NEWSLETTER. Issue 04 October 2016

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1 NEWSLETTER Issue 04 October 2016 TO OUR READERS Welcome to the latest issue of TAAO Newsletter! I would like to give special thanks to them who contributed in this issue. Hopefully all of you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed arranging it together! Moreover, we have valuable messages from the new TAAO Steering Committee (SC) Chair, Dr. Alvin Hee; and the immediate past Chair of TAAO Steering Committee (SC) and Editorial Committee (EC), Dr. Mark Schutze which make this issue enriched. Within this issue you will find in details report on successfully completed event of first TAAO Symposium, August 2016 in Malaysia. Here, I invite you to enjoy reading the four new records of Bamboo-shoot flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Acanthonevrini, Gastrozonini) from Bangladesh; regional seminar and workshop news from Indonesia and other contributions. Also, one of our colleagues from Pakistan visited the IPCL, Seibersdorf for checking fruit flies morphologically for their identity. In addition, you will come to know about a well-known and renowned Emeritus Professor Dr. Hoi-Sen Yong from Malaysia. In this issue, the new TAAO Steering Committee (SC) and Editorial Committee (EC) are being presented which have been elected in the first TAAO Symposium, Palm Garden Hotel, Putrajaya, Malaysia, 17 August Finally, we need more reports on tephritids, so please feel free to contribute your opinions about what is happening in your community and share your thoughts on how to get better the TAAO Newsletter. Thanks and best wishes. M. Hasanuzzaman TAAO Editorial Committee Chair Contents: Message from the TAAO Steering Committee (SC) Chair 2 Message from the Immediate Past Chair of TAAO SC and EC 3 A Successful Event First TAAO Symposium, Malaysia, August 15-18, A Preliminary Survey of Bamboo-Shoot Flies... Four New Records from Bangladesh 7-8 Regional Seminar and Workshop on Fruit Fly, Indonesia, October 8, Dr. Khalid Mahmood s Visit to IPCL, Seibersdorf, Austria 11 KNOW YOUR COLLEAGUE: Professor Emeritus Dr. Hoi-Sen Yong, Malaysia Upcoming Events and Dates to Remember 14 New TAAO Steering Committee (SC) 15 New TAAO Editorial Committee (EC) 16 Page No.

2 Message from the TAAO Steering Committee (SC) Chair Alvin Hee Department of Biology Faculty of Science Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia Dear TAAOers, Greetings from Malaysia! It is of great honour and privilege to appointed as the new chair of TAAO as well a member of the International Fruit Fly Steering Committee. With this responsibility, there is much to be done especially in the push for the goals of TAAO to be achieved i.e. Broaden interaction and collaboration among tephritid workers from the region; enhance capacity to develop and deploy effective diagnostic and management programmes; provide a centralised forum for researchers, agencies, and regulators to access and obtain specific information or to contact regional tephritid workers; foster collegiality among tephritid workers in the region and educate the wider community about the biological importance of tephritids and their impact on regional horticulture. I also take pleasure in announcing that ever since initiatives started in reinvigorating TAAO leading to her first symposium this year, our first term TAAO SC members especially Mark Schutze has been a prime mover in keeping all of us together. Thanks, Mark for sharing your infectious enthusiasm for TAAO with me! Whilst Mark as the outgoing TAAO Chair has left a hard act to follow, I must also thank Profs Tony Clarke and Keng-Hong Tan for being instrumental in getting the initiatives started. I am also humbled by the support of TAAOers especially during our first symposium in August for next meeting that we are looking forward in 4 years time. These are obvious indicators that certainly TAAO has a bright future ahead. Notwithstanding that some of us have or will be retiring from our careers, together we are bound by our love for work that we do and loving what we do for our work on the flies in this region! I certainly look forward to working with the new TAAO SC as well as everyone in this big TAAO family! With best wishes and regards, Alvin Hee TAAO Newsletter Issue 4 (October 2016) 2

