Sunday, December 9, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Royal Palm Salon Five, Royal Palm Ballroom, First Floor (Town & Country)

Section Symposium: Insect Antiviral Resistance

Organizer(s): Kent Shelby, shelbyk@missouri.edu
Kelli Hoover, kxh25@psu.edu
1:30 PM Introductory Remarks
1:35 PM0135Viral defense in a bee: Competitive interactions between viruses
Diana Cox-Foster, dxc12@psu.edu
2:00 PM 0136Defense mechanisms against virus infections in the honey bee, Apis mellifera
Yanping (Judy) Chen, chenj@ba.ars.usda.gov
2:25 PM 0137Hemocytes: Front line defenders in vector immunity
Lyric Bartholomay, lyricb@iastate.edu
2:50 PM0138The role of hemolin in resistance to lepidopteran virus infection
Olle Terenius, olle.terenius@uci.edu
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM 0139Block the bud: Anti-baculovirus defense in lepidopteran larval midgut
Eric Haas-Stapleton, ehaasstapleton@gmail.com
3:55 PM0140Anti-viral defenses in gypsy moth to its baculovirus
Kelli Hoover, kxh25@psu.edu
4:20 PM0141When dying is a good thing: The role of apoptosis in the innate immune response of insects against viruses
Rollie Clem, rclem@ksu.edu
4:45 PM 0142Impact of nutrition on the anti-viral response in Heliothis virescens
Holly J. Popham, pophamh@missouri.edu
5:10 PM Concluding Remarks
5:15 PM Discussion

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