ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Remembering the Life and Work of Nancy Beckage

Sunday, November 11, 2012: 1:00 PM-4:45 PM
200 A, Floor Two (Knoxville Convention Center)
Sunday, November 11, 2012: 4:45 PM-5:30 PM
Park Concourse, Floor Two (Knoxville Convention Center)
Organizers:
Florence Dunkel
Karen M. Kester


1:00 PM
1804
Being and doing: The meaning of the life and work of Nancy Beckage
Florence Dunkel, Montana State University
1:10 PM
1805
Nancy’s early years: Host-parasite endocrine interactions
Lynn M. Riddiford, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
1:30 PM
1806
Ecdysis control: Insights from hosts and parasites
James W. Truman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
1:40 PM
1807
The role of neuropeptides in the physiology of insects: From Nancy Beckage's pioneering studies to the current burst of knowledge
Miriam Altstein, Volcani Institute
1:55 PM
1808
The Beckage story: How insects inspire knowledge creation and transfer to fields beyond entomology
Marianne Alleyne, University of Illinois
2:10 PM
1809
Nancy Beckage: Leading insights into insect immunology
Diana Cox-Foster, Pennsylvania State University
2:25 PM
1810
Nancy the person: In the midst of molecular discoveries, her words and actions fostered young entomologists
Margaret L. Allen, USDA, Agricultural Research Service ; Miriam F. Cooperband, USDA, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) ; Patricia V. Pietrantonio, Texas A&M University
2:40 PM
1811
Nancy and the beginning of polydnavirus genes characterization
Jean-Michel Drezen, Université François Rabelais, Parc de Grandmont
3:00 PM
Break
3:15 PM
1812
Joint work on superparasitism- and the honorary doctorate to N. E. Beckage
Silvia Dorn, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich
3:35 PM
1813
Nancy Beckage- teacher, mentor, champion for women in science
Genet M. Tulgetske, University of California, Riverside
3:50 PM
1814
Exploring a new paradigm in teaching: Expansive collaboration, malaria, Mali
Ky-Phuong Luong, University of California, Riverside ; Sidy Ba, University of Sherbrooke ; Florence Dunkel, Montana State University
4:05 PM
1815
Virus-host, virus-virus interactions: Towards a new understanding of cypoviruses in host-parasitoid biology
Bruce Webb, University of Kentucky
4:20 PM
1816
How does the life and work of Nancy Beckage inform our future?
Karen M. Kester, Virginia Commonwealth University
4:30 PM
1817
Photo and film memory
Florence Dunkel, Montana State University ; Karen M. Kester, Virginia Commonwealth University
4:40 PM
Reception, Park Concourse
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