V. nonalfalfae, to control the invasive tree Ailanthus altissima.
• Tommaso del Giudice, Evonik: Sustainable surfactants for biological pesticides.

Session 8 supported by Chr. Hansen