Session: Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, IPMIS: Physiology (2010 ESA Annual Meeting (December 12-15, 2010))

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

Royal Palm, Salon 1 (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

Moderators:

Richard O. Musser
Que Lan

8:15 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:20 AM

0277

Manipulation of insulin signaling in the fat body and ovaries of mosquitoes to regulate reproduction

Anam J. Arik, University of Arizona; Kendra M. Quicke, University of Arizona; Jacob D Wood, University of Arizona; Michael A. Riehle, University of Arizona

8:32 AM

0278

Effects of methoprene on heat tolerance and progeny production in Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

Leanage Wijayaratne, University of Manitoba; Paul Fields, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

8:44 AM

0279

The role of heat shock proteins in rapid cold hardening in the flesh fly Sarcophaga crassipalpis

Justin Peyton, Ohio State University

8:56 AM

0280

Cold tolerance of the overwintering larval instars of light brown apple moth Epiphyas postvittana

Linda P. Bürgi, University of California Berkeley; Nick J. Mills, University of California Berkeley

9:08 AM

0281

Survival and energetic costs of repeated cold exposure in the Antarctic midge, Belgica antarctica

Nicholas M Teets, The Ohio State University; Yuta Kawarasaki, Miami University; Richard E. Lee, Miami University; David L. Denlinger, Ohio State University

9:20 AM

0282

The role of circadian clock genes in the overwintering diapause of the northern house mosquito, Culex pipiens

Megan E. Meuti, The Ohio State University; Tomoko Ikeno, Osaka City University; David L. Denlinger, Ohio State University

9:32 AM

0283

Fat loss tips from flesh flies: a biochemical analysis of resource use during diapause

Frank Wessels, University of Florida; Diana C. Jordan, University of Florida; Daniel A. Hahn, University of Florida

9:44 AM

0284

Odorant binding proteins (OBPs) from the malaria mosquito Anopheles funestus

Wei Xu, University of California - Davis; Anthony J. Cornel, University of California, Davis; Walter S. Leal, University of California, Davis

9:56 AM

0285

Identification and characterization of oxysterol-binding protein (OSBP) related proteins (ORPs) in yellow fever mosquitoes, Aedes aegypti

Qiang Fu, University of Wisconsin; Que Lan, University of Wisconsin

10:08 AM

Break

10:23 AM

0286

Antennal lobe structure and glomerular organization in parasitoid Microplitis croceipes: A confocal microscopy study

Prithwiraj Das, Auburn University; Henry Fadamiro, Auburn University

10:35 AM

0287

The role of whitefly bacterial endosymbiont GroEL proteins in the transmissibility of squash leaf curl virus

Brittany F. Peterson, Purdue University; Sue Hum-Musser, Western Illinois University; Shai Morin, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture Food and Environment; Henryk Czosnek, Hebrew University; Judith K. Brown, University of Arizona

10:47 AM

0288

Helicoverpa zea genomic response to defense compounds encountered in Nicotiana tabacum

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

10:59 AM

0289

Host plant induced defenses affect larval growth parameters, adult flight metabolism, and gene expression of southern armyworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Scott L. Portman, Pennsylvania State University; Gary Felton, Pennsylvania State University; James H. Marden, Pennsylvania State University

11:11 AM

0290

Novel changes in host plant sterol chemistry negatively affect generalist caterpillars

Xiangfeng Jing, TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

11:23 AM

0291

Different digestive protease complements in Colorado potato beetles fed functional variants of the tomato cystatin SlCYS8

Asieh Rasoolizadeh, Université Laval; Marie-Claire Goulet, Université Laval; Conrad Cloutier, Université Laval; Dominique Michaud, Universite Laval