The Portuguese team of PurPest, responsible for disseminating activities of the project, attended the 53^rd Annual Meeting of the Organization of Nematologists of Tropical America, where they actively promoted the project and presented a poster. The event was held in Cairo, Egypt, from 24 to 29 September 2023.

PhD student David Pires presented a...

The PurPest coordinator team from NIBIO was present at the 12^th International Congress of Plant Pathology (ICPP), that took place in Lyon, France, from 20-25 August 2023.

 Ted Turlings gave an oral presentation on “Exploiting herbivore-induced plant volatiles for crop protection”, at the International Conference on Insect Science, in Baoding, China (6-10 August 2023) - Programme and other informations. 

He also gave additional lectures in China during his stay.

Two group members gave an oral presentation at the 38^th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Chemical Ecology (23-27 July 2023), in Bengaluru, India:

1. Carla Arce, Marine Mamin, Gregory Röder, Arooran Kanagendran, Emmanuel Defossez, Sergio Rasmann, Terunobu Akiyama, Kosuke Minami, Genki Yoshikawa, Wen Tan, Felipe Lopez-Hilfiker, Ted Turlings - Odor sensors to detect and...

On the 14^th of June, the brand new VOC collector manufactured by FLUSYS arrived safe and sound at INIAV.

Read the full article publicised in the grower’s journal ‘Gartneryrket’ (Norway) here.

The Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) in Dossenheim, Germany, hosted the workshop on volatile collection with the Fragrance Collection Device, manufactured by Flusys.

From the 23^th to 25^th of May 2023, PurPest team members were very welcomed by Jürgen Gross and his great team.

Ted Turlings gave an oral presentation on “Herbivore-induced plant volatiles and how they can be exploited for crop protection?” for the Scientific Days (JS2023), held at Sorbonne University, in Paris, France (9-10 February 2023).

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Tomás Cavaco, who has a degree in Agronomy from the University of Lisbon, carried out a training program in the Nematology lab of INIAV, dealing with wood samples infected by the pinewood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus. Tomás was also involved in several stages of the PurPest project and acquired skills in chemical analysis.