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Methods Team Minutes

Actions from Call:

  • All – Need to elect a new team leader – consider options for discussion next call
  • All – Literature review assignments (searching for references etc) – deadline extended to the end of January
    • Verity – Leafhoppers, Planthoppers
    • Lixin – Lygus bugs, Psyllids
    • Jean-Luc – Weevils, Flea beetles
    • Harald – Scales, Mealybugs
    • Chouaibou – Cockroaches, ants
  • AP – investigate option for a spreadsheet as a tool for submitting references
  • TS – follow up with Ralf  re the Hop aphid method and Sybille re Tuta method.
  • TS – provide Harald with BASF comments regarding housefly method.
  • HK – incorporate the changes (if accepted), update the method and send to Alan to be posted as under review until we hear from Syngenta.
  • JLR –  incorporate changes from Dr. Roditakis into Tuta method and circulate to members
  • GBZ/CM -follow up with Rothamsted about confirmation of their Housefly method
  • RS/VP – talk to Mark Hoppe regarding new mosquito method.
  • RS/VP – follow up with Biotech team the possibility for GM Diabrotica method confirmation
  • All – identify which of the old existing methods need to be updated – discuss at next call
  • All – please provide any comments on version 3 of the methods poster before the next call
  • All – review video and be prepared to discuss final content during next call
  • All – next call date Feb 8th 2011 at 3pm CET