Section Symposia

Sunday, November 15, 2015

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8:00 AM-12:00 PM


PBT Section Symposium: Developmental Synergy between Genome Regulation and Environmental Stimuli: From Phenotypic Plasticity to Disease Response
Brendan Hunt and Hongmei Li-Byarlay

P-IE Section Symposium: Beyond Bt: Trait Discovery and Breeding for Modified Plant-Insect Interactions
Jarrad Prasifka and Brent Hulke

P-IE Section Symposium: Worldwide Resistance to Bt-toxins: Causes, Consequences, Cures?
Rick Roush and Michael Caprio

P-IE Section Symposium: Synergy and Partnerships in Biological Control: Honoring the Career of Roy Van Driesche
Mark S. Hoddle and Joseph Elkinton

SysEB Section Symposium: Conserving Rare Butterflies: Challenges and Successes
Karen Oberhauser, Nick M. Haddad and Scott Black

9:30 AM-11:30 AM


MUVE Section Symposium: Insects and Their Diseases that Cause Harm to Humans and Animals
Janet Hurley

1:15 PM-3:15 PM


MUVE Section Symposium: Best Bed Bug Management Practices and Novel Research
Dini Miller and Changlu Wang

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

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8:00 AM-12:00 PM


MUVE Section Symposium: 30 Years of Hunting the Tiger. Aedes albopictus in America: Current Perspectives and Future Challenges
Donald A. Yee

PBT Section Symposium: Insect Resistance to Traits and Weed Resistance to Herbicides - Learnings, Opportunities and Partnerships for Sustainable Management Programs
Murugesan Rangasamy, Nandi Nagaraj and Robert Masters

PBT Section Symposium: Partnering for Health: Genetic, Behavioral and Environmental Synergies in Insect Immunity
Michael Simone-Finstrom, Margarita M. López-Uribe and Marla Spivak

P-IE Section Symposium: Are We Stressed Enough Yet? Interdisciplinary Partnerships to Evaluate the Consequences of Plant Abiotic and Biotic Stresses
Punya Nachappa and Adrianna Szczepaniec

P-IE Section Symposium: Effects of Global Climate Change on Species Interactions and Biological Control
Sanford D. Eigenbrode and David Crowder

8:15 AM-12:00 PM


P-IE Section Symposium: The Larry L. Larson Symposium: Pest Shifting and Invasive Species: The Need For New Technology to Manage New Insect Pests
Luis E. Gomez and Melissa Siebert

1:30 PM-5:30 PM


PBT Section Symposium: Water and Ion Homestasis-Role of Aquaporins and Other Channel Proteins
Jeff Fabrick, Joshua Benoit and Immo Hansen

P-IE Section Symposium: Ecology and Management of Migratory Moth Pests: Uniting Disciplines to Provide Solutions
Jason Chapman, John Westbrook and William Hutchison

P-IE Section Symposium: Getting Down and Dirty: The Role of Brown Food Webs in Providing Ecosystem Services
Kelton Welch and Matthew Jones

P-IE Section Symposium: Rootworm Management: Status of GM Traits, Insecticides, and Potential New Tools
Bruce Hibbard, Elisa Bernklau and Joseph Spencer

SysEB Section Symposium: Evolution of Castes in Social Organisms: Behavior, Development and Regulating Mechanisms
Li Tian and Qian "Karen" Sun

2:00 PM-5:30 PM


P-IE Section Symposium: Insect-Mediated Ecosystem Services: Enhancing Interactions with our Beneficial Partners (IOBC-NRS Symposium)
Cesar Rodriguez-Saona and Mary M. Gardiner

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

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8:00 AM-12:00 PM


PBT Section Symposium: Insect Cell Lines: Models to Study Novel Biological Interactions for Devising Control Strategies
Amit Sethi and Partha Ramaseshadri

P-IE Section Symposium: Forest Entomology: Synergy from Symbiosis
Nathan Havill, Richard W. Hofstetter and Kimberly F. Wallin

P-IE Section Symposium: Insecticide Resistance Management (IRM) vs Integrated Pest Management (IPM) – Overlap and Conflicts, IRAC US Symposium Series: No. 11
Graham P. Head, Bradley W. Hopkins, Scott W. Ludwig, Clinton D. Pilcher, Christopher Sansone, Caydee Savinelli and Sean Whipple

P-IE Section Symposium: Landscape Simplification: Effects on Arthropod Mediated Ecosystem Services and Agricultural Production
Katja Poveda and Heather Connelly

SysEB Section Symposium: Social Wasps, the Model "Non-Model" Organisms: Celebrating the Synergistic Contributions of Robert L. Jeanne (Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Jennifer M. Jandt, Sean O'Donnell and Amy L. Toth

1:30 PM-5:30 PM


MUVE Section Symposium: Advances in Research and Development of Insect Repellents
Mustapha Debboun

P-IE Section Symposium: How Pollinators Work: The Importance of Integrative Physiology in Natural and Agricultural Systems with Changing Climates
Bryan Helm, Kendra Greenlee, Julia Bowsher, Joseph P. Rinehart and George D. Yocum

P-IE Section Symposium: Integrating Ecological and Social Science to Support Synergies and Applied Solutions in Agro-ecosystems
Kelly Garbach and Katharina Ullmann

P-IE Section Symposium: Synergy in Agricultural Pest Control: Use of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Feed a Growing Population
Rebecca Schmidt-Jeffris and Kyndall Dye

SysEB Section Symposium: New Approaches in Big-Data Phylogenetics: Data Harvest and Phylogenomic Analyses That Transform Current Systematic Practice
John K. Moulton and Brian M. Wiegmann

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