Session: RNA-interference Insect Management: Real-world Applications (2010 ESA Annual Meeting (December 12-15, 2010))

RNA-interference Insect Management: Real-world Applications

Wednesday, December 15, 2010: 1:00 PM-4:40 PM

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

Organizers:

Kent S. Shelby
Wayne B. Hunter
Shahid Karim

1:00 PM

Introductory Remarks

1:05 PM

Identifying novel targets for the control of ticks using proteogenomic and RNAi approaches

Shahid Karim, The University of Southern Mississippi

1:25 PM

Demonstration of ingested dsRNA induced mortality in the Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Psyllidae)

Robert G. Shatters, USDA - ARS; Lindsay I. Larson, USDA-ARS-SIRU; Charles A. Powell, University of Florida; Dov Borovsky, University of Florida

1:45 PM

RNAi and the potato psyllid: Down-regulation of heat shock cognate 70 and development of a novel delivery system

Blake R. Bextine, University of Texas; Wayne B. Hunter, USDA - ARS; Daymon Hail, University of Texas at Tyler

2:05 PM

RNAi in citrus trees, for RNAi in hemipterans, leafhoppers and psyllids

Wayne B. Hunter, USDA - ARS; Eitan Glick, Beeologics, Inc., LLC; Nitzan Paldi, Beeologics, Inc., LLC; Blake R. Bextine, University of Texas

2:25 PM

Break

2:35 PM

Gene silencing as a novel tool for mosquito control

Monique R. Coy, University of Florida; James J. Becnel, USDA - ARS

2:55 PM

Nanoparticle-mediated RNAi to silence chitin synthase genes through larval feeding in Anopheles gambiae

Kun-Yan Zhu, Kansas State University; Xin Zhang, Kansas State University; Jianzhen Zhang, Shanxi University

3:15 PM

Control of insect pests through novel gene RNAi: Moth to ant

Man-Yeon Choi, USDA - ARS; Robert K. Vander Meer, USDA, Agricultural Research Service

3:35 PM

RNAi in Lepidoptera: Successes and failures and implications for experimental design

Luc Swevers, National Centre of Scientific Research Demokritos; Olle Terenius, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Guy Smagghe, Ghent University

3:55 PM

RNAi at work: Targeted pest control and disease management

Eyal Ben-Chanoch, Beeologics Inc; Eitan Glick, Beeologics, Inc., LLC; Wayne B. Hunter, USDA - ARS; Eyal Maori, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Ilan Sela, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Gal Yarden, Beeologics; Nitzan Paldi, Beeologics, Inc., LLC

4:15 PM

RNAi through ingestion of bacteria-expressed dsRNA for managing the populations of the Colorado potato beetle

Fang Zhu, University of Kentucky; Subba Reddy Palli, University of Kentucky

4:35 PM

Concluding Remarks

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