Program of the 16th DrosEU Workshop and satellite Drosophila suzukii International meeting (13-17 April, 2026 in Montpellier)
Monday, April 13, 2026
09:30 – 10:00 Workshop introduction – Mathieu Gautier, Josefa González & Thomas Flatt
10:00 – 11:00 DrosEU working groups – Thomas Flatt
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30 DrosEU members Short talks
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Invited talk – Carole Smadja
15:00 – 16:00 DrosEU working groups – Katja Hoedjes
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:00 DrosEU working groups – Sampling – Katja Hoedjes
17:00 – 18:00 DrosEU working groups – Building a COST Action for DrosEU: Connecting Genomics, Collections, and Citizen Science – Roberto Torres and Nora Nader Nejad
20:00 – 23:00 Dinner
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
09:00 – 10:00 DrosEU working groups – Cristina Vieira & Josefa González
10:00 – 11:00 DrosEU members Short talks
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30 Invited talk – Benjamin Prud’homme
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:30 DrosEU working groups – Oleksandr Maistrenko
14:30 – 16:00 DrosEU members Short talks
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 DrosEU Business Meeting – Closing
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
09:00 – 09:30 Conference Introduction – Organizing committee
09:30 – 10:30 Flies in the Frost: Genomic and Phenotypic Signals of Seasonal Adaptive Tracking in an Invasive Drosophila – Joaqin Nunez
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 D. suzukii – Population genetics
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Invited talk – Laurence Mouton
15:00 – 16:15 D. suzukii – Host-Microbiota Interactions
16:15 – 16:45 Coffee Break
16:45 – 18:00 D. suzukii – Molecular genetics
Thursday, April 16, 2026
09:00 – 10:00 Wings of Change: the invasion ecology of Drosophila suzukii – Marco Valerio Rossi Stacconi
10:00 – 10:45 D. suzukii – Ecology & Population dynamics
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:30 D. suzukii – Ecology & Population dynamics
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 D. suzukii – Physiology
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 18:00 Poster session – networking
20:00 – 23:00 Gala dinner
Friday, April 17, 2026
09:00 – 10:00 Invited talk – Michelle Fountain
10:00 – 10:45 D. suzukii – Integrated pest management
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:30 D. suzukii – Integrated pest management
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Round table – Discussion regarding a future D. suzukii meeting