International PAG Plant Interactions with Pests and Pathogens Workshop

Saturday Afternoon, 10 January 2009 --- 1:30 pm - 3:40 pm

Plant Interactions with Pests and Pathogens Workshop - Sunrise Room

Organizer: Christie Williams, USDA/ARS Crop Production and Pest Control Research Unit at Purdue University

(cwilliams@purdue.edu)


Speakers:

1:20
Christie E. Williams, USDA/ARS Crop Production and Pest Control Research Unit at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA (christie.williams@ars.usda.gov)
"Attack and Counter-Attack: Induced Resistance and Susceptibility in Response of Wheat to the Hessian Fly"

1:40
Feng Chen, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA (fengc@utk.edu)
"Investigating The Genomic Basis And Evolution Of Volatiles-Mediated Indirect Plant Defense Against Insects"

2:00
Noah Whiteman, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA (nwhiteman@oeb.harvard.edu)
"Developing A Genetic Model Chewing Herbivore Of Arabidopsis"

2:20
Vincent P. Klink, Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University,Mississippi State, MS 39762 USA (heartwood27@hotmail.com)
"Microarray Analysis And Development Of A High Throughput Plant Transformation System To Study Gene Expression Occurring Between Soybean (Glycine Max) And Its Major Pathogen, The Soybean Cyst Nematode (Heterodera Glycines)"

2:40
Osman Radwan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Crop Sciences, Urbana, Illinois, USA (oradwan@uiuc.edu)
"Differences and Similarities of Soybean Defense-Related Genes Suppressed by Pathogenic and Symbiotic Bacteria "

3:00
Il-Pyung Ahn, Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA (ahn.132@osu.edu)
"Pub13, A Novel U-Box/Arm E3 Ubiquitin Ligase With Multiple Functions In Cell Death, Defense And Flowering In Arabidopsis"


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