Session: Graduate Student Ten-minute Paper Competition, IPMIS: General (2010 ESA Annual Meeting (December 12-15, 2010))

Monday, December 13, 2010: 8:20 AM-11:50 AM

Royal Palm, Salon 2 (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

Moderators:

Patricia V. Pietrantonio
Thomas C. Baker

8:20 AM

8:27 AM

Differences in Nicotiana tabacum phytohormones signaling in response to oral secretion by Helicoverpa zea and Manduca sexta

Wardatou Boukari, Western Illinois University ; Sue Hum-Musser, Western Illinois University ; Linus Gog, Western Illinois University ; Richard O. Musser, Western Illinois University

8:39 AM

0262

Reduction in olfactory receptor neuron responsiveness is correlated with reduction in host-finding behavior in fungus-infected mosquitoes

Justine George, Pennsylvania State University ; Thomas C. Baker, Pennsylvania State University

8:51 AM

0263

Marsha M. Wheeler, University of Illinois ; Seth A. Ament, University of Illinois ; Gene E. Robinson, University of Illinois

9:03 AM

0264

Functional analysis of subterranean termite antifungal peptides using RNA interference

Casey Hamilton, Towson University ; Mark S. Bulmer, Towson University

9:15 AM

0265

Annual infection cycle of Nosema ceranae in Virginia honey bee colonies

Brenna E Traver, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ; Richard D. Fell, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

9:27 AM

0266

Loss of bacteriophage reduces fitness of aphids infected with a defensive symbiont

Stephanie Weldon, University of Georgia ; Kerry M. Oliver, University of Georgia

9:39 AM

0267

Wolbachia penetrance and its relationship to bacterial density in parthenogenetic Trichogramma

Genet M. Tulgetske, University of California, Riverside ; Richard Stouthamer, University of California - Riverside

9:51 AM

0268

A novel cypovirus and its dynamics within the host-parasitoid relationship of Campoletis sonorensis and Heliothis virescens

Juliane Deacutis, University of Kentucky ; Philip L. Houtz, University of Kentucky ; Bruce Webb, University of Kentucky

10:03 AM

Break

10:18 AM

0269

Structure and composition of trap-jaw ant mandibles

Fredrick Larabee, University of Illinois ; Andrew Suarez, University of Illinois

10:30 AM

0270

Changes in social regulation across colony development in the ant Camponotus floridanus

Dani Moore, Arizona State University ; Juergen Liebig, Arizona State University

10:42 AM

0271

Distribution of short neuropeptide F receptor in virgin and mated queens of the fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Hsiao-Ling Lu, Texas A&M University ; Patricia V. Pietrantonio, Texas A&M University

10:54 AM

0272

Pyrokinin/PBAN peptides in the central nervous system of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae)

Erica K. Hellmich, Iowa State University ; Russell Jurenka, Iowa State University ; Lyric Bartholomay, Iowa State University

11:06 AM

0273

The role of biogenic amines in the regulation of caste and dominance in colonies of the ant Harpegnathos saltator

Clint A. Penick, Arizona State University ; Colin S. Brent, US Department of Agriculture ; Juergen Liebig, Arizona State University

11:18 AM

0275

Biomass relationships during colony development in the desert leafcutter ant Acromyrmex versicolor

Rebecca M. Clark, Arizona State University ; Jennifer H Fewell, Arizona State University

11:30 AM

0276

Identification of Lygus bugs with DNA barcoding

Changqing Zhou, Washington State University ; James D. Barbour, University of Idaho ; Frank G Zalom, University of California, Davis ; Douglas B. Walsh, Washington State University ; Laura C. Lavine, Washington State University

11:42 AM

Concluding Remarks

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