Session: Ph.D. Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition: PBT Session (2015 North Central Branch Meeting)

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Ph.D. Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition: PBT Session

Monday, June 1, 2015: 1:30 PM-2:55 PM

Alcove (Manhattan Conference Center)

Moderator:

Ana Velez

1:30 PM

Biological validation of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays for detection of Cry proteins in the environment

Vurtice Albright, Iowa State University ; Richard Hellmich, USDA - ARS ; Joel Coats, Iowa State University

1:42 PM

Behavioral assays of western corn rootworm larvae to perform RNAi-mediated knockdown of CO₂ receptors expression

Carolina Camargo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln ; Natalie Matz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln ; Blair Siegfried, University of Nebraska ; Etsuko Moriyama, University of Nebraska-Lincoln ; Hideaki Moriyama, School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska‐Lincoln

1:54 PM

Glass-vial bioassay: improvements towards soybean aphid (Aphis glycines) resistance monitoring

Matheus Ribeiro, University of Nebraska ; Thomas Hunt, University of Nebraska ; Blair Siegfried, University of Nebraska

2:06 PM

Break

2:19 PM

Identification and Characterization of Juvenile Hormone Affinity Chromatography Purified Proteins

Joliene Lindholm, University of Wisconsin - Madison ; Walter G Goodman, University of Wisconsin

2:31 PM

Identifying pheromone biosynthetic genes in Neoclytus m. mucronatus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) using a differential gene expression approach

Gabriel Hughes, Purdue University ; Matthew Ginzel, Purdue University

2:43 PM