ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Section Symposia

Sunday, November 13, 2011

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8:00 AM-10:10 AM


Speaking Out on Biofuel Entomology: Identifying the Problem and Clarifying the Goals
Daniel A. Strickman and Kevin Hackett

8:00 AM-11:55 AM


Identify and Clarify: Regulatory Compliance for the Rearing, Releasing, Shipping, and Studying of Arthropods in Today's World: Part 1: Demystifying the Permit Process-Understanding the Black Box
Colin Stewart and Kevin Hoffman

Predictors of Vector and Disease Dynamics
Dina Fonseca and Kristen Bartlett-Healy

8:00 AM-12:00 PM


Impact of Brown Marmorated Stink Bug in US Agroecosystems
Anne L. Nielsen and George C. Hamilton

1:00 PM-5:35 PM


An Overlooked Insect Group. Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata), Model Organisms for Systematics, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Studies
Seth M. Bybee and Jessica L. Ware

1:30 PM-5:00 PM


Identify and Clarify: Regulatory Compliance for the Rearing, Releasing, Shipping, and Studying of Arthropods in Today's World: Part 2: Regulatory Compliance for Rearing, Releasing, Shipping, and Studying Arthropods
Scott W. Myers and Lisa G. Neven

1:30 PM-5:25 PM


Hardly Boring: Cerambycid Workers Symposium
Ann M. Ray and Amy Berkov

1:30 PM-5:30 PM


Host Plant Volatiles: Identifying New Approaches for Insect Pest Management
Ian Kaplan and Cesar Rodriguez-Saona

Signaling Workshop
Qisheng Song, Subba Reddy Palli, Vincent Henrich and David Denlinger

Monday, November 14, 2011

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1:30 PM-4:00 PM


SysEB Section Networking Meeting
Jason R. Cryan

1:30 PM-4:45 PM


P-IE Section Symposium and Networking Meeting
B. Rogers Leonard

1:30 PM-5:00 PM


MUVE Highlights, Reception and Section Meeting: Medical, Urban and Veterinary Entomology
Douglas E. Norris and Christopher J. Geden

PBT Section Networking Meeting
Jeffrey Scott

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

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7:55 AM-11:40 AM


Identify and Clarify Current Arthropod Repellent Research
Mustapha Debboun

8:00 AM-10:55 AM


New Approaches to Mass Production and Augmentation Biological Control
Walker A. Jones, Sasha M. Greenberg and Norman C. Leppla

8:00 AM-11:05 AM


Web-Based Digital Insect Identification: Our Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities
Muhammad Haseeb, Terrence Walters and Moses T.K. Kairo

8:00 AM-11:55 AM


Biology, Biochemistry and Genomics of Pine Bark Beetles
Gary J. Blomquist, Claus Tittiger and Christopher I. Keeling

8:00 AM-12:00 PM


The Larry L. Larson Symposium: 20 Years of Research on New Insecticide Modes of Action, Its Implication on Insect Control and Insecticide Resistance Management.
Luis Gomez and Mike P. Tolley

1:30 PM-4:40 PM


Bee Declines. II. Causes, Solutions, and Activating the Public
Rosalind James, Jeff Pettis, Theresa L. Pitts-Singer and James Strange

1:30 PM-5:15 PM


Biological Control of Invasive Wood Borers: Feasibility, Potential, Progress and Challenges
Jian J. Duan and Juli Gould

Culicoides Biting Midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Vectors Of Economically Important Arboviral Diseases Of Livestock: Vector Status, Biology And Control
Eva Veronesi and Gert Venter

1:30 PM-5:30 PM


Epigenetics, Phenotypic Plasticity, and Insect Evolution: First Insights from an Emerging Field
Amy L. Toth and Jennifer Brisson

Illuminating the Phenome: the Future of Morphology in Entomology
Katja Seltmann, Matthew J. Yoder and Andrew Deans

1:30 PM-5:35 PM


Chemical Signaling, Defense and Counter-Defense between Insect Herbivores and Their Hosts
Godshen R. Pallipparambil and Joe Louis

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

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7:55 AM-12:00 PM


Invasives, Climate Change, and Forest Management: the Forest Service Research Perspective
Mary Ellen Dix and Nancy E. Gillette

8:00 AM-11:45 AM


Pinpointing the Problem: Assessing the Impact of White-tailed Deer on the Spread of Cattle Fever Ticks (Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus and R. (B.) annulatus) in South Texas
Kimberly H. Lohmeyer and Pia Olafson

Taxonomy and Systematics of the Tenebrionoidea (Coleoptera)
Kojun Kanda

8:00 AM-11:50 AM


Insecticide Mixtures: IRM, Science, Scope, Solutions and Rationale – IRAC US Symposium Series: No.7
Caydee Savinelli, Graham P. Head and Charles A. Staetz

8:00 AM-12:00 PM


Evolution and Biological Control
Ruth A. Hufbauer, George Roderick, M. Navajas and Marianna Szucs

Insect Olfaction & Taste: Identifying, Clarifying and Speaking about the Key Issues
Walter S. Leal and John Carlson

8:00 AM-5:30 PM


Social Insect Evolution Today: Clarifying Leading Hypotheses with Novel Approaches
Theresa L. Pitts-Singer, Brielle J. Fischman and S. Hollis Woodard

1:30 PM-3:30 PM


Identify.. Clarify.. Speak Out.. About IPM Implementation in Schools
Dawn Gouge, Thomas A. Green, Tim Stock, Carrie Foss and Janet A. Hurley

1:30 PM-4:55 PM


Cost-effective Alternatives to Traditional Sequencing: Applying Next Generation Molecular Technologies to Medical and Veterinary Entomology
Michelle Sanford and Rebecca T Trout

1:30 PM-5:10 PM


Biodiversity, Global Change and Insect-Mediated Ecosystem Services
Rachael Winfree, Neal Williams and Deborah Finke

1:30 PM-5:30 PM


The Future is Now: Blended Refuge, Resistance, and Rootworm Options for Tomorrow
Joseph L. Spencer, Lance J. Meinke and Bruce E. Hibbard