HPIS 2026

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

Bandeau - HPIS 2026

Wednesday 8 July

08:15-09:00

Conference registration


09:00-12:45
SESSION 5 – HEMIPTERAN POPULATION BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY
09:00-09:45
  • Quentin CHESNAIS (INRAE, Colmar, France)
    Host and vector manipulation by plant viruses: quantitative evidence, ecological constraints, and molecular mechanisms

Selected short oral presentations

09:45-10:00
  • Kiran GADHAVE (Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States)
    Integrating Machine Learning and RNAi for Predictive and Molecular Control of Hemipteran Crop Pests
10:00-10:15
  • Marine BAUJEU (UMR PVBMT, Université de La Réunion, Saint-Pierre, Réunion)
    Unravelling the eruptive dynamics of the invasive psyllid Acizzia uncatoides: Spatiotemporal patterns and regulatory processes in an insular cloud forest
10:15-10:30
  • Piotr TREBICKI (Applied BioSciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia)
    Rethinking virus management: targeting hemipteran-plant interactions rather than vectors alone
10:30-10:45
  • Alberto FERERES (Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias (ICA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain)
    Is egg diapause of the spittlebug Philaenus spumarius really mandatory?

10:45-11:15

Coffee break - Posters


11:15-11:30
  • Jasmine CADENA I CANALS (Virology, Bacteriology and Phytoplasmology / Plant Protection, Agroscope, Nyon, Switzerland)
    Cultivar–vector interactions may explain contrasting Flavescence dorée epidemiological patterns in Swiss vineyards
11:30-11:45
  • Enric FRAGO (CBGP – Centre for Biology and Management of Populations, Montpellier, France)
    From microcosms to greenhouses: multi-predator assemblages and aphid dynamics
11:45-12:00
  • Douglas STUEHLER (ORISE fellow, DOE/USDA, ARS, Fort Pierce, FL, United States)
    Genome-wide association and holobiont analysis of Diaphorina citri: examining genetics underlying vector competence of the Huanglongbing insect vector
12:00-12:15
  • Brianne SYMAK (Plant Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada)
    Uncharted Territory: Exploring Leafhopper (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) Communities in Canadian Prairie Canola Fields
12:15-12:30
  • Sam MUGFORD (Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom)
    Geographic patterns in genetic diversity of the meadow spittlebug Philaenus spumarius, a hemipteran vector of Xylella fastidiosa
12:30-12:45
  • Thomas VINATIER (Faculté des sciences de l'agriculture et de l'alimentation, Université Laval, Québec, Canada)
    Towards an understanding of the chronoecology of leafhoppers using artificial intelligence and smart traps

12:45-14:15

Lunch - Coffee - Posters


14:15-18:00
SESSION 6 – HEMIPTERAN-MICROBIOTA INTERACTIONS
14:15-15:00
  • Anna MICHALIK (Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)
    Evolutionary dynamics of the symbiotic systems of Auchenorrhyncha

Selected short oral presentations

15:00-15:15
  • Veronika ANDRIIENKO (Department of Developmental Biology and Invertebrate Morphology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)
    Evolutionary flexibility within dynamic nested symbioses of leafhoppers
15:15-15:30
  • Amit LEVY (University of Florida, Lake Alfred, Florida, United States)
    Diaphorina citri flavi-like virus is affecting Diaphorina citri in a life-stage dependent manner to increase Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus transmission
15:30-15:45
  • Patricia SANCHES (Biocommunication Group, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
    Plant virus mediates endosymbiont effects on aphid-parasitoid interactions

15:45-16:15

Coffee break - Posters


16:15-16:30
  • Diego SANTOS GARCIA (UMR1062 Center for Biology and Management of Populations (CBGP), INRAe, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France)
    Whiteflies: a symbiosis puzzle
16:30-16:45
  • Piotr ŁUKASIK (Institute of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)
    Alternative trajectories of extreme genomic degeneration in hemipteran symbionts
16:45-17:00
  • Yuanjie LI (Competence Centre for Plant Health, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy)
    Evolutionary dynamics of symbionts across the psyllid tree
17:00-17:15
  • Einat ZCHORI-FEIN (Department of Entomology, Agricultural Research Organization – Volcani Institute, Newe Ya'ar Research Center, Israel)
    AnvRV, a mutualistic Reovirus in the parasitoid wasp Anagyrus vladimiri (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae)

17:15-18:00

Student Prizes & Closing remarks


20:00

Closing banquet