Student Competition for the President's Prize Display Presentations, IPMIS: Molecular

Monday, December 14, 2009: 7:00 AM-6:00 PM
Hall D, First Floor (Convention Center)


Recombinant expression and analysis of hemolymph proteinase 16 from an insect, Manduca sexta
Jayne M. Christen, Kansas State University ; Michael R. Kanost, Kansas State University
Proteomic identification of PKC-mediated phosphoproteins in salivary glands of Drosophila melanogaster
Yaning Sun, University of Missouri-Columbia ; Qisheng Song, University of Missouri - Columbia
Analyses of sequences, gene expressions, and RNAi of three Cry1Ab-resistance related aminopeptidase genes in the sugarcane borer, Diatraea saccharalis
Yunlong Yang, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center ; Yu Cheng Zhu, USDA-ARS ; James Ottea, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center ; Claudia Husseneder, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center ; B. Rogers Leonard, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center ; Fangneng Huang, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center
Multiple sodium channel genes and their differential genotype at the L-to-F kdr locus in the mosquitoes, Culex quinquefasciatus
Li Tian, Auburn University ; Qiang Xu, Auburn University ; Nannan Liu, Auburn University
In vivo integration of Campoletis sonorensis ichnovirus genomic segments into Heliothis virescens DNA
Philip L. Houtz, University of Kentucky ; Juliane Deacutis, University of Kentucky ; Bruce Webb, University of Kentucky
Identification and characterization of cysteine protease inhibiting activity in the midgut fluid of Trichoplusia ni larvae
Xiaozhao Song, Cornell University NYSAES ; Changyou Li, Qingdao Agricultural University ; Guoxun Li, Qingdao Agricultural University ; Ping Wang, Cornell University, NYSAES
Sequence, structural homology and phylogenetic relationship among Macrophage migration inhibitory factors (MIF) from Ixodid ticks
Nalinda B. Wasala, Oklahoma State University ; Deborah C. Jaworski, Oklahoma State University
Transcriptomic analysis of the salivary glands of the Gulf Coast tick, Amblyomma maculatum (Acari: Ixodidae)
Parul Singh, University of Southern Mississippi ; Shahid Karim, University of Southern Mississippi
Gene families encoding proteins with chitin-binding domains in Tribolium castaneum: domain organization, phylogenetic analysis and expression during development
Sinu Jasrapuria, Kansas State University ; Yas Arkane, Kansas State University ; Karl J. Kramer, Kansas State University ; Richard Beeman, USDA-ARS, GMPRC ; Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan, Kansas State University
Functional analysis of two chitin synthase genes in African malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae
Xin Zhang, Kansas State University ; Kun Yan Zhu, Kansas State University
vH9 avirulence gene discovery in the Hessian fly
Thiago R. Benatti, Purdue University ; Rajat Aggarwal, Purdue University ; Chaoyang Zhao, Purdue University ; Jeffrey J. Stuart, Purdue University ; Brandon Schemerhorn, Purdue University ; Ming-Shun Chen, Kansas State University