33th Symposium of the European

Society of Nematologists Ghent, 9 – 13th September 2018

Programme

33rd Symposium of the European Society of Nematologists 9-13th September 2018, Ghent, Belgium

Programme

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Registration and welcoming reception at ‘Het Pand’

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08:00 - 09:00 Registration (Agora)

08:30 - 09:00 Opening (Oehoe)

09:00 - 10:30

Plenary sessions (Oehoe)

Integrated nematode control solutions are a must in the future Jaap Smedema, Bayer AG CropScience Division

Towards sustainable food systems for the 21st Century: the need for a paradigm shift Emile A. Frison, IPES-Food

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:40

Oehoe E2 E4

S1. Chemical control of plant-parasitic nematodes. Sponsored by Corteva AgriScience

Convenors: Tim Thoden & Yuji Oka

S2. Nematode responses to soil degradation and restoration

Convenors: Maria Viketoft & Thomaé Kakouli-Duarte

S3. Nematode biocontrol Convenor: Keith Davies

11:00 - Evaluation of a new nematicide for the control of potato cyst nematode (PCN) in the UK - J. Keer

11:00 - Evaluating the threat posed by irrigation water quality to soil ecosystem health - G. du Preez

11:00 - A Hyperparasitic Fried Egg in a Skirt: Genomic Sequencing of the Nematode Parasite Pasteuria penetrans - J. N. Orr

11:20 - Fluazaindolizine: A New Active Molecule for the Control of Plant Parasitic Nematodes - T. Thoden

11:20 - Nematodes in experimentally PAH and Cu contaminated soils - M. Viketoft

11:20 - The role of different host root exudates in enhancing Pasteuria endospore attachment to the cuticle of M. incognita juveniles - S. Mohan

11:40 - CEDROZ®, new terpene nematicide against root knot nematode on Solanaceae and cucurbits - E. Medico

11:40 - Nematode community structure of rehabilitated surface mining sites in Sibutad, southern Philippines - J.G. Martinez

11:40 - Specificity of microbial attachment to J2 of Meloidogyne hapla in suppressive soils - O. Topalović

12:00 - Inhibitor studies and vital dye staining suggest that the nematicide fluensulfone acts against lipid mobilization - E. Feist

12:00 - Development of soil nematode community structure and soil food web during the early pedogenesis of a Mollisol - F. Pan

12:00 - Bacterial community assemblages in the rhizosphere soil, endo-rhizosphere and cystosphere of soybean cyst nematode-suppressive soil challenged with nematodes - M. Hussain

12:20 - Nematicidal or nematistatic! Mode of action of fluopyram in plant parasitic nematodes - A.S. Schleker

12:20 - Trajectories of nematode and plant communities stimulated by liming under nitrogen deposition in subtropical abandoned arable cropland - S. Tian

12:20 - Bacillus firmus strain I-1582, a nematode antagonist by itself and through the plant - N. Escudero

12:40 - 13:40 Lunch

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S4. Management of potato cyst nematodes: resistance

Convenors: Eric Grenier & Sebastian Kiewnick

S5. Impact of soil management on soil nematodes in their ecological context

Convenors: Sofia Costa & Sara Sánchez Moreno

S6. Systematics and Phylogeography Convenors: Wim Bert & Sergei Subbotin

13:40 - New sources of resistance toward Globodera pallida in starch potatoes-the “PARES” project - S. Kiewnick

13:40 - Diversity of root-knot nematodes of the genus Meloidogyne Göeldi, 1892 (Nematoda: Meloidogynidae) associated with olive plants and environmental cues regarding their distribution in southern Spain - A. Archidona-Yuste

13:40 - Heads or tails? New insights and conundrums in Aphelenchoides and close genera - A. Sánchez-Monge

14:00 - The development of Potato Cyst Nematodes in the Netherlands in the last decades including new virulent populations - L.J.M.F. den Nijs

14:00 - Effects of 25 years of reduced tillage and crop rotation on soil nematodes and soil quality - S. Sánchez-Moreno

14:00 - Phylogeography and DNA barcoding of the cyst nematode species of the Avenae group from the genus Heterodera - S. Subbotin

14:20 - Resistance against Globodera pallida: Mapping the H2 gene - S. Strachan

14:20 - Status of Pratylenchus coffeae in different agro-ecological zones growing banana crops in Tanzania - N.D. Luambano

14:20 - The cuticle ultrastructure of aphelenchoidid predators - T. Ekino

14:40 - Enhancing the breeding for potato cyst nematode resistance through screening of in-vitro derived potato clones - J.M. Mwangi

