Thursday, August 28, 2014
Minnie Belle Heep Center, Rm. 103
Schedule:
8:50 – 9:00 Opening remarks, Welcome by Dr. Cecilia Tamborindeguy
9:00 – 9:40 Plenary talk by Dr. Charles Allen
9:40 – 10:00 Coffee Break, 1st Floor Atrium
10:00 – 10:15 Diana Castillo – “Individual and spatial variation in plant genotype affect fungal endophyte communities in cotton”
10:15 – 10:30 Josephine Antwi – “Plant-insect-microbe interactions: Testing plant growth enhancement and herbivore defense mediated by endophytic fungal entomopathogens in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor)”
10:30 – 10:45 Ordom Huot – “Acetylsalicylic acid plays a dynamic role in plant-induced resistance against the infestation of Bactericera cockerelli (Hemiptera: Triozidae) and the infection of associated pathogen”
10:45 – 11:00 Milo Lewis – “The estimation and validation of the degree-day parameters for Bactericera cockerelli”
11:00 – 11:15 Kyle Harrison – “The Biological traits explaining the occurrence of Host-Associate Differentiation: A Meta-analysis”
11:15 – 11:30 Adrian Fisher II – “Honey bee (Apis mellifera) drone reproductive quality”
11:30 – 1:00 Lunch (On your own)
1:00 – 1:15 Lindsay Porter – “Functional characterization and target validation of Amblyomma americanum serpin: AAS8”
1:15 – 1:30 Mariam Bakshi – “Expression of costimulatory molecules on antigen presenting cells treated with Ixodes scapularis and Amblyomma americanum recombinant saliva proteins”
1:30 – 1:45 Freddy Ibanez-Carrasco – “Vitellogenesis in the potato psyllid (Bactericera cockerelli) vector of zebra chip disease”
1:45 – 2:00 Jia Xin Lei – “Arabidopsis BOTRYTIS-INDUCED KINASE1 modulates defense against green peach aphids via suppressing cell death”
2:00 – 2:15 Paula Castillo – “Methodology assessment for establishing efficient dsRNA delivery in colonies of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta Buren”
2:15 – 2:30 Coffee Break, 1st Floor Atrium
2:30 – 2:45 Luciano Cosme – “Gene expression changes accompanying behavioral changes in mosquitoes”
2:45 – 3:00 Kevin Deitz – “Genomic Analysis of Divergence Within the Malaria Vector Anopheles melas”
3:00 – 3:15 Emily Boothe – “A stable isotope mark-capture study of Culex quinquefasciatus and Aedes albopictus in College Station, Texas”
3:15 – 3:30 Angie Martin – “Physiological effects of sterol structure on Drosophila Melanogaster”
3:30 – 3:45 James Tracy – “Ecological niche modeling for projecting North American distributions of Old World tamarisk beetles (Diorhabda spp.; Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)”
3:45 – 4:15 Coffee and Cookies Reception, Judge Deliberation
4:15 – 4:30 Award Ceremony
4:30 Adjourn