Member Symposia

Sunday, November 10, 2013

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8:00 AM-12:00 PM


Member Symposium: Phasmatodea Studies Symposium
Matan Shelomi

Member Symposium: Advances in Greenhouse Arthropod Pest Management
John P. Sanderson and Michael P. Parrella

Member Symposium: Americas Neuropterists Meeting
David E. Bowles and Atilano Contreras-Ramos

Member Symposium: Aquatic Entomology for the Protection of Water Resources
Alan Leslie, Dessie Underwood, Wendy L. Willis and Robert Smith

Member Symposium: Chagas Disease in the USA: A New Risk?
Jane Breen Pierce

Member Symposium: Coming Together to Break it Down: A Global Perspective on Decomposers
Sean D. Whipple and Jeffrey D. Bradshaw

Member Symposium: Current Advances in Acarology
Raul Villanueva and Jose Carlos V. Rodrigues

Member Symposium: Insect Pests of Canola (Brassica spp.) and Their Management
Gadi VP Reddy and Héctor A. Cárcamo

Member Symposium: Phytosanitary Irradiation: How the International Community is Rising to the Regulatory Challenge
Laura A. Jeffers, Michael K. Hennessey and David E. Bellamy

Member Symposium: The Effects of Endophytic Fungal Entomopathogens on Insects, Plants, and Plant Pathogens
Fernando E. Vega and Soroush Parsa

Senior Member Symposium: Honey Bees Connecting Retired Entomologists
Kenneth A. Sorensen and John Thomas

1:00 PM-6:00 PM


Member Symposium: Red Imported Fire Ants: Global Approaches to a Global Invasive Species
Robert Plowes, Robert T. Puckett and S. Bradleigh Vinson

1:15 PM-5:15 PM


Member Symposium: Acarology in Molecular Era
Mariam Lekveishvili

Member Symposium: Advances in Pest Management for Turfgrass and Ornamentals
Jonathan L. Larson

Member Symposium: Frontiers of IPM: Honoring the Career of Marshall Johnson
Bruce E. Tabashnik and Jay A. Rosenheim

Member Symposium: Future Needs for Biological Control Teaching and Outreach
Jim Nechols and Parwinder Grewal

Member Symposium: International Society of Hymenopterists: Symposium Honoring Robert Wharton
John M. Heraty and James B. Woolley

Member Symposium: Rocking Your Connected World: The Importance of Insect Microbiomes
Jennifer L. Pechal and M. Eric Benbow

Member Symposium: SOLA Scarab Workers
Andrew B. T. Smith

Member Symposium: Succeeding in the Business Aspects of an Entomological Career
Miriam Cooperband and Mary A. Sorensen

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

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8:00 AM-12:00 PM


Member Symposium: Making Connections Across Disciplines to Combat Alien Invaders
Veronica Manrique, Rodrigo Diaz and William Overholt

Member Symposium: Cole Crops Under Siege: U.S. Invasion by the Painted Bug (Bagrada hilaris)
Darcy Reed and Thomas M. Perring

Member Symposium: Emerging Technologies and New Challenges to Control Livestock Pests
Adalberto Perez de Leon, D. Wes Watson, Joel R. Coats, Andrew Li and Aaron D. Gross

Member Symposium: Native Bee Ecology, Evolution And Conservation In The 21st Century
S. Hollis Woodard, Quinn S. McFrederick and Shalene Jha

8:00 AM-12:15 PM


Member Symposium: When a Blind Beetle Crawls Over the Surface of the Globe…or Under the Water: Biodiversity and Systematics of Aquatic Beetles
Donald A. Yee and Kelly B. Miller

1:30 PM-5:30 PM


Member Symposium: Challenges and Opportunities for Classical Biological Control:  A Roadmap for New Investigators
Robert M. Nowierski and Kim A. Hoelmer

Member Symposium: Connecting Virus Transmitting Mosquito Information: From Laboratory to Surveillance and Management in the Field
Sonja L. Swiger, Wizzie Brown and Janet A. Hurley

Member Symposium: Innovative Global Strategies to Connect Entomologists with their Communities through Education, Outreach and Extension Programs
Marianne Shockley, Martha Rosett Lutz and Mustapha El-Bouhssini

