Monday, December 11, 2006: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM

Room 106 (Convention Center)

Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section B2. Physiology, Biochemistry, Toxicology, and Molecular Biology

Moderator(s): Qisheng Song
Nancy Beckage
8:30 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:35 AM0263Development, reproduction, and survival of papaya mealybug (Paracoccus marginatus Williams and Granara de Willink (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae)) on different host plant species  [ Recorded presentation ]
Kaushalya G Amarasekare, Catharine M. Mannion, N. D. Epsky
8:47 AM0264Effects of trehalulose feeding on parasitoid longevity  [ Recorded presentation ]
Jesse A. Hardin, Mark K. Asplen, David N. Byrne
8:59 AM0265Lignin degradation in two wood-feeding insects  [ Recorded presentation ]
Scott Geib, Kelli Hoover, Patrick Hatcher, Ming Tien
9:11 AM0266Analysis of transcriptional activity of the AeSCP-2 promoter in Aedes aegypti mosquito cell line culture  [ Recorded presentation ]
Irina Vyazunova, Que Lan
9:23 AM0267The surprising role of E75A in early embryogenesis of Oncopeltus fasciatus  [ Recorded presentation ]
Hans Kelstrup, Deniz Erezyilmaz, Lynn Riddiford
9:35 AM0268Entomopoxvirus DNA replication and protein expression in the poison gland of developing Diachasmimorpha longicaudata pupae
Luis F. Matos, Pauline O. Lawrence
9:47 AM0269Pheromone biosynthesis activating neuropeptide in loreyi leafworm (Mythimna loreyi Duponchel)  [ Recorded presentation ]
Yu-Lun Fu, Rong Kou, Err-Lieh Hsu
9:59 AMBreak
10:11 AM0270The effect of parasitism by Cotesia congregata on the hemocytes of Diatraea saccharalis and Ostrinia nubilalis
James M. Termini, Marianne Alleyne
10:23 AM0271Hessian fly, Mayetiola destructor (Say), in the Southeastern United States: A look at population structure  [ Recorded presentation ]
Philip K. Morton, Brandi J. Schemerhorn, Yan M. Crane
10:35 AM0272Molecular switch at the C-terminus of BmorPBP
Wei Xu, Yuko Ishida, Walter S. Leal
10:47 AM0273Analysis of the inhibitory effect of "winter-worm and summer-grass" on human breast cancer cell proliferation  [ Recorded presentation ]
Tongtong Xu, Chuanxi Zhang, Qisheng Song
10:59 AM0274Metabolomics reveals large-scale quantitative shifts in many individual sugars, polyols, and amino acids during rapid cold-hardening in the flesh fly, Sarcophaga crassipalpis  [ Recorded presentation ]
M. Robert Michaud, David L. Denlinger
11:11 AM0275Elevation of superoxide dismutase and catalase in the midge, Belgica antarctica: a mechanism for combating high ultraviolet irradiation damage in Antarctica  [ Recorded presentation ]
Giancarlo Lopez-Martinez, Joshua B. Benoit, Michael A. Elnitsky, Richard E. Lee, David L. Denlinger

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