Monday, 27 October 2003: 7:00 AM-6:30 PM

Hall B (Convention Center (First Floor))

Student Competition Display Presentations, Section B. Physiology, Biochemistry, Toxicology, and Molecular Biology

Organizer(s): James Shaddy
Richard Weinzierl
D0024Physiological age-grading of female Hydrellia pakistanae Deonier (Diptera: Ephydridae), a biological control agent of Hydrilla
Jennifer M. Lenz, Michael J. Grodowitz, James H. Kennedy
D0025Impairment of rapid cold hardening by RNAi against heat shock proteins in the flesh fly
M. Robert Michaud, Joseph P. Rinehart, David L. Denlinger
D0026Supercooling of Lysiphlebus testaceipes
Douglas B. Jones, Kristopher L. Giles, Norman C. Elliott, Thomas W. Phillips
D0027Stage-specific variations in expression of heat shock proteins in Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) exposed to different temperatures
Rizana M. Mahroof, Kun Yan Zhu, Bhadriraju Subramanyam
D0028Characterizing the inheritance of Bt Cry1Ab resistance in European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)
Analiza P. Alves, Blair D. Siegfried, Terence Spencer
D0029Molecular mechanisms of reduced proteinase activity in European corn borer larvae resistant to Bacillus thuringiensis endotoxins
Huarong Li, Kun Yan Zhu, Brenda Oppert, Randall A. Higgins, Lawrent L. Buschman, Fangneng Huang
D0030Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1A binding sites in the cadherin-like receptor Bt-R1
Jiang Chen, Gang Hua, Michael J. Adang
D0031Expression and characterization studies of Microplitis demolitor bracovirus
Honglada Thoetkiattikul, Markus H. Beck, Mark D. Lavine, Stephanie Deboor, Bruce A. Webb, Michael R. Strand
D0032Characterization of an Ikb-related ankyrin gene family in the Campoletis sonorensis ichnovirus (CsIV) genome
Jeremy A. Kroemer, Bruce A. Webb
D0033Entomopathogenic nematodes, Heterorhabditis bacteriophora and Steinernema glaseri, induce and suppress cellular immune responses of different hosts
Xinyi Li, Christopher W. Brey, Diana Cox-Foster
D0034Conserved regulatory pathways mediate transcriptional activity of CYP6B4, a cytochrome P450 detoxification gene from a generalist-feeding insect (Papilio glaucus)
Cynthia M. McDonnell, Rebecca A. Petersen, Mary Schuler, May R. Berenbaum
D0035Ovary ecdysteroidogenesis during a gonotrophic cycle in the malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae
Dudley Thomas, Mark Brown
D0036Effects of male allatectomy on subsequent mating and egg output in Heliothis virescens
Angela M. Tucker, Maciej A. Pszczolkowski, Sonny B. Ramaswamy, Asoka Srinivasan
D0037Sublethal effects of two insecticides on the aquatic midge Chironomus tentans (Diptera: Chironomidae)
Mamy L. Rakotondravelo, Ralph E. Charlton, Kun Yan Zhu
D0038Patterns of sex determination and insecticide resistance in the house fly, Musca domestica L
Ronda Hamm, Jeffrey G. Scott
D0039Gene expression profiling of atrazine-treated Chironomus tentans (Diptera: Chironomidae) using restriction fragment differential display-PCR
Troy D. Anderson, Kun Yan Zhu
D0040Catnip and osage orange essential oil effect on Culex pipiens L. (Diptera: Culicidae) in a static-air olfactometer
Gretchen Schultz, Joel Coats
D0041Characterization of gene transcripts encoding proteins involved in ecdysteroidogenesis by mosquito ovaries
Douglas Sieglaff, Mark Brown
D0042Expression of candidate gustatory receptor genes in Anopheles gambiae
Lauren B. Kent, Hugh M. Robertson
D0043Food digestion in different larval stages of the red oak borer, Enaphalodes rufulus (Haldeman) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
Sheila Prabhakar, Brenda Oppert, Damon R. Crook, Fred M. Stephen
D0044An EST library from salivary glands of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum
Navdeep Mutti, Kirk Pappan, Jon Bruno, Marisol Castaneto, Ming-Shun Chen, John Reese, Gerald R. Reeck
D0045Spectrum of midgut proteinases in Tenebrio molitor Linnaeus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) larvae
K. S. Vinokurov, E. N. Elpidina, Y. E. Dunaevsky, T. A. Tsybina, M. A. Belozersky
D0046Embryos of the polyembryonic wasp, Copidosoma floridanum, proliferate asynchronously in its host caterpillar, Trichoplusia ni
Shira D. Gordon, Michael R. Strand
D0047The effects of varroa mites on honey bee immunity
Xiaolong Yang, Scott Camazine, Diana Cox-Foster
D0048Development of a fluorescence assay for receptor characterization
Emily-Jean Gartrell, Man-Yeon Choi, Russell Jurenka
D0049Transcriptome analysis of the cowpea weevil, Callosobruchus maculatus
Hongmei Li, Joao Pedra, Amanda Brandt, Larry Murdock, Barry R. Pittendrigh

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