Session: P-IE Section Symposium: Insect-Microbe-Plant Interactions (2013 ESA Annual Meeting)

P-IE Section Symposium: Insect-Microbe-Plant Interactions

Wednesday, November 13, 2013: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Meeting Room 10 C (Austin Convention Center)

Organizer :

Peter Witzgall

1:30 PM

Introductory Remarks

1:40 PM

1813

Yeast associations of spotted wing Drosophila (Drosophila suzukii, Diptera: Drosophilidae) in cherries and raspberries

Kelly A. Hamby, University of California, Davis ; Alejandro Hernandez, Universidad de Extremadura ; Kyria Boundy-Mills, University of California, Davis ; Frank Zalom, University of California

2:00 PM

1814

Infection of plants by a bacterial endosymbiont mediates host selection in the potato psyllid

Thomas Seth Davis, University of Idaho ; Peter J. Landolt, USDA, Agricultural Research Service ; Joseph E. Munyaneza, USDA - ARS ; David R. Horton, USDA-ARS

2:20 PM

1815

Flies and their environments: microbial interactions via odorants

Jerry Zhu, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Northern Plains Area (NPA)

2:40 PM

1816

Yeast, small hive beetles, honeybees and plants: evolution of a pest insect

Peter E. A. Teal, USDA Agricultural Research Service ; Baldwyn Torto, USDA ; James H. Tumlinson, Pennsylvania State University ; Drion G. Boucias, University of Florida ; Adrian J. Duehl, USDA - ARS ; Ayuka Fombong, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe)

3:00 PM

Break

3:20 PM

1817

Fatal attraction of malaria mosquitoes to fungal spores

Thomas C. Baker, Pennsylvania State University ; Justin George, Pennsylvania State University ; Simon Blanford, Pennsylvania State University ; Nina Jenkins, Pennsylvania State University ; Matthew B. Thomas, Pennsylvania State University

3:40 PM

1818

The hidden microbial contribution to plant-insect interactions

Wilhelm Boland, Max Planck Institute

4:00 PM

1819

Codling moth granulovirus: defining use strategies for North American orchardists

Donald Thomson, Pacific Biocontrol Corporation

4:20 PM

1820

Ceci n'est pas une pomme - yeast mutualism in codling moth

Peter Witzgall, SLU