Session: P-IE SS: The Larry L. Larson Symposium: The Grand Challenge of Exploration and Use of Advanced Technologies Beyond the Horizon for Insect Management and Control (2014 ESA Annual Meeting)

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P-IE SS: The Larry L. Larson Symposium: The Grand Challenge of Exploration and Use of Advanced Technologies Beyond the Horizon for Insect Management and Control

Tuesday, November 18, 2014: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

D137-138 (Oregon Convention Center)

Organizer :

Mike Tolley

Moderator:

Luis Gomez

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:10 AM

Current capabilities in the transgenic manipulation of invertebrate species

Malcolm J. Fraser, University of Notre Dame

8:35 AM

Use of transgenesis for insect and disease control

Thomas A. Miller, University of California

9:00 AM

Introduction to RNAi in insects: identifying gene function and novel target sites

Blair Siegfried, University of Nebraska ; Chitvan Khajuria, Monsanto Company ; Kenneth Narva, Dow AgroSciences

9:25 AM

RNAi-mediated insect control: challenges and opportunities

James A. Baum, Monsanto Company

9:50 AM

Break

10:10 AM

Cry toxins 101: what are they and how they work

Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes, University of Tennessee

10:35 AM

Bt-mediated insect control via transgenic crops

Kenneth Narva, Dow AgroSciences ; Nicholas Storer, Dow AgroSciences ; Tom Meade, Dow AgroSciences

11:00 AM

Nanoscale science and engineering for agriculture: basics and applications

Norman Scott, Cornell University

11:25 AM

Size matters: particle size and performance

Darren Anderson, Vive Crop Protection ; Caleigh Irwin, Vive Crop Protection ; Jordan Dinglasan, Vive Crop Protection ; Anjan Das, Vive Crop Protection

11:50 AM

Concluding Remarks

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