3 Message from the Immediate Past Chair of TAAO SC and EC Mark Schutze School of Earth, Environmental & Biological Sciences Queensland University of Technology GPO Box 2434 Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia Dear TAAOers, It gives me great pleasure to write a few words for our latest Newsletter, especially to congratulate all those involved in the reinvigoration of TAAO since 2014, culminating in our Inaugural Symposium held in Malaysia earlier this year. Special acknowledgement must go to the TAAO Steering and Editorial Committees, and especially Organising Chair (and his team!) of the Symposium, Alvin Hee, for a magnificent event at which 90 delegates attended from more than 20 countries. Alvin s tireless work in bringing this Symposium together gives me great confidence as he leads TAAO into the future as new Chair of the Steering Committee. Thanks also to those that have supported TAAO and the Symposium, especially the IAEA (thanks Rui!), and to those departing the S.C. with whom it s been a pleasure to work with, these being Phil Taylor, Kenji Tsuruta, Bonifacio Cayabyab and Suksom Chinvinijkul; while welcoming new SC members Nguyen Thi Thanh Hien from Vietnam, M. Hasanuzzaman from Bangladesh, and Sunyanee Srikachar of Thailand. I have also stepped back as Chair of the Editorial Committee, which is now in the very capable hands of M. Hasanuzzaman (new Chair of the E.C.) and his vibrant group of E.C. members, Farzana Yesmin, Deane Woruba, Chandra Prabhakar, Yongcheng Dong, and Hamish Patrick. I look forward to seeing them foster greater engagement among regional tephritid workers in the years ahead. I m sure those who joined us in Putrajaya for the TAAO Symposium will agree that the future for TAAO is bright and that we have many exciting years ahead. I encourage all to consider getting involved with TAAO now and into the future, as we look towards the next Symposium in 2020; the venue of which is to be decided from among a number of nominated countries (stay tuned!). Finally, a sincere thanks to all for the last couple of years; it has been my esteemed pleasure to be a part of this wonderful community. All the best. Mark Schutze (outgoing Chair) - Oct 2016 TAAO Newsletter Issue 4 (October 2016) 3

4 A Successful Event First TAAO Symposium, Malaysia, August 15-18, 2016 Alvin Hee Department of Biology Faculty of Science Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia Time has passed very fast! It has been more than two months since we bade farewell after the end of our first TAAO meeting in the Palm Garden Hotel. To everyone who have attended the First Symposium of TAAO, I hope you have sweet memories of the meeting. Without your participation and support, we would not have been able to organize it! Thus, as the new TAAO SC Chair, I have included the addresses of everyone who participated in the Malaysia meeting. In this note, I will like to briefly present some reports from our recent TAAO 2016 symposium: Number of participants: 90 Countries represented: 23 Major sponsors: FAO/IAEA, TWAS, Australian Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, PBCRC Australia, QUT and CABI. Four keynote lectures plus 47 talks, 26 poster presentations from 8 sessions were successfully held. With the generosity of CABI and a personal donation of books by Dr Mark Schutze, we were able to acknowledge the involvement of graduate students as well as our participants who have been truly enthusiastic in sending their best fruit fly photographs for the photography competition. Dr Sandeep Singh has been instrumental in getting the competition organized during the symposium. So, here are all the winners: Photography Competition Winners: 1. Poh Teck Ong (Malaysia) 2. Suk Ling Wee (Malaysia) Best Student Poster Presenters: 1. Maurizio Benelli (Australia) 2. Tehereh Moadeli (Australia) Best Student Oral Presenters: 1. Rabiatul Addawiyah Shamshir (Malaysia) 2. Deane Woruba (Australia) New TAAO Steering Committee (SC) ( ): 1. Alvin Hee (Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia) (Chair) 2. Mark Schutze (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) (Immediate Past Chair) 3. Zhihong Li (China Agricultural University, China) 4. Sujinda Thanaphum (Mahidol University, Thailand) 5. Sandeep Singh (Punjab Agricultural University, India) 6. Tati Suryati Syamsudin (Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia) 7. Suk-Ling Wee (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia) 8. Anastasia Priscilla Kawi (National Agriculture Quarantine & Inspection Authority, Papua New Guinea) 9. Sunyanee Srikachar (Department of Agriculture, Bangkok, Thailand) 10. M. Hasanuzzaman (Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, Bangladesh) 11. Nguyen Thi Thanh Hien (Plant Protection Research Institute, Vietnam) TAAO Newsletter Issue 4 (October 2016) 4

