Welcome to the PurPest Project website

“You can’t defend. You can’t prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond”

(Bruce Schneier)

Welcome to the PurPest Project website

“You can’t defend. You can’t prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond”

(Bruce Schneier)

Welcome to the PurPest Project website

“You can’t defend. You can’t prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond”

(Bruce Schneier)

Welcome to the PurPest Project website

“You can’t defend. You can’t prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond”

(Bruce Schneier)

Welcome to the PurPest Project website

“You can’t defend. You can’t prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond”

(Bruce Schneier)

News

PurPest at WebINIAV 2024

WebINIAV_2024

On September 18th, our partners Ana Fundurulić and Maria João Camacho from INIAV made an online presentation at WebINIAV, a cycle of internal webinars for INIAV researchers, where PurPest was presented under the theme “Innovative Sensor Technologies for Sustainable Crop Protection: Advances in the Field of Nematode Detection”. 

PurPest at EuroSensors 2024

EuroSensors_2024

Our partner Usman Yaqoob, from the University of Warwick, presented a poster at the EuroSensors XXXVI, which took place from 1-4 September 2024.

This conference was organized by the University of Debrecen (UD), Faculty of Science and Technology and the Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, Centre for Energy Research (HUN-REN CER MFA) at the campus of UD...

Sensors for agricultural robots that patrol crops

Brno meeting

Ted Turlings, our partner from Université de Neuchâtel plans to fit practical and affordable sensors for agricultural robots that patrol crops. These robots will use software to report issues to farm managers and implement immediate treatments, reducing pesticide use to only where and when needed.

 The article is also available in French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish.

 

PurPest at ISCE 2024

Brno meeting

Our partenrs from JKI and UNIPD, Ali Karimi and Riccardo Favaro attended the 39th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Chemical Ecology, which took place from 14-18 July 2024, at the Czech University of Life Science in Prague, Czech Republic.

PurPest at E-NICHE 2024

Brno meeting

The PurPest concept was presented at the 1st workshop of the 2nd working group in the Cost Action 'European Network In CHemical Ecology: translating the language of life into sustainability' (E-NICHE, CA 22102) in Prague. Andrea Ficke showed some of the first results and challenges of PurPest after discussing a similiar approach used in detecting leaf blotch diseases in wheat.

Third general PurPest meeting

Brno meeting

On July 11th and 12th of 2024, the third general PurPest meeting took place in Brno, in a hybrid format, and was an opportunity for all members to come together and discuss the progress that was made in the different work packages, and share the outputs that were produced.

Participants also had the chance to visit the wonderful Mendel’s University and see the Phytophthora...

INIAV and DGAV visited Hercules Laboratory

Daniel Wright presenting PurPest

On July 5th, 2024, a PurPest meeting of the Portuguese partners took place at HERCULES Laboratory, in Évora, where INIAV, the University of Évora and DGAV teams discussed results obtained so far on volatile profiles of the pinewood nematode.

PurPest at IUFRO 2024

Daniel Wright presenting PurPest

Luís Bonifácio, from INIAV, attended the XXVI IUFRO World Congress, gave a talk and presented a poster in the Pine Wilt Disease-dedicated session, and both included PURPEST project results. The event took place in Stockholm, Sweden, between the 23rd to the 29th of June, 2024.

PurPest at ISOT 2024

Xi Chu presenting PurPest

Our partners from NTNU, presented parts of their PurPest results at the 19th International Symposium of Olfaction and Taste (ISOT), held in Reykjavik, Iceland, from 22-26 June, 2024.

Two posters were presented:

       1. Electrophysiological features across neuronal types in the primary olfactory center of the insect brain. Jonas H. Kymre, Xi Chu, and Bente...

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