PBT: Biological Control

Moderator(s)

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  Dylan Tussey (he/him/his)

  Postdoctoral Researcher
  Entomology
  University of California Riverside
  Fresno, California
• FO

  Flinn O’Hara

  PhD Student
  University of Florida
  Gainesville, Florida

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM – 10:42 AM PT

  Assessing the hybridization potential between a hypothetical gene drive-modified Drosophila suzukii strain and non-target Drosophila species
  

  Presenting Author: Joerg Romeis – Agroscope

  Co-Author: Sarah Wolf – Agroscope

  Co-Author: Jana Collatz – Agroscope

  Co-Author: Jürg Enkerli – Agroscope

  Co-Author: Franco Widmer – Agroscope
• 10:42 AM – 10:54 AM PT

  Building better males: Improving sterile male performance in sterile insect technique programs for control of Aedes aegypti
  

  Presenting Author: Dylan A. Tussey (he/him/his) – University of California

  Co-Author: Kenneth J. Linthicum, BCE – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Daniel A. Hahn – University of Florida
• 10:54 AM – 11:06 AM PT

  Climate change-fueled heat waves reduce the susceptibility of the agricultural pest oblique banded leaf roller (Choristoneura rosaceana) to chemical control
  

  Presenting Author: Laura E. McMillan – Dalhousie University

  Co-Author: Shelley A. Adamo – Dalhousie University

  Co-Author: Grace Munro – Acadia University

  Co-Author: Emma-Jean Freeman – Acadia University

  Co-Author: Russell Easy – Acadia University

  Co-Author: Suzanne Blatt – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
• 11:06 AM – 11:18 AM PT

  Suppression and microbial dynamics of Bacillus cereus in the presence of black soldier fly reared on potato substrate
  

  Presenting Author: Matthew A. Moyet (he/him/his) – University of Maine

  Co-Author: Haley Morrill – University of Maine

  Co-Author: Daniella Espinal – University of Maine

  Co-Author: Edward Bernard – University of Maine

  Co-Author: Andrei Alyokhin – University of Maine
• 11:18 AM – 11:30 AM PT

  The benefits of novel minicell-encapsulated biorationals with existing IPM strategies
  

  Presenting Author: Lisa Chen – AgroSpheres

  Co-Author: Margaret Manto – AgroSpheres

  Co-Author: Ameer Shakeel – AgroSpheres

  Co-Author: Payam Pourtaheri – AgroSpheres

  Co-Author: Elizabeth Somers – AgroSpheres
• 11:30 AM – 11:42 AM PT

  Visualisation of double-stranded RNA in the insect whole body
  

  Presenting Author: Kaat Cappelle – Syngenta

  Co-Author: Myriam Beghyn – Syngenta

  Co-Author: Arnout Coorevits – Syngenta

  Co-Author: Olivier Christiaens – Syngenta
• 12:06 PM – 12:18 PM PT

  RNAi-mediated silencing of vitellogenin gene contributes to the promise of controlling red palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus Olivier)
  

  Presenting Author: Abdulrahman Saad Aldawood (he/him/his) – King Saud University

  Co-Author: Ghulam R. Khawaja – King Saud University

  Co-Author: Mureed Husain – King Saud University

  Co-Author: Waleed S. Alwaneen – King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology