PBT Section Symposium: Insect Lipid Physiology: From the Cell to the Whole Organism

Sunday, November 10, 2013: 1:15 PM-5:15 PM
Meeting Room 18 C (Austin Convention Center)
Organizers:
Spencer T. Behmer
Que Lan
Angela E. Douglas


1:15 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:20 PM
0212
Metabolic mechanisms mediate the miserable months: A tale about fat stores, diapause, and host-plant driven climatic adaptation in apple maggots
Daniel A. Hahn, University of Florida
1:45 PM
0213
Molecular regulation of fat hypertrophy in the diapausing mosquito Culex pipiens
Cheolho Sim, Baylor University
2:10 PM
0214
Lipids and life histories: Role of adaptive modification of lipid metabolism in insect life-history polymorphisms
Anthony J. Zera, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2:35 PM
0215
New insights in triglyceride metabolism in Manduca sexta
Estela L. Arrese, Oklahoma State University
3:00 PM
Break
3:15 PM
Second Introductory Remarks
3:20 PM
0216
Sterol use in insects: Physiology, biochemistry and gene expression
Spencer T. Behmer, Texas A&M University
3:45 PM
0217
Lipid droplets as sites of regulated protein sequestration: Drosophila embryos and beyond
Michael Welte, University of Rochester
4:10 PM
0218
Shared mechanisms of health, aging and sex appeal in Drosophila
Scott Pletcher, University of Michigan
4:35 PM
0219
Survival of the fattest: Obesity in starvation-selected Sophophora melanogaster
Allen Gibbs, University of Nevada Las Vegas
5:00 PM
Concluding Remarks
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