eafe2022 - 18th Meeting of the European Association for Forensic Entomology (EAFE) & 4th International Conference in Funerary Archaeoentomology (ICFAE)

Final Program

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4^th Internacional Conference in Funerary Archaeoentomology (ICFAE)

18^th Meeting of the European Association for Forensic Entomology (EAFE)

Scientific Programme

*Wednesday, 15^th June 2022* 4^th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN FUNERARY ARCHAEOENTOMOLOGY (ICFAE)
08:30 – 12:30	Registration
09:30 – 10:00	Welcome speech • Stefano Vanin (EAFE President) • Daniel Martín-Vega (President of the Conference Organising Committe)
10:00 – 10:50	Keynote speaker: Prof. Ms. Mercedes Conde-Valverde Atapuerca, a million and a half years of human history
*ICFAE Oral Communications – Section I* Chairman: Jean-Bernard Huchet
10:50 – 11:10	*The minimum number of individuals (MNI) in funerary archaeoentomology: a problem of sampling or a bigger issue?* Stefano VANIN, Giorgia GIORDANI, Jennifer PRADELLI, Giuseppina CARTA
11:10 – 11:40	Te and coffee break
11:40 – 12:00	*The representation and symbolism of arthropods in the conceptions of death and burial practices across time and space* Lucie MERLAUD, Nicolas CÉSARD, Pauline KIRGIS, Jean-Bernard HUCHET
12:00 – 12:20	2500 years ago, necrophagous insects in the Mongolian steppes Lisa RICHELMI, Jean-Bernard HUCHET, Sébastien LEPETZ
12:20 – 12:40	*Swaddled in textile burials?* 3D tomography reveals ancient insects trapped in pre-Columbian funerary bundles Pauline KIRGIS, Jean-Bernard HUCHET, Christophe BOU, Lucía WATSON, Andrew NELSON
12:40 – 14:15	Lunch
14:15 – 15:00	Poster Session
*ICFAE Oral Communications – Section II* Chairman: Stefano Vanin
15:00 – 15:20	Mortuary practices of the pre-Hispanic population of the Canary Islands via the funerary archaeoentomology evidence: The case of Cruz de la Esquina burial cave (Gran Canaria, c. 8 - 9th centuries AD) Pedro HENRÍQUEZ-VALIDO, Jacob MORALES, Jonathan SANTANA-CABRERA, Amelia RODRÍGUEZ-RODRÍGUEZ, Jean-Bernard HUCHET
15:20 – 15:40	*St. Paulinus of Trier, the blow fly Chrysomya albiceps and their 3000 km long joint post-mortem journey - an entomological trace analysis* Jens AMENDT, Michael HEETHOFF, Sebastian SCHMELZLE, Thomas VAN DE KAMP, Nicole REIFARTH
15:40 – 16:00	*The lead sarcophagus of the French philosopher Michel de Montaigne (1533 ?1592), Archaeoentomological study: first Essays* Jean-Bernard HUCHET, Lisa Richelmi, Hélène Réveillas
16:00 – 16:30	Te and coffee break
16:30 – 16:50	*State of the art of the funerary archaeoentomological investigations in Italy* Stefano VANIN, Fabiola TUCCIA, Giorgia GIORDANI, Jennifer PRADELLI, Giuseppina CARTA
18:00	EAFE Welcome Reception & ICFAE Closure Cocktail

*Thursday, 16^th June 2022* 18^th MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR FORENSIC ENTOMOLOGY (EAFE) *Day 1*
8:30 – 12:30	Registration
9:30 – 10:00	Welcome speech • Stefano Vanin (EAFE President) • Esperanza Gutiérrez Redomero (Head of the IUICP–University Institute for Research in Police Sciences) • Daniel Martín-Vega (President of the Conference Organising Committe)
10:00 – 10:50	Keynote speaker Prof. Mr. Marcos Moleón Carrion Ecology: a story of interactions
*EAFE Oral Communications – Section I* Chairman: Damien Charabidze
10:50 – 11:10	Advances and current concepts in systematics of blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Krzysztof SZPILA, Cristian BEZA-BEZA, Ezra BAILEY, Brian CASSEL, Andrzej GRZYWACZ, Nikolas P. JOHNSTON, Kelly MEIKLEJOHN, Aram MIKAELYAN, Drashti PARMAR, John SOGHIGIAN, James WALLMAN, Brian WIEGMANN, Thomas PAPE
11:10 – 11:40	Te and Coffee break
11:40 – 12:00	Molecular variability analysis of Ophyra aenescens (Wiedemann, 1830) and Ophyra chalcogaster (Wiedemann, 1824) (Diptera: Muscidae) in the neotropics: an exploratory analysis to infer post-mortem relocation Andrés F. MAYA, Giovan F. GOMEZ, Andrés LÓPEZ, Luz Myriam GÓMEZ-PIÑEREZ
12:00 – 12:20	Confocal microscopy for the morphological identification of small-sized entomological material for medico-legal purposes Kinga WALCZAK, Krzysztof SZPILA, Tania IVORRA, Andrzej GRZYWACZ
12:20 – 12:40	Identification of forensically important flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) using wing measurements Krzysztof SZPILA, Nikolas P. JOHNSTON, Kamran AKBARZADEH, Adam TOFILSKI
12:40 – 14:15	Lunch
14:15 – 15:00	Poster Session
*EAFE Oral Communications – Section II* Chairman: Amoret Whitaker
15:00 – 15:20	Sink or Swim? Exploring Aquatic Taphonomy in Southern England Lauren CHANT, Kat McCOY, Caitlin O’FARRELL, Helen McGONIGAL, Kat BROWN
15:20 – 15:40	The biodiversity of forensically important Diptera in Taman Negara National Park, Malaysia Tania Ivorra, Natasha Azmi Nur Aliah, Heo Chong Chin
15:40 – 16:00	Diversity, abundance, and successional pattern of insects on neonate pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus L.) in the Western Cape Province of South Africa? a summer study Adeyemi Daniel ADETIMEHIN, Calvin Gerald MOLE, Devin Alexander FINAUGHTY, Marise HEYNS
16:00 – 16:30	Te and Coffee break
*EAFE Oral Communications – Section III* Chairman: Lavinia Iancu
16:30 – 16:50	Spatial and temporal distribution of Calliphorinae (Diptera, Calliphoridae) in Britain Olga Sivell
16:50 – 17:10	Fall decay slowdown in northern latitudes: merely a matter of cold? Chloé LOSIER, Denis BOUDREAU, Kathleen LEBLANC, Jean-Philippe MICHAUD, Gaétan MOREAU
17:10 – 17:30	Conclusions of the first day of the Meeting
18:00	Guided tour Alcalá de Henares

