ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, PBT-2

Monday, November 14, 2011: 8:30 AM-11:15 AM
Room D9, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)
Moderators:
Qisheng Song
Walter S. Leal
8:30 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:33 AM
0612
Identification of larval caste and the regulation of queen development in colonies of the ant Harpegnathos saltator
Clint A. Penick, Arizona State University; Eric P. Benson, Clemson University; Eric P. Benson, Clemson University; Juergen Liebig, Arizona State University
8:45 AM
0613
Cold hardiness of emerald ash borer parasitoids Spathius agrili and Tetrastichus planipennisi.
Anthony A. Hanson, University of Minnesota; Robert C. Venette, University of Minnesota; William D. Hutchison, University of Minnesota
8:57 AM
0614
Cellular cold-sensing in the goldenrod gall fly, Eurosta solidaginis, involves a calcium/calmodulin signaling axis
Nicholas M. Teets, The Ohio State University; David L. Denlinger, Ohio State University
9:21 AM
0615
Withdrawn
9:09 AM
0616
Breakdown of division of labor in queenless honey bee colonies
Nicholas Naeger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Naïla Even, Macquarie University; Marianne Peso, Macquarie University; Andrew B. Barron, Macquarie University; Gene Robinson, University of Illinois
9:33 AM
0617
Photoperiod is an important cue that entrains and synchronizes main events in the life cycle of the temperate bumble bee Bombus impatiens
Edgar Javier Hernandez, University of Missouri - St. Louis
9:45 AM
Break
9:57 AM
0618
Rapid phagocytic response and sessile phagocytic foci formation by mosquito hemocytes following infection
Jonas G. King, Vanderbilt University; Julian F. Hillyer, Vanderbilt University
10:09 AM
0619
Influence of enkephalins on gonad development in eastern lubber grasshopper, Romalea microptera (Orthoptera: Romaleidae)
Sandeep Kumar, University of Central Florida; Purna Chandra Nagaraju Ganji, University of Central Florida; Hojun Song, University of Central Florida; Laurence vonKalm, University of Central Florida; David Borst, University of Central Florida
10:21 AM
0620
Cloning, immunolocalization and functional analysis of calcitonin receptor–like receptor 1 (AaegGPRCAL1; Diuretic Hormone 31 (DH31) receptor) in females of mosquito Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)
Hyeogsun Kwon, Iowa State University; Patricia V. Pietrantonio, Texas A&M University
10:33 AM
0621
Intestinal stem cell proliferation as an indicator of honey bee (Apis Mellifera) health
Cordelia Sackey-Mensah, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
10:45 AM
0622
An aminoacylase in the gut lumen of lepidopteran larvae hydrolyzes fatty acid amino acid conjugates, elicitors of plant defense
Emily H. Kuhns, University of Florida; Irmgard Seidl-Adams, Pennsylvania State University; James H. Tumlinson, Pennsylvania State University
10:57 AM
0623
Investigation of glucose absorption capabilities within the digestive tract of the lower termite Reticulitermes flavipes using two different approaches
Zachary Karl, Purdue University; Michael E. Scharf, Purdue University
11:09 AM
0624
Preliminary identification and function of queen pheromones in Reticulitermes subterranean termites
Colin Funaro, North Carolina State University; Katalin Böröczky, North Carolina State University; Coby Schal, North Carolina State University; Edward L. Vargo, North Carolina State University
11:21 AM
Concluding Remarks
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