Mosquito-borne diseases emerging or re-emerging in Europe are a serious cause of concern to human health. CA 17108 AIM-Aedes Invasive Mosquitoes (AIM) aims at establishing a transboundary network of partners and institutions across Europe and to facilitate co-ordinated multidisciplinary research. It presently, includes academics, public health officers, private companies and stakeholders from 34 COST Full Member Countries, 6 Near-Neighbouring Countries and 1 International Country. For more details, click here.
The 2nd AIM-COST Annual Conference will be focused on Surveillance of Aedes Invasive Mosquitoes in Europe. In particular, sessions will be focused on surveillance and risk mapping, monitoring of insecticide resistance and gaps and solutions for harmonization and improvements of European policies and guidelines (see Preliminary Agenda).
BopCo will participate in the event, through the mean of three presentations:
- Smitz, N., De Wolf, K., Deblauwe, I., De Witte, J., Schneider, A., Verlé, I., Vanslembrouck, A., Dekoninck, W., Meganck, K., Gombeer, S., Vanderheyden, A., De Meyer, M., Backeljau, T. & Van Bortel, W. 2020. 'A DNA-based identification pipeline to discriminate between exotic and native mosquito species collected in Belgium'. 2nd AIM-COST Annual Conference, 12-13 February 2020. Lisbon, Portugal.
- Honnen, A.-C., Augusten, X., Deblauwe, I., Führer, H.-P., Ibanez-Justicia, A., Smitz, N., De Wolf, K., Van Bortel, W. & Müller, P. 2020. 'Aedes japonicus in Switzerland - where did it come from?'. 2nd AIM-COST Annual Conference, 12-13 February 2020. Lisbon, Portugal.
- Ibanez-Justicia, A., Smitz, N., van de Vossenberg, B., Jacobs, F., den Hartog, W., De Wolf, K., Deblauwe, I., Van Bortel, W. & Stroo, A. 2020 'Aircaft related introductions of exotic mosquito species in Belgium and the Netherlands'. 2nd AIM-COST Annual Conference, 12-13 February 2020. Lisbon, Portugal.