HPIS 2026

6-8 July 2026‌ - L’Institut Agro, Montpellier, France‌

Bandeau - HPIS 2026

Tuesday 7 July

08:15-09:00

Conference registration


09:00-12:15
SESSION 3 – INSECT PEST MANAGEMENT AND INNOVATIVE CONTROL STRATEGIES
09:00-09:45
  • Michelle HECK (School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States)
    Translational strategies for managing insect vector-borne diseases in agriculture

Selected short oral presentations

09:45-10:00
  • Nicola BODINO (Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (DISAFA), University of Torino, Grugliasco, Italy)
    Dual-action potential of entomopathogenic endophytic fungi for sustainable management of Philaenus spumarius, the vector of Xylella fastidiosa in Europe
10:00-10:15
  • Djibril ABOUBAKAR SOUNA (HortSys, CIRAD, Montpellier, France)
    Toward sustainable management of Amrasca biguttula in West Africa: Lessons from the DeSIRA SafeVeg project in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Benin
10:15-10:30
  • Carla Libia CORRADO (Research Centre for Plant Protection and Certification, CREA – Council for agricultural research and economics, Roma, Italy)
    Organic biostimulants in integrated cucurbit management: effects on aphid vectors of potyviruses
10:30-10:45
  • Gabriel S. DIAS (Department of Entomology and Acarology, Luiz de Queiroz University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil)
    Feeding behavior of bifenthrin-resistant and susceptible Dalbulus maidis (DeLong & Wolcott, 1923) strains on healthy and pathogen-infected maize plants

10:45-11:15

Coffee break - Posters


11:15-11:30
  • Anna KELL (Applied Biosciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia)
    Exploring volatiles from the banana-spotting bug (Amblypelta lutescens lutescens) for the development of a lure-based monitoring system
11:30-11:45
  • Badr-Eddine JABRI (Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Turin, Grugliasco, Italy)
    Transcriptomic analysis of The American grapevine leafhopper, Scaphoideus titanus Ball, after exposure to insecticides
11:45-12:00
  • Navin PATEL (Agroecosystem Health and Pest Management, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom)
    Can multispectral imaging improve the detection of CBSD in cassava clean seed systems?
12:00-12:15
  • Domenico BOSCO (DISAFA Dept., University of Torino, Grugliasco, Italy)
    Prospects for controlling leafhopper vectors of phytoplasmas and reducing transmission through RNAi

12:15-13:45

Lunch - Coffee - Posters


13:45-18:30
SESSION 4 – HEMIPTERAN-PLANT-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS
13:45-14:30
  • Rodrigo ALMEIDA (University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States)
    Climate, vector behavior, host susceptibility, and disease risk: do pathogen diversity and adaptation matter?

Selected short oral presentations

14:30-14:45
  • Véronique BRAULT (Virus Transmission Team, INRAE, Colmar, France)
    Complex virus-aphid-host plant interactions as a major challenge in understanding beet yellows epidemiology
14:45-15:00
  • Juan José LÓPEZ-MOYA (CRAG, Barcelona, Spain)
    Gene Expression Modulation in Bemisia tabaci by Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV)-derived Small RNAs
15:00-15:15
  • Stefano COLELLA (PHIM Plant Health Institute of Montpellier, INRAE, Univ Montpellier, IRD, CIRAD, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France)
    Single-cell transcriptomics to study aphid's stylet biogenesis: a detailed view in a mutant line of Stylin-01, an acrostyle cuticular protein key for virus transmission
15:15-15:30
  • Ilana KUZMINSKY (Department of Entomology, Volcani Institute, Rishon Lezion, Israel)
    Tomato yellow leaf curl virus impact on Endoplasmic Reticulum-Associated Stress Responses in Bemisia tabaci
15:30-15:45
  • Alexandra SCHOENY (Pathologie Végétale, INRAE, Montfavet, France)
    Forecasting aphid flights using weather data to predict virus outbreak risk

15:45-16:15

Coffee break – Posters


16:15-16:30
  • Shu LI (University of Liège, Gembloux, Belgium)
    In vivo profiling of the Begomovirus coat protein-vector protein interactions in Bemisia tabaci by proximity labeling
16:30-16:45
  • Shirin PARIZAD (Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blackstone, VA, United States)
    The invasive cereal grass aphid in the USA: Range expansion, population structure, direct damage and potential vector competence
16:45-17:00
  • Sylvie MALEMBIC-MAHER (UMR Biologie du Fruit et Pathologie, INRAE, Villenave-d'Ornon, France)
    Lamprotettix nitidulus identified as a new leafhopper vector in the ecological cycle of Flavescence dorée disease
17:00-17:15
  • Rajagopalbabu SRINIVASAN (Entomology, University of Georgia, Griffin, Georgia, United States)
    Two whitefly proteins interact with capsids of SSDNA viruses and influence virus retention and transmission
17:15-17:30
  • Jessica DITTMER (IRHS, INRAE, Beaucouzé, France)
    From insect symbiont to phloem colonizer: Comparative genomics reveals horizontal gene transfers implicated in the emergence of phytopathogenic Arsenophonus strains
17:30-17:45
  • João Roberto SPOTTI LOPES (Department of Entomology and Acarology, ESALQ/University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil)
    Modulation of corn leafhopper settling behavior by coinfecting viruses in maize
17:45-18:00
  • Jesús NAVAS-CASTILLO (Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea “La Mayora” – CSIC, Algarrobo-Costa, Málaga, Spain)
    Dual-vector transmission of a pepper polerovirus: first plant virus transmitted by aphids and the supervector whitefly Bemisia tabaci
18:00-18:15
  • Laura DI PIETRO (Plant Health Institute of Montpellier (PHIM), Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France)
    Navigating the aphid vector: salivary gland targeting by faba bean necrotic stunt virus
18:15-18:30
  • Luke THOMPSON (Plant Pathology and Plant Microbe Biology Section, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States)
    Aphid-polerovirus protein interactions couple antiviral immunity and plant virus transmission in Myzus persicae

18:30-20:00
Poster session 2 – Odd numbers