Monday, November 17, 2008: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM

Room A16, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section IPMIS1. Integrative Physiological and Molecular Insect Systems

Moderator(s): Margaret L. Allen
Kenneth F. Haynes
8:30 AM Introductory Remarks
8:35 AM 0333Single nucleotide polymorphisms in Anopheles gambiae immune signaling genes
Ashley A Horton, Cheick Coulibaly, Gregory Lanzaro, Shirley Luckhart
8:47 AM 0334The localization of Culex quinquefascuatus odorant binding protein-1 (CquiOBP1)
Wei Xu, Walter Leal
8:59 AM 0335Cloning and sequencing the calcitonin receptor-like receptor 3 (AaegGPRCal3) from female mosquitoes of Aedes aegypti (L.) (Diptera: Culicidae)
Cymon Nichole Kersch, Hyeogsun Kwon, Patricia Pietrantontio
9:11 AM 0336Rheb, a key component of the amino acid signaling pathway, controls mosquito egg development
Saurabh Ghosh Roy, Alexander Raikhel
9:23 AM0337Field and laboratory trials of a natural sterol carrier protein inhibitor (SCPI) against larval and adult mosquitoes
Ryan Larson, James J. Becnel, Julia W. Pridgeon, Que Lan
9:35 AM0338Expression variability of salivary gland genes in natural populations of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasi (Diptera: Psychodidae)
Iliano V. Coutinho-Abreu, Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigao, Mariha Wadsworth, David F. Hoel, Hanafi A. Hanafi, Mahmoud Abo-Shehada, Mary Ann McDowell
9:47 AM Break
9:59 AM0339Juvenile hormone regulation of Drosophila Epac: A guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Rap1 small GTPase
Jun Wang, Joliene R. Lindholm, David K. Willis, Anthony Orth, Walter G. Goodman
10:11 AM 0340Identification of a cis-regulatory element required for 20-hydroxyecdysone enhancement immune gene expression in Drosophila melanogaster
Zhaolin Zhang, Subba R. Palli
10:23 AM0341Characterization of cytochrome P450 genes CYP6A2, CYP6D4 and CYP6D5 in a methoprene resistant strain of Drosophila melanogaster
Cynthia McDonnell, Mary A. Schuler, May R. Berenbaum
10:35 AM0342A landscape genetics approach to Hessian fly distributions
Philip K. Morton, Carolyn Foley, Alisha Johnson, Brandi J. Schemerhorn
10:47 AM0343Discovery of avirulence gene candidates in the Hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor) genome
Rajat Aggarwal, Thiago Benatti, Chaoyang Zhao, Brandon Schemerhorn, Ming-Shun Chen, Jeff Stuart

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