2016 Pacific Branch Meeting

Sunday, April 3, 2016

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1:00 PM-4:30 PM


Registration
Becky Anthony

5:00 PM-6:00 PM


Plenary Session
Peter Follett

6:00 PM-6:30 PM


Student Competition Judge & Moderator Meeting
James Strange

Monday, April 4, 2016

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7:00 AM-4:00 PM


Registration
Becky Anthony

8:00 AM-12:00 PM


Opening Session
Peter Follett

1:30 PM-1:45 PM


Undergraduate
James Strange and Ricardo Ramirez

1:30 PM-4:50 PM


Navel Orangeworm Management for the 21st Century
Bradley Higbee and Kris Tollerup

1:30 PM-5:10 PM


Celebrating a Mixed-Plate in the Pacific Branch: Fostering Diversity in Science
Jonathan Koch and Emily A. Sadler

1:30 PM-5:30 PM


Integrating Insect Conservation Theory and Practice
Daniel Rubinoff and Jesse A. Eiben

1:30 PM-6:00 PM


Undergraduate

Masters

PhD

1:45 PM-3:00 PM


Masters
James Strange and Ricardo Ramirez

1:50 PM-5:00 PM


PhD
Erica Tassone and Joe Hull

2:10 PM-4:30 PM


Using High-Throughput Data to Impact and Inform Pollinator Management and Policy
Vanessa Corby-Harris

3:30 PM-5:10 PM


Population Perspectives in Agroecology
John Banks and John Stark

5:00 PM-6:15 PM


What's New in Industry
Jesse M. Richardson and Christopher Clemens

6:00 PM-8:00 PM


PBESA Mixer
Peter Follett

7:00 PM-7:30 PM


Texting Competition
Michael Orr

8:00 PM-10:00 PM


Linnaean Games
Peter Follett

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

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7:00 AM-12:00 PM


Photo Salon/Insect Exhibits
William Cooper

7:00 AM-4:00 PM


Registration
Becky Anthony

8:00 AM-10:00 AM


Celebrating North America's Iconic Native Pollinator-Contemporary Advances in the Study of Bumble Bee Ecology and Evolution
S. Woodard, Jonathan Koch and James Strange

8:00 AM-11:00 AM


Strategies Underlying the Evolution of Herbivory
Paul Nabity and Noah Whiteman

8:00 AM-11:40 AM


General Paper Session I
David G. James, Jonathan Sprague and Sara M. Galbraith

8:00 AM-12:00 PM


Challenges and Solutions for the Floriculture and Nursery Industry's Exotic Pest Crisis
Arnold Hara and James A. Bethke

8:00 AM-7:00 PM


General Poster Session
William Rodney Cooper

8:40 AM-11:20 AM


Bringing Natural History Back in to Focus: Utilizing Modern Resources for High Throughput Observational Data
Eric Gordon and Kaleigh Russell

10:20 AM-12:00 PM


Little Genes, Big Data: Applying Genomic Techniques to Solve the Problems that But Us (Morning Session)
Joe Hull and Scott Geib

12:00 PM-1:30 PM


Awards Luncheon
Peter Follett

1:30 PM-4:30 PM


Honoring Professor Minoru Tamashiro's Contributions to Entomology: His Legacy and Academic Genes
Nan-Yao Su, J. Kenneth Grace and Faith Oi

1:30 PM-5:00 PM


New Tools to Mitigate the Spread of the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle and other Invasive Scarabs
Mary Liz Jameson, Joshua Dunlap and Jackie Baum

1:30 PM-5:10 PM


Promising Accomplishments in Biological Control
Thomas R. Unruh

1:30 PM-5:30 PM


Little Genes, Big Data: Applying Genomic Techniques to Solve the Problems that Bug Us (Afternoon Session)
Joe Hull and Scott Geib

Animal and Plant Vector Biology: Addressing Old Questions with New Technologies
Monika Gulia-Nuss and Judith K. Brown

General Papers Session II
Ayman Mostafa and Harvey A. Yoshida

5:00 PM-6:00 PM


Social Hour with Poster Presenters
Peter Follett

6:00 PM-7:00 PM


Career Fair
Alix Whitener and Robert Zinna

7:00 PM-8:00 PM


Elevator Opportunity
Alix Whitener and Lisa Neven

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

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7:00 AM-8:00 AM


Final Business Meeting
Peter Follett

7:00 AM-10:00 AM


Registration
Becky Anthony

8:00 AM-11:40 AM


Pollinator Protection: Parasites, Pathogens, and Management Practices
Brian Bret and Amber Vinchesi

8:00 AM-12:00 PM


IPM of Agriculturally Important Heteroptera in Western States
Casey Butler and John Palumbo

8:00 AM-12:20 PM


Current Research on Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) in the Pacific Area
Roger Vargas and Nicholas Manoukis

8:20 AM-11:40 AM


The Future of Genetic Engineering: Opportunities, Risks, and Challenges
Natalie Boyle, Sujaya Rao and Doug Walsh

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