Invited speakers list

(provisional titles)

Di Chen (Sino-French Hoffmann Institute of Immunology, Guangzhou, China)
Response of adult male flies to injection of oncogenic cells

Sylvia Cremer (IST Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria)
Cooperative disease defence in social insect colonies

Jean-Michel Drezen (Insect Biology Research Institute, Tours, France)
Studies of endogenous viruses of parasitoid wasps involved in parasitism success in the genomic era

Dieter Ebert (Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland)
The genetic basis of host-parasite coevolution

Obata Fumiaki (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan)
Commensal bacterial species and inflammaging, for “live fast, die young” lifestyle in Drosophila

Mathilde Gendrin (Pasteur Institute of Guyana, Cayenne, France)
Manipulating the mosquito microbiota to study its function

Ilona Grunwald-Kadow (Technisches Universität Munich, Freising, Germany)
Innate immune signaling in the formation of memory in Drosophila

Abdelaziz Heddi (INSA Lyon, Villeurbanne, France)
Immune and developmental processes constraining Sitophilus/Sodalis endosymbiotic relationship

Saskia Hogenhout (The John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom)
Tactics of host modulation by obligate biotrophs

Jean-Luc Imler (Institut de Biologie Moléculaire, Université de Strasbourg, France)
cGAS-STING antiviral signaling in flies

Waldan Kwong (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal)
Host-microbe interactions in the bee gut

Bruno Lemaitre (Global Health Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
The Drosophila antimicrobial response at the time of the Cas9/CRISPR gene targeting revolution

Elena Levashina (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany)
Mosquito-parasite interactions

Harmit Malik (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle WA, USA)
Evolutionary constraints and tradeoffs in host-virus arms races

Lolitika Mandal (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, Manauli, India)
Beyond just immune response: role of (NF-κB) factor Relish in Drosophila developmental hematopoiesis

Caroline Montagnani (Host-pathogen-environment interaction, IFREMER, Montpellier, France)
Immune training capacities in the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas

Nancy Moran (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
Tba

Tony Nolan (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Functional genetics tools in different Anopheles mosquito species: from understanding basic biology to new forms of population control

Darren Obbard (University of Edimburgh, Edimburgh, Scotland)
The family Drosophilidae as a model community for viral infection in the wild

Joao Pedra (University of Maryland School of  Medicine, Baltimore, USA)
Tick Immunobiology

Julien Pompon (MIVEGEC, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France)
Tripartite interactions between mosquito, flavivirus and host that enable bite-initiated skin infection and transmission

Carla Saleh (Pasteur Institute, Paris, France)
Virus infection in the fruit fly disrupts gut homeostasis by modulation of intestinal stem cell proliferation

Todd Schlenke (BIO5 Institute, Tucson, USA)
Recognition of foreign tissues in Drosophila

Neal Silverman (UMass Medical School, Worcester, USA)
SLC46s across the immunologic universe

Pauline Speder (Pasteur Institute, Paris, France)
Modelling infections of the central nervous system in Drosophila

Luis Teixeira (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal)
Drosophila interaction with bacterial symbionts

Yuko Ulrich (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Iena, Germany)
Division of Labour and Disease in Insect Societies

Mylène Weill (Institute of Evolutionary Sciences Montpellier, France)
Evolution of wolbachia infecting culex pipiens mosquitoes