The 2027 Congress will be focused on the following themes:
- Novel agricultural products, technologies, methodologies, and tools.
- Formulation and application technologies.
- Nitrification inhibitors in modern agriculture (advances and interactions with pesticides).
- Nanopesticides, drug delivery, microbial-based delivery systems, encapsulation.
- Formulation additives, adjuvants, drift control agents, safeners, and synergists.
- Low-risk pesticides (e.g., microorganisms, natural substances, ds-RNA, peptides, semiochemicals).
- Biochemical pesticides.
- Biopesticides.
- Non-conventional pest control products.
- Biostimulants.
- Sampling and pesticide residue analytical techniques.
- Stewardship and communication.
- Food and feed quality and safety.
- Monitoring studies.
- PFSAs.
- New Approach Methods.
- Environmental fate, mathematical modeling, monitoring studies, and agroecosystem pollution.
- Ecotoxicology and risk assessment.
- Pollution remediation technologies.
- Interactions of pesticides with other soil pollutants (e.g., veterinary drugs, microplastics).
- Pharmacokinetics, transport, and metabolism within living organisms.
- Field exposure and risks to applicators and workers.
- New Approach Methods for toxicity assessment.
- Non-dietary human health hazard, exposure, and risk.
- Exposomic analysis, biomarkers.
- Alternative non-animal testing, QSAR.
- Digital labeling.
- AI and computational design of new pesticide molecules.
- Real-time detection, CRISPR diagnostics, forecasting and assessment of outbreak risks; Hyperspectral and thermal imaging.
- Smart pest monitoring (traps + cameras).
- Remote sensing and precision control.
- Discovery of crop protection products.
- Novel fungicides/insecticides/herbicides/other.
- Plant-incorporated protectants.
- Genome-based technologies, precision breeding, genome-editing (CRISPR–Cas9).
- Detection and management of pesticide resistance.
Pesticide Innovation and Sustainability
Mode of action, biochemistry, efficacy, and pesticide resistance
Low-risk and Biological Solutions
Human Health and Exposure Management
Environmental and Ecological Protection under the lens of climate change
Human Health and Exposure Management
Analytical and Regulatory Advances