Session: Student Competition for the President's Prize, IPMIS: Gut/Microbial (2009 ESA Annual Meeting, December 13-16, 2009)

Monday, December 14, 2009: 8:30 AM-11:00 AM

Michigan, First Floor (Marriott Hotel)

Moderators:

Marianne Alleyne
Margaret L. Allen

8:30 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:42 AM

0257

Energetic stress as a potential cause of risky foraging in honeybees infected with Nosema ceranae

Christopher Mayack, Colorado State University; Dhruba Naug, Colorado State University

8:54 AM

0258

Beyond the bees: new insight into the evolution and ecology of deformed wing virus, black queen cell virus, and Israeli acute paralysis virus

Abby Kalkstein, Penn State University; Rajwinder Singh, Pennsylvania State University; Robert Anderson, Pennsylvania State University; Diana Cox-Foster, Pennsylvania State University

9:06 AM

0260

Mucins “on guard”?: impact of a baculovirus metalloprotease on Mamestra configurata insect intestinal mucins

Umut Toprak, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon Research Centre; Doug Baldwin, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon Research Centre; Martin Erlandson, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Cedric Gillott, University of Saskatchewan; Dwayne Hegedus, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

9:18 AM

0261

Effects of extracts from Artemisia absinthium on fruit infestation by codling moth neonates

Kevin P. Durden, Missouri State University; Samantha Sellars, Missouri State University; Brian Cowell, Missouri State University; Maciej A. Pszczolkowski, Missouri State University

9:30 AM

0262

Comparative toxicity and binding of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1 toxins to Asian and European corn borers (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)

Sek Yee Tan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Bonifacio F. Cayabyab, University of the Philippines; Edwin P. Alcantara, University of the Philippines; Yusof B. Ibrahim, Faculty of Technical and Vocational Education, Sultan Idris Education University; Fangneng Huang, Louisiana State University; Blair D. Siegfried, University of Nebraska

9:42 AM

Break

9:54 AM

0263

Pathogenesis of the baculovirus AcMNPV in the soybean looper, Pseudoplusia includens

Kimberly Stephens, California State University-Long Beach; Alisa De La Cruz, California State University-Long Beach; Eric Haas-Stapleton, California State University-Long Beach

10:06 AM

0264

Hemocyte response to chemoattractants and wounding in the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta

Jenna R. McAdoo, Northern Illinois University; Jon S. Miller, Northern Illinois University

10:18 AM

0265

Functional analysis of a midgut-specific chitinase-like gene from the European corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis Hübner) larvae

Chitvan Khajuria, Kansas State University; Lawrent Buschman, Kansas State University Southwest Research-Extension Center; Ming-Shun Chen, Kansas State University; Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan, Kansas State University; Kun-Yan Zhu, Kansas State University

10:30 AM

0266

Bacterial microbiology of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Büren (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Freder Medina, Texas A&M University; Craig J. Coates, Texas A&M University; S. Bradleigh Vinson, Texas A&M University

10:42 AM

0267

Japanese beetle, (Popillia japonica) midgut proteins–targets for controlling infestation

Nasser Syed, The University of Southern Mississippi; Jessica Morse, University of Rhode Island; Andrew Bullard, University of Rhode Island; Kent S. Shelby, USDA - ARS; Steven Alm, University of Rhode Island; Shahid Karim, The University of Southern Mississippi

10:54 AM

Concluding Remarks

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