5 Figure 1. Photo of First TAAO Symposium, Palm Garden Hotel, Putrajaya, Malaysia, August, 2016 New TAAO Editorial Committee (EC) ( ): 1. M. Hasanuzzaman (Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, Bangladesh) (Chair) 2. Farzana Yesmin (Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, Bangladesh) 3. Hamish Patrick (Lincoln University, New Zealand) 4. Deane Woruba (University of Western Sydney, Australia) 5. Chandra Shekhar Prabhakar (Bihar Agricultural University, India) 6. Yongcheng Dong (Huazhong Agricultural University, China) In addition, the TAAO SC will also like to record their highest appreciation to Prof. Keng Hong Tan (Malaysia) who had earlier served as one of the earliest SC member. His advice and views are still continually sought after and we have been fortunate to have him participating in our symposium. We also thank our fellow outgoing SC members for their significant contribution to TAAO especially in the planning of the TAAO 2016 meeting: 1. Phil Taylor (Macquarie University, Australia) 2. Suksom Chinvinijkul (Department of Agricultural Extension, Thailand) 3. Kenji Tsurata (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Japan) 4. Bonifacio Cayabyab (University of the Philippines, Philippines) The year 2016 will be remembered that all three major regional fruit fly networks (TEAM, TAAO and TWWH) would have had their meetings completed. Dr Pia Addison (South Africa) (TEAM 2016 Organizing Chair) and Dr Marc De Meyer (Belgium) (TEAM Chair) who were in our Malaysia meeting successfully organized the 3rd TEAM meeting in Stellenbosch, Africa from April ( and very recently the TWWH meeting from October ( organized by Dr Pablo Liedo (Mexico) (TWWH Chair). Whilst we wait to know the venue of the next TAAO symposium that will held in 4 years time, let us continue to engage in discussions and foster new collaborations as we live up to the goals of TAAO. Dr Mark Schutze has done an excellent job as the Chair of the TAAO Newsletter Issue 4 (October 2016) 5

6 Figure 2. Photo of best student oral & poster presenters and photography competition winners with TAAO Symposium organizers. (From left: Rabiatul Addawiyah Shamshir ; Poh Teck Ong; Suk Ling Wee; Tehereh Moadeli; Alvin Hee; Maurizio Benelli; Mark Schutze; Deane Woruba; Rui Cardoso Pereira; Sandeep Singh) TAAO SC and EC, and his act will be hard to follow! I do, however hope that with your continual support, together we scale new heights in hoisting the banner of TAAO. Finally a sweet note of thanks to my Vice Chancellor of Universiti Putra Malaysia Prof. Datin Paduka Dr. Aini Ideris for her trust and confident in me putting up our first TAAO meeting. It wasn't easy but worth every effort that we have all put into it! I am also happy to inform you all that finally, we have been able to put those hundreds of pictures that were taken during the Malaysia meeting plus the programme and symposium book in PDF that you can download from the symposium webpage: With best wishes and regards. Alvin TAAO SC Chair We hope you will enjoy looking at the pictures and recall the happy memories of our first meeting! TAAO Newsletter Issue 4 (October 2016) 6

