ICN 2022

Plenary Sessions

Amphi. Antipolis - Level 3Plenary 3

• A model nematode outside the laboratory: Caenorhabditis elegans habitat and biotic interactions
  
    Marie-Anne Félix

Amphi. Antipolis - Level 3Plenary 5

• Nematode chemosensation: implications on insect pest management
  
    Ivan Hiltpold

Amphi. Antipolis - Level 3Oral session 9

‘Omics’ in nematology

Chairs: Adler Dillman and Etienne Danchin

Oral presentations

Revealing the ‘box’ code: the spatial and temporal regulation of plant-parasitic nematode pathogenicity
Clement Pellegrin, Helen Beasley, Badou Mendy, M.Shamim Hasan, Divykriti Chopra, Clarissa Hiltl, Huiyan Chen, Volkan Cevik, Oliver Chitambo, Florian M.W. Grundler, Shahid Siddique, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker

Parthenogenomics - using population genomics to understand the evolution of parthenogenetic triploid nematodes
Laura Villegas, Laura Pettrich, Ann-Marie Waldvogel, Philipp Schiffer

Evolutionary and comparative genomics of tropical root-knot nematodes
Georgios Koutsovoulos, Corinne Rancurel, Laetitia Zurletto, Martine Da Rocha, Djampa K. Kozlowski, Benjamin Noël, Patrick Wincker, Etienne G.J. Danchin

Meloidogyne hapla with improved assembly and genome annotation
Pallavi Shakya, Alison Coomer, Valerie Williamson, Shahid Siddique

 Genome evolution of Aphelenchoides besseyi strains
Cheng-Kuo Lai, Peichen J. Chen, Yi-Chien Lee, Huei-Mien Ke, Hsin-Han Lee, Chan-Yi Ivy Lin, Isheng Jason Tsai

A genome-wide comparison between two Dutch Globodera pallida populations
Martijn Holterman, Mark Sterken, Joris Van Steenbrugge, Sven Van den Elsen, Anne Van Diepeningen, Geert Smant, Johannes Helder

Poster flash presentations

 In search of a common target for control of nematode and aphid pests
Maria Maqsood, John Fosu-Nyarko, Michael G.K. Jones

Metagenomics mining improves analysis of horizontal gene transfers involved in parasitic function in plant-parasitic nematodes
Carole Belliardo, Adrien Deceneux, Corinne Rancurel, Marc Bailly-Bechet, Etienne G.J. Danchin

Development of mitometagenomics protocols for the enhancement of nematode identification and biodiversity study
Eli Gendron, Joseph Sevigny, Thomas Powers, W. Kelly Thomas, Dorota Porazinska

Room Espace Gould - Level 2Oral session 10

Advances in precision agriculture: instrumentation and nematode IPM applications

Chairs: Joseph Noling and Mieke Daneel

Oral presentations

Precision nematode management, a modern approach to incorporate new technologies and chemistries to control nematodes
Bruno Lovato

Assessing crop impacts and nematode management options using NDVI and canopy greenness from aerial imaging
Joseph W. Noling

Estimating field populations of Heterodera schachtii from hyperspectral signatures of sugar beet canopies
Matthias Daub, Kai Schmidt

The use of infrared spectroscopy and machine learning tools for detection of Meloidogyne infestations
Mayamaru Guerra, Ana Maria Casassa, Nestor Cubillan, Ernesto San-Blas

Multiseasonal modelling of plant-nematode interactions reveals efficient resistance deployment strategies
Vincent Calcagno, Suzanne Touzeau, Ludovic Mailleret, Samuel Nilusmas, Caroline Dijan Caporalino, Philippe Castagnone

Combining traditional and precision agricultural tools to improve management of plant- parasitic nematodes in cotton production
Zane Grabau, R. Barocco, C. Liu, D.L. Wright, I. Small

Models for map-based prediction of Pratylenchus penetrans based on soil variables
Ann MacGuidwin, Gary Pack, Ibrahim Saeed

Room Miles Davis - Level 3Oral session 11

Nematode-vector relationships

Chairs: Juan Palomares-Rius and Gérard Demangeat

Oral presentations

Capsid determinants involved in the specific transmission of the grapevine fanleaf virus by its nematode vector, Xiphinema index
Gérard Demangeat

