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

Room A18, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section IPMIS3. Integrative Physiological and Molecular Insect Systems

Moderator(s): Stephen L. Lapointe
Catherine Loudon
8:30 AM Introductory Remarks
8:35 AM 0357Glucose-phosphate isomerase as a gene of major effect in soldier developmental rates within Copidosoma floridanum (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae)
Cheryl Lindsay, Michael Strand
8:59 AM0359The importance of destructive host feeding in the development of the endoparasitoid Toxoneuron nigriceps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
Ruth E. Henderson, Indira Kuriachan, S. Bradleigh Vinson
9:11 AM 0360A computational approach to polydnavirus gene identification
Tonja Fisher, Bruce Webb
9:23 AM0361Cloning three host translation inhibitory factors (HTIFs) encoded in Cotesia glomerata bracovirus
Yonggyun Kim, Karen P. Barandoc
9:35 AM0362Molecular and pheromone studies of pecan nut casebearer
Emilie A Hartfield, Raul F Medina, Marvin K Harris
9:47 AM Break
9:59 AM 0363Developmental expression pattern and RNA interference of the vitellogenin receptor in fire ant (Solenopsis invicta Buren) queens
Hsiao-Ling Lu, Patricia V. Pietrantonio
10:11 AM0364Social transmission of immunity in the carpenter ant Camponotus pennsylvanicus
Casey Hamilton, Rebeca B. Rosengaus
10:23 AM0365Lifetime consequences associated with varying macronutrient levels over a single generation for Heliothis virescens
Karl A. Roeder, Spencer T. Behmer
10:35 AM0366Effect of different ratios of “good” and “bad” sterols on the performance of Helicoverpa zea
Xiangfeng Jing, Spencer T. Behmer
10:47 AM0367Resistance risk assessment for novel reduced-risk insecticides in obliquebanded leafroller, Choristoneura rosaceana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
Ashfaq A. Sial, Jay F. Brunner, John E. Dunley
10:59 AM0368Resistance to pyrethroid insecticides in Helicoverpa zea (Boddie) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
Bradley W. Hopkins, Patricia V. Pietrantonio

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