ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Symposium: An Introduction to RNA Interference (RNAi) or Post Transcriptional Gene Silencing (PTGS): Fourth Generation Pesticides: For All the Non-Molecular Entomologists (Part 2).

Sunday, November 11, 2012: 1:00 PM-5:15 PM
300 D, Floor Three (Knoxville Convention Center)
Organizers:
Reginald R. Coler
Jennifer L. Williams


1:00 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:05 PM
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RNA interference: A functional genomics tool with pest control implications
Xuguo "Joe" Zhou, University of Kentucky ; Blair D. Siegfried, University of Nebraska
1:45 PM
0168
RNA interference in ticks: A functional genomics tool for the study of tick-host interactions
Shahid Karim, The University of Southern Mississippi
2:25 PM
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Analyses of RNA interference gene targets for the control of western corn rootworm
Renata Bolognesi, Monsanto Company ; Parthasarathy Ramaseshadri, Monsanto Company ; Ronald D. Flannagan, Monsanto Company ; S. Zhao, Monsanto Company ; Barbara Elizabeth Wiggins, Monsanto Company ; G. Heck, Monsanto Company ; G. Segers, Monsanto Company
3:05 PM
Break
3:20 PM
0170
Ecological effects testing for an in planta RNA-based insect control trait
Pamela M. Bachman, Monsanto Company ; Bonnie Ayden, Monsanto Company ; Renata Bolognesi, Monsanto Company ; David Carson, Monsanto Company ; Samuel Dubelman, Monsanto Company ; Joshua Fischer, Monsanto Company ; Geoffrey Mueller, Monsanto Company ; Mark S. Paradise, Monsanto Company ; Parthasarathy Ramaseshadri, Monsanto Company ; Jianguo Tan, Monsanto Company ; Joshua Uffman, Monsanto Company ; Barbara Elizabeth Wiggins, Monsanto Company ; Steven L. Levine, Monsanto Company
4:00 PM
0171
Risk assessment and regulation of RNAi pesticides in the context of genetically engineered plants
Andrew F. Roberts, Center for Environmental Risk Assessment
4:40 PM
Panel Discussion
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