The importance of nematode dauer in the adaptation to its life cycle and ecological niche
Lieke Vlaar, Mehran Rahimi, Andre Machado Bertran, Aska Goverse, Jan Kammenga, Harro Bouwmeester

Linking biodiversity and pathogen abundance in natural nematode populations
Lisa van Sluijs, Jessica N. Sowa, Hala Tamim El Jarkass, Aaron Reinke, Wenjia Wu, Robbert van Himbeeck, Sem Aslan, Joost A. G. Riksen

Unraveling the biotic interactions between Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, Pinus pinaster and nematophagous fungi, Esteya spp.
David Pires, Cláudia Vicente, Manuel Mota, Maria L. Inácio

Molecular nematode-viroid-fungus interface on Celosia argentea and Solanum lycopersicum
Pakize Gok Guler, Refik Bozbuga, Semiha Yucee

Diversity of fungal communities associated with Pinus pinaster infected by Bursaphelenchus xylophilus
Cláudia Vicente, Jorge Faria, Helena Bragança, Luís Bonifácio, Edmundo Sousa, Margarida Espada, Steve Woodward, Anna Maria Vettraino, Filomena Nóbrega, Maria L. Inácio

Durability of muscadine-derived resistant material to Xiphinema index and first detection of sexual reproduction events of the nematode under controlled conditions
Van Chung Nguyen, Jean-Pascal Tandonnet, Samira Khallouk, Cyril Van Ghelder, Ulysse Portier, Mohamed Youssef Banora, Nathalie Ollat, Maria-Das-Dores Lafargue, Daniel Esmenjaud

Room Ella Fitzgerald - Level 3Oral session 12

Chemical control of nematodes

Chairs: Billy Crow and Brigitte Slaats

Oral presentations

NanoEngineering gone viral: plant virus-nanotechnologies for precision farming
Nicole F. Steinmetz

Tymirium™: The story of a powerful new molecule
Brigitte Slaats, Matthias Gaberthueel, Olivier Loiseleur, Anthony Flemming, Torsten Luksch

“Wrap and Plant”: A novel concept for managing plant-parasitic nematodes with banana paper in sub-Saharan Africa
Charles Opperman, Antoine Affokpon, Laura Cortada, Danny Coyne, Juliet Ochola, Baldwyn Torto, Richard Guenther, Steve Koenning, Reny Mathew, Tim Sit, Med Bird, Tahira Pirzada, Lokendra Pal, Eric Davis, Saad Khan

Effect of New non-fumigant nematicides on different trophic groups of nematodes
David Moreira, Johan Desaeger

Evaluation of sequential applications of chemical and biological nematicides in vegetable production in southern Italy
Helmut Fuersch, Joachim Meyer, Alberto Boebel, Svenja Bellof

The distinct profile of the inhibitory effects of fluensulfone on Globodera pallida hatching
Emily Feist, James Kearn, Yogendra Gaihre, Vincent O'Connor, Lindy Holden-Dye

Poster flash presentations

SALIBRO™ (REKLEMEL™ ACTIVE): A novel nematicide for the control of Meloidogyne spp. in key annual and perennial crops in North America & Mexico
Bo Braxton, Leonel Aviles, Sunil Tewari, Julian Mejia, Laura Smith, Tim Thoden, Yannis Stamatas

Discovery and characterization of bioactivated nematicides for selective control of parasitic nematodes
Jessica Knox, Savina R. Cammalleri, Andrew R. Burns, Jack M.P. Castelli, Megan Kitner, Inga Zasada, Peter J. Roy

Amphi. Antipolis - Level 3Oral session 13

‘Omics’ in nematology (continued)

Chairs: Ralf Sommer and Georgios Koutsovoulos

Oral presentations

 Uncovering the ‘dark matter’ of worm biology: a universe of signalling molecules
Frank Schroeder

 Juxtaposition of extreme genomic variability and stability in HYP effectors of potato cyst nematodes
Unnati Sonawala, Helen Beasley, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker

Analysis of the banana root transcriptome in response to root-knot nematode infection and water deficit
Robert Miller, Leticia Dias de Freitas, Jose Dijair Antonino, Gabriel Sergio Costa Alves, Claudia Fortes Ferreira, Mauricio Antonio Coelho Filho, Edson Perito Amorim, Roberto Coiti Togawa, Priscila Grynberg

miR167-ARF8, an auxin responsive couple involved in the formation of galls induced by root-knot nematodes in tomato
Yara Noureddine, Martine Da-Rocha, Clémence Médina, Mohamed Zouine, Joffrey Mejias, Michael Quentin, Pierre Abad, Bruno Favery, Stéphanie Jaubert-Possomai

