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

Monday, December 13, 2010: 8:20 AM-11:50 AM

Royal Palm, Salon 2 (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

Moderators:

Patricia V. Pietrantonio
Thomas Baker

8:20 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:27 AM

Differences in Nicotiana tabacum phytohormones signaling in response to oral secretion by Helicoverpa zea and Manduca sexta

Wardatou Boukari, Western Illinois University; Sue Hum-Musser, Western Illinois University; Linus Gog, Western Illinois University; Richard O. Musser, Western Illinois University

8:39 AM

0262

Reduction in olfactory receptor neuron responsiveness is correlated with reduction in host-finding behavior in fungus-infected mosquitoes

Justine George, Pennsylvania State University; Thomas Baker, Pennsylvania State University

8:51 AM

0263

Marsha M. Wheeler, University of Illinois; Seth A. Ament, University of Illinois; Gene E. Robinson, University of Illinois

9:03 AM

0264

Functional analysis of subterranean termite antifungal peptides using RNA interference

Casey Hamilton, Towson University; Mark S. Bulmer, Towson University

9:15 AM

0265

Annual infection cycle of Nosema ceranae in Virginia honey bee colonies

Brenna E Traver, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Richard D. Fell, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

9:27 AM

0266

Loss of bacteriophage reduces fitness of aphids infected with a defensive symbiont

Stephanie Weldon, University of Georgia; Kerry M. Oliver, University of Georgia

9:39 AM

0267

Wolbachia penetrance and its relationship to bacterial density in parthenogenetic Trichogramma

Genet M. Tulgetske, University of California, Riverside; Richard Stouthamer, University of California

9:51 AM

0268

A novel cypovirus and its dynamics within the host-parasitoid relationship of Campoletis sonorensis and Heliothis virescens

Juliane Deacutis, University of Kentucky; Philip L. Houtz, University of Kentucky; Bruce Webb, University of Kentucky

10:03 AM

Break

10:18 AM

0269

Structure and composition of trap-jaw ant mandibles

Fredrick Larabee, University of Illinois; Andrew Suarez, University of Illinois

10:30 AM

0270

Changes in social regulation across colony development in the ant Camponotus floridanus

Dani Moore, Arizona State University; Juergen Liebig, Arizona State University

10:42 AM

0271

Distribution of short neuropeptide F receptor in virgin and mated queens of the fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Hsiao-Ling Lu, Texas A&M University; Patricia V. Pietrantonio, Texas A&M University

10:54 AM

0272

Pyrokinin/PBAN peptides in the central nervous system of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae)

Erica K. Hellmich, Iowa State University; Russell Jurenka, Iowa State University; Lyric Bartholomay, Iowa State University

11:06 AM

0273

The role of biogenic amines in the regulation of caste and dominance in colonies of the ant Harpegnathos saltator

Clint A. Penick, Arizona State University; Colin S. Brent, USDA; Juergen Liebig, Arizona State University

11:18 AM

0275

Biomass relationships during colony development in the desert leafcutter ant Acromyrmex versicolor

Rebecca M. Clark, Arizona State University; Jennifer H Fewell, Arizona State University

11:30 AM

0276

Identification of Lygus bugs with DNA barcoding

Changqing Zhou, Washington State University; James D. Barbour, University of Idaho; Frank G. Zalom, University of California, Davis; Douglas Walsh, Washington State University; Laura C. Lavine, Washington State University

11:42 AM

Concluding Remarks

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