Session: Molecular and Biochemical Aspects of Plant-Insect Interactions: Student- Sponsored Symposium (2010 ESA Annual Meeting (December 12-15, 2010))

Molecular and Biochemical Aspects of Plant-Insect Interactions: Student- Sponsored Symposium

Tuesday, December 14, 2010: 8:00 AM-12:05 PM

Pacific, Salon 2 (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

Organizers:

Joe Louis
Justine George
Rupesh Ram Kariyat

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:03 AM

Molecular basis of host defense against aphids

Jyoti Shah, University of North Texas

8:26 AM

The art of host deception: The Arabidopsis-whitefly interaction

Linda Walling, University of California

8:49 AM

From genes to organisms: Investigating induced plant responses to multiple herbivores

Cesar Rodriguez-Saona, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Richard Musser, Western Illinois University; Jennifer Thaler, Cornell University

9:12 AM

RNAi host plant resistance: The next new thing

John C. Reese, Kansas State University

9:35 AM

Chemical ecology of insect-vectored plant pathogens

Mark Mescher, Pennsylvania State University

9:58 AM

Break

10:08 AM

Alarm pheromone habituation in Myzus persicae: Fitness consequences and the transcriptome of fear

Georg Jander, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research

10:31 AM

Chemical warfare in the insect gut: Genomic approaches for identifying plant defense compounds and insect counter defenses

Gregg A. Howe, Michigan State University; Marco Herde, Michigan State University

10:54 AM

The co-regulation of caterpillar and plant defense expression

Richard Musser, Western Illinois University; Brittany DesRochers, Western Illinois University; Heiko Vogel, Max Planck; Sue Hum-Musser, Western Illinois University

11:17 AM

Plant innate immune responses to aphid feeding

Isgouhi Kaloshian, University of California

11:40 AM

Concluding Remarks

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