PBT Section Symposium: ABC Transporters: An Important "New" Player in Insect Biology

Wednesday, November 13, 2013: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Meeting Room 19 A (Austin Convention Center)
Organizers:
David J. Hawthorne
John M. Clark


8:00 AM
Welcoming Remarks
8:30 AM
'The ABC transporter family in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae:  Evidence for a role in conferring  insecticide resistance
John Vontas, University of Crete ; Patricia Pignatelli, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine ; Vasileia Balabanidou, University of Crete ; Gareth Lycett, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine ; Hilary Ranson, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
8:55 AM
ABC transporters regulate CNS chemoprotection through endogenous ecdysone signalling at the BBB
Samantha Hindle, UCSF ; Souvinh Orng, UCSF ; Michael Desalvo, UCSF ; Elena Dolgikh, UCSF ; Hiroshi Ishimoto, University of Iowa ; Fahima Mayer, UCSF ; Toshihiro Kitamoto, University of Iowa ; Matt Jacobson, UCSF ; Roland Bainton, UCSF
9:20 AM
Mosquito P-glycoprotein: A pharmacological obstacle to insecticide delivery
Troy D. Anderson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ; Ngoc N. Pham, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
9:45 AM
Break
10:20 AM
Identification of ABC transporters in the western tarnished plant bug, Lygus hesperus
Joe Hull, USDA-ARS, U.S. Arid Land Agricultural Research Center ; Kendrick Chaney, USDA-ARS, Arid Land Agricultural Research Center ; L. Forlow Jech, USDA-ARS, Arid Land Agricultural Research Center ; David J. Hawthorne, University of Maryland ; Laura Corley Lavine, Washington State University ; Keriann Bennett, Washington State University
10:45 AM
11:35 AM
ABC transporters mediate adverse pesticide interactions in honeybees
David J. Hawthorne, University of Maryland ; Jeff Pettis, Bee Research Laboratory ; Galen Dively, University of Maryland ; Alex Gusman, University of Maryland ; Grace Kunkel, University of Maryland
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