International PAG: Insect Genetics Workshop

Saturday Morning, 15 January 2005 --- 10:30 am - 12:40 pm

Insect Genetics Workshop - Royal Palm Salon 3, 4, & 5

Organizer: Wayne Hunter, USDA/ARS

(whunter@ushrl.ars.usda.gov)

Speakers:

1. 10:30 AM
Robert Shatters, Jr.
(Rshatters@ushrl.ars.usda.gov)
USDA, ARS, U.S. Horticultural Res. Lab, Ft. Pierce, FL
Whitefly (Bemisia tabaci B biotype) Functional Genomics: Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) Analysis of Whitefly-Begomovirus Interactions.

2. 10:50 AM
Denis Tagu
(tagu@rennes.inra.fr )
INRA Rennes, UMR INRA/ENSAR BiO3P, BP 35327, 35653 Le Rheu Cedex, France
A transcriptomic approach to study the photoinduced switch from parthenogenesis to sexual development in the pea aphid

3. 11:10 AM
Gregory Davis
(gkdavis@Princeton.EDU)
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1003
Approaches to Polyphenism and Polymorphism in the Pea Aphid

4. 11:30 AM
Cindy McKenzie
(Cmckenzie@ushrl.ars.usda.gov)
USDA, ARS, U.S. Horticultural Res. Lab, Ft. Pierce, FL
Begomovirus transcription in whitefly: A step towards replication?

5. 11:50 AM
Gerald Reeck
(reeck@ksu.edu)
Kansas State University, Kansas
A unique gene discovered in aphid salivary glands.

6. 12:10 Wayne Hunter
(Whunter@ushrl.ars.usda.gov)
USDA, ARS, U.S. Horticultural Res. Lab, Ft. Pierce, FL
Genes in Salivary gland and Midgut of the Glassy-winged Sharpshooter

7. 12:30 PM
Elaine Backus
(ebackus@fresno.ars.usda.gov)
USDA, ARS, Parlier, CA
Salivary and digestive physiology of Hemipterans: Clues to underlying genetics


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