14:40 - Soil nematode communities in protected tomato cultivation differ among three horticultural management strategies - S. Costa

14:40 - Genetic diversity of Potato Cyst Nematode in its native area: a novel phylogeographic study using low and high density markers and different geographic scales - R. Thevenoux

15:00 - Effective population size and implication for durability of plant resistances in the potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida - J. Montarry

15:00 - Unravelling the mechanisms underlying health and productivity promoting agricultural practices by fine-mapping rhizosphere communities - P. Harkes

15:00 - Systematics of the genus Punctodera - Q. Yu

15:20 - 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 - 17:30

S7. Plant resistance/Nematode virulence Convenors: Philip Roberts & Philippe Castagnone

S8. Nematode diversity and distribution: from microhabitat to realm scale

Convenor: Hans Helder

S9. Nematode biocontrol and animal parasites Convenors: Sergei Spiridonov & Keith Davies

15:50 - Identification of Avirulence genes in Globodera pallida through target enrichment sequencing - K. Varypatakis

15:50 - Living apart-together: Microhabitat differentiation of cryptic nematode species in a saltmarsh habitat - R. M. Guden

15:50 - Effects of microbial rhamnolipids on plant parasitic nematodes - S. Bredenbruch

16:10 - Stability and heritability of RNAi in generations of transgenic plants and nematodes - J. Akther

16:10 - Nematode diversity of the Telperion Nature Reserve, South Africa - C. Girgan

16:10 - Isolation of destructive nematophagous fungi using a single-egg plating technique - S. Ashrafi

16:30 - Ma orthologous genes in Prunus spp. shed light on an original NBS-LRR cluster conferring differential resistance to root-knot nematodes - C. Van Ghelder

16:30 - Community structure and ecological niches of free-living terrestrial nematodes in north-eastern Vietnam - D. Nguyen

16:30 - Severianoia sp. (Thelastomatidae, Oxyuirida) – intestinal parasites of diplopods in Western Caucasus - S. Spiridonov

16:50 - Characterisation of root-knot nematode resistance traits in the grain legume cowpea - P. Roberts

16:50 - Biogeographical distribution of soil nematode community in relation to large-scaled climate and local-scaled soil environment in China - X. Chen

16:50 - WRKYs transcription factors regulating Solanum lycopersicum response to root knot nematodes: transcriptomic and metabolomics insights – S. Braun Miyara

17:10 - Genome-wide association mapping of the architecture of susceptibility to the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita in Arabidopsis thaliana - G. Smant

17:10 - The remarkably high number of transitions from marine to terrestrial habitats and vice versa as an adaptation that could have contributed to the ecological success of nematodes - H. Helder

17:10 - A review on taxonomy and phylogeny of Tylaphelenchinae (Aphelenchoidea) - M. Pedram

17:30 - 19:00 Poster session 1

Tuesday, 11th September

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Plenary sessions (Oehoe)

Metabarcoding as a tool for monitoring free-living marine nematode communities: can we reach the species level? Sofie Derycke, ILVO/UGent/KBIN

Progress and current challenges in our understanding of the soybean cyst nematode-soybean interaction Melissa G. Mitchum, University of Missouri

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:40

Oehoe E2 E4

S10. Nematode parasitism genes Convenors: Sebastian Eves-van den Akker & John

Jones

S11. The beet cyst nematode. Sponsored by Sesvanderhave

Convenors: Matthias Daub & Olivier Amand

S12. EPN Genomics and breeding Convenors: Johnathan Dalzell & Carlos Molina

11:00 - Core effectors of syncytium-forming nematodes - K. Leslie

11:00 - Bacillus firmus I-1582 protects plants from Heterodera schachtii - M. Huang

11:00 - The effect of Photorhabdus (p)ppGpp on Heterorhabditis growth and development - D. Blackburn

11:20 - Effector gene birth in plant parasitic nematodes: neofunctionalization of a housekeeping glutathione synthetase gene - S. Eves-van den Akker

11:20 - Assessing commercial varieties of sugar beet for tolerance and resistance to Heterodera schachtii - A. Wright

11:20 - Genetic improvement of the oxidative stress tolerance and longevity of the entomopathogenic nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora - N. Sumaya

11:40 - The potato cyst nematode (Globodera pallida) effector RHA1B is a ubiquitin ligase and uses two distinct mechanisms to suppress plant immune signaling - J. Kud

11:40 - Multiplication of Heterodera schachtii on cover crops and mixtures of cover crops - E. Raaijmakers

