Hosted by the Royal Entomological Society at the University of York, the Xth European Congress of Entomology, 3-8 August 2014, is a leading academic conference attracting entomologists from Europe and beyond.
LSTM Director, Professor Janet Hemingway, is a Plenary speaker at the conference, giving a lecture on the role of product development partnerships in vector control. Examining how effective vector control is heavily reliant on interventions being deployed in an optimal cost efficient format. There are a number of points at which interventions can fail. They may be deployed at the wrong time in the wrong format for the local transmission at the quality of the products may be substandard.
Professor Hemingway will also talk about how new products coming to the market will: allow quality assurance of insecticide-based products at their point of use; allow integration of vector control data with logistical and clinical spatial and temporal data; increased longevity of the vector control intervention. In addition a pipeline of novel chemistries has been established which should yield these new classes of public health insecticide by 2020. The progress and impact of these activities were discussed by some of the leading figure in vector biology and control.
LSTM’s Dr Mark Paine is also a keynote speaker for a session entitled: From pyrethroids to the pyrethrome: fresh insight on metabolic insecticide resistance and its impact on vector control.
The Royal Entomological Society, which plays an international role in disseminating information about insects and entomology, has launched a special virtual issue to celebrate the Xth European Congress of Entomology