ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Transfer of Solutions from Nature to the Technical World: Latest Applications, Challenges and Future Trends in Insect Biotechnology

Tuesday, November 13, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
300 A, Floor Three (Knoxville Convention Center)
Organizer :
Amit Sethi


1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:35 PM
1090
Termite digestion: From transcriptomics to biofuel technology
Michael E. Scharf, Purdue University ; Amit Sethi, Purdue University
1:58 PM
1091
Chemistry of insect cuticle as a model biomaterial
Michael R. Kanost, Kansas State University
2:21 PM
1092
Spider silk biology and biotechnology: Fact, fiction, and future
Cheryl Hayashi, University of California, Riverside
2:44 PM
1093
A “genome-to-lead” approach for discovery of next-gen insecticides
Jason M. Meyer, Purdue University ; Karin F. K. Ejendal, Purdue University ; Larisa V. Avramova, Purdue University ; Elisabeth E. Garland-Kuntz, Purdue University ; Gloria I. Giraldo-Calderón, Purdue University ; Val J. Watts, Purdue University ; Catherine HIll, Purdue University
3:07 PM
Break
3:22 PM
1094
Fusion protein technology: Exploiting arachnid venom peptides to generate novel biopesticides
Elaine Fitches, Food and Environment Research Agency
3:45 PM
1095
Transgenic fungi that specifically target malaria or it's vector
Raymond J. St. Leger, University of Maryland
4:08 PM
1096
Design of a protozoacidal Trojan-horse: Use of ligands for selective targeting of lytic peptides to kill cellulose-digesting Protozoa within termite guts
Amit Sethi, Purdue University ; Lane Foil, Louisiana State University AgCenter ; Claudia Husseneder, Louisiana State University AgCenter
4:31 PM
1097
Designing Y driven shredding of the Anopheles gambiae X chromosome during male meiosis
Andrea Crisanti, Imperial College
4:54 PM
1098
Treatment of infectious diseases: Lessons from Drosophila
Jean-Luc Imler, Unite Propre de Recherche, Centre national de la recherche scientifique
5:17 PM
Concluding Remarks
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