Session: Member Symposium: Rocking Your Connected World: The Importance of Insect Microbiomes (2013 ESA Annual Meeting)

Member Symposium: Rocking Your Connected World: The Importance of Insect Microbiomes

Sunday, November 10, 2013: 1:15 PM-5:15 PM

Meeting Room 19 A (Austin Convention Center)

Organizers:

Jennifer L. Pechal
M. Eric Benbow

1:15 PM

Welcoming Remarks

1:25 PM

0337

Nutrient provisioning by gut microbiota of a wood-boring beetle

Kelli Hoover, Pennsylvania State University ; Erin D. Scully, Pennsylvania State University ; Paul Akwettey Ayayee, Pennsylvania State University ; John Carlson, Pennsylvania State University ; Ming Tien, Pennsylvania State University ; Scott Geib, USDA-ARS

1:43 PM

0338

Gut microbial community of Phlebotomus duboscqi plays a major role in the vector competence for Leishmania major

Ludek Zurek, Kansas State University ; Dinesh Erram, Kansas State University ; Anuradha Ghosh, Kansas State University ; David Sacks, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health (NIAID, NIH)

2:01 PM

0339

Diversity and function of bacterial communities in the Drosophila gut

Angela E. Douglas, Cornell University ; Adam Wong, Cornell University ; John Chaston, Cornell University ; Adam Dobson, Cornell University ; Peter Newell, Cornell University

2:19 PM

0340

The evolution and ecology of ant gut microbiomes

Corrie Moreau, Field Museum of Natural History ; Jacob Russell, Drexel University

2:37 PM

Break

2:47 PM

0341

Psyllids or associated microbes, who is in charge?

Cecilia Tamborindeguy, Texas A&M University ; Freddy Ibanez, Texas A&M University ; Punya Nachappa, Texas A&M University ; Julien Levy, Texas A&M University

3:05 PM

0342

Endosymbiont genome dynamics during dictyopteran evolution

Zakee Sabree, The Ohio State University

3:23 PM

0343

Bacteria living with and talking to the Black Soldier Fly

Tawni L. Crippen, USDA - ARS ; Jeffery K. Tomberlin, Texas A&M University ; Longyu Zheng, Huazhong Agricultural University ; Baneshwar Singh, Texas A&M University ; Aaron M. Tarone, Texas A&M University ; Meaghan Pimsler, Texas A&M University

3:41 PM

Break

3:51 PM

0344

Bacterial community dynamics in Lepidoptera: The importance of host plant and life stage

Tobin Hammer, University of Colorado at Boulder

4:09 PM

0345

Blow fly predator-prey interactions mediated by microbes: Implications in forensics and vertebrate carrion ecology

Jeffery K. Tomberlin, Texas A&M University

4:27 PM

0346