7 A Preliminary Survey of Bamboo-Shoot Flies, (Diptera: Tephritidae: Acanthonevrini, Gastrozonini) with Four New Records from Bangladesh 1,* Mahfuza Khan, 1 M. Abdul Bari, 2 Mahmudul Hossain, 3 Damir Kovac, 4 Amnon Freidberg, 5 Jane Royer and 6 David L. Hancock Garden (NBG), Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh during April to August, Insect Biotechnology Division, Institute of Food and Radiation Biology (IFRB), Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE), Ganakbari, Savar, Dhaka- 1349, Bangladesh. * mahfuza79@gmail.com 2 Radiation Entomology and Acarology Division, IFRB, AERE, Ganakbari, Savar, Dhaka 3 Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Senckenberganlage 25, D Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4 Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel 5 Plant Biosecurity and Product Integrity Biosecurity, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Brisbane QLD 4001, Australia 6 8/3 McPherson Close, Edge Hill, Cairns, Queensland 4870, Australia A preliminary survey of bamboo-shoot flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Acanthonevrini, Gastrozonini) of Bangladesh was conducted at National Botanical National Botanical Garden is covering an area of about 84 ha of land located at Mirpur, about 10 km from Dhaka city. The garden is divided into 57 sections, and is managed by the government through the Department of Forestry, Ministry of Environment and Forests. At Section 48 there is a bamboo garden containing 20 bamboo species from different parts of the oriental region (Bangladesh, China, Thailand) viz., Bambusa arundinacea (Kata Bash), Bambusa ventricisa (Ghoti Bash), Bambusa chinensis (China Bash), Dendrocalamus giganteus (Vudum Bash), Melocanna abaccifera (Muli Bash), etc. (according to NBG leaflet, 2014). Two groups of Tephritidae are known to be associated with bamboo (Poaceae) in the Oriental region: Gastrozonini (Dacinae) and Acanthonevrini (Phytalmiinae). Figure 1. Images of bamboo-shoot flies from Bangladesh, A. Felderimyia gombakensis Hancock and Drew, B. Rioxoptilona dunlopi (van der Wulp), C. Rioxoptilona vaga (Wiedemann), D. Acroceratitis distincta (Zia), E. Acroceratitis ceratitina (Bezzi), and F. Gastrozona soror (Schiner). Photo courtesy: Mahfuza Khan TAAO Newsletter Issue 4 (October 2016) 7

8 During the survey six different bamboo-shoot fly species viz., Felderimyia gombakensis Hancock and Drew, Rioxoptilona dunlopi (van der Wulp) and Rioxoptilona vaga (Wiedemann) under Acanthonevrini (Tephritidae: Phythalmiinae), Acroceratitis distincta (Zia), Acroceratitis ceratitina (Bezzi), and Gastrozona soror (Schiner) under Gastrozonini (Tephritidae: Dacinae) were detected and collected from the bamboo garden on 5 th, 11 th and 17 th August, Four of these species, F. gombakensis, R. vaga, A. distincta, and G. soror are new records for Bangladesh. On each collection day young bamboo shoots were broken to attract and capture flies. Some species were collected from bamboo clumps/stand by hand picking during 10 am to 2 pm. Most of the flies were collected by carefully placing glass test tubes and using polythene bags over the flies. The bamboo-shoot flies were then taken to the Insect Biotechnology Division, Institute of Food and Radiation Biology, Atomic Energy Research Establishment laboratory. Each fly was then photographed under a dissecting microscope, and different taxonomic features matched with those from published bamboo- shoot fly records, especially with those from Bangladesh. To confirm the identification, photographs and pinned or alcohol specimens preserved separately in 100% ethanol in Eppendorf tubes were sent to Damir Kovac (Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany). Photographs of bamboo-shoot flies, viz, R. dunlopi, R. vaga, A. ceratitina and G. Soror were also sent to David Hancock, Cairns, Queensland, Australia for confirmation of fly identity. Further molecular and biological studies on collected species are in progress. TAAO Newsletter Issue 4 (October 2016) 8

9 Regional Seminar and Workshop on Fruit Fly: Identification and Control Indonesia Entomological Association- October 8, 2016 Tati Suryati Syamsudin School of Life Sciences and Technology Institut Teknologi Bandung Jl. Ganesa No. 10 Bandung, Indonesia On October 8, 2016 we conducted a Regional Seminar and Workshop on "FRUIT FLY : IDENTIFICA- TION AND CONTROL". This event was organized by Indonesia Entomological Association (Perhimpunan Entomologi Indonesia = PEI) Bandung Section/Branch. Morning program started by a series of lecture, each speaker had 15 minutes. The topics were : 1. Ecology and Systematic by Prof. Tati Suryati Syamsudin (School of Life Sciences and Technology - Institut Teknologi Bandung) 2. Fruit Fly Control by Mr. Agus Susanto (Faculty of Agriculture, Padjadjaran University - Bandung) 3. Molecular Identification of Fruit Fly by Mr. Suputa (Gadjah Mada University - UGM) Figure 1. Participant at Practical works on Fruit Fly Identification at the School of Life Science and Technology, October 8, 2016 After short discussions we continued to "Applied Section". We invited our colleagues from several institutions for sharing their experience in fruit fly management. Here the topics were, 1. Activity of horticulture protection in technical requirement for sanitary and phytosanitari (SPS) - WTO by Ms. Cahyaniati, (Ministry of Agriculture). 2. Implementation on fruit fly control of horticulture area in West Java by Mr. Juju Rukman, (Institute of Crops Protection & Horticulture West Java province). 3. Fruit fly control by Vapor Heat Treatment - by Mr. Wayan Murdita, (Pest Forecasting Institute Ministry of Agriculture) 4. Radiation application for fruit fly control - by Ms. Indah Arastuti Nasution (Center for Isotope and Radiation Application). Figure 2. Participant and instructor (Prof Tati) on Fruit Fly Identification Figure 3. A group of participant and Mr. Yusuf explain fruit fly rearing methods TAAO Newsletter Issue 4 (October 2016) 9

