Section Symposia

The 2008 Program Committee has selected the following Section Symposia to feature at this year's Annual Meeting. We feel that these symposia have a lot to offer the membership of the ESA. They are broad based in their subject matter and represent topics of interest around the world, while supporting the program theme: "Metamorphosis: A New Beginning". We invite all our colleagues to make time to attend these featured sessions.

IPMIS – Integrative Physiological Molecular Insect Systems

Interacting Genomes in Bark Beetle Ecology
Dezene P. W. Huber, huber@unbc.ca
Christopher Keeling

Tick Genomics and Beyond—New Advances in Tick-borne Disease Systems
Albert Mulenga, a-mulenga@tamu.edu
Deborah C Jaworski, deborah.jaworski@okstate.edu

Application of New Methodologies to Insect Physiology Research: The “–Omics” Revolution
Kent Shelby, shelbyk@missouri.edu
Holly J. Popham, pophamh@missouri.edu

Lignocellulose degradation by insects and their gut symbionts with potential applications to the biofuels industry
Jian-Zhong Sun, js841@msstate.edu
Kelli Hoover, kxh25@psu.edu
Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes, jurat@utk.edu

Metamorphosis of Entomological Chemical Ecology: A Tribute to Wendell Roelofs II
Walter Leal, wsleal@ucdavis.edu
Coby Schal, coby_schal@ncsu.edu
Sonny Ramaswamy, sonny@purdue.edu

PIE – Plant-Insect Ecosystems

*The Global Threat of Red Palm Weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, (Olivier) To Major Palm Species
Aziz Ajlan, redpalmweevil@hotmail.com
Khalid Alhudaib

Advances in Weed Biological Control: the On-going Metamorphosis
Veronica Manrique, vero72@ufl.edu
Rodrigo Diaz, rrdg@ufl.edu
William A. Overholt, billover@ufl.edu
Greg Wheeler, greg.wheeler@ars.usda.gov

Entomology without Borders - The Next Stage in Resistance Management
Caydee Savinelli, caydee.savinelli@syngenta.com
Graham P. Head, graham.p.head@monsanto.com

Pollen and Nectar-providing Plants Enhance Biological Control with Parasitoids and Predators
Phyllis G. Weintraub, phyllisw@agri.gov.il

Insect-Symbiont Interactions: A Metamorphosis in Perspectives
Kenneth Raffa, raffa@entomology.wisc.edu
Kier Klepzig, kklepzig@fs.fed.us

*From North American pest to European threat: 21st Century western corn rootworm management at home and abroad
Joseph L. Spencer, spencer1@uiuc.edu
Bruce E. Hibbard, Bruce.Hibbard@ars.usda.gov
Stefan Vidal, svidal@gwdg.de

Seizing the Night: Nocturnal studies of insect predation yield new insights
Robert Pfannenstiel, Bob.Pfannenstiel@ars.usda.gov
Donald Weber, Don.Weber@ars.usda.gov

Environmental fate of transgenic insecticidal proteins from genetically-modified crops: The metamorphosis of ecotoxicology
Kelsey R Prihoda, kelsey.prihoda@pioneer.com
Marc S Harper, marc.harper@pioneer.com

Metamorphosis by Fusion: Plant-Insect Interactions, Forest Entomology, and the Unifying Contributions of William J. Mattson (On the Occasion of his Retirement)
Daniel A. Herms, herms.2@osu.edu
Kenneth F. Raffa, raffa@entomology.wisc.edu

SEB – Systematics, Evolution and Biodiversity

Immature Stages in Insect Systematics
Caroline Chaboo, cschaboo@ku.edu
Yves G. Alarie, yalarie@laurentian.ca

Beyond Paper: Diversity, Importance And Validation Of Non-traditional Web-based Scientific Publication
Joshua R. Jones, doc.jones3000@tamu.edu
John D. Oswald

Phylogenomics: Trends and Innovative Techniques
Barb Sharanowski, rhubarb@uky.edu

Systematics and Diversity of Coleoptera
M. Fran Keller, mfkeller@ucdavis.edu

For the Love of Longicornia: Cerambycid Workers Symposium
Ann M. Ray, annray@life.uiuc.edu
Amy Berkov, berkov@sci.ccny.cuny.edu

SVPHS – Structural, Veterinary and Public Health Systems

School Integrated Pest Management
Dawn Gouge, dhgouge@ag.arizona.edu
Tom Green, ipmworks@ipminstitute.org
L. C. "Fudd" Graham, grahalc@auburn.edu
Kathy Murray, kathy.murray@maine.gov

The Larry L. Larson Symposium: Legal and Collaborative Challenges between Industry, Universities, and IR-4 that Impact Product Development Success
Mike P. Tolley, mtolley@dow.com

Phlebotomine Sand Flies in Public Health: Metamorphosis of research from basic biology towards novel disease control strategies
Phillip G. Lawyer, Phillip.Lawyer@amedd.army.mil
Marcelo Ortigao, mortigao@nd.edu
 

* These submissions were specifically developed to be internationally based, using WEBEX technology to connect scientists across the world. They are likely to be held at off times (perhaps even in the middle of the night) because many presenters will be in distant lands.