Insect Biotechnology

Part 1: Insect Biotechnology in Medicine
1: The greater wax moth Galleria mellonella as an alternative model host for human pathogens; Krishnendu Mukherjee, Eugen, Domann, Torsten Hain
2: Fruit flies as models in biomedical research – a Drosophila asthma model; Thomas, Roeder, Kerstin Isermann, Christina Wagner, Christine Warmbold
3: Therapeutic potential of antimicrobial peptides from insects; Jochen Wiesner, Andreas Vilcinskas
4: From traditional maggot therapy to modern biosurgery ; Andreas Vilcinskas
5: 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 Dettner
Part 2: Insect Biotechnology in Plant Protection
7: Insect antimicrobial peptides as new weapons against plant pathogens; Carin Jansen, Karl-Heinz Kogel
8: Protection of Crops against Insect Pests using RNA Interference; John Gatehouse, Daniel Price
9: Insect Transgenesis and the Sterile insect technique; Marc Schetelig, Ernst Wimmer,
Part 3: Industrial applications of Insect Biotechnology
10: Insect cells for heterologous protein expression; Christoph Becker-Pauly, Walter Stöcker
11: Biotechnologies based on silk; Frantisek Sehnal
12: Biosensors on the basis of insect olfaction; Sebastian, Paczkowski, Bernd Weißbecker, Michael Schöning, Stefan Schütz
13: Insect-Inspired technologies: Insects as a source for biomimetics; Stanislas Gorb