10 Isotope & Radiation Applications and Private Company. They came from different city in West Java and also from Sumatra Island. Figure 4. Group photo of participant and organizer after closing In the workshop section we had practical works. Participants interested on the workshop was divided into two groups: 1) Fruit Fly Identification and (2) Rearing Technique for Fruit Fly. 63 participants involved in this event : 42 students, 21 researchers and lecturers from State University, Private University, Ministry of Agriculture, Center for TAAO Newsletter Issue 4 (October 2016) 10

11 Dr. Khalid Mahmood s Visit to IPCL, Seibersdorf, Austria Khalid Mahmood Zoological Sciences Division Pakistan Museum of Natural History Islamabad, Pakistan dkmahmood@msn.com Dr. Khalid Mahmood, Curator, Zoological Sciences Division, Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Islamabad visited Insect Pest Control Laboratory (IPCL) / IAEA / FAO, Seibersdorf, Austria to identify the pest species of genus Bactrocera being reared in IPCL, from 3-14 October, FAO/IAEA/IPCL maintains the culture of three pest species B. carambolae, B. dorsalis and B. kandiensis in the Oriental fruit fly species complex and other important tephritid pest species. During this visit different populations of B. dorsalis, B. carambolae, B. kandiensis, B. correcta, B. tryoni, B. zonata, B. cucurbitae, B. tau and B. oleae were morphologically checked for their identity. Figure 1. Fruit fly rearing in Insect Pest Control Laboratory (IPCL), Seibersdorf, Austria TAAO Newsletter Issue 4 (October 2016) 11

12 KNOW YOUR COLLEAGUE: Professor Emeritus Dr. Hoi-Sen Yong Hoi-Sen Yong Professor Emeritus in Genetics and Zoology Institute of Biological Sciences University of Malaya, Malaysia Hoi-Sen Yong is Professor Emeritus in Genetics and Zoology at the Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Malaya. He is a Foundation Fellow and Senior Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia. He has published over 300 scientific papers and authored several books, as well as edited several journals, academic books and proceedings. His PhD thesis (1968) was on genetics and systematics of murid rodents. He was among the pioneers worldwide to adopt a holistic and innovative approach to solving problems in biosystematics, employing both classical and modern methods. He discovered for the first time in the world the phenomenon of X-monosomy (presence of a single X -chromosome instead of the normal two in female individuals) in the house rat Rattus rattus (published in NATURE, 1971) and in wild Norway rat Rattus norvegicus (1989). Unlike XO humans (with a single X-chromosome, known as Turner s syndrome) and larger mammals that are infertile, XO female rats are fertile (due to short gestation and short maturation period). Yong started to study tephritid fruit flies in the late 1970s. His group studied the diversity, host plants, male attractants from local plants, life history, parasitoids, genetics and systematics. He discovered new records of fruit fly species, new host fruits as well as new species for Malaysia. Pardalaspinus yongi (Hancock & Drew, 1995) was named in honor of him. Among his publications on tephritid fruit flies are: (1) Garcinia cowa (Guttiferae): host plant for fruit fly Photo: Hoi-Sen Yong Bactrocera propinqua (Tephritidae), 1992 in which he clarified that the correct name for the host plant Garcinia laueana as hitherto reported in the literature should be Garcinia bancana as there is no Garcinia species by the name of 'laueana' (the written script for bancana was incorrectly transcribed as laueana); (2) Host fruit preferences in two sympatric taxa of the Bactrocera dorsalis complex (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae), 1994; (3) Genetic differentiation and relationships in five taxa of the Bactrocera dorsalis complex (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae), 1995 in which Bactrocera dorsalis and Bactrocera papayae were shown to be genetically very similar and they produced fertile F1 hybrids under laboratory condition; (4) Multigene phylogeography of Bactrocera caudata (Insecta: Tephritidae): distinct genetic lineages in northern and southerm hemispheres, 2015; (5) Differentiating sibling species of Zeugodacus caudatus (Insecta: Tephritidae) by complete mitochondrial genome, 2016; and (6) Complete mitochondrial genome of three Bactrocera fruit flies of subgenus Bactrocera (Diptera: Tephritidae) and their phylogenetic implications, TAAO Newsletter Issue 4 (October 2016) 12

