Program: Section Symposia (2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008)

Section Symposia

Sunday, November 16, 2008

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8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Lignocellulose Degradation by Insects and Their Gut Symbionts with Potential Applications to the Biofuels Industry
Jian-Zhong Sun, Kelli Hoover and Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes

8:40 AM-12:00 PM

Seizing the Night: Nocturnal Studies of Insect Predation Yield New Insights
Robert Pfannenstiel and Donald C. Weber

1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Immature Stages in Insect Systematics
Caroline S. Chaboo, Yves Alarie and Margaret

Insect-Symbiont Interactions: A Metamorphosis in Perspectives
Kenneth F. Raffa and Kier Klepzig

Pollen and Nectar-providing Plants Enhance Biological Control with Parasitoids and Predators
Phyllis G. Weintraub and Eric Palevsky

The Larry L. Larson Symposium: Legal and Collaborative Challenges Between Industry, Universities, and IR-4 That Impact Product Development Success
Robert Davis and Mike P. Tolley

Monday, November 17, 2008

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1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Section Meeting---Integrative Physiological and Molecular Insect Systems
Walter S. Leal and Margaret L. Allen

Section Meeting---Plant-Insect Ecosystems
Robert N. Wiedenmann and William D. Hutchison

Section Meeting---Structural, Veterinary, and Public Health Systems
Phillip E. Kaufman and Michael E. Merchant

Section Meeting--Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity
Marc A. Branham and Paul Z. Goldstein

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

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8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Entomology Without Borders - The Next Stage in Resistance Management
Caydee Savinelli and Graham P. Head

Phylogenomics: Trends and Innovative Techniques
Barb Sharanowski

1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Environmental Fate of Transgenic Insecticidal Proteins from Genetically-modified Crops: The Metamorphosis of Ecotoxicology
Joel Coats, Kelsey R Prihoda and Keri L.D. Henderson

For the Love of Longicornia: Cerambycid Workers Symposium
Ann M. Ray and Amy Berkov

Metamorphosis by Fusion: Plant-Insect Interactions, Forest Entomology, and the Unifying Contributions of William J. Mattson (On the Occasion of his Retirement).
Daniel A. Herms and Kenneth F. Raffa

Metamorphosis of Entomological Chemical Ecology: A Tribute to Wendell Roelofs: II
Walter S. Leal, Coby Schal and Sonny Ramaswamy

Phlebotomine Sand Flies in Public Health: Metamorphosis of Research from Basic Biology Towards Novel Disease Control Strategies
Phillip G. Lawyer and Marcelo Ortigao

Tick Genomics and Beyond—New Advances in Tick-borne Disease Systems
Albert Mulenga and Deborah C. Jaworski

9:00 PM-11:30 PM

The Global Threat of Red Palm Weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, (Olivier) To Major Palm Species
Aziz Ajlan, Khalid Alhudaib and Margaret

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

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8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Advances in Weed Biological Control: The On-going Metamorphosis
Veronica Manrique, Rodrigo Diaz, William A. Overholt and Gregory Wheeler

Beyond Paper: Diversity, Importance And Validation Of Non-traditional Web-based Scientific Publication
Joshua R. Jones and John Oswald

From North American Pest to European Threat: 21st Century Western Corn Rootworm Management at Home and Abroad
Joseph L. Spencer, Bruce E. Hibbard and Stefan Vidal

Interacting Genomes in Bark Beetle Ecology
Dezene Huber and Christopher I. Keeling

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

Application of New Methodologies to Insect Physiology Research: The “–Omics” Revolution
Kent S. Shelby and Holly J. Popham

School Integrated Pest Management
Dawn Gouge, Thomas A. Green, LC. "Fudd" Graham and Kathy Murray

Systematics and Diversity of Coleoptera
M. Fran Keller