Session: Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section IPMIS1. Integrative Physiological and Molecular Insect Systems (2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008)

Monday, November 17, 2008: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM

Room A16, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Moderators:

Margaret L. Allen
Kenneth F. Haynes

8:30 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:35 AM

0333

Single nucleotide polymorphisms in Anopheles gambiae immune signaling genes

Ashley A Horton, University of California Davis; Cheick Coulibaly, University of California Davis; Gregory C. Lanzaro, University of California, Davis; Shirley Luckhart, University of California

8:47 AM

0334

The localization of Culex quinquefascuatus odorant binding protein-1 (CquiOBP1)

Wei Xu, University of California - Davis; Walter S. Leal, University of California

8:59 AM

0335

Cloning and sequencing the calcitonin receptor-like receptor 3 (AaegGPRCal3) from female mosquitoes of Aedes aegypti (L.) (Diptera: Culicidae)

Cymon Nichole Kersch, Texas A&M University; Hyeogsun Kwon, Iowa State University; Patricia Pietrantontio, Texas A&M University

9:11 AM

0336

Rheb, a key component of the amino acid signaling pathway, controls mosquito egg development

Saurabh Ghosh Roy, University of California, Riverside; Alexander Raikhel, University of California

9:23 AM

0337

Field and laboratory trials of a natural sterol carrier protein inhibitor (SCPI) against larval and adult mosquitoes

Ryan Larson, University of Wisconsin; James J. Becnel, USDA - ARS; Julia W. Pridgeon, USDA-ARS; Que Lan, University of Wisconsin

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9:35 AM

0338

Expression variability of salivary gland genes in natural populations of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasi (Diptera: Psychodidae)

Iliano V. Coutinho-Abreu, University of Notre Dame; Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigao, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit # 3; Mariha Wadsworth, University of Notre Dame; David F. Hoel, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit # 3; Hanafi A. Hanafi, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit # 3; Mahmoud Abo-Shehada, Jordan University of Science and Technology; Mary Anne McDowell, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit

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9:47 AM

Break

9:59 AM

0339

Juvenile hormone regulation of Drosophila Epac: A guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Rap1 small GTPase

Jun Wang, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison; Joliene R. Lindholm, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison; David K. Willis, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison; Anthony Orth, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation; Walter G Goodman, University of Wisconsin

Audio File

10:11 AM

0340

Identification of a cis-regulatory element required for 20-hydroxyecdysone enhancement immune gene expression in Drosophila melanogaster

Zhaolin Zhang, University of Kentucky; Subba Reddy Palli, University of Kentucky

10:23 AM

0341

Characterization of cytochrome P450 genes CYP6A2, CYP6D4 and CYP6D5 in a methoprene resistant strain of Drosophila melanogaster

Cynthia McDonnell, University of Illinois; Mary A. Schuler, University of Illinois; May R. Berenbaum, University of Illinois

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10:35 AM

0342

A landscape genetics approach to Hessian fly distributions

Philip K. Morton, Purdue University; Carolyn Foley, Purdue University; Alisha Johnson, USDA-ARS, Purdue University; Brandon Schemerhorn, USDA-ARS

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10:47 AM

0343

Discovery of avirulence gene candidates in the Hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor) genome

Rajat Aggarwal, Purdue University; Thiago R. Benatti, Purdue University; Chaoyang Zhao, Purdue University; Brandon Schemerhorn, Purdue University; Ming-Shun Chen, Kansas State University; Jeffrey J. Stuart, Purdue University

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