The MicroBioPest team attended the XII European Congress of Entomology, which took place in Heraklion from the 16th to the 20th October 2023.
The ERA chair of MicroBioPest, Prof. Dr. George Dimopoulos, was one of the plenary speakers of the congress and gave an excellent talk with the title “Curing disease vectors from human pathogens.”
Furthermore, the postdoctoral researcher Joel da Cruz Couceiro presented a poster about the phase one of the project, including collection of field samples and first round of screening of bacterial isolates against larvae of the mosquito Culex pipiens molestus.