11:40 - Genetic improvement of virulence and persistence of Heterorhabditis bacteriophora - B. Vandenbossche

12:00 - Identification of parasitism effectors expressed during plant infection from the transcriptomes of Meloidogyne incognita and M. enterolobii - B. Favery

12:00 - Relevance of Heterodera schachtii in the subsoil for sugar beet crops - A three-year field trial following a soil layer specific approach - M. Daub

12:00 - Genetic markers for selection of stress resistant lines of the entomopathogenic nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora - C. Molina

12:20 - Molecular characterization of two new venom allergen-like proteins and parasitism functional analysis of Heterodera avenae - S. Luo

12:20 - Populations of the beet cyst nematode Heterodera schachtii exhibit strong differences in their life-history traits across changing thermal conditions - S. Fournet

12:20 - Transcriptional variation and divergence of host-finding behaviour in Steinernema carpocapsae infective juveniles - N.D. Warnock

12:40 - 13:40 Lunch

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S13. Nematode parasitism genes Convenors: John Jones & Sebastian Eves-van den

Akker

S14. Systematics and Phylogeography Convenors: Sergei Subbotin & Wim Bert

S15. Model organisms Convenors: Robbie Rae & Dave Lunt

13:40 - Pulling a few strings to facilitate parasitism: Globodera pallida is CLASPing microtubules - S. Mantelin

13:40 - Phylogeography of the vector nematode Xiphinema index using mitochondrial and microsatellite markers highlights its Eastern origin closely linked to grapevine domestication - VC Nguyen

13:40 - Development of Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita as a model to study the genetic basis of parasitism and the ability to control host behaviour - R. Rae

14:00 - Identification and characterisation of a novel glutathione synthetase gene family in Rotylenchulus renifomis - D. Wu

14:00 - Towards unraveling the phylogeny of Helicotylenchus - K. Rybarczyk-Mydłowska

14:00 - New reference genome sequences for genotyping virulence in continental European field populations of cyst nematodes - M. Holterman

14:20 - Characterization of putative effectors from the cereal cyst nematode Heterodera filipjevi - H. Peng

14:20 - Phylogeographic study of the highly invasive sugar beet nematode, Heterodera schachtii (Schmidt, 1871) - K. Jiyeon

14:20 - The sexual and asexual genomes of nematodes - A. Szitenberg

14:40 - Analysis of the transcriptome of Heterodera sacchari - S. Pokhare

14:40 - Uncovering the nematode diversity of mushrooms - D. Slos

14:40 - The genome of the burrowing nematode, Radopholus similis - R. Mathew

15:00 - A model of nematode parasitism based on genetic analysis - D. Bird

15:00 - New insights on the characterisation of soil nematode communities by DNA-metabarcoding - L. Waeyenberge

15:00 - Feeding of the whiteleg shrimp Litopenaeus

vannamei larvae with a desiccation‐tolerant

Panagrolaimus nematode to replace Artemia – R.-U. Ehlers

15:20 - 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 - 17:30

S16. Plant parasitic nematode biology Convenors: Etienne Danchin & Catherine Lilley

S17. Bioindicators and nematode communities Convenors: Roy Neilson & Lieven Waeyenberge

S18. Techniques and training Convenor: Awol Seid

15:50 - Host factors influence the sexual fate of cyst nematodes parasitizing the roots of Arabidopsis thaliana - M. Anjam

15:50 - Steinernema feltiae exhibits resistance to Cr VI: a candidate organism to detect effects of Cr VI contamination in the environment - S. Boyle

15:50 - Dityluz: Developpement of tools for the detection and viability testing of stem nematode, Ditylenchus dipsaci, on alfalfa seeds (Medicago sativa L.). Development and assessment of a pest threshold - G. Orgeur

16:10 - Parasitic success without sex in root-knot nematodes: allopolyploid genomes might help them adapt - E. Danchin

16:10 - SoilBio – assessing soil health using soil nematode communities - R. Neilson

16:10 - Hyperspectral imaging can detect and differentiate between nematode infestation and water deficiency in tomato plants - N. Susič

16:30 - Plant sterol composition: altering the susceptibility of host plant for plant-parasitic nematodes - P. Dahlin

16:30 - Compost impacts on the soil nematode community: insight from two different land management systems – G. L. Herren

16:30 - Disposable qPCR matrices for molecular diagnostics of plant parasitic nematodes on potato - M. Pridannikov

16:50 - Gene copy number variation as a signature of adaptive evolution to host resistance in the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita - P. Castagnone-Sereno

