29th International Working Group of Ostrinia and Other Maize Pests (IWGO) Conference

The next and 29th International Working Group of Ostrinia and Other Maize Pests (IWGO) Conference of the International Organization of Biological Control (IOBC-Global) will take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, between 28th and 31st of October 2025.

We like to inform you that we will partner with the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI) who will co-host the IWGO event at their MARDI Auditorium on the MARDI campus in Putrajaya, away from the hustle of Kuala Lumpur city. Despite the high interest in fall armyworm, we would like to point out that the scientific programme will not only focus on fall armyworm control options and that other topics will be discussed too, such as the success and challenges of non-chemical control approaches of different maize pests and the genomics of maize pest insects. A field trip will be organized in collaboration with MARDI and offered for optional registration on Friday 31st of October 2025. In the next step, we will contact you to collect ideas for scientific session and to identify teams of co-session organizers following the format of earlier IWGO conferences.

As announced earlier, long-time Co-convenors Prof Zhenying Wang (17 years of dedicated service) and Dr Tom Sappington (12 years of dedicated service) step away from their roles in IWGO due to their retirement plans. Dr Feng Zhang of CABI in Beijing, China, and Dr Dominic Reisig of North Carolina State University, USA, have graciously agreed to take on the Co-Convenorships.

Please contact Ulli Kuhlmann (u.kuhlmann@cabi.org), Dominic Reisig (ddreisig@ncsu.edu) and Feng Zhang (f.zhang@cabi.org) if you would like to propose an interesting scientific session topic or if you like to be updated about the upcoming conference in Malaysia.

More information: https://www.iwgo.org/news