Session: Celebrating the Role of Entomology in the Genomics Revolution (2009 ESA Annual Meeting, December 13-16, 2009)

Wednesday, December 16, 2009: 7:15 AM-11:00 AM

Room 201, Second Floor (Convention Center)

Organizer:

Noah K. Whiteman

7:35 AM

1000

Systems genetics of quantitative traits in Drosophila

Trudy F. C. Mackay, North Carolina State University

7:55 AM

1001

Genomic insight into the amino acid relations of the pea aphid with its symbiotic bacterium Buchnera aphidicola

Alex CC. Wilson, University of Miami ; Peter Ashton, University of York ; Federica Calevro, Université de Lyon ; Hubert Charles, Université de Lyon ; Stefano Colella, Université de Lyon ; Gerard Febvay, Université de Lyon ; Georg Jander, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research ; Phillip F. Kushlan, University of Miami ; Sandy Macdonald, University of York ; Julia F. Schwartz, University of Miami ; Gavin Thomas, University of York ; Angela Douglas, Cornell University

8:15 AM

1002

Ecological genomics of adaptation in cactophilic Drosophila

Luciano Matzkin, University of Arizona

8:35 AM

1003

Condition-dependent transcription and neofunctionalization: Insights from genome-wide expression profiling in Daphnia and Nasonia

John K. Colbourne, Indiana University ; Jack Werren, University of Rochester ; Michael Pfrender, Utah State University ; Don Gilbert, Indiana University ; Andreas Rechtsteiner, University of California-Santa Cruz ; Jeong-Hyeon Choi, Indiana University ; Christopher Dejardins, University of Rochester ; Jacqueline Lopez, Indiana University ; Courtney Skalitzky, Roche NimbleGen, Inc ; John Manak, University of Iowa

8:55 AM

1004

VectorBase, a bioinformatics resource for the genomes of arthropod vectors of human pathogens

Frank H. Collins, University of Notre Dame

9:15 AM

Break

9:30 AM

1005

The history and future of arthropod genome sequencing

Stephen Richards, Baylor College of Medicine

9:50 AM

1006

Developing a genomic model chewing herbivore of Arabidopsis thaliana

Noah K. Whiteman, Harvard University ; Frederick M. Ausubel, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School ; Naomi E. Pierce, Harvard University

10:10 AM

1007

Genomics of behavior and sociality in non-model social insects, Polistes paper wasps

Amy Toth, University of Illinois and Pennsylvania State University ; Gene Robinson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Christina Grozinger, Pennsylvania State University

10:30 AM

1008

From molecules to metapopulations: Finding the variation affecting butterfly dispersal in a fragmented and dynamic landscape

Christopher W. Wheat, University of Helsinki and Pennsylvania State University ; Howard Fescemyer, Pennsylvania State University ; J. Kvist, University of Helsinki ; J. Cristobal Vera, Pennsylvania State University ; Mikko J. Frilander, University of Helsinki ; Ilkka Hanski, University of Helsinki ; James. H. Marden, Pennsylvania State University

10:50 AM

1009

Human body louse genome: A little genome that causes big problems

John M. Clark, University of Massachusetts

11:10 AM

Concluding Remarks

7:15 AM

Introductory Remarks

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