16:50 - Assessment on the effects of microplastics pollutants using nematodes as environmental indicators - L. Mwana Scoe

16:50 - Climate-Smart agricultural approach in nematode management: A phytonematicide computer-based dosage model - P.W. Mashela

17:10 - ABC transporters modulate tomato root exudate composition and parasite behaviour ex planta - S. Dyer

17:10 - Nematodes play an essential role in the apple replant disease complex - X. Kanfra

17:10 - Nematology as a training and research discipline in sub-Saharan Africa: progress and prospects - L. Cortada

17:30 - 17:45 Conference picture

17:45 - 19:00 Poster session 2

Wednesday, 12th September

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S19. Integrated nematode management Convenors: Danny Coyne & Wim Wesemael

S20. Host plant responses Convenors: Tina Kyndt & Florian Grundler

S21. Management of potato cyst nematodes Convenors: Nicole Viaene & Loes den Nijs

9:00 - Nematode community management in tomatoes in South Africa - M. Daneel

9:00 - A proteinaceous molecule from plant parasitic nematodes activates defense responses in Arabidopsis - B. Mendy

9:00 - Characterisation of potato cyst nematode populations in UK fields - U. Gartner

9:20 - Nematode management in strawberry fields of Southern Spain - M. Talavera

9:20 - WEE1: A key cell cycle regulator involved in the plant-root knot nematode interaction - J. de Almeida-Engler

9:20 - Widespread occurrence of Potato cyst nematodes in Kenyan potato growing regions - S. Haukeland

9:40 - Integrated management of root-knot nematodes in Florida tomatoes combining host resistance and nematicides - H. Regmi

9:40 - Cyst nematode infection triggers a burst of ROS that modulates the activation of systemic responses in host plants - D. Chopra

9:40 - Potato cyst nematode management: understanding the practicalities and limitations of control options - K. Davie

10:00 - Vegetable production in Uganda benefits from healthy seedling systems and consequent nematode management - D. Coyne

10:00 - Role of E2Fa and E2Fb transcription factors in the control of mitosis and the endocycle in root-knot nematode-induced galls in Arabidopsis thaliana - D. Cabral do Nascimento

10:00 - Elucidating the mechanisms of the use of banana paper in “Wrap and Plant” technology in the management of potato cyst nematodes - J. Ochola

10:20 - 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 - 12:10

S22. Cover crops and plant extracts in the management of plant-parasitic nematodes

Convenors: Leendert Molendijk & Matthew Back

S23. Plant-parasitic nematode biology Convenors: Catherine Lilley & Roland N. Perry

S24. Ecology and evolution of plant-parasitic nematodes

Convenor: Hans Helder

10:50 - Mixtures of green manure crops; remedy or risk? L. Molendijk

10:50 - Molecular characterisation of the eggshells of the potato cyst nematode Globodera rostochiensis - J.A. Price

10:50 - Impact of native plant-parasitic nematode communities on the establishment of Meloidogyne chitwoodi - N. Garcia

11:10 - Screening for the capacity of root exudates from selected potato varieties to activate hatching of Globodera pallida and G. rostochiensis in-vitro - B.M. Ngala

11:10 - Surface Coat Biosynthesis in Cyst Nematodes - P. Gutbrod

11:10 - Microbial ecology, community dynamics and gene flow in the Meloidogyne incognita species group and their habitat - A. Szitenberg

11:30 - Tagetes patula; an economic profitable control measure for effective and long-term control of Pratylenchus penetrans - J. Visser

11:30 - Temperature modifies transcription and root exudate composition of tomato, altering parasite host-finding behaviour - S. Dyer

11:30 - Meloidogyne incognita shows surprising parallel adaptations to different ranges of host plants despite clonal reproduction and low variation at the genome level - G. Koutsovoulos

11:50 - Borderless plant-parasitic nematodes meet African indigenous vegetables - O. Chitambo

11:50 - Tricky parasites: How nematodes take their vitamins from plants! - S. Siddique

11:50 - Coevolution for the hatching trait between G. pallida populations and Solanum species, in Peru - C. Gautier

12:10 - 21:30

Symposium tour + reception ILVO

Thursday, 13th September

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Plenary sessions (Oehoe)

Current challenges in the control of nematode infections in humans and animals Peter Geldhof, Ghent University

Lethal fighting in entomopathogenic nematodes Christine T. Griffin, Maynooth University

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:40

Oehoe E2 E4

S25. Plant nematode effectors Convenors: Melissa Mitchum & Aska Goverse

S26. EPN Application Convenors: Raquel Campos-Herrera & Branimir Nježić

S27. Host plant status and population densities Convenors: Nicole Viaene & Misghina Teklu

