2014 ESA Annual Meeting

Saturday, November 15, 2014

7:00 AM-5:00 PM


Entomological Collections Network
Pamela Horsley, Floyd Shockley and Christy Bills

7:30 AM-2:30 PM

8:30 AM-1:00 PM

8:30 AM-5:30 PM


Microbial Control Working Group
Steven P. Arthurs and Surendra Dara

2:00 PM-6:00 PM

2:30 PM-3:00 PM

3:00 PM-6:00 PM

4:00 PM-6:00 PM

6:00 PM-9:00 PM


Entomological Collections Network
Pamela Horsley, Floyd Shockley and Christy Bills

Sunday, November 16, 2014

6:30 AM-6:00 PM

7:00 AM-7:30 AM


Moderator Training
Katherine Matthews

7:00 AM-12:00 PM


Entomological Collections Network
Pamela Horsley, Floyd Shockley and Christy Bills

7:00 AM-9:00 PM

8:00 AM-10:00 AM

8:00 AM-11:00 AM

8:00 AM-12:00 PM


PBT SS: Buzz-kills: The Genomics and Ecology of Stress in Pollinators
Christina M. Grozinger, Jay Evans and Holly Holt

OM: Current Advances in Acarology
Ronald Ochoa and Mariam Lekveishvili

TMP's, PBT Section: Physiology and Immunology
Juliana Rangel and Julian F. Hillyer

TMP's, P-IE Section: Pollinators
Theresa L. Pitts-Singer and Mukti N. Ghimire

TMP's, P-IE Section: Plant and Insect Interactions
Bonnie Pendleton and Stephen L. Lapointe

TMP's, P-IE Section: Transgenic Host Plants
Ram B. Shrestha and Walt Mullins

9:00 AM-10:00 AM

9:00 AM-12:00 PM


TMP's, SysEB Section: Conservation
Robert Kula and Carrie Hall

9:30 AM-12:00 PM

10:00 AM-12:00 PM

12:00 PM-12:30 PM


Moderator Training
Katherine Matthews

12:15 PM-1:00 PM

12:15 PM-1:15 PM

1:00 PM-3:00 PM

1:00 PM-4:00 PM


ARM Software Workshop
Steven Gylling

1:15 PM-5:15 PM


PS: The Futures of Insect Genomics: A Grand Challenge of Entomology
David O'Brochta, Angela E. Douglas and Kristin Michel

P-IE/MUVE SS: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Entomologist in the Cooperative Extension Service
John J. Adamczyk, Wes Watson, D. Wes Watson, Sujaya Rao and Alton N. Sparks, Jr.

MS: Horizons in the Field of Symbiosis
Jacob Russell and John McCutcheon

P-IE SS: Bt Resistance Monitoring: Strengths, Limitations, and Challenges
Jeff Gore, Scott D. Stewart, William D. Hutchison, Angus Catchot and Walt Mullins

MS: Nutrition and the Health and Behavior of Wild and Managed Bees
S. Hollis Woodard, Adam Dolezal and Amy L. Toth

MS: Grand Challenges in Keeping and Fostering Women in Entomology: Working Toward a Brighter Future on Our Horizon
Rebecca Trout Fryxell, Jackie Lee, Susan E. Moser, Carey R. Minteer, Katherine Parys, Beth Choate and Robin Verble-Pearson

PBT SS: Chemical Communication in Longhorned Beetles
Robert Mitchell, Matthew Ginzel and Elizabeth Graham

OM: SOLA Scarab Workers
Andrew B. T. Smith

OM: Americas Neuropterists Meeting
Atilano Contreras-Ramos and Ben Diehl

OM: Heteropterist Symposium
Katrina L. Menard

OM: International Society of Hymenopterists
Lars Krogmann and John M. Heraty

TMP's, P-IE Section: Invasive Species
Ash Ahmad and Scott Hutchins

TMP's, P-IE Section: Crop Protection - Row Crops
Dominic Reisig and Fred R. Musser

TMP's, P-IE Section: Host Plant Resistance
Jarrad Prasifka and D. Michael Jackson

