Session: Cold Case Files: Integrative Perspectives on Physiological and Molecular Responses of Insects to Low Temperature (2009 ESA Annual Meeting, December 13-16, 2009)

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

Room 211, Second Floor (Convention Center)

Organizers:

Richard E. Lee Jr.
Jack R. Layne, Jr.

7:15 AM

Introductory Remarks

7:20 AM

1031

Environmental constraints and adaptive patterns for survival in overwintering insects and other ectotherms

Jack R. Layne, Slippery Rock University

7:45 AM

1032

The role of aquaporins in promoting freeze tolerance in insects

Benjamin N. Philip, Miami University

8:10 AM

1033

Supercooling and vitrification in the beetle larvae, Cucujus clavipes puniceus (Coleoptera: Cucujuidae), in Alaska

Todd Sformo, U Alaska Fairbanks/ Wildlife Management, North Slope Borough Barrow, AK ; B.M. Barnes, University of Alaska-Fairbanks ; J. McIntyre, University of Alaska-Fairbanks ; K. Jeannet, University of Alaska-Fairbanks ; John Duman, University of Notre Dame ; Kent Walters, University of Notre Dame ; G. Fahy, 21st Century Medicine, Inc ; B. Wowk, 21st Century Medicine, Inc

8:35 AM

1034

Cellular cold-sensing and signal transduction: the calcium connection

Nicholas M. Teets, The Ohio State University

9:00 AM

Break

9:15 AM

1035

Cryoprotective dehydration and the resistance to inoculative freezing in a polar insect

Michael A. Elnitsky, Mercyhurst College ; David L. Denlinger, The Ohio State University ; Richard E. Lee, Miami University

9:40 AM

1036

Climate warming and cold tolerance: predictions for the mountain pine beetle

Barbara J. Bentz, USDA Forest Service ; Jacques Régnière, Laurentian Forestry Centre

10:05 AM

1037

Summertime freezing, the paradox of climate change–how do montane insects cope?

Elizabeth P. Dahlhoff, Santa Clara University ; Nathan E. Rank, Sonoma State University

10:30 AM

1038

From the bottom up–extending laboratory studies of cold tolerance to large-scale models

Brent J. Sinclair, University of Western Ontario ; Katie E. Marshall, University of Western Ontario ; Caroline M. Williams, University of Western Ontario ; Stephanie Sobek, University of Western Ontario

10:55 AM

Concluding Remarks

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