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CHEMICAL ECOLOGY @ SFU

Keith Slessor.
Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada,
V5A 1S6

For more than twenty years the Chemical Ecology Research Group at SimonFraser has provided a synergistic environment where the collaborative interactionsof biologists and chemists have resulted in a greater understanding ofthe semiochemical communication systems of a variety of insects. The presentation will provide a retrospective of a few of the projectsthat have been investigated by this group and will feature the importanceof chirality in insect pheromone communication channels with examples drawnfrom a variety of different orders. Detection techniques and bioassaymethodology used to determine semiochemical systems will also be highlighted.