Monday 2 May 2022
Congress registration
AuditoriumOpening Ceremony
Local Committee Chair (Dr. Pierre Abad), IFNS President (Dr. Larry Duncan)
Plenary Sessions
AuditoriumPlenary 1
- Microgravity effect on entomopathogenic nematodes' ability to find and kill insectsFatma Kaplan, David Shapiro-Ilan, Karl Cameron Schiller
AuditoriumPlenary 2
- Plant Root-knot Nematode Interaction: a sophisticated dialogue
Coffee break - Visit of exhibition
Parallel Sessions
AuditoriumOral session 1
Plant resistance and nematode virulence
Chairs: Jiling Liao and Aska Goverse
Oral presentations
Multiple mechanisms of resistance to SCN encoded by soybean Rhg1
Andrew Bent, Shaojie Han, Adam Bayless, Katelyn Butler, John Smith, Ryan Zapotocny, Christina Fliege, Matthew Hudson, Brian Diers, Shiyan Chen, Xiaohong Wang, Derrick Grunwald
Adaptation of Meloidogyne incognita to host resistance
Laetitia Perfus-Barbeoch Zurletto, Rahim Hassanaly-Goulamhoussen, Christoph Grunau, Etienne G.J. Danchin, Bruno Favery, Philippe Castagnone, Pierre Abad
Tackling new virulent Globodera pallida populations using new sources of resistance in wild potato species
Sebastian Kiewnick
The genetic basis for root-knot nematode virulence
David Bird
Proline-rich extensin-like receptor kinases mediate damage-triggered immune responses to nematode infections
Jose L. Lozano Torres, Jaap-Jan Willig, Sonja Warmerdam, Casper C. van Schaik, Jaap Bakker, Aska Goverse, Geert Smant
Functional analysis of the Ma gene for resistance to root-knot nematodes in Prunus
Simon Saucet, Cyril Van Ghelder, Daniel Esmenjaud
Poster flash presentations
Pathotypic variation between isolates of Meloidogyne enterolobii collected from Sweetpotato in North and South Carolina
William Rutter, Phillip Wadl, John Mueller, Paula Agudelo
Selection for Radopholus similis resistance in improved plantain hybrids and parents under screen house conditions
Emmanuel Olajide, Laura Cortada, Yao Kolombia, Delphine Amah, Amos Alakonya, Wim Bert, Daniel Coyne
Transcriptome analysis of resistance to root-lesion nematode Pratylenchus thornei in chickpea (Cicer arietinum)
Sonal Channale, Danamma Kalavikatte, John Thompson, Mahendar Thudi, Rebecca Zwart
Room 1Oral session 2
Soil suppressiveness and nematode control using cover crops
Chairs: Caroline Djian-Caporalino and Andreas Westphal
Oral presentations
Hyalorbilia spp., causal agents of endoparasitic nematode-suppressive soils
Ole Becker, Jennifer Smith Becker, James Borneman
Organic amendments: a key component of a sweetpotato farming system that improves soil health, enhances nematode-suppressive services and reduces losses from root-knot nematode
Graham Stirling
Cover cropping for nematode management in nut crop production
Andreas Westphal, Yu-Chen Wang, J. Ole Becker, Jeff Mitchell, Amelie Gaudin
Evaluating sorghum as cover crop against root-knot nematodes
Caroline Djian-Caporalino, Thierry Mateille, Marc Bailly-Bechet, Nathalie Marteu, Ariane Fazari, Pierre Bautheac, Alizée Raptopoulo, Luan Van Duong, Johannes Tavoillot, Bernard Martiny, Claire Goillon, Philippe Castagnone-Sereno
Cover crops and litter mulching improves the soil food web structure and suppressiveness in banana fields
Camille Chauvin, Jean-Michel Risede, Cécile Villenave, Marc Dorel
Suppression effect of microbial communities, extracted from the rhizospheres of tropical trees, on M. enterolobii
Milad Rashidifard, Hendrika Fourie, Gerhard Engelbrecht, Samad Ashrafi, Mieke Stefanie Daneel, Sarina Claassens
Poster flash presentations
Root-knot nematode suppression by cover crop and tillage practices in a bare-ground vegetable production system
Josiah Marquez, Timothy Coolong, Bhabesh Dutta, Abolfazl Hajihassani
Host status of different cover crops for three Pratylenchus species
Betre Estifanos, Ank Theelen Peeten, Philippe Packbier, Bernd Honermeier, Johannes Hallmann
Effect of cover crops on soil quality: nematodes as bioindicators of soil health
Leidy Rusinque, Ana Paula Nunes, Paula Fareleira, Isabel Videira, Pablo Pereira, Maria João Camacho, Filomena Nóbrega1, Maria Lurdes Inácio
Oral presentations
Molecular approaches for evaluation of nematode community diversity: paving a way into the future
Dorota L. Porazinska, Blanche Butera, Thomas O. Powers, Joseph L Sevigny, W. Kelley Thomas
On the Importance of species diversity in ecosystem functions and services
Howard Ferris
Protected areas in southern Africa, what do we know of the nematode fauna?
