International PAG: Insect Genetics Workshop

Saturday Morning, 12 January 2008 --- 10:20 am - 12:30 pm

Insect Genetics Workshop - Sunrise Room

Organizer: Wayne Hunter, USDA/ARS

(whunter@ushrl.ars.usda.gov)

Speakers:

10:10-10:20 am
Wayne Hunter, USDA, ARS, U.S. Hort. Res. Lab, 2001 South Rock Road, Fort Pierce, FL 34945, USA (Wayne.hunter@ars.usda.gov)
"Insect Genomics Opening remarks"

10:20 am
John Werren, University of Rochester, NY (werr@mail.rochester.edu)
"Genomics of the Haplodiploid Insect Model Nasonia"

10:40 am
Dr. Laura Baldo, Dept. Biology, University of California, 900 University Ave., Riverside, CA, 92521, USA (laurab@ucr.edu)
"Insight Into The Genetic Diversity And Global Distribution Of The Intracellular Bacteria Wolbachia"

11:00am
Dr. Jay Evans, USDA, ARS (jay.evans@ars.usda.gov)
"Honey Bee Genomics and Immunity"

11:20 am
Dr. Alex Smith, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, 579 Gordon Street, University of Guelph,Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1 (salex@uoguelph.ca)
"A CO1 DNA barcode is a sufficient lens to initiate species discovery: case studies in hyper-diverse parasitoid assemblages"


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