Plant Interactions with Pests and Pathogens

Organizer:
Christie Williams(USDA/ARS Purdue University)
Date: Saturday, January 14, 2012
Time: 1:30 PM-3:40 PM
Room: Sunrise
Moderator:
Christie Williams
Chair:
Christie Williams
1:50 PM
2:10 PM
Chemical Genomics of the Plant Immune System and Development of Novel Non-Biocidal Reduced Risk-Pesticides
Melinda Rodriguez-Salus, University of California at Riverside; Colleen Knoth, Focus Diagnostics; Ayesha Baig, University of California at Riverside; Isgouhi Kaloshian, University of California at Riverside; Thomas Eulgem, University of California at Riverside

2:30 PM
MicroRNA Profiling in Melon During Aphid Herbivory in Susceptible and Resistant Interactions
Sampurna Sattar, Pennsylvania State University; Yan Song, Bioinformatics Core Facility, Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University; James A. Anstead, College of Agricultural Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University; Ramanjulu Sunkar, Oklahoma State University; Gary A. Thompson, College of Agricultural Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University

2:50 PM
Parasitic Plant Genes Necessary for Host Plant Recognition
John Yoder, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California-Davis; P.C.G. Bandaranayake, Department of Crop Science, University of Peradeniya

3:10 PM
The potato aphid transcriptome and salivary secretome
Hagop S. Atamian, University of California; Ritu Chaudhary, University of California; Ergude Bao, University of California; Zhouxin Shen, University of California, San Diego; Steven Briggs, University of California, San Diego; Thomas Girke, University of California; Isgouhi Kaloshian, University of California at Riverside

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