Topical Advisory Panel

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Senior Researcher, Department of Pesticides Control and Phytopharmacy, Benaki Phytopathological Institute, 14561 Kifissia, Greece
Interests: integrated pest management; agronomic practices/mitigation measures for conservation of natural enemies and pollinators; sustainable use of pesticides
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Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali (ESP), Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy
Interests: insect behavioural ecology and evolution; food resource specialization; nesting strategies; sociality; intra-specific communication; interspecific interactions with natural enemies; morpho-physiological adaptations in relation to different life strategies
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Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University, 6708PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
Interests: sex determination; sexual differentation; evolutionary developmental biology; biological control; sex-specific behaviour; sex pheromones; sexual dimorphism; parasitoid wasps
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Computational Systems Neuroscience, Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne, 50674 Cologne (Köln), Germany
Interests: insect neuroscience and behavior; olfaction; learning and memory

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Department of Biologia, Ecologia, Scienze della Terra, Università della Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy
Interests: species diversity; alpine ecology; climate change; carabid beetles
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Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Geneva, NY 14456, USA
Interests: chemical ecology; biological control; data science

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School of Public Health, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Interests: population genetics; microevolution; vector control; vector ecology
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Southern Insect Management Research Unit, Jamie Whitten Delta States Research Center, USDA ARS, Stoneville, MS 38776, USA
Interests: insect rearing; biological control; entomopathogenic fungi; demographic parameters; parasitoids; insecticide resistance; insect artificial diets
Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069, USA
Interests: medical entomology; vector-borne disease; insect-microbe interactions; insect microbiome; insect immunity; urban pests
School of Life Sciences, Huxley Building, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK
Interests: chemical ecology; plant-insect interactions; induced plant defense; biological control; crop protection
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Senior Research Scientist, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (QDAF), 41 Boggo Road, Dutton Park, QLD 4102, Australia
Interests: stored product protection; insecticide resistance; fumigants; insect genetics and molecular biology
Department of Biology, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX 78539, USA
Interests: chemical ecology; multitrophic interactions; pollination biology; herbivory; plant volatiles; phytohormones; plant fitness and insect behavior

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Mosquito Control Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston, QLD 4006, Australia
Interests: mosquito genomics and ecology; innovative vector control

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Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences & Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze, 11/a, 43124 Parma, Italy
Interests: animal behavior; social insects; ants; biodiversity; integrated pest management; citizen science
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Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Interests: chemical ecology; plant-insect interactions; beneficial soil microbes-plant-insect interactions

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Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente (Di3A), Sezione Entomologia applicata, Università degli Studi di Catania, Santa Sofia 100, 95123 Catania, Italy
Interests: aphids; Hemiptera; sap-feeding insect pests; fruit-damaging pests; molecular analysis; systematics
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Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Interests: ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes; conservation biological control; pollination; soil diversity; natural enemies; sustainable agricultural production; arthropod trophic interactions; agricultural biodiversity

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Departamento de Química Inorgánica y Química Orgánica, Universidad de Jaén, EPS de Linares, E-23700 Linares, Spain
Interests: natural product chemistry; chemical ecology; semiochemicals; integrated pest management; invasive species; pheromone release devices

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Laboratory of Entomology and Agricultural Zoology, Department of Agriculture, Crop Production and Rural Environment, University of Thessaly, 38446 Volos, Greece
Interests: stored-product insects; post-harvest entomology; integrated plant protection; edible insects; insect farming; insects as food and feed
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Department of Entomology, Purdue University, 901 West State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Interests: stored products/postharvest pest management; agricultural technology development and dissemination; supply chain and market development for agricultural technologies; information and communication technology (ICT) innovations in agriculture

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Chemical Ecology and Natural Products Laboratory, Institute of Biosciences and Applications, National Centre of Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece
Interests: natural products; chemical ecology; semiochemicals; microbial toxins; IPM; insect attractants; pheromones; kairomones; natural metabolites formulation; slow release sytems
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UMR 8025, Centre d′Histoire Judiciaire, Université de Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
Interests: forensic entomology; Calliphoridae; ethology; sociality; law history
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Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27606, USA
Interests: insect transmitted plant viruses; plant-virus-insect vector interactions; RNA interference in insects
Center for Biological Control, College of Agriculture and Food Sciences, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 32307, USA
Interests: integrated pest management of invasive insects pests; identification and diagnosis; biological control; insect pest modeling and predictions; insect identification; insect detection; insect monitoring and management in specialty crops
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Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre Agriculture and Environment, Sericulture Laboratory, 35143 Padova, Italy
Interests: sericulture; silkworm artificial diet; silkworm strain preservation and genetic improvement; silkworm pathology; silkworm rearing techniques and biotechnologies; silkworm for human and animal food/feeding
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Department of Biology and Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science Graduate Program, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, Hilo, HI 96720, USA
Interests: bees; pollinators; population genetics; conservation biology; evolutionary ecology; invasive species

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School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3217, Australia
Interests: forensic entomology; Calliphoridae; maggot therapy; medical entomology

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CREA, Research Centre for Plant Protection and Certification, 50125 Firenze, Italy
Interests: entomology; integrated pest management; biological control; invasive insect species

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Laboratory of Efficacy Control of Pesticides, Benaki Phytopathological Institute, 8 St. Delta str., 14561 Kifissia, Attica, Greece
Interests: mosquitoes; mosquito surveillance; mosquito bio-ecology; competitive interactions; natural products; essential oils; insecticides; repellents
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DIL Deutsches Institut für Lebensmitteltechnik e. V., German Institute of Food Technologies, Prof.-von-Klitzing-Str. 7, D-49610 Quakenbrück, Germany
Interests: insect production; insects for food and feed; life-cycle assessment; sustainability of insect cultivation; modeling of insect production
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