Genetic variation in Globodera pallidalinked to virulence in North-West Europe
Mark Sterken, Joris van Steenbrugge, Dennie te Molder, Casper Van Schaik, Stefan van de Ruitenbeek, Sven Van Elsen, Geert Smant

Single nematode genome assemblies
Erna King, Lewis Stevens, Christopher Laumer, Mark Blaxter

Poster flash presentations

Mining new nematode effectors interacting with plant transcription factors by Cr-Y2H
Hui Xiang, Stojilković Boris, Gheysen Godelieve

SMART UP – Spatial Mapping of Root Transcriptomes Upon Nematode Parasitism
Anna Pijnacker, Rik Korswagen, Aska Goverse, Geert Smant1, Jose Lozano Torres

The strange chromosome ends of root-knot nematodes
Georgios D. Koutsovoulos, Evelin Despot-Slade, Martine Da Rocha, Claire Caravel, Pierre Abad, Nevenka Meštrović, Etienne G.J. Danchin

Room Ella Fitzgerald - Level 3Oral session 14

Social impact of nematode management

Chairs: Danny Coyne and Miguel Talavera

Oral presentations

Global ‘worming’: changing economic and environmental impact of plant-parasitic nematodes
Wim Wesemael

Social Implications of new advances in nematode management
Johan Desaeger

An industry perspective on the global social impact of nematode management - innovation and food security
John Wiles, Tim C. Thoden

Microbial-based pesticides, a novel source of new tools for nematode management
Jared P. Jenssen

 Global impact of agricultural intensification on soil nematodes: a meta-analysis
Jeremy Puissant, Cécile Villenave, Camille Chauvin, Eric Blanchart, Jean Trap

A cost-benefit and efficacy analysis of Meloidogyne management strategies in Mediterranean intensive horticulture
Miguel Talavera, Luis Miranda, María Dolores Vela, Soledad Verdejo-Lucas

Poster flash presentations

Abundance and diversity of plant-parasitic nematodes in the rhizosphers of maize cultivars grown by commercial farmers in rural areas of South Africa
Nancy Ntidi, Akhona Mbatyoti, Driekie Fourie, Lindokuhle Qwabe

Banana fibre paper: effectively delivering ultra-low nematicide dosages for more acceptable nematode management
Danny Coyne, Laura Cortada-González, Solveig Haukeland, Baldwyn Torto, Charles Opperman

 Best management practices for Root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne hapla) in daylily (Hemerocallis spp.) production
Amanda Howland, Emilie Cole, Kristin Poley, Marisol Quintanilla

Room Miles Davis - Level 3Oral session 15

Advances in nematode detection and identification: instrumentation and applications

Chairs: Laurent Folcher and Barbara Geric-Stare

Oral presentations

Non-invasive detection of plant parasitic nematodes using hyperspectral imaging
Barbara Gerič Stare

European and national reference laboratories: an EU network for improved surveillance of plant-parasitic nematodes
Maíra Grossi de Sá, Nicole Viaene, Sylvie Gamel, Nicole Damme, Françoise Munaut, Laurent Folcher

Use of automated image analysis techniques for species identification and classification
Romain Thevenoux, Heloïse Villesseche, Laurent Folcher, Eric Grenier, Nicolas Parisey

Lab-on-chip for Globodera pallida detection
Maria João Camacho, Verónica C. Martins, Eugénia Andrade, Débora C. Albuquerque, Maria L. Inácio, Manuel Mota, Paulo Freitas

Digitize your nematode control
Sumeja Ouyeder and Marc Rist, Hartwig Dauck, Jose Luis Robles

 Developing a droplet digital PCR assay for detection of the stubby root nematode Paratrichodorus allius
Guiping Yan, Zhuoyu Wang, Addison Plaisance

Poster flash presentations

A novel approach for applying machine learning for detection and phenotyping of cyst nematodes in soil extracts
Long Chen, Martin Strauch, Matthias Daub, Marcus Jansen, Susanne Schultz-Kuhlmann, Stefan Krüssel, Hans-Georg Luigs, Dorit Merhof

ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and hyperspectral imaging in determining quality of formulated entomopathogenic nematodes
Nicholas Kagimu, Antoinnette P. Malan

