Session: Graduate Student Ten-minute Paper Competition, IPMIS: Toxicology and Molecular Biology (2010 ESA Annual Meeting (December 12-15, 2010))

Monday, December 13, 2010: 8:15 AM-12:00 PM

Sunrise (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

Moderators:

Kelli Hoover
Michael E. Scharf

8:15 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:20 AM

0294

Cytochrome P450 signatures in the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis), an exotic invasive insect pest

Swapna Priya Rajarapu, Ohio State University, OARDC; Xiaodong Bai, The Ohio State University; Pierluigi Bonello, The Ohio State University; Daniel A. Herms, The Ohio State University; Omprakash Mittapalli, Ohio State University, OARDC

8:32 AM

0295

Association of esterases in resistance to naled and resmethrin in field-collections of the southern house mosquito, Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae)

Jennifer Gordon, University of Kentucky; James Ottea, Louisiana State University

8:44 AM

0296

Fipronil resistance in a multi-resistant field strain of the German cockroach, Blattella germanica L. (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae)

Ameya Gondhalekar, University of Florida; Michael E. Scharf, Purdue University

8:56 AM

0297

Multiple resistance or cross resistance? A case study of dual resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis toxins Cry1Ac and Cry2Ab in Trichoplusia ni

Xiaozhao Song, Cornell University NYSAES; Ping Wang, Cornell University NYSAES

9:08 AM

0298

Transcripts of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit gene Pxylα6 with premature stop codons are associated with spinosad resistance in diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella

Frank Rinkevich, Cornell University; Jeffrey Scott, Cornell University; Tony Shelton, Cornell University; Mao Chen, Cornell University, NYSAES

9:20 AM

0299

Sequencing and analyzing cadherin and alkaline phosphatase genes in Cry1Ab-susceptible and -resistant strains of the sugarcane borer

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

9:32 AM

0300

Changes in gene expression in European corn borer larvae (Ostrinia nubilalis) in response to Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ab protoxin exposure

Jianxiu Yao, Kansas State University; Chitvan Khajuria, Kansas State University; Buschman Lawrent, Kansas State University; Kun Zhu, Kansas State University

9:44 AM

0301

Functional Analysis of the Tribolium castaneum Knickkopf gene family in organization of cuticle

Sujata S. Chaudhari, Kansas State University; Yasuyuki Arakane, Kansas State University; Daniel Boyle, Kansas State University; Charles A. Specht, UMass Medical School; Bernard Moussian, Technische Universität; Karl J. Kramer, Kansas State University; Richard W. Beeman, USDA - ARS; Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan, Kansas State University

9:56 AM

Break

10:08 AM

0302

Molecular cloning and characteriation of neutral ceramidase homoluge from the red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum)

Ying Zhou, Zhejiang University; Xianwen Lin, Zhejiang University; Qiong Yang, Zhejiang University; Yanru Zhang, Zhejiang University; Jingqun Yuan, Zhejiang University; Xinda Lin, China Jiliang University; Jiaan Chen, Zhejiang University; Cungui Mao, Medical University of South Carolina; Zengrong Zhu, Zhejiang University

10:20 AM

0303

A putative hyperacitve piggybac transposase in Dipteran systems

Jennifer Alicia Wright, University of California, Riverside; Liquin Zhou, HHMI & Johns Hopkins School; Nancy L Craig, HHMI & Johns Hopkins School; Peter Atkinson, University of California

10:32 AM

0304

Functional analysis and molecular characterization of two acetylcholinesterases from the German cockroach, Blattella germanica

Young-Ho Kim, Kansan State University; Jae Young Choi, Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences; Yeon Ho Je, Seoul National University; Young Ho Koh, Hallym University; Si Hyeock Lee, Seoul National University

10:44 AM

0305

Using metagenomics to resolve the process of wood digestion in the Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis)

Erin D. Scully, Pennsylvania State University; Scott Geib, USDA - ARS; John Carlson, Pennsylvania State University; Ming Tien, Pennsylvania State University; Kelli Hoover, Pennsylvania State University

10:56 AM

0306

Model of the population dynamics and genetics of the European corn borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), Ostrinia nubilalis Hubner, infesting transgenic insecticidal corn

Jung Koo Kang, University of Illinois

11:08 AM

0307

Tree injection in date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) as the means of control against the red palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus Olivier, 1790)

11:20 AM

0308

Effects of the cyanobacterial toxin, Microcystin-LR, on the morphology and development of the amber-winged spreadwing damselfly, Lestes eurinus (Odonata: Lestidae)

Nathan Baker, Ohio State University; Joe B. Keiper, Virginia Museum of Natural History

11:32 AM