11:00 - Proteomic profiling of syncytia induced by cyst nematodes reveals new candidate effector proteins - J. Holbein

11:00 - Foliar application of entomopathogenic nematodes for controlling Tuta absoluta on tomatoes - M. Abonaem

11:00 - Paratylenchus sp. in intensive lettuce production in Flanders: prevalence, damage threshold and host status - J. Claerbout

11:20 - STATAWAARS: a new promoter DNA motif associated with pharyngeal gland cell expression in Bursaphelenchus xylophilus - M. Espada

11:20 - Factors affecting foliar applications of Entomopathogenic Nematodes - M. Galeano

11:20 - Effect of initial population densities, temperature and varieties on Meloidogyne haplanaria: an emerging threat to tomato production in Florida - L. Espinoza Lozano

11:40 - A root-knot nematode effector targets the spliceosomal plant machinery facilitating the giant cells formation - J. Mejias

11:40 - Entomopathogenic nematodes for the control of striped flea beetle, Phyllotreta striolata in cabbage field - X. Yan

11:40 - Population dynamics of Meloidogyne chitwoodi on resistant potato genotypes and Desiree during plant growth - M. Teklu

12:00 - Apoplastic venom allergen-like proteins of plant parasitic nematodes modulate the activation of plant innate immunity by cell surface receptors - J. L. Torres

12:00 - Control of adults of European cherry fruit fly Rhagoletis cerasi (L.) by entomopathogenic nematodes - B. Nježić

12:00 - A re-appraisal of the abundance and identity of Meloidogyne spp. associated with maize crops in South Africa - M. Pretorius

12:20 - Effector GpRpb-1 from Globodera pallida targets E3 ubiquitin ligase complexes to promote nematode infection - A.D. Granados

12:20 - Improving the biocontrol potential of slug-killing nematodes - G. Jaffuel

12:20 - Zeros - C. Schomaker

12:40 - 13:40 Lunch

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Oehoe E2 E4

S28. Host plant responses Convenors: Godelieve Gheysen & Shahid Siddique

S29. EPN Ecology and biology Convenors: Christine Griffin & Bart Vandenbossche

S30. Management of plant-parasitic nematodes Convenors: Soledad Verdejo Lucas & Johan Desaeger

13:40 - Enhancement of resistance in rice against Meloidogyne graminicola by phosphite and azelaic acid - B. Chinnasri

13:40 - In vitro liquid mass culture of indigenous nematodes for the control of invasive slugs - A. Pieterse

13:40 - In vitro susceptibility of root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) and entomopathogenic nematodes to Alltech crop science formulations - A. Pulavarty

14:00 - Comparing the defense responses to root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne graminicola) infection in resistant vs susceptible rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivars - L. Zobaida

14:00 - Soil texture and olive cultivar determine natural occurrence and assemblage of entomopathogenic nematode in Southern Spain: consilience with main drivers for plant-parasitic nematode community - R. Campos Herrera

14:00 - Plant parasitic nematode management in sub-Saharan Africa through Wrap & Plant technology - T. Pirzada

14:20 - Characterization of small RNAs involved in the plant response to parasitic nematodes, genus Meloidogyne - S. Jaubert-Possamai

14:20 - Influence of Photorhabdus luminescens natural and mutant strains on virulence, reproduction, and survival of the nematode symbiont Heterorhabditis bacteriophora - T. Addis

14:20 - Opportunities and constraints for nematode management in Florida strawberries - J. Desaeger

14:40 - Nematode infection redirects hormonal homeostasis via Rboh-mediated ROS to facilitate parasitism of host roots - S. Hasan

14:40 - Evidence that phoretic bacteria and free living nematodes regulate an entomopathogenic nematode in nature - L.W. Duncan

14:40 - Accession of wild Cicer species (Cicer reticulatum and C. echinospermum) resistance to plant-parasitic nematodes - T. Behmand

15:00 - Meloidogyne graminicola induces DNA hypomethylation in rice – M. R. Atighi

15:00 - Life history table and video on the life cycle of the entomopathogenic nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora - R.-U. Ehlers

15:00 - Pathogenicity of Meloidogyne incognita and two fungal pathogens: Fusarium oxysporum and Pythium aphanidermatum on soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) - C. Iheukwumere

15:20 - 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 - 16:50

ESN General meeting

18:45 - 19:30 Boat trip

19:30 - ? Banquet + party

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