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

Monday, November 17, 2008: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM
Room A16, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)
Moderators:
Margaret L. Allen
Kenneth F. Haynes


8:30 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:35 AM
0333
Single nucleotide polymorphisms in Anopheles gambiae immune signaling genes
Ashley A Horton, University of California Davis ; Cheick Coulibaly, University of California Davis ; Gregory Lanzaro, University of California, Davis ; Shirley Luckhart, University of California Davis
8:47 AM
0334
The localization of Culex quinquefascuatus odorant binding protein-1 (CquiOBP1)
Wei Xu, University of California - Davis ; Walter Leal, University of California-Davis
8:59 AM
0335
Cloning and sequencing the calcitonin receptor-like receptor 3 (AaegGPRCal3) from female mosquitoes of Aedes aegypti (L.) (Diptera: Culicidae)
Cymon Nichole Kersch, Texas A&M University ; Hyeogsun Kwon, Texas A&M University ; Patricia Pietrantontio, Texas A&M University
9:11 AM
0336
Rheb, a key component of the amino acid signaling pathway, controls mosquito egg development
Saurabh Ghosh Roy, University of California, Riverside ; Alexander Raikhel, University of California-Riverside
9:23 AM
0337
Field and laboratory trials of a natural sterol carrier protein inhibitor (SCPI) against larval and adult mosquitoes
Ryan Larson, University of Wisconsin-Madison ; James J. Becnel, USDA-ARS ; Julia W. Pridgeon, USDA-ARS ; Que Lan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Audio File Recorded presentation
9:35 AM
0338
Expression variability of salivary gland genes in natural populations of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasi (Diptera: Psychodidae)
Iliano V. Coutinho-Abreu, University of Notre Dame ; Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigao, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit # 3 ; Mariha Wadsworth, University of Notre Dame ; David F. Hoel, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit # 3 ; Hanafi A. Hanafi, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit # 3 ; Mahmoud Abo-Shehada, Jordan University of Science and Technology ; Mary Ann McDowell, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit # 3
Audio File Recorded presentation
9:47 AM
Break
9:59 AM
0339
Juvenile hormone regulation of Drosophila Epac: A guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Rap1 small GTPase
Jun Wang, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison ; Joliene R. Lindholm, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison ; David K. Willis, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison ; Anthony Orth, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation ; Walter G Goodman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Audio File Recorded presentation
10:11 AM
0340
Identification of a cis-regulatory element required for 20-hydroxyecdysone enhancement immune gene expression in Drosophila melanogaster
Zhaolin Zhang, University of Kentucky ; Subba R. Palli, University of Kentucky
10:23 AM
0341
Characterization of cytochrome P450 genes CYP6A2, CYP6D4 and CYP6D5 in a methoprene resistant strain of Drosophila melanogaster
Cynthia McDonnell, University of Illinois ; Mary A. Schuler, University of Illinois ; May R. Berenbaum, University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign
Audio File Recorded presentation
10:35 AM
0342
A landscape genetics approach to Hessian fly distributions
Philip K. Morton, Purdue University ; Carolyn Foley, Purdue University ; Alisha Johnson, USDA-ARS, Purdue University ; Brandi J. Schemerhorn, USDA-ARS
Audio File Recorded presentation
10:47 AM
0343
Discovery of avirulence gene candidates in the Hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor) genome
Rajat Aggarwal, Purdue University ; Thiago Benatti, Purdue University ; Chaoyang Zhao, Purdue University ; Brandon Schemerhorn, Purdue University ; Ming-Shun Chen, Kansas State University ; Jeff Stuart, Purdue University
Audio File Recorded presentation
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