2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008: Metamorphosis: The Development of Entomology into an Interdisciplinary Science

Metamorphosis: The Development of Entomology into an Interdisciplinary Science

Organizers:

Anne L. Nielsen , Greg Wiggins and Roxanne Burrus

Introductory Remarks

The world according to webworms: Insights from 30 years with one interaction
Art Zangerl, University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign; May R. Berenbaum, University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign

Ants, plants and elephants: Long-term dynamics of a multi-species mutualism
Todd M. Palmer, University of Florida

Audio File Recorded presentation

Chemicals and their role in host-seeking and deterrence of mosquitoes
Uli Bernier, USDA-ARS-CMAVE

Immunology 101: What we can learn from the blood feeding interface?
Shirley Luckhart, University of California at Davis

Using mathematical modeling and genetic algorithms to optimize the control of the Chagas disease vector, Triatoma infestans, in Arequipa, Peru
Michael Z. Levy, National Institutes of Health

Audio File Recorded presentation

Break

Re-engineering the sterile insect technique
Luke Alphey, Oxford University and Oxitec LTD

Bugs in space: Entomological questions that can be answered with GIS
Jeffrey D. Holland, Purdue University

Audio File Recorded presentation

Insects and biofuel: Got cellulases?
Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes, University of Tennessee

Forensic entomology at Texas A&M University: Smart insects, cow dung, and decomposition
Jeffery K. Tomberlin, Texas A&M University

Cascading host race formation and speciation across trophic levels?: A story of a fly (Rhagoletis pomonella) and its parasitoid (Diachasma alloeum)
Jeffrey Feder, University of Notre Dame; Andrew A Forbes, The University of Notre Dame; Lukasz L. Stelinski, Michigan State University

Audio File Recorded presentation

Effects of oxygen reperfusion and metabolic flux rate modulation on responses to anoxia in Drosophila melanogaster
John RB. Lighton, University of Nevada at Las Vegas

Audio File Recorded presentation

Concluding Remarks

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