1:30 PM-2:00 PM


Judges Training
Thomas Sappington and Von Kaster

1:30 PM-2:30 PM

1:30 PM-4:00 PM

2:00 PM-3:30 PM

2:00 PM-5:00 PM


Certification Board Meeting
Chris Stelzig and Mustapha Debboun

2:30 PM-3:30 PM


ICE Council Meeting
Walter S. Leal and Alvin M. Simmons

3:00 PM-4:00 PM


Welcome to Portland
Rosina Romano

3:00 PM-5:00 PM

3:30 PM-4:30 PM


ICE 2016 Organizing Committee Meeting
Walter S. Leal and Alvin M. Simmons

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


School and Urban IPM eXtension Network Meeting
Fudd Graham and Janet A. Hurley

4:30 PM-5:15 PM

4:45 PM-5:15 PM


Judges Training
Thomas Sappington and Von Kaster

5:30 PM-7:30 PM

7:30 PM-9:30 PM


Welcome Reception
Rosina Romano

Exhibit Hall
Cindy Myers

Monday, November 17, 2014

6:15 AM-8:00 AM


Women in Entomology Breakfast
Gail Kampmeier, Elizabeth F. Beckemeyer, Rayda K. Krell, Patricia Prasifka and Michelle S. Smith

6:30 AM-6:00 PM

7:00 AM-7:30 AM


Judges Training
Thomas Sappington and Von Kaster

Moderator Training
Katherine Matthews

7:00 AM-5:00 PM

7:55 AM-12:30 PM

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

8:00 AM-10:00 AM

8:00 AM-6:30 PM

8:20 AM-12:00 PM

8:20 AM-12:30 PM


04 - Graduate Student TMP Competition: MUVE
Janet Hurley and Sonja Thomas

05 - Graduate Student TMP Competition: MUVE
Michael Reiskind and Jennifer Henke

06 - Graduate Student TMP Competition: MUVE
Nancy Hinkle and Roxanne G. Burrus

08 - Graduate Student TMP Competition: PBT
David W. Stanley and Ana Maria Vélez

09 - Graduate Student TMP Competition: PBT
Yoonseong Park and Troy D. Anderson

10 - Graduate Student TMP Competition: PBT
Marianne Alleyne and Shahid Karim

11 - Graduate Student TMP Competition: PBT
Aijun Zhang and Reed Johnson

8:30 AM-12:30 PM

8:45 AM-12:30 PM


01 - Undergraduate Student TMP Competition: MUVE, SysEB
Jennifer Peterson and Geoffrey Morse

28 - Graduate Student TMP Competition: SysEB
John Wenzel and Matthew L. Buffington

29 - Graduate Student TMP Competition: SysEB
David Wagner and John M. Heraty

30 - Graduate Student TMP Competition: SysEB
Raul Medina and Andrea Lucky

31 - Graduate Student TMP Competition: SysEB
Micky Eubanks and Stephen Yanoviak

32 - Graduate Student TMP Competition: SysEB
Chris Reid and Carol D. von Dohlen

33 - Graduate Student TMP Competition: SysEB
Bryan N. Danforth and Richard Brown

9:00 AM-10:00 AM

9:00 AM-10:30 AM


Solitary Bee Nutrition
S. Hollis Woodard, James H. Cane and Adam Dolezal

9:00 AM-5:00 PM


Exhibit Hall
Cindy Myers

10:00 AM-12:00 PM

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

12:00 PM-12:30 PM


Moderator Training
Katherine Matthews

12:45 PM-1:45 PM


Lunch and Learn: Career Vs. Job – What Can You Do with Your Entomology Degree Besides Looking at Bugs?
Robert Davis, John C. Carlson, Allison Taisey, Mark D. Sheperdigian and Janet A. Hurley

1:30 PM-5:30 PM


OM: PBT Networking Section
Jeffrey J. Stuart and Qisheng Song

1:30 PM-5:45 PM


OM: SysEB Section Meeting
Jessica Ware and Hojun Song

1:30 PM-6:00 PM

2:00 PM-4:00 PM

2:00 PM-5:50 PM

3:00 PM-5:00 PM

4:00 PM-6:00 PM

4:30 PM-6:00 PM

5:30 PM-6:30 PM

5:30 PM-6:40 PM

6:00 PM-7:30 PM

6:30 PM-8:30 PM


Michigan State University and The Ohio State University Mixer
Heather E. Lenartson-Kluge, Carol Anelli and Linda Neeb

Purdue Mixer
John Stephen Yaninek and Beth York

7:00 PM-9:00 PM


Mizzou Mixer
Bruce A. Barrett

Northwest Mixer (UI, MSU, OSU,WSU)
Walter S. Sheppard, Sujaya Rao, Robert K. D. Peterson and Sanford D. Eigenbrode