Candice Jansen van Rensburg
Bottom-up control of arable soil nematode functional traits following different crop residue amendment
Xiaoyun Chen, Bingbing Wan, Manqiang Liu
Documentation and characterization of nematode biodiversity in Nilgiri forests of India for their functional role in soil health
Kavitha Govindasamy
Bacterial nematode grazing enhances P mobilization from phytate by Bacillus subtilis: what are the mechanisms involved?
Claude Plassard, Mercedes Garcia-Sanchez, Houssein Monder, Mathilde Souche, Anne-Laure Pablo, Carlos Trives-Segura, Leyla Slamti, Julien Brillard
Poster flash presentations
The relations between glyphosate and soil health based on nematode trophic groups in Turkish hazelnut orchards
Sevilhan Mennan, Gökhan Aydınlı, Ivo Brants, Xavier Belvaux, Husrev Menna
Response of soil nematode faunal assemblage to organic and inorganic fertilizer application in grassland columns
Israel Ikoyi, Andrew Fowler, Achim Schmalenberger
Soil nematode communities in a highland semiarid zone of Central México
Hugo H. Mejía-Madrid
Oral presentations
Infective juveniles of entomopathogenic nematodes secrete ascarosides and respond to interspecific dispersal signals
Christine Griffin, Cathryn Hartley, Peter Lillis, Rebecca Owens
Machines and machine learning for applied nematology: potential and opportunity
Dennis Willett, Larry W Duncan, Camila C Filgueiras
Role of Xenorhabdus nematophila on the metabolism of infective stage juveniles of Steinernema carpocapsae (Nematoda: Steinernematidae)
S. Patricia Stock, Megan Yousefelahi
Interactions between entomoparasitic nematodes within their host species, rose chafer grub
Luca Eszter Balog, Oleksandr Holovachov, Júlia Katalin Török
Molecular effectors in immune modulation and pathogenicity by entomopathogenic nematodes
Adler Dillman Sophia Parks, Chau Nguyen, Shyon Nasrolahi, Dihong Lu, Raghavendran Ramaswamy, Anna Buchman, Omar Akbari, Naoki Yamanaka, Martin Boulanger
Key transcriptional changes in the shifting from free-living to infective stage of Heterorhabditis bacteriophora
Nelson Simões, Duarte Toubarro
Poster flash presentations
War in the darkness: the use of volatile organic compounds and entomopathogenic nematodes to control wireworms
Diana la Forgia, François Verheggen
Evolutionary Conserved Neuropeptidergic signaling systems regulate host-finding and dispersal behavior in nematodes
Bram Cockx, Rose Boelen, Johnathan Dalzell, Liesbet Temmerman
Concomitant species of entomopathogenic nematodes alter dispersal behavior and increase insecticidal efficiency
Sheng-Yen Wu, Larry Duncan
Lunch - Visit of exhibition
Parallel Sessions
AuditoriumOral session 5
Plant resistance and nematode virulence (continued)
Chairs: Shinichiro Sawa and David Bird
Oral presentations
How plants recognize nematodes: Signals and signalling
Shahid Siddique, Florian Grundler
Inducing plant resistance against parasitic nematodes: Preparing for battle
Tina Kyndt Willem Desmedt, Anikó Meijer, Jonas De Kesel, Mohammad Reza Atighi, Richard Raj Singh
30 years of research on resistance against Globodera pallida: an overview
Sylvain Fournet, Marie Claire Kerlan, Josselin Montarry, Eric Grenier
Virulence in UK Globodera pallida populations in relation to resistance and durability
Vivian Blok, Ulrike Gartner, Kyriakos Varypatakis, John Jones
A Meloidogyne graminicola effector interacts with a novel Cu metallochaperone protein to improve Cu/Zn-SOD activities and suppress plant immunity
