ESITO 2025

Speaker List

• Athil Althaf Aliyam Veetil Zynudheen (Bielefeld University)
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    How subpopulations of MBONs integrate olfactory and visual information across sub-regions of the calyx

• roman arguello (Queen Mary University of London)
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    Evolutionary reconstruction of odorant receptor co-expression, neofunctionalization, and replacement

• Irene Arnoldi (Radboudumc)
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    Mechanistic insights into LIPS-2 modulated probing behaviour of the tiger mosquito

• Thomas Auer (GNOI)
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    Evolution of taste processing shifts dietary preference

• Sydney Ballou (University of Connecticut Department of Physiology and Neurobiology)
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    Cytochrome p450s in the Drosophila olfactory system

• Enrico Bertolini (GNOI)
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    Evolution of feeding preference in drosophilids

• Leo W. Beukeboom
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    Does the natal host species affect host choice of pupal filth fly parasitoids?

• Sonja Bisch-Knaden (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany)
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    Hawkmoths can smell with grooming organs on their legs

• Sayantani Biswas (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany)
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    Integration of learning in an innate pheromone circuit

• Jonathan Bohbot (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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    Sucrose sensitivity and dietary signal integration shape feeding decisions in whiteflies

• Ludvine Brajon (iEES-Paris)
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    Unravelling pheromone detection in the Asian and American palm weevils

• Philipp Brand (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research)
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    Behavioral evolution in a complex world: From environment to neural circuits

• Jana Gabriele Burchards (Lund University)
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    Preference performance mismatch of the Eurasian spruce bark beetle, Ips typographus

• Sophie J.C. Caron
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    The ecological mind — making sense of the world with a tiny brain

• Sina Cassau (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany)
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    Oxidant pollutants and their effect on sexual communication in insects

• ALBERTO MARIA CATTANEO (C3A - CENTER AGRICULTURE FOOD ENVIRONMENT, UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO)
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    Alternative strategies based on transgenic Drosophila melanogaster for the functional characterization of insect ionotropic receptors

• Arthur Comte (iEES-Paris, ICN)
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    Where’s Waldo? A hunt for functionally divergent odorant receptor orthologs in the context of host shifts

• Einat Couzin-Fuchs (GNOI)
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    Sensory flexibility in the desert locust - from social cues to collective migrations

• Arthur de Fouchier (INRAE)
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    The role of floral scents composition in plant-pollinator interactions

• Alizée Delarue (University Paris-Saclay)
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    Chemosensory evolution at the origin of inquilinism in the bee louse fly (Braula coeca)

• Josefina del Mármol
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    Structural mechanisms of chemical specificity in insect odorant receptors

• Maria Luisa Dindo (University of Bologna)
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    From volatile to visual cues: host location and oviposition in tachinid parasitoids, with insights from Exorista larvarum (L.)

• Lautaro Alejandro Duarte (IFIByNE-University of Buenos Aires)
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    Odor detection in complex mixtures following appetitive and aversive conditioning

• Benjamin Fabian (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg - Biozentrum - Lehrstuhl Neurobiologie und Genetik)
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    Decoding responses in the olfactory system of the yellow fever mosquito

• Natalie-Danielle Feige (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biology/Zoology, Dept. of Animal physiology)
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    Expression of olfactory proteins in tarsal neurons of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria

• Giacomo Glotzer (The Rockefeller University)
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    Odorant receptor selectivity in ants

• Claudia Groh
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    Development of GABAergic innervation within olfactory mushroom-body microcircuits of the honeybee Apis mellifera

• Eduardo Hatano (dsm-firmenich)
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    Discovery of a novel Mosquito repellent chemical from perfumery palette

• Nathaniel Himmel (University of Lausanne)
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    From the depths of the twilight zone: expression & functional analyses of an odorant & gustatory receptor homolog conserved in flies, humans and beyond

• Alec Hochstrasser (Univeristy of Zürich)
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    Unravelling the sugar-feeding behaviour of Culicoides biting midges

• Felix Hol (Radboudumc)
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    Deep behavioral phenotyping of pathogen-infected mosquitoes reveals mosquito- and pathogen-specific changes in blood-feeding behavior

• Tzu-Ting (Tammy) Huang (Tohoku University, Japan)
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    Neuromodulation of odor-guided feeding motivation and odor preference in the hungry fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster

• Rickard Ignell (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
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    Host plant selection and discrimination of mosquitoes

• Emmanuelle Jacquin-Joly (INRAE)
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    Comparative transcriptomic analyses in Tephritidae species provide insights into the ecological driving force behind odorant receptor evolution

• Carcaud Julie (EGCE, IDEEV, Université Paris Saclay)
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    Identification of two odorant receptors tuned to alarm pheromone in the honey bee Apis mellifera

• Martin Kaltenpoth (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany)
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    The chemical language of insect-microbe symbioses

• Neta Keren (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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    Attraction to date extract in Aedes mosquitoes reveals species-specific foraging strategies

• Robert J. Kittel (GNOI)
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    Target- and type-specific synaptic plasticity of olfactory sensory neurons

• Markus Knaden (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany)
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    How experience can drive oviposition preference in insects

• Fotini Koutroumpa (INRAE Centre Val de Loire)
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    VOC induced interactions of Gasterophilus bot flies with Welsh poneys in France

• Juan Sebastian Lugo Ramos (The Francis Crick Institute)
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    Receptor expression analysis of an olfactory organ reveals evolutionary patterns: from co-option to cell-type diversification.