13 Yong has recently extended his study to microbiomes of fruit flies to determine diversity as well as vertical and horizontal transmission. He continues to study the genomics and other aspects of fruit fly biology. Yong had received several prestigious awards such as the Malaysia Toray Science Foundation First Science and Technology Award (1994), National Science Award (1995), MPKSN Prize for Advancement/ Promotion of Public Understanding in Science and Technology (1996), Professor Emeritus in Genetics and Zoology, University of Malaya (2007), and the Merdeka Award (2010) for Outstanding Scholastic Achievement. Some Publications: Yong H.S. (1992) Garcinia cowa (Guttiferae): host plant for fruit fly Bactrocera propinqua (Tephritidae). Nature Malaysiana 17: Yong H.S. (1994) Host fruit preferences in two sympatric taxa of the Bactrocera dorsalis complex (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae). In: Current Research in Tropical Fruit Flies and Their Management (ed. H.S. Yong and S.G. Khoo) pp 1-8. Kuala Lumpur: The Working Group on Malaysian Fruit Flies. Yong H.S. (1995) Genetic differentiation and relationships in five taxa of the Bactrocera dorsalis complex (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae). Bull. Ent. Res. 85: Yong H-S, Lim P-E, Tan J, Song S-L, Suana IW, Eamsobhana P (2015) Multigene phylogeography of Bactrocera caudata (Insecta: Tephritidae): distinct genetic lineages in northern and southerm hemispheres. PLoS ONE 10(6): e doi: /journal.pone Yong H-S, Song S-L, Lim P-E, Eamsobhana P, Suana IW (2016) Differentiating sibling species of Zeugodacus caudatus (Insecta: Tephritidae) by complete mitochondrial genome. Genetica DOI /s Yong H-S, Song S-L, Lim P-E, Eamsobhana P, Suana IW (2016) Complete mitochondrial genome of three Bactrocera fruit flies of subgenus Bactrocera (Diptera: Tephritidae) and their phylogenetic implications. PLoS ONE 11(2): e TAAO Newsletter Issue 4 (October 2016) 13

14 UPCOMING EVENTS AND DATES TO REMEMBER 3rd FAO/IAEA International Conference on Area- Wide Management of Insect Pests: Integrating the sterile insect and related nuclear and other techniques, May, 2017, Vienna, Austria ( www-pub.iaea.org/iaeameetings/50813/third-fao- IAEA-Internat ional-conference-on-area-wide- Management-of-Insect-Pests-Integrating-the-Sterile- Insect-and-Related-Nuclear-and-Other-Techniques) FAO/IAEA Interregional Training Course on The Use of the Sterile Insect and Related Techniques for the Integrated Area-wide Management of Insect Pests (under Interregional TC Project INT5155). 31 July 25 August 2017, Metapa de Dominguez, Chiapas, Mexico and Antigua / El Pino, Guatemala. 1st International Conference on Biological and Environmental Sciences & Applications (ICBESA-2017) March, 2017, Luxor, Egypt. ( page.asp?pgid=142) Entomology 2017, Novevber , Denver, CO, USA. Organizer: Entomological Society of America (ESA) ( 9th International Congress on Dipterology, November 2018, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. ( 10 th International Symposium on Fruit Fly of Economic Importance (ISFFEI 2018), April, 2018, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico 19th International Plant Protection Congress (IPPC 2019), November, 2019, Hyderabad, Telangana, India ( Meetings and Activities Related to International Organization for Biological and Integrated Control (IOBC). Call for Submission of Research Proposals for a new FAO/IAEA Coordinated Research Project on Integration of the SIT with Biocontrol for Greenhouse Insect Pest Management. Last date of research project proposal submission: 31 January, 2017 ( Tephritid Workers Database (TWD) Please keep your TWD profile updated to stay connected with the whole tephritid fruit fly community in the world. Tephritid Workers Database link: htt p://nucleus. iaea.org/sit es/naipc/t wd/pages/ default.aspx TAAO Newsletter Issue 4 (October 2016) 14

