Student Competition for the President's Prize Display Presentations, IPMIS: Molecular

Monday, December 14, 2009: 7:00 AM-6:00 PM
Hall D, First Floor (Convention Center)
Recombinant expression and analysis of hemolymph proteinase 16 from an insect, Manduca sexta
Jayne M. Christen, Kansas State University; Michael R. Kanost, Kansas State University
Proteomic identification of PKC-mediated phosphoproteins in salivary glands of Drosophila melanogaster
Yaning Sun, University of Missouri; Qisheng Song, University of Missouri
Analyses of sequences, gene expressions, and RNAi of three Cry1Ab-resistance related aminopeptidase genes in the sugarcane borer, Diatraea saccharalis
Yunlong Yang, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center; Yu Cheng Zhu, USDA - ARS; James Ottea, Louisiana State University; Claudia Husseneder, Louisiana State University; B. Rogers Leonard, Louisiana State University; Fangneng Huang, Louisiana State University
Multiple sodium channel genes and their differential genotype at the L-to-F kdr locus in the mosquitoes, Culex quinquefasciatus
Li Tian, Auburn University; Qiang Xu, Auburn University; Nannan Liu, Auburn University
In vivo integration of Campoletis sonorensis ichnovirus genomic segments into Heliothis virescens DNA
Philip L. Houtz, University of Kentucky; Juliane Deacutis, University of Kentucky; Bruce Webb, University of Kentucky
Identification and characterization of cysteine protease inhibiting activity in the midgut fluid of Trichoplusia ni larvae
Xiaozhao Song, Cornell University NYSAES; Changyou Li, Qingdao Agricultural University; Guoxun Li, Qingdao Agricultural University; Ping Wang, Cornell University NYSAES
Sequence, structural homology and phylogenetic relationship among Macrophage migration inhibitory factors (MIF) from Ixodid ticks
Nalinda B. Wasala, Oklahoma State University; Deborah C. Jaworski, Oklahoma State University
Transcriptomic analysis of the salivary glands of the Gulf Coast tick, Amblyomma maculatum (Acari: Ixodidae)
Parul Singh, University of Southern Mississippi; Shahid Karim, The University of Southern Mississippi
Gene families encoding proteins with chitin-binding domains in Tribolium castaneum: domain organization, phylogenetic analysis and expression during development
Sinu Jasrapuria, Kansas State University; Yas Arkane, Kansas State University; Karl J. Kramer, Kansas State University; Richard Beeman, USDA-ARS, GMPRC; Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan, Kansas State University
Functional analysis of two chitin synthase genes in African malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae
Xin Zhang, Kansas State University; Kun-Yan Zhu, Kansas State University
vH9 avirulence gene discovery in the Hessian fly
Thiago R. Benatti, Purdue University; Rajat Aggarwal, Purdue University; Chaoyang Zhao, Purdue University; Jeffrey J. Stuart, Purdue University; Brandon Schemerhorn, Purdue University; Ming-Shun Chen, Kansas State University