Rapid detection and quantification of plant-parasitic nematodes from large volumes of soil
Valeria Orlando, Thomas Prior, Michael R. Surrey, Steven Bryce, Wellcome Ho, Brett J. R. Alexander

Room Espace Gould - Level 2Oral session 16

Biological control of nematodes

Chairs: Sylvia Schleker and Eric Nguema-Ona

Oral presentations

Biological agents to invigorate the health of established coffee trees by managing plant parasitic nematodes
Kanan Saikai, Celestine Oduori, Wanjala Situma, Simon Njoroge, Ruth Murunde, Danny Coyne

Soil microbiota effect on the efficiency of root exudates to hatch cyst nematodes
Josselin Montarry, Camille Gautier, Lisa Martinez, Sylvain Fournet, Eric Nguema-Ona, Anne-Yvonne Guillerm-Erckelboudt, Christophe Piriou, Juliette Linglin, Christophe Mougel, Lionel Lebreton

Activity of Bacillus firmus against plant-parasitic nematodes
A. Sylvia S. Schleker, Mengmeng Huang, Aylin Bulut, Christiane Matera, Bidhya Shrestha, Volkan Cevik, Ute Schlee, Florian M. W. Grundler

BIODERA project: a teamwork effort to develop biocontrol solutions against plant parasitic nematodes
Eric Nguema-Ona

Co-occurrence of soil microbial communities and root-knot nematode populations in strawberry farms, Egypt
Mahfouz Abd-Elgawad, Hassan Abd-El-Khair, Mostafa M.A. Hammam, Wafaa M. A. El-Nagdi, Mahfouz M. M. Abd-Elgawad

Genome-wide association identifies genomic regions involved in production of nematicidal compounds in the biocontrol fungus Clonostachys rosea
Mudassir Iqbal, Martin Broberg, Deepak Haarith, Anders Broberg, Kathryn E. Bushley, Mikael Brandström Durling, Maria Viketoft, Dan Funck Jensen, Mukesh Dubey, Magnus Karlsson

Pochonia chlamydosporia var. mexicana response to physicochemical factors, rhizosphere colonization and egg parasitism
María Gabriela Medina-Canales, Adriana Joselly Del Razo-Méndez, Brenda Estefany Ortiz-González, Gabriela Susana Alba-Ramírez, Rosa Helena Manzanilla-López, Alejandro Tovar-Soto

Room Ella Fitzgerald - Level 3Workshop 5

Nematode-bacteria symbiosis

Chair: Patricia Stock

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Take my breath away – physiological adaptations of symbiotic marine nematodes to oxic-anoxic interfaces
Silvia Bulgheresi

Nematode – bacterial interactions in a beetle ecosystem: ‚Boom and bust‘dynamics of predatory nematode P. pacificus
Ralf Sommer, Tess Renahan

To have and to hold: on the mutualistic partnership of Steinernema nematodes and their Xenorhabus symbionts
Patricia Stock

General discussion

Room Espace Gould - Level 2Workshop 6

Nemaplex and NINJA: Features and Uses

Chairs: Sara Sánchez-Moreno and Ron de Goede

Participants will require a laptop computer with internet access in order to complete the hands-on exercises (see 3.b). If desired, participant may bring their own data to complete their own analyses (data should be formatted according to the instructions at https://shiny.wur.nl/ninja).
PhD students and early-career scientist are especially welcome!

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 Briefly review of the origins and evolution of Nemaplex from around 1979 to the present day
Howard Ferris

Demonstration of the features and navigation of the Nemaplex website…

Demonstrations of the use of NINJA Faunal Analysis feature to evaluate the ecosystem and soil food web conditions suggested by specific nematode assemblages…

Room Miles Davis - Level 3Workshop 7

Grape vines nematode management

Chairs: Daniel Esmenjaud and Cesar Bauer Gomes

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Grape-associated phytoparasitic nematodes in Brazil
Cesar Bauer Gomes

 Management approaches of plant-parasitic nematodes in grape in the changing agricultural landscape of California
Andreas Westphal, Tom Buzo, Zin Thu Zar Maung, Gabriel Torres, Matthew Fidelibus, Andrew Walker

Plant parasitic nematodes infesting grapevines in Portugal
Carlos Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, Manuel Mota

Natural rootstock resistance to control Xiphinema index and RKNs in Vines.
Daniel Esmenjaud