International PAG: Insect Genomics Workshop

Saturday Morning, 13 January 2007 --- 10:20 am - 12:30 pm

Insect Genomics Workshop - Sunrise Room

Organizer: Wayne Hunter, USDA/ARS

(whunter@ushrl.ars.usda.gov)

Speakers:

10:25 am
Wayne Hunter, USDA, ARS, US. Horticultural Research Lab, Fort Pierce, Florida, USA (Whunter@ushrl.ars.usda.gov)
"Welcome and Opening remarks"

10:30am
Dr. Brenda Oppert, USDA, ARS, Grain Marketing and Production Research Center, Manhattan, KS, USA (bso@ksu.edu)
"Genomics To Proteomics: Comparison Of Cysteine Proteases In Tenebrionid Pests"

10:55 am
Moises Cortes-Cruz, USDA, ARS, Beneficial Insects Introduction Res., Newark, DE 19713, USA (Moises.CortesCruz@ARS.USDA.GOV)
"Genetics of Host shifts in Noctuid Moths"

11:20 am
Gerald Reeck, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA (reeck@ksu.edu)
"A pea-aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) salivary protein needed for survival on plants"

11:45 am
Dr. Robert Shatters, Jr,, USDA, ARS, U.S. Horticulture Research Lab, Ft. Pierce, FL, USA (Rshatters@ushrl.ars.usda.gov)
"Genomics of Diaprepes root weevil digestive enzymes"

12:10 pm
Dr. Juergen Gadau, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA (jgadau@asu.edu)
"Sex specific expression of olfactory receptor proteins in Nasonia"

12:35 pm
Dr. Claus Tittiger, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA (crt@unr.edu)
"Discovery and regulation of bark beetle pheromone-biosythetic genes"


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