Session: Lignocellulose Degradation by Insects and Their Gut Symbionts with Potential Applications to the Biofuels Industry (2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008)

Sunday, November 16, 2008: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Room A6, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Organizers:

Jian-Zhong Sun
Kelli Hoover
Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:05 AM

0009

Cellulolytic associations of Sirex noctilio within the context of a multipartite symbiosis

Aaron Adams, University of Wisconsin; Kenneth Raffa, University of Wisconsin

8:30 AM

0010

Identification and characterization of cellulolytic enzymes from western corn rootworm larvae

Blair D. Siegfried, University of Nebraska; Arnubio Valencia, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Matthew Moore, Wichita State University; Analiza Alaves, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

8:55 AM

0011

Lignocellulose degradation by the Asian longhorned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis: Pathways and enzymes for wood degradation

Scott Geib, USDA - ARS; Ming Tien, Pennsylvania State University; Kelli Hoover, Pennsylvania State University

9:20 AM

0012

New insights into lignocellulose degradation by termite gut microbes

Jared Leadbetter, California Institute of Technology

9:45 AM

Break

10:15 AM

0013

Functional genomics of lignocellulose digestion in the termite Reticulitermes flavipes

Michael E. Scharf, Purdue University; Xuguo Zhou, University of Kentucky; Marsha Wheeler, University of Florida

10:40 AM

0014

Cloning lignocellulose genes from termite guts

Yongping Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

11:05 AM

0015

Biological energy production from biomass by wood feeding termites

Jian-Zhong Sun, Mississippi State University; Yue-Qing Cao, Mississippi State University

11:30 AM

0016

Natural biorefinery discoveries in the lignocellulose degrading insect, Tipula abdominalis

Joy B. Doran Peterson, University of Geogia

11:55 AM

Concluding Remarks

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