2192Plant Interactions with Pests and Pathogens
Date: Saturday, January 11, 2014
Time: 1:30 PM-3:40 PM
Room: Sunrise - Meeting House
Organizer:
Christie Williams
1:30 PM
Broadly Conserved Fungal Effector BEC1019 Enhances Virulence and Suppresses Host Cell Death
Roger Wise, Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Iowa State University;
Ehren Whigham, Iowa State University;
Shan Qi, Cornell University;
Divya Mistry, Iowa State University;
Ruo Xu, Iowa State University;
Clara Pliego, Imperial College;
Laurence Bindschedler, Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL);
Pietro Spanu, Imperial College;
Patrick Schweizer, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK);
Julie Dickerson, Iowa State University;
Roger W. Innes, Indiana University;
Dan Nettleton, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University;
Adam Bogdanove, Cornell University
3:10 PM
Novel Strategies for Target Design and Gene Silencing in the Insect Vectors of Plant Pathogens
Raja Sekhar Nandety, University of California, Davis;
Shahideh Nouri, University of California, Davis;
Yen-Wen Kuo, University of California, Davis;
Tera L Pitman, University of California, Davis;
Bryce W. Falk, University of California, Davis