IUFRO Tokyo Program


Wednesday, 21 August
10:00 - 12:00 Registration Azuma room

12:00 - 12:45 LUNCH WP business meeting
-------------Opening session, welcomes------------
12:45 - 12:50 Etsuko Shoda-Kagaya, conference scientific committee chair
12:50 - 12:55 Tohru Nakashizuka, President, Forestry and Forest Products Institute
12:55 - 13:00 Rene Eschen, Coordinator IUFRO WP7.03.12 – Alien invasive species and international trade

13:00 - 13:40 Keynote: Manuela Branco

13:40 - 13:45 Pause

13:45 - 14:00 (Online)Predicting future pest incursions in Ghana’s forest landscapes Paul Bosu
14:00 - 14:15 Assessing Asian parasitoids for classical biological control of the invasive box tree moth in Europe and North America, Lukas Seehausen
14:15 - 14:30 Leafroller caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) affecting Eucalyptus in South Africa, Privilege T. Makunde
14:30 - 14:45 Will climate change exacerbate spruce budworm outbreaks? Deepa Pureswaran
14:45 - 15:00 The importance of the initial population size in the establishment success of bark beetles, Gimena Vilardo

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee

15:30 - 16:10 Keynote: Keys to the successful management of biological invasions, Sankaran Kavileveettil

16:10 - 16:25 Plan for the construction of a wood-commodities systems approach for cedar and cypress, Etsuko Shoda-Kagaya
16:25 - 16:40 Revising a century old biological control programme: considering climate, diversity and specificity, Brett Hurley

16:40 - 16:45 Pause

16:45 - 17:00 Successful case of classical biological control in Croatia: management of an alien invasive forest pest, Dinka Matosevic
17:00 - 17:15 Entomology notes from a small island: the changing impact of invasive forest pests in Britain, Daegan Inward
17:00 - 17:15 Potential distribution of the invasive Oak lace bug in Europe and the implications of climate change, Flavius Bălăcenoiur
17:15 - 17:30 Development of a biological control system for bark beetle management, Christo Nikolov
Thursday, 22 August
All-day field trip – buses leave the hotel at 8:15
10:25 - 11:05 Orihime Park : Damaged cherries by Aromia bungii and oak wilt
11:15 - 12:15 Banna-ji temple: An old temple founded by famous Samurai 800 years ago (to see damaged cherry trees)
Ashikaga Gakko: Historic place, the oldest academic institution in Japan

12:15 - 13:40 Lunch (on buses)
13:40 - 13:50 Ushiku city: Damaged trees by Anoplophora glabripennis
14:00 - 15:00 FFPRI main hall: FFPRI introduction Tsutomu Hattori, Keynote: Nami Uechi
15:00 - 16:30 FFPRI walk

18:00 - 20:45 Official Dinner: Asahi Beer Building
20:45 - 21:15 Asakusa walk to Asakusa View Hotel


Friday, 23 August

9:30 - 9:45 Using region-wide trapping to determine the range and flight timing of bald cypress leafroller, a pest of coastal forests, Kristy M. McAndrew
9:45 - 10:00 Short- and long-term integrated management of forest pests and pathogens, René Eschen
10:00 - 10:05 Genetic structure of Aromia bungii in Japan: suggestion of multiple introductions and following rapid spread, Shigeaki Tamura
10:05 - 10:20 New species of Sirex woodwasp (Hymenoptera: Siricidae) in pine plantations in Brazil, Carlos. F. Wilcken

10:20 - 11:00 COFFEE and poster presentations
11:00 - 11:40 Keynote: Juan Corley

11:40 - 11:55 Genomic-enabled biosurveillance for tracing the invasion of the Asian longhorned beetle, Amanda Roe
11:55 - 12:10 Conservation biological control in forest: a case study with the pine processionary moth, Nattan Plat

12:10 - 13:10 LUNCH and poster presentations

13:10 - 13:25 Classical biological control of forest insect pests: a case study, Sirex noctilio and two parasitoid wasps used as biocontrol, Deborah Fischbein
13:25 - 13:40 Economic correlates of the introduction of exotic insects in Chile during the last century, Sergio A Estay
13:40 - 13:55 Regional and global approaches to the management of forest invasive species, Shiroma Sathyapala
13:55 - 14:10 Exploration of natural enemies of the Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer, Euwallacea fornicatus in Vietnam, Mesfin Wondafrash
14:10 - 14:25 Harnessing the power of genomics to generate a biosurveillance tool for the invasive Asian longhorned beetle, Ilga Porth
14:25 - 14:40 Foliar fungal endophytes alter white spruce defense metabolites and provide direct anti-herbivore resistance against a d, Nadir Erbilgin

14:40 - 15:30 COFFEE and poster presentations

Closing ceremony
15:30 - 15:35 Deepa Pureswaran, Coordinator IUFRO WP7.03.06 - Integrated management of forest defoliation insects
15:35 - 15:40 Brett Hurley, Coordinator IUFRO WP7.03.13 – Biological control of forest insects and pathogens

Poster Presentations
“Changes in range distribution of invasive pine bark beetles in Chile” Stella Januario

“The role of seasonal climate on the occurrence of Ormiscodes amphimone outbreaks in Patagonia, Southern Chile” Sergio A Estay

“Deep learning applied to integrated pest management: an innovative approach for detection and counting of Thaumastocoris” Nicolas Pereira de Souza

“Warming tolerance of the blue gum gall wasp, Leptocybe invasa, and its biological control agents” Michelle Schröder

“Fungal RNA virome of important tree pathogens from Europe” Carolina Cornejo

“Screening of natural enemies (parasitoids and predator) of Lepidoptera defoliators in Tunisia (North Africa)” Olfa Ezzine

“Biocontrol of cinnamon root rot disease caused by Phytophthora cinnamomi using soil phosphate solubilizing bacteria” Tran Thanh Trang

“Sawdust as a possible pathway for the spread of pinewood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus” Arbuzova Elena

“Survey of nematodes associated with Sirex spp. in Pinus plantation in Brazil” Silvia Renata Siciliano Wilcken

“Lesser cornstalk borer, Elasmopalpus lignosellus (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), outbreak on Eucalyptus in Brazil” Murilo F. Ribeiro

“Population dynamics of the Thaumastocoris peregrinus in Eucalyptus plantations in Southeastern Brazil” Lucas Zappia Barcik

“Assessing NaClO solution effects in eggs of Thaumastocoris peregrinus after Cleruchoide noackae parasitism” Jade C. F. Bezerra

“From laboratory to field: assessing Beauveria bassiana carriers for large pine weevil management” Michal Lalík

“The outcome of climate change on the outbreak of insect defoliators in the Northwestern Tunisia” Hadil Khadraoui

“Co-occurrence of eucalyptus borers Phoracantha semipunctata and Phoracantha recurva (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Chile” Carmen Paz Silva

“Capacity building for reliable identification of quarantine forest insects ㏌ Europe” Raphaëlle Mouttet

“Can the Curculionid leafminer Parendaeus abietinus attack subalpine non-host Abies trees?” Yoshiko Ayabe

“Growth performance of Bambusa vulgaris Schrad. ex J. C. Wendl. and Bambusa spinosa Roxb. ex Buch. -Ham. in secondary” Lorena P. Laguardia