Grad PBT: Physiology, Morphology, and Ecology

Moderator(s)

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  Joel Coats

  Distinguished Professor
  Department of Entomology
  Iowa State University
  Ames, Iowa

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM – 10:42 AM MT

  Activity of native tick kinins and peptidomimetics on the cognate target G protein‐coupled receptor from the southern cattle tick, Rhipicephalus microplus (Acari: Ixodidae)
  

  Presenting Author: Caixing Xiong – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Ronald Nachman – USDA-FAPRL

  Co-Author: Patricia V. Pietrantonio – Texas A&M University
• 10:42 AM – 10:54 AM MT

  Evolutionary changes in a fatty acyl-CoA elongase gene underlie high levels of desiccation resistance in a desert Drosophila species
  

  Presenting Author: Zinan Wang – Michigan State University

  Co-Author: Jian Pu – Michigan State University

  Co-Author: Haosu Cong – Michigan State University

  Co-Author: Henry Chung – Michigan State University
• 10:54 AM – 11:06 AM MT

  Exploring the role of brochosome variation on the wettability of leafhopper (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) wings
  

  Presenting Author: Elizabeth Bello – University of Illinois

  Co-Author: Shreyas Rajagopalan – University of Illinois

  Co-Author: Yutao Chen – University of Illinois

  Co-Author: Gabriel Burks – University of Illinois

  Co-Author: Charles Schroeder – University of Illinois

  Co-Author: Sarah Bialik – University of Texas

  Co-Author: Jeffrey Barrick – University of Texas

  Co-Author: Marianne Alleyne – University of Illinois
• 11:06 AM – 11:18 AM MT

  Inward rectifier potassium (Kir) channels are essential for salivary gland function, blood feeding, and vector competence in mosquitoes
  

  Presenting Author: Zhilin Li – Louisiana State University

  Co-Author: Alexander Soohoo-Hui – Bayer Crop Science

  Co-Author: Flinn M. O’Hara – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Daniel Swale – University of Florida
• 11:18 AM – 11:30 AM MT

  Making Monarch Migrants: Evaluation of flight energetics, wing morphology, and egg development
  

  Presenting Author: Kaley Hallmark – Pennsylvania State University

  Co-Author: Ching-Wen Tan – Pennsylvania State University

  Co-Author: Rudolf J. Schilder – Pennsylvania State University

  Co-Author: Jared G. Ali – Pennsylvania State University
• 11:30 AM – 11:42 AM MT

  Mechanical damping affects the rapid return of cricket antennae
  

  Presenting Author: Marlo G. McCarter – University of California

  Co-Author: Catherine Loudon – University of California
• 11:42 AM – 11:54 AM MT

  Phenotypic plasticity of respiratory physiology and morphology of the Hawk moth (Manduca sexta) in response to altered developmental oxygen
  

  Presenting Author: Sara Wilmsen – University of North Texas

  Co-Author: Edward Dzialowski – University of North Texas
• 11:54 AM – 12:06 PM MT

  Reduced susceptibility and neural sensitivity to pyrethroids in the absence of the kdr genotype
  

  Presenting Author: Sarah E. McComic – Louisiana State University

  Co-Author: Daniel R. Swale – Louisiana State University

  Co-Author: Troy D. Anderson – University of Nebraska

  Co-Author: Leslie Rault-Bucklin – PraesensBio
• 12:06 PM – 12:18 PM MT

  Aedes aegypti Insecticide resistance,temperature, and cytochrome P450
  

  Presenting Author: Xochitl Estrada – University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

  Co-Author: Megan Keniry – University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

  Co-Author: Christopher J. Vitek – University of Texas Rio Grande Valley