King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia 16-18 March 2013 Official language of the Conference: English. Location: KAUST, Engineering Building (Bldg 09), Lecture Hall II Arrival Day. Friday, 15 March 2013 Day One, Saturday, 16 March 2013. Welcome, Introduction and background 07:00-08:00 Breakfast (Engineering Building, Building # 09) 08:00-08:15 Welcome and Introductions. Chair: Nina Fedoroff / Thomas Miller. Stefan Catsicas. Greetings from the Provost. Nina Fedoroff. Purpose of the meeting 08:15-08:45 Plenary Speaker: Abdallah Oihabi, The palm industry in the context of oil palm, coconut, date palm and ornamental palm. 08:45-09:15 Plenary Speaker: Jose R. Faleiro. Biology and Ecology of red palm weevil, why this is an elusive insect pest. 09:15-09:30 09:30-10:00 Industry s leading figures perspective on red palm weevil issue. Khalid Al-Rohily. SABIC approach in the development of an early stage detection method for red palm weevil. Abdul Aziz El-Jaiti. Red Palm weevil prevention strategy. 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break (Engineering Building, Building # 09). 10:30-12:00 Biological control of red palm weevil and diet. Chair: Aldawood / Alhudaib Hamadttu Abdel Shafie. Optimization of a meridic diet for laboratory rearing of red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus Olivier.
12:00-13:00 Lunch Felix Wäckers. Biological control of red palm weevil. Daniele Daffonchio. The intent and purpose of BIODESERT and results. 13:00-15:30 Pest control expert. Management of red palm weevil. Chair: Oihabi / Idris Fahd Al-Saqan. Control of red palm weevil in Saudi Arabia. Abdulrahman Saad Aldawood. Red palm weevil chemical treatments on date palms in S. A.: Results of extensive experimentation. C. A. Jayaprakas. Control of red palm weevil using cassava biofumigant. P.S.P.V. Vidyasagar. Integration of novel methods in the management strategy of red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus. Saleh Aldosari. Imposing IPM for the effective suppression of red palm weevil in date palm farms. Salim Al-Khatri. Red palm weevil management in the Sultanate of Oman. 15:30-15:45 Coffee break. 15:45-16:45 Logistics of area-wide insect control projects. Chair: Ajlan/Faleiro Massimo Cristofaro. Mating behavior of red palm weevil. Bob Rose. Biotechnology from the laboratory to implementation; regulatory obstacles and achievement strategies Yousef S. Alhafedh, Logistics of genetically modified organisms in Saudi Arabia.
16:45-17:00 Form working groups. Group categories: Chair: Miller 1.RIDL/SIT. Group chair, Alphey. 2.Biological (symbiotic) control (microbiology). Group chair, Wackers. 3.Chemical control (including biopesticide). Group chair, Aldawood 4.Monitoring. Group chair, Oehlschlager. 18:00-20:00 Conference Dinner.(Yacht Club). Host: Pierre J. Magistretti, Dean of BESE, KUAST. Day Two, Sunday, 17 March 2013 07:00-8:00 Breakfast (Engineering Building, Building # 09).. 08:00-9:40 Endosymbionts and symbiotic control methods. Chair: Alphey / Jayaprakas. 09:40-10:05 Coffee break. Ravi Durvasula. Manipulation of symbionts to affect biology of pest insects. Takema Fukatsu. Genomic and functional analyses of bacteriome endosymbi onts Nardonella of pest weevils. Thomas Miller. Will advanced biotechnology ever provide new solutions to pest and disease problems? Discussions 10:05-11:00 Monitoring of red palm weevil. Chair: Pain/Vidyasagar. Cam Oehlschlager. Development of alternate strategies for the management of red palm weevil using pheromone technology. Stephen L. Lapointe. Recent advances in the discovery of an aggregation pheromone and host plant volatiles (kairomones and allomones) for the management of weevil.
11:00-12:00 Control of insect pests. Chair: Morrison / Wakil. 12:00-13:00 Lunch Roy Bateman. Delivery systems for entomopathogenic fungi: the use of Metarhizium against Orthopteran and Coleopteran pests. AbdulAziz Mohamed. Decision tools for red palm weevil management in Kingdom of Bahrain. Aziz Ajlan. IPM of the red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, and its contribution to food security in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Waqas Wakil. Current management practices and status of red palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus) in Pakistan. 13:00-14:00 Sterile insect control of RPW perspective and projections. (1) Chair: Lapointe / Almssalem. Luke Alphey. RIDL: genetic control and its application against mosquitoes. Steve Skoda. Area-wide control of insects with screwworm as an example. 14:00-14:20 Coffee Break (Building # 09). 14:20-15:50 Hassan Y. Alayied. Feasibility of using sterile insect technique (SIT) as a component of integrated pest management (IPM) of red palm weevil in Saudi Arabia Neil I. Morrison. RIDL in agriculture: current state of the art. Norikuni Kumano. Eradication program in Kume-Island for the sweet potato weevils. Discussion
15:50-16:00 Coffee Break (Engineering Building, Building # 09). 16:00-17:10 RPW Genomics, biology and prospective for genetic control Chair: Durvasula / Alayied. Ibrahim S. Al-Mssallem, Red palm weevil genome Venu M. Margam. Genomics Approaches to Study the Red Palm Weevil Rhyn chophorus ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Discussion 17:30 pm Dinner (Sunset Cruise in KAUST Harbor, sunset and night-time view of campus). Day Three, Monday, 18 March 2013. 07:00-08:30 Breakfast (Engineering Building, Building # 09). 08:30-10:00 Working group meetings (Huddle rooms, Ibin Alhaytham, Building # 2) 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break. 1.RIDL/SIT. (Room 3240) 2.Biological (Symbiotic) control (microbiology). (Room 3241) 3.Chemical control (including biopesticide). (Room 3202) 4.Monitoring. (Room 3330) 10:30-11:30 Additional time for discussion of big ideas 11:30-12:00 Executive Session [ Thomas Miller presiding ]. (Engineering Building, Building # 09) 12:00-13:00 Lunch (dinner) 13:00-17:00 Field trip to Jeddah; personal time.
Sponsored by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, King Faisal University, Al-Hassa, Saudi Arabia SABIC, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Organizing Committee Ali M Idris 1, Abdulrahman S. Aldawood 2, Neil I. Morrison 3, Thomas A. Miller 4, Arnab Pain 1, Vladimir Bajic 1, and Nina V. Fedoroff 1 1 Biological & Environmental Sciences & Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. 2 Plant Protection Department, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 3 OXITEC Limited, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK 4 Entomology Department, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, California, US.