SECOND ANNUAL LSU ENTOMOLOGY DEPARTMENT
GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
Friday October 7, 2011
Life Sciences Building Annex 465
(Plant Pathology Conference Room)
8:30 – 9:06 SYSTEMATICS, EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY
8:30 Diversity of saproxylic Coleoptera in Great Smokey Mountains National Park. Ferro, M. L. & C. E. Carlton.
8:42 Small-scale spatial heterogeneity and β-diversity: examining differences in community structure Within a backwater swamp infested by Salvinia minima Baker. Parys, K. A. & S. J. Johnson.
8:54 The rafting behavior of the red imported fire ant. Adams, B., L. Hooper-Bui, R. Strecker & D. O’Brien.
9:06 - 9:54 MEDICAL URBAN VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY AND
INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY & MOLECULAR INSECT SYSTEMS
9:06 Reduction in the number of Formosan subterranean termite colonies contributing to alate swarms in the French Quarter, New Orleans. Simms, D. M., & C. Husseneder.
9:18 Survival rate, food consumption and tunneling of the Formosan subterranean termite feeding on Bt and no-Bt maize. Wang, Cai., G. Henderson & F. Huang.
9:30 Effects of caste on the constitutive and induced expression of genes associated with immunity and detoxification in Formosan subterranean termites. Simms, D. M., & C. Husseneder.
9:42 The complete mitochondrial genome of four Liromyza species (Diptera: Agromyzidae). Fei, Y., Y-Z, Du, J-M, Cao & F. Huang.
9:54 – 10:12 BREAK
10:12 – 11:48 PLANT-INSECT ECOSYSTEMS
10:12 Aspects of the chemical ecology of the rice stink bug, Oebalus pugnax (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) and implications for the development of novel management strategies. Hamm, J. & M. J. Stout.
10:24 The toxicity of thiamethoxam as a seed treatment chemical against rice water weevil in rice. Lanka, S. K. & M. J. Stout.
10:36 Characterizing variation in resistance among commonly grown rice cultivars in Louisiana against sugarcane borer, Diatraea saccharalis. Sidhu, J. K. & M. J. Stout.
10:48 Effects of the BP oil spill on the ant community on coastal dunes in Louisiana. Chen, X., B. Adams & L. Hooper-Bui.
11:00 Assessing stink bug-induced injury on soybean seed. Moore-Parker, J. L., J. H. Temple & B. R. Leonard.
11:12 Evaluating methoxyfenozide efficacy against regional soybean looper populations. Brown, S. A., J. Davis, B. R. Leonard, M. O. Way, K. Tindall, C. Allen & A. Richter.
11:24 Effect of Ipomoea host plants on stylet penetration behavior of Myzus persicae (Sulzer). Wosula, E. F., J. A. Davis, C. Clark.
11:36 Occurrence and larval movement of sugarcane borer, Diatrea saccharalis (F.) in mixed plantings of corn expressing pyramided Cry proteins. Wangila, D.S., B. R. Leonard, M. N. Ghimire, K. Emfinger, L. Zhang, Y. Bai, F. Yang, G. P. Head, F. Huang
DISPLAY SESSION - PLANT-INSECT ECOSYSTEMS AND MEDICAL URBAN VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY
DSP 1 Larval survival and plant injury of Cry 1 Ab-susceptible, -resistant, and –heterozygous genotypes of the sugarcane borer on transgenic corn containing single or pyramided Bt genes. Wangila, D.S., B. R. Leonard, M. N. Ghimire, Y. Bai, L. Zhang, F. Huang
DSP 2 Effect of the alarm pheromone of rice stink bugs, Oebalus pugnax, on the in vitro germination and development of the entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae. Hamm, J., M. L. Milks, J. R. Fuxa, M. K. Leptich, A. R. Richter and M. J. Stout.
DSP 3 Relative humidity preference and survival of starved Formosan subterranean termites (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) st various temperature and relative humidity conditions. Gautam, B. K. & G. Henderson.
12:15 – 1:30 LUNCHEON AND AWARDS CEREMONY, LSB A 465
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