Insect Biotechnology

Part 1: Insect Biotechnology in Medicine1: The greater wax moth Galleria mellonella as an alternative model host for human pathogens; Krishnendu Mukherjee, Eugen, Domann, Torsten Hain2: Fruit flies as models in biomedical research - a Drosophila asthma model; Thomas, Roeder, Kerstin Isermann, Christina Wagner, Christine Warmbold3: Therapeutic potential of antimicrobial peptides from insects; Jochen Wiesner, Andreas Vilcinskas4: From traditional maggot therapy to modern biosurgery ; Andreas Vilcinskas5: Insect-associated microorganisms as source for novel secondary metabolites with therapeutic potential; Helge Bode,6: Potential pharmaceuticals from insects and their co-occurring microorganisms; Konrad DettnerPart 2: Insect Biotechnology in Plant Protection7: Insect antimicrobial peptides as new weapons against plant pathogens; Carin Jansen, Karl-Heinz Kogel8: Protection of Crops against Insect Pests using RNA Interference; John Gatehouse, Daniel Price9: Insect Transgenesis and theSterile insect technique; Marc Schetelig, Ernst Wimmer,Part 3: Industrial applications of Insect Biotechnology10: Insect cells for heterologous protein expression; Christoph Becker-Pauly, Walter Stöcker11: Biotechnologies based on silk; Frantisek Sehnal12: Biosensors on the basis of insect olfaction; Sebastian, Paczkowski, Bernd Weißbecker, Michael Schöning, Stefan Schütz13: Insect-Inspired technologies: Insects as a source for biomimetics; Stanislas Gorb

Dr. Andreas Vilcinskas, Biologe, ist seit seiner Kindheit ein begeisterter Taucher und hat bereits zahlreiche Bestimmungsbücher und Tauchführer zur Meereswelt veröffentlicht.