Plenary Speakers

Prof. Louise E.M. Vet
Netherlands

Director of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) and Professor of Evolutionary Ecology, Wageningen University, Wageningen.

"Insect-plant interactions in a multitrophic world."

Dr. Zeyaur Khan
Kenya

Principal Scientist and leader of the Habitat Management Programme, International
Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Nairobi.

"Push-Pull" - a chemical ecology-based IPM strategy for smallholder farmers
in Africa.

Dr. Walter R. Tschinkel
USA

Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee.

Exotic fire ants and native ants: a cautionary tale.

Prof. Maureen Coetzee
South Africa

National Institute for Communicable Diseases and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Malaria and mosquitoes: will insecticide resistance be our downfall ?

Prof. H. Charles J. Godfray
United Kingdom

Hope Professor of Entomology, Department of Zoology, Oxford University, Oxford.

What structures the communities of plant-feeding insects ?

Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar
India

JC Bose National Fellow, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

The functional organization of a tropical insect society.