Programme Overview – ISCE-2023

The program is a work-in-progress. This version is as on 6 July 2023. Click on the Speakers lecture title to see their abstract.

		Sunday	23-July
	CONFERENCE ROOM 1 Biological Sciences Building
14:45 – 16:45	ISCE Executive Committee Meeting
16:45 – 18:45	ISCE Editorial Board Meeting
19:00	Registration Welcome Reception Jawahar Guest House Lawn
		Monday	24-July
08:30 onwards	Registration
	JN TATA HALL	HALL A	HALL B	HALL C
09:20 – 09:30	Opening
09:30 – 10:15	The ISCE Silver Medal Lecture 1 by Anne-Geneviève Bagnères: How very simple molecules can occupy a chemical ecologist’s life
10:15 – 11:00	Plenary Lecture 1 by Silke Allmann: From Fragrance to Function – Unraveling Specificity in Green Leaf Volatile Signaling
11:00 – 11:15	Tea / Coffee Break
11:15 – 13:00 (5 Orals)	Symposium 01 – Part 1 Semiochemicals and Their Application in Insect Pest Management	Symposium 03 Chemical Defences in Plant-Insect Interactions	Symposium 11 Chemical Ecology of Venoms and Poisons	Symposium 12 Consequences of plant domestication on plant metabolites and herbivore-natural enemy interactions
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch Break	Lunch Break	Lunch Break	Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30 (4 Orals)	Symposium 01 – Part 2 Semiochemicals and Their Application in Insect Pest Management	Symposium 05 Bio-organic Chemistry: Synthesis, Methods, and Applications in Chemical Ecology	Symposium 06 Chemical ecology of endosymbionts	Symposium 09 Herbivory-induced plant volatiles in crop protection: exploiting scents for sustainability
15:30 – 15:45	Tea / Coffee Break	Tea / Coffee Break	Tea / Coffee Break	Tea / Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:45	Posters
16:45 – 18:00 (3 Orals)	Symposium 4 – Part 1 Nematode chemical ecology in agroecosystems	Symposium 15 – Part 1 Chemical communication	Symposium 07 Multidisciplinary approach to pest management
		Tuesday	25-July
09:00 onwards	Registration
	JN TATA HALL	HALL A	HALL B	HALL C
09:30 – 10:15	ISCE Silverstein-Simeone Award Lecture by Florian Schiestl: Floral fragrance for pollinators and beyond
10:15 – 11:00	Plenary Lecture 2 by Athula Atygalle: Mass spectrometry an indispensable technique for chemical ecological explorations
11:00 – 11:15	Tea / Coffee Break	Tea / Coffee Break	Tea / Coffee Break
11:15 – 13:00 (5 Orals)	Symposium 17 Chemical ecology and pest control	Symposium 14 Chemical ecology in agriculture – Part 1	Symposium 16 Insect chemical ecology – Part 1	Symposium 08 Evolution and mechanisms of social signalling in social insects
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch Break	Lunch Break	Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30 (4 Orals)	Symposium 02 – Part 1 Chemical Ecology of tephritid fruit flies	Symposium 01 – Part 3 Semiochemicals and Their Application in Insect Pest Management	Symposium 10 Chemical and Molecular Ecology of Plant-Herbivore-Natural Enemy Interactions
15:30 – 15:45	Tea / Coffee Break	Tea / Coffee Break	Tea / Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:45	Posters
16:45 – 17:55 (3 Orals)	Symposium 04 – Part 2 Nematode chemical ecology in agroecosystems	Symposium 15 – Part 2 Chemical communication	Symposium 13 Mutualism and mutlitrophic interaction
		Wednesday	26-July
09:00 onwards	Registration
	JN TATA HALL	HALL A	HALL B	HALL C
09:30 – 10:15	DAAKs-Chemicals Memorial Lecture by Ted Turlings: What I learned from Jim Tumlinson when I was his PhD student… and beyond
10:15 – 11:00	Plenary Lecture 3 by Baldwyn Torto: Nature-based crop protection solutions for below and above-ground plant pests
11:00 – 11:20	Tea / Coffee Break
11:20 – 12:50 (4 Orals)	Symposium 02 – Part 2 Chemical Ecology of tephritid fruit flies	Symposium 14 Chemical ecology in agriculture – Part 2	Symposium 16 Insect chemical ecology – Part 2	Symposium 18 Intra-and-interspecific chemical communication of bark beetles as forest pest in global change
12:50 – 14:00	Lunch Break	Lunch Break	Lunch Break	Lunch Break
14:00 – 18:00	Optional Half-Day City Tours
19:00	Banquet (Ticketed) Sheraton Hotel
		Thursday	27-July
	Registration
	JN TATA HALL	HALL A	HALL B	HALL C
09:00 – 09:45	Early Career Award Lecture by William (Rob) Morrison: Developing semiochemical-mediated, behaviorally-based management programs for pests in tree fruit and stored products
09:45 – 10:30	Plenary Lecture 4 by Zainulabeuddin “Zain” Syed: Olfaction in Blood-feeding Arthropods: Evolutionary and Functional Insights
10:30 – 10:45	Tea / Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:30	Applied Chemical Ecology Award Lecture by Ashraf El-Sayed: Reflections on the Pherobase
11:30 – 12:15	The ISCE Silver Medal Lecture 2 by Wilhelm Boland: Metal matters! Co2+ and Mg2+ ions control chain length of prenyl diphosphates in insects
12:15 – 13:15	ISCE Business Meeting for ISCE Members
13:15 – 14:15	Lunch Break
14.15 – 16.15	Closing Ceremony