2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008: Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section IPMIS2. Integrative Physiological and Molecular Insect Systems

Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section IPMIS2. Integrative Physiological and Molecular Insect Systems

Moderators:
Marianne Alleyne and Neil J Vickers
Functional characterization of the bHLH family transcription factors from the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum
Kavita Bitra, University of Kentucky; Anjiang Tan, University of Kentucky; Ashley P. G. Dowling, University of Kentucky; Subba Reddy Palli, University of Kentucky
Macronutrient regulation of a polymorphic insect differing in morphological, physiological and life history traits
Ashley S. McConnell, University of Maryland-Baltimore County; Spencer T. Behmer, Texas A and M University; Karl A. Roeder, Texas A&M University; Anthony J. Zera, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Constitutive phloem proteins, phenolics, and lignin in ash species resistant and susceptible to the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis)
Justin G. A. Whitehill, The Ohio State University; Daniel A. Herms, Ohio State University - OARDC; Pierluigi Bonello, The Ohio State University
Insect herbivore stoichiometry: Why macronutrient balance matters
Andrew Boswell, Texas A&M; Spencer T. Behmer, Texas A and M University
Investigations of insecticide tolerance allele frequencies in Homalodisca vitripennis (Germar) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)
Raphael Ndondo Abanja, Florida A&M University; Lambert H. B. Kanga, Florida A&M University
Genomics of the tick synganglia in reproduction and development
Kevin V. Donohue, North Carolina State University; S. M. Khalil, North Carolina State University; Daniel E. Sonenshine, Old Dominion University; R. Michael Roe, North Carolina State University
Genome-wide analysis of G protein-coupled receptors required for development and reproduction in Tribolium castaneum
Hua Bai, University of Kentucky; R. Parthasarathy, University of Kentucky; Subba R. Palli, University of Kentucky
More is not better: Costs of pleometrosis in the neotropical termite Nasutitermes corniger
Jessica LaRosa, Northeastern University; Tammy R. Hartke, Northeastern University; Rebeca B. Rosengaus, Northeastern University