• Anna Magnusson (Lund University)
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    Uncovering the chemosensory repertoire of Ips typographus larvae: gene annotation and expression profiling

• Julia Mariette (EGCE, IDEEV, CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette)
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    Sexual pheromone processing in the honey bee brain

• Heinrich Marx (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany)
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    Of flies and feces: Olfactory preference for weird resources in Drosophila melanogaster

• Ambra Masuzzo (University of Lausanne)
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    Chemosensory mechanisms of temporal niche partitioning in an ecological specialist

• Marie MERLE (EGCE (Evolution, Genomes, Behaviour, Ecology) Université Paris-Saclay)
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    From land to water: Evolution of odorant receptor repertoires and expression across adephagan beetles

• Alexi Mery (Francis Crick Institute)
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    Untangling space and taste within the sensory world of Drosophila

• Camille Meslin (INRAE)
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    Olfactory alchemy: Unraveling the molecular basis of the Orco-ORx puzzle

• Nicolas Montagné (INRAE, Sorbonne University)
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    Deciphering chemical communication in an aquatic insect

• Daniel Münch (Institute of Animal Physiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen)
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    Nutrient specific modulation of sensorimotor processing in Drosophila melanogaster

• Andrea Rafaela Nicolaidou (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)
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    Olfactory-visual integration and recurrent modulation of olfactory processing in the honeybee

• Dennis Pauls (GNOI)
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    Hunger vs. hazard: Neurophysiological mechanisms of maladaptive food intake

• Dimitri Peftuloglu
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    Olfactory learning in Pieris brassicae butterflies is dependent on the intensity of a plant-derived oviposition cue

• Dor Perets (GNOI)
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    Comparative chemosensory systems in Aedes mosquito larvae: The role of olfaction in foraging behavior

• Melissa Pitzalis (Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire Evolution, Genome, Comportement, Ecologie (EGCE), IDEEV Institut)
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    Neuroethology of taste in the honey bee Apis mellifera: from behaviour to the neural circuits

• Hari Pradeep Narayanan (University of Konstanz)
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    Hunger-state dependent olfactory processing in Drosophila larvae

• Jacopo Razzauti (The Rockefeller University)
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    Breaking the unbreakable: Dissecting DEET and picaridin's behavioral and neuronal basis in mosquitoes

• Linnea Rosberg (Lund University)
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    Olfactory navigation in the Australian Bogong moth Agrotis infusa

• Wolfgang Rössler (SWUW)
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    Development of ant olfactory systems - plasticity as a key to sociality

• Silke Sachse (SWUW)
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    Dissecting odor coding strategies in the migratory locust

• Jean-Christophe Sandoz (EGCE, IDEEV, CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette)
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    Evolution of an olfactory subsystem in Hymenoptera: a springboard for eusociality?

• Evyatar Sar-Shalom (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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    YOLito: an open-source mosquito detector for behavioral tracking

• Florian P. Schiestl (University of Zürich)
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    How biotic and abiotic factors impact the evolution of plant-insect interactions

• Richard Spehr (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany)
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    Risk assessment in a navigating desert ant

• Martin Strube-Bloss (Universität Bielefeld)
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    Mechanosensory processing within the olfactory pathway

• Suguru Takagi (University of Lausanne)
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    Metabotropic signaling broadens odour tuning in Ionotropic receptor neurons

• Libi Tamir (GNOI)
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    A deep learning model for VOC-driven mating analysis in BSF

• Devasena Thiagarajan (SWUW)
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    Sensory cross-talk between sight and smell in higher order brain centers

• Sandra Tretter (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany)
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    The chemical and sensory bases of social immunity in the clonal raider ant

• Ted Turlings (Henan University, China, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and Penn State University, USA)
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    Exploiting herbivore-induced plant volatiles for crop protection

• Gabriele Uhl (GNOI)
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    Chemical sensing in arachnids

• Niels Verhulst (National Centre for Vector Entomology, Institute of Parasitology, One Health Institute, University of Zurich)
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    Towards exploiting skin bacteria to protect animals against insect vectors

• Meg Younger (Boston University)
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    Non-canonical olfaction in mosquitoes

• sai Zhang (INRAE)
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    Functional characterization of ovipositor-expressed odorant receptors in Spodoptera littoralis

• Kristine Zlotnick (University of Connecticut)
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    Markers of olfactory sensilla support cells in adult Drosophila