Colloque international Octobre 2004

PROGRAMME

Friday October 22

 14.00 Registration
 14.30 Welcome by Jean-Marie Delwart, Founder and Georges Thinès,
President of the Jean-Marie Delwart Foundation
 14.40 Introduction by Jacques Reisse and Jacques Pasteels

Chairman : Jacques Pasteels (ULB)

 14.45 Ken S. Suslick (Illinois U.)

SMELL-SEEING : AN ADVENTURE IN MOLECULAR RECOGNITION

 15.30 Mark Hay (Georgia Institute of Technology)

THE ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF CHEMICAL DEFENSES IN THE SEA

 16.15 Pause
 16.30 Monika Hilker (Freie U. Berlin)

TINY, BUT NOT ESCAPING ATTENTION : EGGS OF HERBIVOROUS INSECTS INDUCING EARLY ALERT IN PLANTS

 17.15 Wilhelm Boland (Max-Planck-Institut, Jena)

THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF SEQUESTRATION IN THE LEAF BEETLES

 18.00 General Discussion
 19.30 Resident’s dinner at the hotel.

Saturday October 23

Chairman : Ken S. Suslick (Illinois U.)

 09.30 David R. Walt (Robinson Prof.of Chemistry, Tufts U.)

HIGH DENSITY FIBEROPTIC ARRAYS AS A PLATFORM FOR CROSS REACTIVE SENSING

 10.15 Benoist Schaal (Centre Européen des Sciences du Goût, U. Dijon)

MATERNAL ODOUR MESSAGES : NESTED SIGNALS PROMOTING ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR IN INFANT MAMMALS

 11.00 Pause
 11.15 Frank Schroeder (Cornell U.)

FROM BIODIVERSITY TO STRUCTURAL DIVERSITY/ NEW STRATEGIES FOR NATURAL PRODUCT DISCOVERY IN ARTHROPODS

 12.00 General Discussion
 12.45 Lunch

Chairman : Jacques Reisse (ULB)

 14.15 Arnaldo D’Amico (U. di Roma 2)

ELECTRONIC NOSES AND OLFACTION COMMUNICATION

 15.00 Joern Piel (Max-Planck-Institut, Jena)

DETERRENTS OF THE PEDERIN FAMILY : A “WHO DONE IT ?” STORY

 15.45 Pause
 16.00 Dietrich Ober (Technical University, Braunsweig)

CHEMICAL DEFENSE BY PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOIDS : CREATED BY PLANTS

 16.45 Thomas Hartmann (Technical University, Braunsweig)

CHEMICAL DEFENSE BY PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOIDS : ADOPTED BY INSECTS

 17.30 General Discussion

Sunday October 24

Chairman : Wittko Francke (Hamburg U.)

 09.30 Guido Cimino (U. di Napoli)

A DINNER AT DAMIANI : AN EFFECTIVE CATALYSIS FROM MARINE ALKALOIDS TO MARINE CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

 10.15 Juilan W. Gardner (Warwick U.)

STATE-OF-ART ELECTRONIC NOSE TECHNOLOGY AND SILICON IMPLEMENTATION

 11.00 Pause
 11.15 Bill S. Hansson (Swedish Life Science U.)

EVOLUTION OF INSECT OLFACTION - OLFACTORY MAPS AND GIANT CRABS

 12.00 General Discussion
 12.45 Closing Remarks by Jean-Marie Delwart
 13.15 Lunch