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Diversity and Function of Microbial Symbioses in Solitary and Social Insects

Tuesday, December 14, 2010: 8:00 AM-5:30 PM
Royal Palm, Salon 4 (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)
Organizers:
Kirk E. Anderson
Angela E. Douglas
8:00 AM
Welcoming Remarks
8:05 AM
0726
From genome annotation to symbiosis function in the aphid
Alex CC. Wilson, University of Miami
8:25 AM
0727
How to be a host cell:  Clues from the bacteriocyte of the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum)
Angela E. Douglas, Cornell University
8:45 AM
0728
A tale of two genomes:  Revealing unexpected complexity in the aphid-Buchnera symbiosis through systems level metabolic modelling
Gavin Thomas, University of York
9:05 AM
0729
Chromosome organization and gene expression regulation in Buchnera aphidicola, the obligate intracellular bacteria of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum
Hubert Charles, Université de Lyon, INSA de Lyon; Lilia Brinza, Université de Lyon, INSA de Lyon; Federica Calevro, INRA
9:25 AM
0730
Bacteriophage dynamics in an aphid defensive symbiosis
Kerry M. Oliver, University of Georgia
9:45 AM
0731
Spectacular spread of Rickettsia in the sweetpotato whitefly (Bemisia tabaci)
Martha S. Hunter, University of Arizona
10:05 AM
Break
10:20 AM
0732
The diverse bacterial symbionts of the Auchenorrhyncha
John McCutcheon, University of Arizona
10:40 AM
0733
Companion ticket:  Facilitated biological invasions by insect herbivores and their symbionts
Kenneth F. Raffa, University of Wisconsin
11:00 AM
0734
Climate change effects on the symbiosis between mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) and two mutualistic fungi
Diana Six, University of Montana
11:20 AM
0735
Life in a beetle gut microcosm:  Microbial symbionts of the Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis)
Kelli Hoover, Pennsylvania State University
11:40 AM
0736
Diversity and function of the Sirex wasp-fungal symbiosis
Ann E. Hajek, Cornell University
12:00 PM
0737
Microbial toxicology:  The new delivery paradigm for crop pest and disease control
Thomas A. Miller, University of California
12:20 PM
Lunch Break
1:20 PM
0738
Understanding microbial ecology of honey bee nutrition:  Insights from the human microbiome project
Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Carl Hayden Bee Research Center
1:40 PM
0739
Symbiosis between lactic acid bacteria and honey bees around the world
Tobias Olofsson, Cell and organism biology
2:05 PM
0740
Lactic acid bacteria:  The unrecognized kings of the bee colony
Alejandra Vasquez, Lund University
2:30 PM
0741
The diversity of microbial barriers to honey bee pathogens
Jay Evans, USDA - ARS
2:50 PM
0742
Microbial gut symbionts and the origins of herbivory in ants
Jacob A. Russell, Drexel University
3:15 PM
Break
3:30 PM
0743
Sequencing the fungus-growing ant symbiosis
Nicole Gerardo, Emory University
3:50 PM
0744
Symbiont-mediated adaptation:  Evolution of cold-tolerant fungi permits winter fungiculture by leafcutter ants at the northern frontier of a tropical ant-fungus symbiosis
Ulrich G. Mueller, The University of Texas
4:15 PM
0745
Fungal symbionts as mediators of water balance in Macrotermes colonies
Scott Turner, State University of New York
4:40 PM
0746
Host-symbiont collaboration in lignocellulose digestion by the termite R. flavipes
Mike Scharf, University of Florida; Zachary Karl, Purdue University
5:00 PM
0747
The role of pathogenic microbes on the evolution of social immunity in termites:  Disease resistance at the colony level
Rebeca B. Rosengaus, Northeastern University
5:20 PM
Concluding Remarks
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