Seminar Series on Behavioral and Chemical Ecology of Forest Insects

Please join us for the fifth IUFRO Working Party 7.03.16 – Seminar Series on Behavioral and Chemical Ecology of Forest Insects online seminar at 15h30 on Thursday 29 October starting at 15h30 (GMT+2). Attendance of this virtual seminar series is free but you are requested to register by clicking here if you have not yet done so before. Chemically mediated plant-herbivore-microbe interactions in forests. Almuth Hammerbacher, University of Pretoria, South Africa 15:30 - 15:40 Introduction by seminar leader 15:40 - 16:05 Host tree terpenes mediate interactions between the European spruce bark beetle, Ips typographus and its fungal symbionts. Dineshkumar Kandasamy, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany 16:05 - 16:30 Tripartite interactions in poplar trees: herbivores feed on plant-pathogenic fungi for their own benefit. Franziska Eberl, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany 16:30 – 17:00 Open discussion