Handa Song, Borong Lin, Qiuling Huang, Jiansong Chen, Lili Hu, Longhua Sun, Kan Zhuo, Jinling Liao
Bifurcation of pathogen recognition specifity and convergence of immune responses by the potato R genes Rx1 and Gpa2
Aska Goverse, Octavina Sukarta, Amalia Diaz Granados Muñoz, Erik Slootweg, Geert Smant
Poster flash presentations
Investigation of resistance against Ditylenchus dipsaci on sugar beet
Alan Storelli, Andreas Keiser, Sebastian Kiewnick, Mario Schumann, Werner Beyer, Matthias Daub, Michael Rostás, Anne-Kathrin Mahlein
Molecular insights into an interaction of resistant plant Solanum torvum and virulent/avirulent root-knot nematodes
Kazuki Sato, Yasuhiro Kadota, Pamela Gan, Taketo Uehara, Takahiro Bino, Katsushi Yamaguchi, Yasunori Ichihashi, Hideaki Iwahori, Noriko Maki, Shuji Shigenobu, Takamasa Suzuki, Bruno Favery, Shahid M. Mukhtar, Ken Shirasu
Resistance loci interactions discovery through comprehensive transcriptomics
Peter DiGennaro, Weiming Hu, Vincent Colantonio
Room 1Oral session 6
Phylogenetics/Phylogenomics: the latest updates on the Phylum Nematoda
Chairs: Sergei Subbotin and Johannes Helder
Oral presentations
Evolution and diversification of plant and animal parasitism within the phylum Nematoda
Johannes Helder, Martijn Holterman, Sven Van den Elsen, Geert Smant, Stefan Geisen, Michaela Schratzberger
Nematode phylogenomics - how far did we progress?
Oleksander Holovachov, Ashleigh B. Smythe, Kevin M. Kocot
Phylogeny and systematics of Aphelenchoididae: overview and problems
Natsumi Kanzaki, Robin Giblin-Davis
Reproducible genomic assembly, phylogenomics, and metagenomics of Root-Knot Nematodes
Dave Lunt, Michael Winter, Graham Sellers, Rebecca Lawson, Tom Prior, Amir Szitenberg
Genomic features of the rice root-knot nematode Meloidogyne graminicola
Thi Ngan Phan, Julie Orjuela, Laetitia Perfus-Barbeoch, Djampa Kozlowski, Etienne Danchin, Christophe Klopp, D. Georgios Koutsovoulos, Celine Lopez-Roques, Olivier Bouchez, Guillaume Besnard, Bellafiore Stephane
Phylogeography, phylogeny and DNA barcoding of the cyst nematodes
Sergei Subbotin
Poster flash presentations
An update to the phylogeny of Aphelenchoidea; Ektaphelenchinae, Seinurinae and Tylaphelenchinae, as case studies
Majid Pedram, Farahnaz Jahanshahi Afshar
High-quality genome assembly of an emerging root-knot nematode species, Meloidogyne luci
Nik Susič, Georgios D. Koutsovoulos, Cristian Riccio, Etienne G. J. Danchin, Mark L. Blaxter, David H. Lunt, Polona Strajnar, Saša Širca, Gregor Urek, Barbara Gerič Stare
Demographic history and co-evolution study of nematodes parasitizing in millipedes of the Western Caucasus
Svetlana Malysheva, Boris Efeykin, Anastasia Teterina
Oral presentations
Effects of duration and frequency of non-flow periods on stream-dwelling nematode communities
Nabil Majdi, Miriam Colls, Linette Weiss, Vicenç Acuña, Sergi Sabater, Walter Traunspurger
Taxonomical and functional diversity of marine nematodes in the biomonitoring: reality or utopia?
Federica Semprucci
Community structure of deep-sea nematodes: a metabarcoding approach
Lara Macheriotou, Sofie Derycke, Ann Vanreusel
Resource diversity effects on cryptic marine nematode species: a multi-faceted approach
Rodgee Mae Guden, Derycke Sofie, Moens Tom
Can we predict sediment quality with nematode metabarcoding?
