Session: PS: Beyond the Horizon: Unraveling the Novel Complexity of Insect-Plant Interactions (2014 ESA Annual Meeting)

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PS: Beyond the Horizon: Unraveling the Novel Complexity of Insect-Plant Interactions

Tuesday, November 18, 2014: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Portland Ballroom 251 (Oregon Convention Center)

Organizers:

Gary Felton
Kelli Hoover

8:00 AM

Welcoming Remarks

8:05 AM

1141

The hidden microbial contribution to plant-insect interactions

Wilhelm Boland, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

8:30 AM

1142

Host plant defenses disrupt insect-microbial interactions in the Asian longhorned beetle

Kelli Hoover, Pennsylvania State University ; Erin Scully, USDA - ARS ; Scott Geib, USDA - ARS ; Ming Tien, Pennsylvania State University ; Chung-Jui Tsai, University of Georgia ; Scott Harding, University of Georgia ; Cristina Rosa, Pennsylvania State University

8:55 AM

1143

GroEL from the endosymbiont Buchnera aphidicola betrays the aphid by triggering plant defense

Isgouhi Kaloshian, University of California ; Ritu Chaudhary, University of California ; Hagop Atamian, University of California ; Zhouxin Shen, University of California ; Steven Briggs, University of California

9:20 AM

1144

Role of insect symbiont small RNAs in host-plant interactions

Allison Hansen, University of Illinois

9:45 AM

Intermission

10:05 AM

1145

Insect symbionts manipulate plant defenses

Seung Ho Chung, Pennsylvania State University ; Cristina Rosa, Pennsylvania State University ; Michelle Peiffer, Pennsylvania State University ; Kelli Hoover, Pennsylvania State University ; Gary Felton, Pennsylvania State University

10:30 AM

1146

Mutli-trophic interactions above and below ground shaping our interpretation of plant signaling

Jared Ali, Michigan State University

10:55 AM

1147

Meaningful casual relationships: How bacteria mediate gypsy moth - aspen interactions

Charles Mason, University of Wisconsin ; Kenneth Raffa, University of Wisconsin

11:20 AM

1148

The role of ethylene in vector-virus mutualisms

Clare Casteel, University of California