*Friday, 17^th June 2022* 18^th MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR FORENSIC ENTOMOLOGY (EAFE) *Day 2*
08:30 – 12:30	Registration
*EAFE Oral Communications – Section III* Chairman: Luc Bourguignon
09:30 – 09:50	A comparison of the life cycle of two subspecies of Musca domestica (Diptera: Muscidae), and its application in forensic entomology Mónica ABELLÁN, Anabel MARTÍNEZ-SÁNCHEZ, María RUANO, Silvia VALLÉS, Leticia Candy ROBERTS, Santos ROJO
09:50 – 10:10	*Blowflies reared in laboratory conditions from maggots collected on Rat (Rattus norvegicus Berkenhout, 1769, var Wistar) carrions in Yaoundé (Cameroon, Central Africa)* Francis Dupont Feugang Youmessi, Philippe Bienvenu NWANE, Champlain DJIÉTO-IORDON, Yves BRAET, Martin VILLET, Charles Felix BILONG BILONG
10:10 – 10:30	*Developmental time and growth rate of an Iberian population of Calliphora vicina (Diptera: Calliphoridae) over a range of temperatures* Jaime López-García, Blanca CIFRIÁN, Luisa M. DÍAZ-ARANDA, Arturo BAZ, Daniel MARTÍN-VEGA
10:30 – 10:50	The Effect of Burning and the Use of Ignitable Liquids on Insect Colonisation and Body Decomposition Luca Manelli, Amoret WHITAKER, Keith WILKINSON, Dave CLEMENTS
10:50 – 11:20	Te and Coffee break
*EAFE Oral Communications – Section IV* Chairman: Kat Brown
11:20 – 11:40	Juvenile Hormone in Maggots: Could it be the New mPMI Indicator? Natasha Azmi NUR-ALIAH, Razuin RAHIMI, Sharaniza AB-RAHIM, Chong Chin HEO
11:40 – 12:00	*Larvae of Lucilia sericata (Meigen 1826) metabolise the benzodiazepine diazepam (Valium®) in a similar fashion as humans: Preliminary results of pharmacokinetic and developmental studies* Olwen GROTH, Susan RAHAUS, Vera HÖFT, Alexander STRAßBERGER, Matthias GRAW, Martin VILLET
12:20 – 12:40	*Thermogenesis in Necrodes littoralis L. (Coleoptera: Silphidae)* Szymon MATUSZEWSKI, Anna MĄDRA-BIELEWICZ
12:40 – 14:15	Lunch
14:15 – 14:50	Poster Session
*EAFE Oral Communications – Section V* Chairman: Jens Amendt
14:50 – 15:10	*Quantitative insights into Salmonella enterica dynamics throughout Lucilia sericata (Meigen) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) life stages* Lavinia IANCU, Iulia Roxana ANGELESCU, Victoria Ioana PAUN, Cristina PURCAREA
15:10 – 15:30	*Investigating changes in eye pigmentation as a means of determining the age of Chrysomya chloropyga (Wiedemann, 1818) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) pupae* Wilmari UYS, Calvin Gerald MOLE, Marise HEYNS
15:30 – 15:50	Liguria between France, Italy and China: Description of the entomofauna associated with bodies in a land betwixt the mountains and the sea Stefano VANIN, Giuseppina CARTA, Giulia BRUSCARINO, Sara LO PINTO, Giorgia GIORDANI, Antonella DI PALMA
15:50 – 16:20	Te and Coffee break
*EAFE Oral Communications – Section VI* Chairman: Stefano Vanin
16:20 – 16:40	*An experimental study on buried pig carcasses in Hungary* Csaba Bozó
16:40 – 17:00	*The more, the better? an analysis of daily routine work highlights the importance of case studies in forensic entomology* Lena LUTZ, Jens AMENDT
17:00 – 17:15	Final discussion and closure of the meeting
17:15 – 18:15	18ª EAFE Annual General Meeting
18:30	Guided tour University of Alcalá
21:00	Gala Dinner (Registration required)