Member Symposium: Science Impacting a Connected INSECT World: Use of Aggregation Pheromones in Pest Management

Wednesday, November 13, 2013: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Meeting Room 15 (Austin Convention Center)
Organizers:
Donald C. Weber
Tracy C. Leskey


8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM
Aggregation pheromones of weevils and their use in pest management
Tracy C. Leskey, USDA, Agricultural Research Service ; Aijun Zhang, USDA-ARS, BARC ; David Shapiro-Ilan, USDA-ARS, SE Fruit and Tree Nut Research Unit ; Alan Eaton, University of New Hampshire ; Kathleen Leahy, Polaris Orchard Management ; Arthur Tuttle, University of Massachusetts ; Daniel Cooley, University of Massachusetts
8:25 AM
Aggregation pheromones for detection and monitoring of cerambycid beetles
Jocelyn G. Millar, University of California ; Lawrence M. Hanks, University of Illinois
8:45 AM
Aggregation pheromones of chrysomelids and their use in pest management
Allard Cossé, USDA-ARS ; Robert J. Bartelt, USDA-ARS ; Bruce W. Zilkowski, USDA-ARS ; Daniel Bean, Colorado Dept. of Agriculture ; Miklós Tóth, Hungarian Academy of Science ; Robert N. Wiedenmann, University of Arkansas
9:05 AM
9:25 AM
Break
10:00 AM
Use of stereoisomeric libraries for discovery of bug aggregation pheromones: a case study with 1,10-bisaboladien-3-ols
Ashot Khrimian, USDA - ARS ; Aijun Zhang, USDA - ARS ; Donald C. Weber, USDA, Agricultural Research Service ; Hsiao-Yung Ho, The Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology ; Jeffrey R. Aldrich, Associate Entomologist ; Karl E. Vermillion, USDA Agricultural Research Service ; Maxime A. Siegler, Johns Hopkins University ; Shyam Shirali, USDA Agricultural Research Service ; Filadelfo Guzman, USDA Agricultural Research Service ; Tracy C. Leskey, USDA, Agricultural Research Service
10:20 AM
Aggregation pheromones of stink bugs and their use in pest management
Donald C Weber, USDA, Agricultural Research Service ; Ashot Khrimian, USDA - ARS ; Tracy C. Leskey, USDA, Agricultural Research Service ; Jeffrey R. Aldrich, Associate Entomologist ; Jocelyn G. Millar, University of California
10:40 AM
Aggregation signals of ancient communicators (Thysanura)
Nathan Woodbury, Simon Fraser Universtiy ; Gerhard Gries, Simon Fraser University
11:00 AM
Discussion
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