Penn State/Cornell Joint Mini-Symposium
Members of the Penn State Center for Chemical Ecology traveled to Cornell for a Joint Mini-Symposium on October 23-24, 2009. The following students and postdocs participated:
Liz Bosak - "Biochemical Cage Match: Cryptic Priming in Maize"
Torrence Gill - "Survivorship of Western and Southern Corn Rootworm on Insect Resistant Maize"
Yang Han - "JAZ and JA regulation in maize upon insect feeding"
Christy Harris - "Host Suitability and the Importance of Learning Experiences in Generalist Parasitoid Host-Finding"
Rupesh Kariyat - "Effects of genetic variation and inbreeding on Plant-Insect interactions and volatile production in Horsenettle"
Emily Hohlfeld Kuhns - "Characterization of a Caterpillar Fatty Acid Amino Acid Conjugate Hydrolase"
Helene Quaghebeur - "Impact of the presence of a generalist predator, the minute pirate bug Orius insidiosus, on tomato induced defenses"
Swayamjit Ray - "Can Caterpillar frass alter plant defense?"
German Sandoya - "Is the Maize Herbivore Defense Response Triggered by Secretions of the Noctuid Ventral Eversible Gland?"
Daniel Schmehl - "Sublethal effects of pesticide combinations on honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) larval development and adult associative learning"
Ezra Schwartzberg - "Factors affecting induced plant defenses in response to aphid feeding"
Jason Smith - "Odor-mediated foraging by parasitic plants: Do mature Cuscuta pentagona vines respond to odor cues from potential host plants?"
Ezra Schwartzberg, Rayko Halitschke, and Caroline Von Dahl talk about when they can get outside to play while Jennifer Thaler directs the real upcoming symposium events
Traveling to Ithaca, NY
Ithaca Falls
