Session: Ph.D. Student Oral Presentation Competition II (2014 Southeastern Branch Meeting)

Ph.D. Student Oral Presentation Competition II

Monday, March 3, 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM

Greenbrier (Embassy Suites Greenville Golf & Conference Center)

Moderators:

Fred Musser
Amanda C. Hodges

1:40 PM

Persistence of imidacloprid and olefin in eastern hemlock: Seven years of suppression of hemlock woolly adelgid

Elizabeth P. Benton, University of Tennessee ; Carla I. Coots, University of Tennessee ; Richard Cowles, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station ; R. Jesse Webster, National Park Service ; Anthony Lagalante, Villanova University ; Jerome F. Grant, University of Tennessee

1:52 PM

Cytochrome P450s and their functions in permethrin resistance in the house fly, Musca domestica

Ming Li, Auburn University ; Nannan Liu, Auburn University

2:04 PM

DEET Scrambled the Olfactory Response of Bed Bugs to Human Odorants

Feng Liu, Auburn University ; Nannan Liu, Auburn University

2:16 PM

Bioassays with diamide insecticides in the Mid-South

Andrew Adams, Mississippi State University ; Jeff Gore, Mississippi State University ; Don Cook, Mississippi State University ; Angus Catchot, Mississippi State University ; Natraj Krishnan, Mississippi State University ; Fred Musser, Mississippi State University

2:28 PM

Chemical mediation of queen and king recognition in subterranean termites (Reticulitermes flavipes)

Colin Funaro, North Carolina State University ; Edward L. Vargo, North Carolina State University

2:40 PM

Variability of genetic resistance to parasitism in the pea aphid

Adam J. Martinez, University of Georgia ; Kerry M. Oliver, University of Georgia

2:52 PM

Break

3:03 PM

Investigation of Amblyomma cement proteins

Rebekah Bullard, University of Southern Mississippi ; Shahid Karim, The University of Southern Mississippi

3:15 PM