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USDA-ARS Collections to Genomics: Entoversity with Impact

Wednesday, December 15, 2010: 8:15 AM-11:25 AM
California (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)
Organizers:
Kevin Hackett
Daniel A. Strickman


8:15 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:20 AM
0313
The Tribolium genome sequence:  Offshoots and enhancements
Richard Beeman, USDA-ARS, GMPRC ; Marce Lorenzen, North Carolina State University ; Susan Brown, Director of the Center for Genomic Studies on Arthropods affecting Human Animal and Plant Health, Kansas State University
8:40 AM
0314
Genomic insights into honey bee health
Jay Evans, Bee Research Laboratory
9:00 AM
0315
Conditional lethality strains for the biological control of tephritid pest species
Nirmala Xavier, USDA/ARS ; Marc Schetelig, USDA/ARS ; Alfred Handler, USDA/ARS
9:20 AM
0316
Cot filtration approach for advancing genome sequencing of the cattle tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus
Felix Guerrero, USDA-ARS-SPA ; Paula Moolhuijzen, Murdoch University ; Daniel G. Peterson, Mississippi State University ; Matthew I. Bellgard, Murdoch University ; D. Schibeci, Murdoch University ; A. Hunter, USDA-ARS-SPA ; Manuel Rodriguez-Valle, Emerging Technologies, Agri-Science Queensland ; Roberto Barrero, Murdoch University ; Vishvanath M. Nene, The BecA-ILRI Hub (Biosciences eastern and central Africa - International Livestock Research Institute) ; Ala E. Lew-Tabor, Emerging Technologies, Agri-Science Queensland
9:40 AM
Break
10:00 AM
0317
The National Collection of Pollinating Insects-Understanding bee diversity to alleviate a pollination crisis
Rosalind James, USDA-ARS ; Terry Griswold, USDA-ARS
10:20 AM
0318
USDA's Systematic Entomology Laboratory (SEL):  Global leadership and innovation in insect systematics
M. Alma Solis, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, ARS, USDA ; John W. Brown, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, ARS, USDA ; Matthew L. Buffington, ARS, USDA ; Gary Miller, ARS, USDA ; Sonja J. Scheffer, ARS, USDA ; Natalia J. Vandenberg, ARS, USDA
10:40 AM
0319
Lacewing as a genetic model organism
Margaret L. Allen, USDA - ARS
11:00 AM
0320
Entomology faces paradigm shift—Genomics
Wayne Hunter, USDA-ARS, US Horticultural Research Lab ; Robert Shatters, Jr., USDA-ARS, US Horticultural Research Lab
11:20 AM
Concluding Remarks
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