8:00 PM-10:00 PM

8:30 PM-10:00 PM


University of Minnesota Mixer
William Hutchison and Felicia Christy

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

6:30 AM-8:00 AM

6:30 AM-6:00 PM

7:00 AM-7:30 AM


Moderator Training
Katherine Matthews

7:00 AM-8:00 AM


ARS Scientists' Meeting
Sharon Roberts

7:00 AM-5:00 PM

8:00 AM-9:00 AM

8:00 AM-10:00 AM

8:00 AM-12:00 PM


MS: Insect Life Tables: Theory, Data Analysis, and Application
Remzi Atlihan, Qingjun Wu, Hsin Chi, Remzi Atlihan and Angsumarn Chandrapatya

MS: Control and Eradication of Invasive Social Hymenoptera
David Foote, Cause Hanna and Christina Boser

MS: Challenges of Emerging and Resilient Insect Pests for IPM Implementation
Suhas Vyavhare, Raul Medina, Juliana Rangel and M.O. Way

MS: Merging the Ecological and Systematic Knowledge of Carabid Beetles
Meghan Culpepper, Kipling Will and Jonathan Lundgren

MUVE SS: Beyond Pesticides: The Conundrum of Bed Bugs
Jennifer Gordon, Mark H. Goodman, Sydney Crawley and Jeffrey E. Noland

MS: Meeting the Challenge: New Horizons in Entomology Engagement
Martha Rosett Lutz, Marianne Shockley-Cruz and Andrine A. Shufran

TMP's, MUVE Section: Ants and Termites
Robert Puckett and Michelle S. Smith

TMP's, PBT Section: Genetics, Genomics and Molecular Biology
Jeffrey J. Stuart and Margaret L. Allen

TMP's, PBT Section: Toxicology
Kun Yan Zhu and Amit Sethi

TMP's, P-IE Section: Semiochemicals
William R. Morrison and Nandi Nagaraj

TMP's, P-IE Section: Environmental Entomology A
Kevin Steffey and Steven Naranjo

8:00 AM-6:30 PM

9:00 AM-5:00 PM


Exhibit Hall
Cindy Myers

9:30 AM-10:30 AM

10:00 AM-11:00 AM

11:00 AM-11:45 AM

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

11:00 AM-1:00 PM


Certification Business Meeting
Chris Stelzig and Mustapha Debboun

12:00 PM-12:30 PM


Moderator Training
Katherine Matthews

12:00 PM-1:30 PM


Journal of Pest Science
Michael Traugott

12:15 PM-1:15 PM


Lunch and Learn: ICE 2016: Networking Internationally to Maximize Your Professional Connections
David Denlinger, George C. Hamilton, Murray B. Isman and Debi Sutton

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

1:00 PM-4:00 PM

1:30 PM-3:30 PM


P-IE SS: New Frontiers in Honey Bee Health Economics:  Incorporating Entomological Research and Knowledge into Economic Assessments
Elizabeth Hill, Clayton Myers, Jennifer Bond, Kathy Baylis, TJ Wyatt and Kristy Plattner

1:30 PM-4:30 PM


Student Debates
Tamra Reall Lincoln, Rebecca Schmidt and Alejandro Del Pozo

1:30 PM-5:15 PM

1:30 PM-5:30 PM


P-IE SS: Forest Entomology: Beyond Saving Trees
Richard Hofstetter, Kimberly F. Wallin and Nathan Havill

MS: Thinking Outside the Box: Entomopathogens in IPM Programs
Steven P. Arthurs, Surendra K. Dara and Robert W. Behle

P-IE SS: Managing Arthropod Resistance in a Changing Landscape, IRAC US Symposium Series: No. 10
Graham P. Head, Tim Ksander, Hector E. Portillo, Bradley W. Hopkins, Christopher Sansone and Caydee Savinelli

MS: Utilizing Orthopteroid Insects to Overcome Grand Challenges in an Ever-Evolving World
Derek A. Woller, Tyler Raszick, Ricardo Mariño-Pérez and JoVonn Hill

TMP's, SysEB Section: Insect Ecology
Nate Hardy and Keith R. Hopper

TMP's, 
Nico Franz and Christopher L. Owen

TMP's, MUVE Section: Mosquitoes
Roxanne Connelly and Donald Yee

TMP's, MUVE Section: Bed Bugs and Other True Bugs
Dini Miller and Kenneth S. Brown

TMP's, P-IE Section: Biology and Ecology
Rizana M. Mahroof and Catharine M. Mannion

