Monday, December 11, 2006: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Room 109 (Convention Center)

Ten-Minute Papers, Section B. Physiology, Biochemistry, Toxicology, and Molecular Biology

Moderator(s): Asha Rao
Beverly Burden
1:30 PMIntroductory Remarks
1:35 PM0608Problems with the current theory of insect olfaction  [ Recorded presentation ]
Thomas Dykstra
1:47 PM0609Odorant receptor genes from moths, bees and wasps: Annotation and expression profiling  [ Recorded presentation ]
Kevin W. Wanner, Kimberly K. O. Walden, Hugh M. Robertson
1:59 PM0610Testing for a trail following pheromone on the silky cane weevil
Helena Puche, N. D. Epsky, Robert R. Heath
2:11 PM0611Pheromone reception in transgenic fruit flies expressing a moth’s odorant receptor
Zainulabeuddin Syed, Yuko Ishida, Katherine Taylor, Deborah Kimbrell, Walter S. Leal
2:23 PM0612Endocrine regulation of pheromone production in the pinyon Ips (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)
Matthew Ginzel, Jeremy Bearfield, Christopher Keeling, Claus Tittiger, Gary Blomquist
2:35 PM0613Comparative analysis of Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) and Queensland fruit fly (Bactrocera tryoni) wing-buzzing sounds and their contexts in mating  [ Recorded presentation ]
Richard Wendell Mankin, Phillip W. Taylor
2:47 PMBreak
2:59 PM0614Dissecting regulation of intracellular vesicle trafficking in the tick salivary glands
Shahid Karim, Thomas N. Mather
3:11 PM0615Ecdysone and the mosquito cell cycle
Anna Gerenday, Ann Fallon
3:23 PM0616Functional analysis of juvenile hormone epoxidehydrolase promoters of Drosophila melanogaster
Dov Borovsky, Hilde Breyssens, Carole Laroye, Guy Smagghe
3:35 PM0617Identification and characterization of a juvenile hormone (JH) response element in the promoters of genes induced by JH in both Drosophila melanogaster and Apis mellifera  [ Recorded presentation ]
Yiping Li, Gene Robinson, Subba Reddy Palli
3:47 PM0618Propagation of Wolbachia in mosquito cell lines
Ann Fallon, Anna Gerenday
3:59 PM0619Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques to study endoparasitism in insect hosts  [ Recorded presentation ]
Marianne Alleyne, Luisa Ciobanu
4:11 PM0620A look into the reproductive control measures of the red imported fire ant
Asha Rao, S. Bradleigh Vinson
4:23 PM0621Distribution and genetic variation of Reticulitermes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) in coastal Georgia
David Sillam-Dussès, Tracie M. Jenkins, Lisa J. Stabler, Brian T. Forschler

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