Janina Schenk, Nils Kleinbölting, Sebastian Höss, Marvin Brinke, Walter Traunspurger
Aquatic nematodes as bio-indicators of crude oil water-soluble fractions (WSFs) toxicity: a microcosm approach
Luana Monteiro, Tom Moens, Walter Traunspurge
Poster flash presentations
Nematode communities of the alkaline lakes in the sandhills of Western Nebraska
Kaitlin Gattoni, Abigail Borgmeier, J. Parr McQueen, Peter Mullin, Kirsten Powers, Thomas Powers, Dorota Porazinska
Nematode predators catalyze an increase of chloroviruses by foraging on the symbiotic hosts of zoochlorellae
Kirsten Powers, Zeina Al-Ameeli, John Delong, Steven Thomas, James Van Etten, David Dunigan, Thomas Powers
Combining metagenomics with morphology-based approaches to understand microbiome – meiofauna benthic interactions
Kasia Sroczyńska, Marta Martins, Maria Helena Costa, Joana Neves, Margarida Espada, Jordana Branco, Claudia Vicente, Helena Adão
Room 3Oral session 8
Nematode management in tropical conditions
Chairs: Ricardo Souza and Biodun Claudius-Cole
Oral presentations
Use of soil amendments and nematicides to manage G. rostochiensis and R. solanacearum in potatoes in Nyandarua, Kenya
Effie Ochieng, John Kimenju, Douglas Miano, Kalpana Sharma, Charles Opperman, Tahira Pirzada, Laura Cortada-Gonzalez, Danny Coyne
Management of nematodes in peri-urban vegetable farms in West Africa
Biodun Claudius-Cole
Challenges and management of plant-parasitic nematodes on plantain, Musa spp. AAB-subgroup, in Nigeria
Omolara Olaniyi
Adopting integrated nematode-soil health management in smallholder potato farms in the highlands of Guatemala
Stephen Kakaire, Amilcar Sanchez, Anibal Sacbaja, Catherine Chan, Brent Sipes, Haddish Melakeberhan
The effects of orange and lemon juice on root-knot nematode population densities and plant growth under greenhouse
Grace Tefu, Mieke Daneel, Driekie Fourie
Integrated management of Meloidogyne incognita and Fusarium oxysporum in cucumber under protected cultivation system
Jaydeep Ashok Patil, Anil Kumar, Sewak Ram
Poster flash presentations
Infectivity of Meloidogyne incognita on sunflower varieties as influenced by a neem-based organic fertilizer
Idorenyin Udo, Edna Akpan, Glory Egbe
Search for root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne javanica) resistance in wild relatives of sugarcane
Shamsul Bhuiyan, Kylie Garlick, George Piperidis, Meredith McNeil, Karen Aitken
Control of the rice root-knot nematode Meloidogyne graminicola using rice plants as trap crops
Giulia Torrini, Stefano Sacchi, Leonardo Marianelli, Giuseppe Mazza, Annachiara Fumagalli, Beniamino Cavagna, Pio Federico Roversi, Mariangela Ciampitti
Coffee break - Visit of exhibition
Poster Session 1
Parallel Sessions
AuditoriumWorkshop 1
Expanding indicator qualities of nematodes to identify sustainable soil health
Chairs: Haddish Melakeberhan and Alemayehu Habteweld
Room 1Workshop 2
Aphelenchoides besseyi: reemergence of a forgotten parasite
Chairs: Johan Desaeger and Mauricio Meyer
On the identity of Aphelenchoides besseyi populations from the southeastern states of the United States
Renato Inserra and Sergei Subbottin
Occurrence and control of Aphelenchoides besseyi in China
Hongli Ji
Selective feeding and reproductive activities of a facultative plant-parasitic nematode (Aphelenchoides besseyi) and a fungal feeder (A. pseudogoodeyi) on isolates of fungi pathogenic and non-pathogenic to strawberry
Clemen De Oliveira
Aphelenchoides besseyi: Emerging challenge in Brazilian crops
Mauricio Meyer
Room 2Workshop 3
Advances and challenges in CRISPR-mediated technologies in parasitic and free-living nematodes
Chairs: Sebastian Eves-van den Akker and Ralf J. Sommer
CRISPR-mediated reverse genetic approaches in
Ralf Sommer
TransPPN: The transformation of plant-parasitic nematodes consortium
Sebastian Eves-van den Akker
Liposome-mediated CRISPR and RNAi in parasitic and free-living nematodes
Andre Pires da Silva