Name: ESITO 2025
Start: 2025-09-19T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-24T14:00:00+02:00
Location: Villasimius, Italy

ESITO 2025

from Friday, 19 September 2025 (15:00) to Wednesday, 24 September 2025 (14:00)

Monday, 15 September 2025
Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Thursday, 18 September 2025
Friday, 19 September 2025

16:00 Arrival & Registration
Arrival & Registration
16:00 - 18:00

19:00 Welcome cocktail
Welcome cocktail
19:00 - 20:00
Saturday, 20 September 2025
09:00 Keynote Lecture
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 The chemical language of insect-microbe symbioses - Martin Kaltenpoth (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany)
10:00 Chemical Ecology
10:00 - 12:30
Contributions

10:00 Comparative chemosensory systems in Aedes mosquito larvae: The role of olfaction in foraging behavior - Dor Perets (GNOI)

10:15 Hawkmoths can smell with grooming organs on their legs - Sonja Bisch-Knaden (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany)

11:00 Chemosensory mechanisms of temporal niche partitioning in an ecological specialist - Ambra Masuzzo (Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

11:15 Preference performance mismatch of the Eurasian spruce bark beetle, Ips typographus - Jana Gabriele Burchards (Lund University)

11:30 Deciphering chemical communication in an aquatic insect - Nicolas Montagné (iEES-Paris)

11:45 Deep behavioral phenotyping of pathogen-infected mosquitoes reveals mosquito- and pathogen-specific changes in blood-feeding behavior - Felix Hol (Radboud University Medical Center)

12:00 Oxidant pollutants and their effect on sexual communication in insects - Sina Cassau (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 15:00
15:00 Development
15:00 - 15:45
Contributions

15:00 Development of ant olfactory systems - plasticity as a key to sociality - Wolfgang Rössler (University of Wuerzburg)

15:30 Development of GABAergic innervation within olfactory mushroom-body microcircuits of the honeybee Apis mellifera - Claudia Groh (University of Würzburg)
15:45 Application
15:45 - 17:15
Contributions

15:45 Exploiting herbivore-induced plant volatiles for crop protection - Ted Turlings (Henan University, China, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and Penn State University, USA)

16:15 From volatile to visual cues: host location and oviposition in tachinid parasitoids, with insights from Exorista larvarum (L.) - Maria Luisa Dindo (University of Bologna)

17:00 Does the natal host species affect host choice of pupal filth fly parasitoids? - Leo W Beukeboom (Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen)
17:15 Announcement Entomologia Experimentalis
Announcement Entomologia Experimentalis
17:15 - 17:25
Room: Hotel Comoran

17:25 Poster talks 1
Poster talks 1
17:25 - 17:45
Room: Hotel Comoran
17:45 Poster Session 1 / odd
17:45 - 19:00
Contributions

17:45 VOC induced interactions of Gasterophilus bot flies with Welsh poneys in France - Fotini Koutroumpa (UMR ISP 1282, INRAE Centre Val de Loire)

17:50 Uncovering the chemosensory repertoire of Ips typographus larvae: gene annotation and expression profiling - Anna Magnusson (Lund University)

17:55 Neuromodulation of odor-guided feeding motivation and odor preference in the hungry fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster - Tzu-Ting (Tammy) Huang (Tohoku University, Japan)

18:00 Cytochrome p450s in the Drosophila olfactory system - Sydney Ballou (University of Connecticut, Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, Storrs Mansfield, CT, USA)

18:05 Markers of olfactory sensilla support cells in adult Drosophila - Kristine Zlotnick (University of Connecticut, Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, Storrs Mansfield, CT, USA)

18:10 Odor detection in complex mixtures following appetitive and aversive conditioning - Lautaro Alejandro Duarte (IFIByNE-University of Buenos Aires)

18:15 Attraction to date extract in Aedes mosquitoes reveals species-specific foraging strategies - Neta Keren (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

18:20 Discovery of a novel Mosquito repellent chemical from perfumery palette - Eduardo Hatano (dsm-firmenich)
Sunday, 21 September 2025
09:00 Olfactory circuits
09:00 - 11:30
Contributions

09:00 Behavioral evolution in a complex world: From environment to neural circuits - Philipp Brand (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research)

09:30 Odorant receptor selectivity in ants - Giacomo Glotzer (The Rockefeller University)

09:45 Hunger-state dependent olfactory processing in Drosophila larvae - Hari Pradeep Narayanan (University of Konstanz)

10:00 Sexual pheromone processing in the honey bee brain - Julia Mariette (EGCE, IDEEV, CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette)

10:15 Identification of two odorant receptors tuned to alarm pheromone in the honey bee Apis mellifera - Julie Carcaud (University Paris-Saclay)

11:00 Mechanosensory processing within the olfactory pathway - Martin Strube-Bloss (ZBUN)
11:15 Odour-guided behaviour
11:15 - 12:30
Contributions

11:15 Sensory flexibility in the desert locust - from social cues to collective migrations - Einat Couzin-Fuchs (GNOI)

11:45 Olfactory learning in Pieris brassicae butterflies is dependent on the intensity of a plant-derived oviposition cue - Dimitri Peftuloglu

12:00 YOLito: an open-source mosquito detector for behavioral tracking - Evyatar Sar-Shalom (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

12:15 Olfactory navigation in the Australian Bogong moth Agrotis infusa - Linnea Rosberg (Lund University)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 15:00
15:00 Odour-guided behaviour
15:00 - 15:45
Contributions

15:00 Risk assessment in a navigating desert ant - Richard Spehr (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany)

15:15 Host plant selection and discrimination of mosquitoes - Rickard Ignell (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)

15:30 Functional characterization of ovipositor-expressed odorant receptors in Spodoptera littoralis - Sai Zhang (INRAE)
15:45 Pollination ecology
15:45 - 17:00
Contributions

15:45 How biotic and abiotic factors impact the evolution of plant-insect interactions - Florian P. Schiestl (University of Zürich)

16:15 The role of floral scents composition in plant-pollinator interactions - Arthur de Fouchier (IEES-Paris, INRAE)
17:00 Poster talks 2
Poster talks 2
17:00 - 17:30
Room: Hotel Comoran
17:30 Poster Session 2 / even
17:30 - 19:00
Contributions

17:30 Untangling space and taste within the sensory world of Drosophila - Alexi Mery (Francis Crick Institute)

17:35 How subpopulations of MBONs integrate olfactory and visual information across sub-regions of the calyx - Athil Althaf Aliyam Veetil Zynudheen (Bielefeld University)

17:40 Expression of olfactory proteins in tarsal neurons of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria - Natalie-Danielle Feige (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biology/Zoology, Dept. of Animal physiology)

17:45 The chemical and sensory bases of social immunity in the clonal raider ant - Sandra Tretter (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany)

17:50 A deep learning model for VOC-driven mating analysis in BSF - Libi Tamir (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

17:55 Sucrose sensitivity and dietary signal integration shape feeding decisions in whiteflies - Jonathan Bohbot (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

18:00 Integration of learning in an innate pheromone circuit - Sayantani Biswas (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany)

18:05 Evolution of feeding preference in drosophilids - Enrico Bertolini (GNOI)

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