Member Symposium: Making Connections Abroad: First Latin American/Hispanic Symposium
Silvia I. Rondon, Ana Legrand, Raul F. Medina and Erik Echegaray

Member Symposium: Mass-Production of Insects and Pathogens for Insect and Weed Biocontrol
Patrick J. Moran and Juan A. Morales-Ramos

Member Symposium: New Insights into the Evolution of Insect Coloration
Heather M. Hines and Brian A. Counterman

Member Symposium: Plant Secondary Chemistry and Insect-Plant Interactions: The role of Iridoid Glycosides
Saskya van Nouhuys and Deane Bowers

Member Symposium: Strengthening the Connection between Continents –A Symposium Honoring Silvia Dorn's Impact on Applied Entomological Research
Mark Sarvary and Jaime C. Pinero

Member Symposium: Taxonomy and Systematics within the Tenebrionoidea (Coleoptera).
Nathan P. Lord, Kojun Kanda and Traci L. Grzymala

6:00 PM-10:00 PM


Member Symposium: Korean Young Entomologists (KYE)
Sunghoon Baek and Ikju Park

Member Symposium: Nepal Overseas Entomologists Symposium: Promoting Entomological Collaboration through Inter-societal Network and Information Sharing
Ram B. Shrestha, Bal Krishna Gautam, Sandipa G. Gautam and Jhalendra P. Rijal

6:30 PM-9:00 PM


Member Symposium: IOBC Workshop Symposium - Integrating the Macros (Macrobial Biocontrols) and the Micros (Microbial Biocontrols) to Manage Insect Pests
Stefan T. Jaronski

6:30 PM-9:30 PM


Member Symposium: Heteropterist Conference
Thomas J. Henry and Katrina L. Menard

6:30 PM-10:00 PM


Member Symposium: Overseas Chinese Entomologists Association (OCEA): Building a Foundation for Collaborations on Entomological Research
Haobo Jiang, Nannan Liu and Xiao-Qiang Yu

7:30 PM-9:30 PM


Member Symposium: North American Dipterists Society Meeting
Keith M. Bayless

Member Symposium: Coleopterists Society Annual Meeting
Victoria Bayless

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

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8:00 AM-12:00 PM


Member Symposium: Connecting Our Past with Our Future. A Look at Past Student Award Winners. Then, Now, and in the Future.
Carey R. Minteer, Erin Jones and Tamra Reall

Member Symposium: Evolution of Insect Pests In a Connected and Changing World
Samuel N. Crane and Gabriel Zilnik

Member Symposium: IPM for Small-Scale Farmers: Research and Extension Needs and Experiences
Tessa R. Grasswitz and Jaime C. Pinero

Member Symposium: Science Impacting a Connected INSECT World: Use of Aggregation Pheromones in Pest Management
Donald C. Weber and Tracy C. Leskey

Member Symposium: Strategies for Managing the Asian Citrus Psyllid and Huanglongbing Disease
Elizabeth E. Grafton-Cardwell, Mamoudou Setamou and Jawwad A. Qureshi

8:00 AM-12:15 PM


Member Symposium: Ecological and Evolutionary Origins of Sociality: Connecting Commonalities of Social Behavior Across Diverse Insect Taxa
Sarah P. Lawson, Sandra M. Rehan and Patrick Abbot

1:30 PM-5:30 PM


Member Symposium: Forest Entomology Connecting the World
Kimberly F. Wallin, Nathan Havill and Richard W. Hofstetter

Member Symposium: How Cool is Entomology?
Brian G. Rector and Theresa L. Pitts-Singer

Member Symposium: Integrated Insect Omics: From Transcriptomics to Interactomics
Praveen Mamidala, Omprakash Mittapalli and Daniel Doucet

Member Symposium: Stored Product Entomology: Impacts on a Connected World
Frank Arthur and Anna Getchell

Member Symposium: The Menace of Palm Weevils: Challenges and Strategies
Aziz Ajlan and Khalid Alhudaib

Member Symposium: Urban Pests and Disease Vectors: Sustainable Management and Future Research
Paul Leisnham, Shannon L. LaDeau and Dawn Biehler

Member Symposium: Youthful Perspectives in Forensic Entomology: Who are These Young Punks?
Meaghan Pimsler and Charity Owings

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