Session: Ento-Diversity: The Innovators and Pioneers of Entomological Science (2010 ESA Annual Meeting (December 12-15, 2010))

Ento-Diversity: The Innovators and Pioneers of Entomological Science

Sunday, December 12, 2010: 8:30 AM-12:10 PM

Sunrise (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

Organizers:

Tony Grace
Predeesh Chandran

8:30 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:35 AM

Insect genetics: Evolution of gene regulatory networks

Susan Brown, Director of the Center for Genomic Studies on Arthropods affecting Human Animal and Plant Health, Kansas State University

9:00 AM

Insect toxicology: Population genetics of genes coding for insecticide receptors

Jeffrey G. Scott, Cornell University

9:25 AM

Integrated pest management: Innovation and delivery of integrated pest management information to the public: If everybody is thinking alike then somebody isn’t thinking

Marlin E. Rice, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc

9:50 AM

Insect transgenics: Control of western corn rootworm (WCR, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera) through RNA interference

James Roberts, Monsanto Inc

10:15 AM

10:25 AM

Insect behavior/social genomics: Nutritional regulation of division of labor in honey bees: A systems biology analysis

Gene Robinson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

10:50 AM

Insect ecology: Evolutionary balancing of fitness-limiting factors

Jay A Rosenheim, University of California, Davis

11:15 AM

Insect biochemistry: Functional genomics of chitin metabolism and assembly into extracelllar matrices in insects

Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan, Kansas State University

11:40 AM

Medical/public health entomology: The role of genetic diversity in understanding complexities in the biology and control of vector-borne diseases

Gregory C. Lanzaro, University of California - Davis

12:05 PM

Concluding Remarks

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