15 TAAO Steering Committee (SC) FIRST ROW L-R SECOND ROW L-R Alvin Hee (Chair) Department of Biology Faculty of Science Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia Mark Schutze (Immediate Past Chair of SC and EC) School of Earth, Environmental & Biological Sciences Queensland University of Technology GPO Box 2434 Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia Zhihong Li College of Agronomy and Biotechnology China Agricultural University Beijing, China Tati Suryati Syamsudin School of Life Sciences & Technology Institut Teknologi Bandung Jl. Ganesa No. 10 Bandung, Indonesia Sujinda Thanaphum Fruit Fly Molecular Genetic Laboratory Department of Biotechnology Faculty of Science Mahidol University, Ratchathewe Bangkok, Thailand Annastasia Kawi National Agriculture Quarantine Inspection Authority P O Box 817, Kokopo, East New Britain Province Papua New Guinea annapriscilla.kawi@gmail.com Suk-Ling Wee School of Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences Faculty of Science & Technology Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Bangi, Selangor Darul Ehsan Malaysia slwee@ukm.edu.my Sandeep Singh Department of Fruit Science Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana Punjab India sandeep_pau.1974@pau.edu Sunyanee Srikachar Plant Protection Research and Development Office Department of Agriculture Bangkok Thailand. sunyaneesrikachar@gmail.com Nguyen Thi Thanh Hien Entomology Division Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI) Duc Thang ward, Bac Tu Liem district Ha Noi city Vietnam thanhhien1456@gmail.com M. Hasanuzzaman Institute of Food and Radiation Biology Atomic Energy Research Establishment Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission GPO Box Dhaka-1000 Bangladesh mhasanuzzaman72@yahoo.com TAAO Newsletter Issue 4 (October 2016) 15

16 TAAO Editorial Committee (EC) M. Hasanuzzaman (Chair) Institute of Food and Radiation Biology Atomic Energy Research Establishment Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission GPO Box- 3787, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh Farzana Yesmin Institute of Food and Radiation Biology Atomic Energy Research Establishment Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission GPO Box- 3787, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh Hamish Patrick Bio-Protection Research Centre Burns 616, P O Box Lincoln University Lincoln 7647, Christchurch, New Zealand argyrophenga@hotmail.com Deane Woruba NSW Department of Primary Industries Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute Woodbridge Road, Menangle 2568 NSW Australia deane.woruba@dpi.nsw.gov.au Chandra Shekhar Prabhakar Department of Entomology, Veer Kunwar Singh College of Agriculture, (Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour) Dumraon , Buxar Bihar, India csprabhakar.ento@gmail.com Yongcheng Dong College of Plant Science and Technology Huazhong Agricultural University, , Wuhan, Hubei Province, China Yongcheng.Dong@mail.hzau.edu.cn TAAO Newsletter Issue 4 (October 2016) 16

17 TAAO NEWSLETTER The TAAO Newsletter is produced by the TAAO editorial committee from contributions made by fruit fly workers from across the region encompassing Asia, Australia, and Oceania. While focused on this region, contributions are also welcome from tephritid workers. The newsletter is distributed electronically and free of charge to members of the TAAO mailing list. Please contact the TAAO EC Chair if you wish to be added or removed from this list, or if you have a note that you would like to contribute to future issues of the Newsletter. The newsletter can be downloaded from this link: Disclaimer: Articles submitted to TAAO Newsletter wholly represent the opinions and ideas of individual contributors TAAO Newsletter Issue 4 (October 2016) 17