Hormones as Targets for Insect Control: Insights about Juvenile Hormone Action

Sunday, December 12, 2010: 1:00 PM-4:50 PM
Windsor (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)
Organizers:
Vincent Henrich
Subba Reddy Palli
Qisheng Song
David L. Denlinger
1:00 PM
Welcoming comments
David L. Denlinger, Ohio State University
1:30 PM
Molecular analysis of juvenile hormone action in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum
John Wigginnton, University of Kentucky; Jingjing Xu, University of Kentucky; Sheng Zhentao, University of Kentucky; Subba Reddy Palli, University of Kentucky
1:50 PM
2:10 PM
Break 1
2:20 PM
A bHLH-PAS heterodimer conveys transcriptional responses to juvenile hormone
Jinsong Zhu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
3:20 PM
Break 2
3:30 PM
4:10 PM
Juvenile hormone modulates ecdysteroid inducibility of the Broad gene in Drosophila via the action of bHLH-PAS transcription factors
Vincent Henrich, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Jenna Callender, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Joshua Beatty, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Jesse Plotkin, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
4:30 PM
JH action:  Summary and discussion
Lynn M. Riddiford, The Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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