Session: Colleagues, Science and Ideas: Investigating Chemicals, Signals, and Interactions (2009 ESA Annual Meeting, December 13-16, 2009)

Sunday, December 13, 2009: 1:00 PM-5:10 PM

Room 209, Second Floor (Convention Center)

Organizers:

Walter S. Leal
May R. Berenbaum

1:00 PM

Introductory Remarks

1:05 PM

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Chemistry and biology: worlds apart or natural symbiotes?

Jerrold Meinwald, Cornell University

1:35 PM

0029

Molecules R Us: Butenandt & beyond

Walter S. Leal, University of California

1:55 PM

0030

Translating chemoreceptor input into behavioral output

John Carlson, Yale University

2:20 PM

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Origins and evolution of the insect chemoreceptor superfamily

Hugh M. Robertson, University of Illinois

2:40 PM

Break

2:55 PM

0032

The genetics and chemistry underlying ant sociality and aggression

Neil Tsutsui, University of California

3:15 PM

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Chemically mediated interactions between parasitic plants and their hosts

Consuelo M. De Moraes, Pennsylvania State University

3:35 PM

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Function, activity, and evolutionary diversity of fatty acid amino acid conjugates in insects

Naoki Mori, Kyoto University

3:55 PM

0035

Alarm pheromone regulation of honey bee brain gene expression and aggression over different time scales

Gene Robinson, University of Illinois

4:20 PM

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Genomics and evolution of chemical communication in social insects

Christina M. Grozinger, Pennsylvania State University

4:40 PM

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Happy Anniversary Fraenkel 1959!

May R. Berenbaum, University of Illinois

5:05 PM

Concluding Remarks

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