Session: Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section IPMIS3. Integrative Physiological and Molecular Insect Systems (2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008)

Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section IPMIS3. Integrative Physiological and Molecular Insect Systems

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

Room A18, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Moderators:

Stephen L. Lapointe
Catherine Loudon

8:30 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:35 AM

Glucose-phosphate isomerase as a gene of major effect in soldier developmental rates within Copidosoma floridanum (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae)

Cheryl Lindsay, University of Georgia; M. R. Strand, University of Georgia

8:47 AM

The importance of destructive host feeding in the development of the endoparasitoid Toxoneuron nigriceps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Ruth E. Henderson, Washington State University; Indira Kuriachan, Texas A&M University; S. Bradleigh Vinson, Texas A&M University

8:59 AM

A computational approach to polydnavirus gene identification

Tonja Fisher, University of Kentucky; Bruce Webb, University of Kentucky

9:11 AM

Cloning three host translation inhibitory factors (HTIFs) encoded in Cotesia glomerata bracovirus

Yonggyun Kim, Andong National University; Karen P. Barandoc, Andong National University

9:23 AM

Molecular and pheromone studies of pecan nut casebearer

Emilie Hartfield, Texas A&M University; Raul F. Medina, Texas A&M University; Marvin K. Harris, Texas A&M University

9:35 AM

Break

9:47 AM

Developmental expression pattern and RNA interference of the vitellogenin receptor in fire ant (Solenopsis invicta Buren) queens

Hsiao-Ling Lu, Texas A&M University; Patricia V. Pietrantonio, Texas A&M University

9:59 AM

Social transmission of immunity in the carpenter ant Camponotus pennsylvanicus

Casey Hamilton, Northeastern University; Rebeca B. Rosengaus, Northeastern University

10:11 AM

Lifetime consequences associated with varying macronutrient levels over a single generation for Heliothis virescens

Karl A. Roeder, Texas A&M University; Spencer T. Behmer, Texas A&M University

10:23 AM

Effect of different ratios of “good” and “bad” sterols on the performance of Helicoverpa zea

Xiangfeng Jing, Texas A&M University; Spencer T. Behmer, Texas A&M University

10:35 AM

Resistance risk assessment for novel reduced-risk insecticides in obliquebanded leafroller, Choristoneura rosaceana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)

Ashfaq A. Sial, Washington State University, Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center; Jay F. Brunner, Washington State University; John E. Dunley, Washington State University

10:47 AM

Resistance to pyrethroid insecticides in Helicoverpa zea (Boddie) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Bradley W. Hopkins, Texas A&M University; Patricia V. Pietrantonio, Texas A&M University

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