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International Organisation for Biological and Integrated Control of Noxious Animals and Plants (IOBC) Organisation Internationale de Lutte Biologique et Intégrée contre les Animaux et les Plantes Nuisibles (OILB) |
4th EIGMO Meeting
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| Thursday, May 14th | |
| 8:00-9:00 | Registration and poster mounting |
| 9:00-9:20 | Welcome address and introduction Thomas Thieme - Local organizer Jörg Romeis - WG Convenor Prof. Udo Kragl - Dean (interdisciplinary faculty), University of Rostock |
| 9:20-9:30 | Short presentation on IOBC/WPRS (Bigler Franz) |
| 9:30-10:10 | Agronomic and economic impacts of Bt maize in Spain: evidence from a large survey of commercial farms |
| 10:10-10:50 | COFFEE |
| Session I | Environmental risk assessment of GM crops |
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| 10:50-11:30 | ECOGEN-Soil ecological and economic evaluation of genetically modified crops |
| 11:30-11:50 | EFSA's activities on the environmental risk assessment of GM plants |
| 11:50-12:10 | A perspective on problem formulation and exposure assessment of transgenic crops |
| 12:10-12:30 | Key risk assessment concepts and the importance of Non-Target Organisms definitions: an applicant's perspective |
| 12:30-14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00-14:20 | Current challenges in environmental risk assessment. The assessment of unintended effects of GM plants on Non-Target Organisms. |
| 14:20-14:40 | Selecting non-target species for regulatory risk assessment of GM maize |
| 14:40-15:00 | Engaging in international negotiations on risk assessment for GMOs - The Public Research and Regulation Initiative |
| 15:00-15:40 | COFFEE |
| Session II | Non-target impacts of Bt crops |
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| 15:40-16:00 | Occurrence and field densities of Coccinellidae in the maize herb layer: implications for environmental risk assessment |
| 16:00-16:20 | Staphylinids in maize ecosystem: Species, densities and trophic interactions |
| 16:20-16:40 | Assessment of Bt-maize effects on non-target arthropods in field studies using the evaluation approach of good ecological state |
| 16:40-18:00 | Poster presentations |
| 19:00 | Conference dinner |
| Friday, May 15th | |
| Session II | Non-target impacts of Bt crops |
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| 9:00-9:40 | Biosafety concerns of the world's first commercialized Bt rice |
| 9:40-10:00 | Effects of Bt maize on non-target lepidopteran pests |
| 10:00-10:20 | Effects of MON 810 maize variety on tritrophic relations: Tetranychus urticae (Koch.) - Phytoseiulus persimilis (Athias - Henriot). |
| 10:20-11:00 | COFFEE |
| 11:00-11:20 | Fate of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry proteins after ingestion by arthropods - excretion, digestion or accumulation? |
| 11:20-11:40 | Effects of Bt maize with multiple insect resistance on lifespan and hatching weight of honeybee workers |
| 11:40-12:00 | Environmental post-market monitoring of transgenic Bt-maize: Approaches to detect potential effects on butterflies and natural enemies |
| 12:00-13:30 | LUNCH |
| Session III | Environmental impact of disease-resistant GM wheat |
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| 13:30-13:50 | Benefits and risks of genetically modified wheat with improved powdery mildew resistance - a joint research project |
| 13:50-14:10 | Performance of the Rose-Grain Aphid Metopolophium dirhodum on transgenic disease-resistant wheat in three different environments |
| 14:10-14:30 | Interplay of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi with transgenic and non-transgenic wheat |
| 14:30-14:50 | Election of working group convenor (only IOBC/WPRS members) |
| 14:50-16:00 | Poster Session |
| 16:00 | Excursion to the AgroBiotechnikum in Groß Lüsewitz |
| Saturday, May 16th | |
| Session IV | Mixed topics |
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| 9:00-9:20 | Absence of specific Cry1Ab resistance in a Spanish Ostrinia nubilalis population from an infested greenhouse |
| 9:20-9:40 | Modelling of minimal distances from GM oilseed rape in Lithuania |
| 9:40-10:00 | Managing weeds in corn for biological control enhancement |
| 10:00-10:20 | Pyrolysis field ionisation mass spectrometry to investigate soil ecological impacts of genetically modified plants on rhizosphere microorganisms |
| 10:20-11:00 | COFFEE |
| Session V | Non-target impacts of insecticidal GM crops |
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| 11:00-11:20 | Effects of Galanthus nivalis agglutinin (GNA) on the Colorado Potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say) |
| 11:20-11:40 | Compatibility of transgenic legumes expressing α-amylase inhibitors and biological control for pest management of storage seed pests |
| 11:40-12:00 | Effect of host plant quality on herbivores. What can aphids tell us? |
| 12:00-12:30 | Discussion on future activities of the working group; working-group business |
| 12:30 | Closure of the meeting |
| 12:30-14:00 | LUNCH |
| POSTERS | |
| 1) | Prey mediated effects of Bt maize on spider mite predator Stethorus punctillum (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) |
| 2) | Limiting the damage caused by Ostrinia nubilalis Hbn. in the south-eastern Poland in 2007 by introducing transgenic maize |
| 3) | Farm questionnaires for monitoring the impact of GM crop cultivation |
| 4) | The effect of Glibenclamide on GFP-transport at the porcine small intestine |
| 5) | Environmental impact of herbicide regimes used with genetically modified herbicide-resistant maize |
| 6) | First steps for detection of Barley yellow dwarf virus in aphids |
| 7) | Identification of recombinant PVY RNAs and their parental sequences in transgenic potatoes and first steps in their quantification |
| 8) | Rove beetles as indicators in the evaluation protocols for environmental risk assessment of Bt corn |
| 9) | Substancial equivalence - Compound analysis of transgenic plants |
| 10) | Effects of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry3Aa toxin and Galanthus nivalis agglutinin on the efficacy of entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema feltia in the tests with Spodoptera littoralis caterpillars |
| 11) | Evaluation of multiple insect resistant Bt maize pollen consumption in honeybee workers under semi-field conditions |
| 12) | Assessing the structure and function of beneficial soil fungi |
| 13) | Cry1Ab expression level in MON810 - case study in Poland |
| 14) | Testing insecticidal activity of Cry3Bb1 expressed in Bt maize with larvae of the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) |
| 15) | Potential impact of the Bt maize MON88017 expressing Cry3Bb1 on ground beetles |
| 16) | Valuating environmental impacts of GM crops - ecological and ethical criteria for regulatory decision-making (VERDI) |
| 17) | Assessment of the ingestion and fate of Cry proteins from a stacked Bt-maize in herbivorous arthropods using Trigonotylus caelestialium as a model organism |
| 18) | Assessment of the potential effects of "stacked" Bt maize on non-target lepidoptera in agrarian systems |
| 19) | Coexistence strategy based on biosafety regulation and experimental data |
| 20) | Ground beetles (Col., Carabidae) in Bt-maize - first field large scale experiment in Poland |
| 21) | First field experiments on the effect of MON 810 maize on non-target arthropods in Poland: Preliminary data |
| 22) | Consideration of the case-specific monitoring of genetically modified crops and appropriate monitoring endpoints |
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