🗓 FRIDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER 2026

 

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For detailed descriptions of the sessions, go to the dedicated Thematic Sessions and General Sessions page.

Disclaimer: Please note that the programme shown below is subject to change until the start of the conference. 
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  📍building: BEL
room: Auditorium
📍building: Herman Teirlinck
room: Auditorium

 

Traits/Drivers Policy


9:00-9:50


Keynote
Mark van Kleunen

 

10:00-11:00


GENERAL SESSION
INVASION DYNAMICS

  • Ava Waine, Pete Robertson, Zarah Pattison - Raw Water Transfers: unmasking a globally overlooked invasion pathway

  • Johannes Le Roux - The influence of climate change and invasive species on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of native soapberry bugs

  • Christine Sheppard - Dynamics of biotic resistance to plant invasions

  • Rosaelle Perreault, Cleo Bertelsmeier - Historical alien insect invasion dynamics vary by world region and insect order


OPEN POSTER HOUR

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break


11:30-12:00


FLASH TALKS

  • Lucia Antonietta Santoianni, Elena Barni, Daniela Bouvet, Maria Laura Carranza, Laura Celesti-Grapow, Sandra Citterio, Annalena Cogoni, Michele Finizio, Rodolfo Gentili, Vanessa Lozano, Stefano Martellos, Chiara Montagnani, Nicole Sebesta, Consolata Siniscalco, Angela Stanisci, Giuseppe Brundu - PREVALIEN database: data for PREVention, early detection and management of ALIEN plant invasions

  • Yves Philippe Klinger - Tracking the phenology of invasive hogweeds using citizen-science photo observations

  • César Capinha, Matilde Mendes, Joana Catarino, Filipa Soares, Franz Essl, Hanno Seebens, Sandra Oliveira, Luís Reino, Joana Ribeiro - Predicting near-future regional arrivals of non-native vertebrates worldwide

  • Frederique Steen - From records to traps and traces: towards an integrated surveillance of invasive crayfish in Flanders

  • Quentin Groom, Tim Adriaens, Lissa Breugelmans, Nicolas Noé, Damiano Oldoni - From prototype to infrastructure: building a cross-realm European alert system for invasive alien species

  • Anna Gazda - Integrating Citizen Science and Biodiversity Monitoring to Improve Detection of Invasive Species


FLASH TALKS

  • Ana Anđelković, Jelena Jović - The role of alien and invasive species inhabiting riparian habitats in the transmission cycle of Flavescence dorEe (FD) phytoplasma in Serbia - preliminary findings

  • Senne Heeren - Viral tags as keys to advancing invasion genomics

  • Gilles Colling - Centuries of habitat niche expansion reveal pervasive invasion debt in alien plants

  • Jesse Beyer, Johan van Valkenburg - Bonsai plants as pathway for invasive alien plants

  • Anna Schertler, Franz Essl, Bernd Lenzner - When Fungal Blind Spots Spill Over: How Knowledge Gaps Undermine Invasion Science and Conservation

  • Louis Simon, Ruth Hunter, Ross Cuthbert, Lynsey Patterson, Paul Caplat - A conceptual framework to classify impacts from invasive species on human health


12:00-12:45


GENERAL SESSION
INVASION DYNAMICS

  • Jane Molofsky - Edge of trait space across scales

  • Richard Mally, Rebecca Turner, Cleo Bertelsmeier, Andrew (Sandy) Liebhold - Darwin's naturalisation conundrum in insects

  • S. Luke Flory, Drew Hiatt - Urban evolution of invasive plant populations enhances tolerance to experimental climate change conditions


GENERAL SESSION INVASION IMPACTS

  • Ana Nunes, Tamryn Venter, Tim Adriaens, Grace Bond, Soria Delva, Konstantin Gospodinov, Ana Novoa, Jodey Peyton, Petr Pyšek, Wolfgang Rabitsch, Helen Roy, Riccardo Scalera, Elena Tricarico, Kevin Smith - Horizon scanning for potential upcoming invasive alien species in the European Union

  • Sven Bacher, Petr Pyšek, Hanno Seebens - Invasive species' environmental impacts are more severe in the Global South

  • Shengyu Wang, Elena Angulo, Céline Bellard, Lais Carneiro, Ivan Jarić, Franck Courchamp - Global cascading effects and long-term disruption by invasive ants
12:45-14:00 Lunch Break


14:00-14:50


Keynote
Melodie McGeoch

 


15:00-16:00


GENERAL SESSION
GENERAL CONTRIBUTIONS

  • Ana Novoa, Sven Bacher, Arnau Bosch-Guiu, Mariasole Calbi, Duo Chen, Jan Čuda, Michele Dechoum, Anke Fischer, Paula Gervazoni, Pablo Gonzalez-Moreno, Martin Hejda, Theresa Henke, Sanet Hugo, Alessandra Kortz, Sabrina Kumschick, Ana Nunes, David Richardson, Kevin Smith, Sonia Vanderhoeven, René van der Wal, Mark van Kleunen, Tamryn Venter, Vernon Visser, John Ross Wilson, David Zelený, Pavel Pipek, Petr Pyšek - Plant invasion syndromes: how to identify recurrent invasion patterns to improve the management of biological invasions

  • Bernd Lenzner, Quentin Groom, Joana Vicente - A review of model-based scenarios on biological invasions

  • Franz Essl, Ingo Kowarik, Ana Novoa, Arnau Bosch-Guiu, Giuseppe Brundu, Theresa Henke, Ingolf Kühn, Uwe Starfinger, Montserrat Vilà, Petr Pyšek - Twenty-five years of Neobiota: Building a Community for Invasion Science in Europe and beyond

  • Susan Canavan, Michele Dechoum, Katelyn Faulkner, Deah Lieurance, Laura Meyerson, Ana Novoa, Ana Nunes, Zarah Pattison, Josie South, Florencia A Yannelli - The gender data gap in invasion science


GENERAL SESSION
 IAS MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES 

  • Jean-Francois Maillard, Adrien Tableau, Alexandre Villers, Benoit Pisanu, Fabian Rateau - Designing an effective, science-based protocol for large-scale control of a non-native mammal in a biodiversity hotspot

  • Jan Pergl, Jakub Hájek, Pavlína Hakrová, Handrij Hartel, Natálie Kolombová, Klára Kušková, Josef Kutlvašr, Irena Perglová, Daniela Steinbachová, Pavel Švec, Matěj Vetešník - Long-term control or perpetual struggle? A multi-species evaluation of invasive plant management in Central Europe

  • Normandie González-Orellana, Nicola Armstrong, Ben Phillips - The eleventh hour: defining early intervention for the eradication of invasive species in low information environments

  • Florencia A Yannelli, Agustina Barros, Priscila Powell, Jane Catford, Jeffrey Corbin, Michele Dechoum, Fanny DOMMANGET, Alessandra Fidelis, Margherita Gioria, Ben Gooden, Philip Hulme, Heinke Jäger, Sabrina Kumschick, Barbara Langdon, Johannes Le Roux, Vanessa Lozano, Brisa Marciniak, Flavio Marzialetti, Laura Meyerson, Martín Nuñez, Zarah Pattison, Anibal Pauchard, Jan Pergl, Nahuel Policelli, Petr Pyšek, Irfan Rashid, David Richardson, Laureline Rossignaud, Miriam San-José, Sarah Sapsford, Wolf-Christian Saul, Agostina Torres, Mark van Kleunen, Diego Vazquez, Ana Novoa - Echoes of invasion: Persistent evolutionary, ecological and socioeconomic legacies following invasive plant removal

 
16:00-17:00


FINAL NOTES