TMP's, P-IE Section: Environmental Entomology B
Jeff Gore and Carlos E. Bográn

2:00 PM-3:00 PM

2:00 PM-4:00 PM


Informal Weevil Conference
Charles W. O'Brien

3:00 PM-3:30 PM

3:00 PM-5:00 PM

3:30 PM-4:00 PM

3:30 PM-5:30 PM

4:00 PM-5:30 PM


AIENA Annual Meeting
Ameya D. Gondhalekar and Apurba Barman

5:30 PM-6:30 PM

5:30 PM-6:45 PM


Linnaean Games - Finals
Deane Jorgenson

5:30 PM-7:30 PM

6:00 PM-9:00 PM

6:00 PM-10:00 PM


OM: Korean Young Entomologists (KYE)
Donghun Kim and Ikju Park

6:45 PM-8:30 PM

7:00 PM-8:00 PM

7:30 PM-8:30 PM

7:30 PM-10:00 PM


OM: The Coleopterist’s Society Annual Meeting
Robert S. Anderson and Victoria Bayless

8:00 PM-9:00 PM


ESA Editors Reception
Richard Levine

9:00 PM-10:00 PM

9:00 PM-11:00 PM

9:00 PM-11:30 PM


Student Reception
Rosina Romano

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

6:30 AM-12:00 PM

6:45 AM-7:45 AM


PBT Final Business Meeting
Jeffrey J. Stuart and Qisheng Song

7:00 AM-7:30 AM


Moderator Training
Katherine Matthews

7:00 AM-8:15 AM


MUVE Final Business Meeting with Breakfast
D. Wes Watson and Faith M. Oi

8:00 AM-9:00 AM

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

8:00 AM-12:00 PM


PS: Reaching Beyond
Derek Hennen, Morgan D. Jackson and Morgan Jackson

MS: The Role of Diversity in Pollinator Conservation
Christina Mogren and Kristine Nemec

MS: Expanding Spotted Wing Drosophila (
Kelly Hamby and Hannah Burrack

SysEB SS: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Microcosmos: The Challenges of Dispersal
Jessica Ware, Dominic Evangelista and Merlijn Jocque

MS: Underlying Aspects of Insect Reproduction: What We Know and What Needs to be Done
Geoffrey M. Attardo, Immo A. Hansen and Joshua B. Benoit

TMP's, SysEB Section: Coleoptera Systematics
Nathan P. Lord and James A. Robertson

TMP's, SysEB Section: Ant Systematics
Max E. Winston and Courtney Rockenbach

TMP's, P-IE Section: Biological Control A
Thomas R. Unruh and Alejandro Del Pozo

8:00 AM-2:00 PM

8:30 AM-12:00 PM

9:00 AM-12:00 PM

9:00 AM-2:00 PM


Exhibit Hall
Cindy Myers

10:00 AM-12:00 PM


MS: Cotton IPM: Texas Style
Abdul Hakeem and Megha N. Parajulee

11:30 AM-12:30 PM

12:15 PM-1:15 PM

12:15 PM-1:30 PM

12:30 PM-2:30 PM

1:30 PM-3:30 PM

1:30 PM-4:15 PM


MS: Biogeography and Evolution of Mesoamerican Arthropods
Michael Branstetter and John T. Longino

1:30 PM-5:30 PM


PS: Novel Ecological Approaches to Vector Control
Allison Gardner and Carla Caceres

MS: Transgenic Insect Resistant Soybeans
Nandi Nagaraj, Aqeel Ahmad and Murugesan Rangasamy

MS: Grand Challenge: Effective Science Education with Communication
Tamra Reall Lincoln, Rebecca Schmidt, Kayla I. Perry, Michael Forthman and Kyndall Dye

MS: How Cool is Entomology?
Theresa L. Pitts-Singer and Brian G. Rector

MS: New Horizons in Ornamental IPM
Danica Maxwell and Danny Klittich

Ten Minute Papers, P-IE Section: Biological Control B
Patrick J. Moran and John A. Goolsby

TMP's, SysEB Section: Behavior and Life History
Amanda Whispell Purwar and Patrick Abbot

TMP's, 
Matthew Bertone and William Haines

TMP's, PBT Section: Physiology in Pest Management
Keyan Zhu-Salzman and Qisheng Song

2:30 PM-3:30 PM


SysEB Final Business Meeting
Jessica L. Ware and Hojun Song

4:00 PM-5:00 PM

5:30 PM-7:30 PM


Closing Plenary Session and Old Masters Linnaean Games
Frank Zalom, Phillip G. Mulder and C. David Gammel