Scientist from Laboratory of Entomology at XII European Conference of the European Mosquito Control Association

On 25–28 March 2025, Antwerp, Belgium, hosted the XII International Conference of the European Mosquito Control Association (EMCA2025) https://www.emca2025.eu/. The conference was attended by scientists from Europe, North America, Africa and Asia. During the conference, 4 plenary presentations, 53 oral presentations and 35 poster papers were delivered in 11 sessions on various topics related to mosquito control, physiology, morphology, ecology and the development of new tools. More information is available at https://www.emca2025.eu/programme.

Dr Kristina Valavičiūtė-Pocienė, NRC Laboratory of Entomology, delivered a presentation “WIMANET, a global initiative to study vector-borne disease in wildlife” (authors: K. Valavičiūtė-Pocienė and J. C. Dunn), funded by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), which aims at connecting researchers working on malaria of wildl.ife and vectors of these parasites. This project and the travel costs were funded by COST CA22108 – Wildlife Malaria Network (WIMANET).

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