Emerging Trends in Insect-plant Interactions

Organizer(s)

• SS

  Shubha Subramanyam

  Research Molecular Biologist
  Crop Production & Pest Control Research
  USDA-ARS
  West Lafayette, Indiana
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  Sajjan Grover

  Senior Scientist
  Bayer Crop Science
  Manchester, Missouri
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  Pritha Kundu

  Postdoctoral Research Associate
  Entomology
  University of Nebraska
  Lincoln, Nebraska

Insect-plant interactions are complex, dynamic, and multifaceted that include various feeding guilds and host repertoires leading to a cost-benefit paradigm. This symposium aims to bring together entomologists and plant biologists from academia and industry to enlighten us on the current status and future direction of the rapidly evolving insect-plant interactomes.

Presentations:

• 1:00 PM – 1:02 PM MST

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Shubha Subramanyam – USDA-ARS
• 1:02 PM – 1:16 PM MST

  Sorting out the basis of defoliator resistance in soybean
  

  Presenting Author: Wayne Parrott – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Zenglu Li – University of Georgia
• 1:16 PM – 1:30 PM MST

  The effect of below-ground plant-microbe interactions and land management on plant-insect interactions
  

  Presenting Author: Andrea M. Fetters – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Alison Bennett – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Karen Goodell (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Jacob Hopkins – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Frances S. Sivakoff – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Joshua Blakeslee – The Ohio State University
• 1:30 PM – 1:44 PM MST

  Examining gall morphology variation in sister species of gall-inducing tephritid flies
  

  Presenting Author: Vincent Martinson – University of New Mexico

  Co-Author: Quinlyn Baine (she/her/hers) – University of New Mexico

  Co-Author: Ellen O. Martinson – University of New Mexico
• 1:44 PM – 1:58 PM MST

  Defensive duel: The role of fall armyworm "oral cues" in shaping sorghum defenses
  

  Presenting Author: Sanket Shinde – University of Nebraska

  Co-Author: Pritha Kundu – University of Nebraska

  Co-Author: Joe Louis – University of Nebraska
• 1:58 PM – 2:12 PM MST

  Gene editing reveals novel functions of a salivary protein
  

  Presenting Author: Gary Felton (he/him/his) – The Pennsylvania State University
• 2:12 PM – 2:26 PM MST

  Convergent molecular evolution of a key innovation shapes toxin-mediated multitrophic interactions around milkweeds
  

  Presenting Author: Simon Groen – University of California

  Co-Author: Perla Achi – University of California

  Co-Author: Adler Dillman – University of California
• 2:40 PM – 2:54 PM MST

  Lipid-mediated sorghum defense against sap-feeding aphids
  

  Presenting Author: Pritha Kundu – University of Nebraska

  Co-Author: Heena Puri – Impetus Agriculture Inc.

  Co-Author: Kashish Verma (she/her/hers) – University of Nebraska

  Co-Author: Mary Roth – Kansas State University

  Co-Author: Ruth Welti – Kansas State University

  Co-Author: Joe Louis – University of Nebraska