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Arthropod Genomics

Exploring and manipulating arthropod genomes: insights from mapping to genetic engineering.
Date: Saturday, January 14, 2017
Time: 8:00 AM-10:10 AM
Room: Esquire - Meeting House
Organizers:
Joachim Nwezeobi and Lindsey Perkin
8:00 AM
Heather Testing Cloning RM
Heather Burns, Confex

8:20 AM
Introductory Remarks


8:25 AM
W051
Using Long Reads, Optical Maps and Long-Range Scaffolding to Improve the Diaphorina citri Genome
Surya Saha, Boyce Thompson Institute; Lukas Mueller, Boyce Thompson Institute; Susan J. Brown, Division of Biology - Kansas State University

8:45 AM
W052
Using Sequencing-Based Approaches to Characterize Genetic Sexing Systems in Tephritid Fruit Flies
Scott Geib, USDA-ARS

PDF file
9:05 AM
W053
Investigation of Genes Linked to Polyphagy and Xylophagy in Asian Longhorned Beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) through Comparative Genomics and Transcriptome Profiling
Erin D. Scully, USDA-ARS Center for Grain and Animal Health Research

PDF file
9:25 AM
W054
Basic Steps for Developing Genetic Technologies in a Non-Model Organism
Marcé D. Lorenzen, North Carolina State University Entomology department

9:45 AM
W055
Delivery of dsRNA Biopesticide Using Engineered Microbes
Joanna Chiu, University of California; Antoine Abrieux, University of California Davis

10:05 AM
W056
FANA and Morpholino's, Novel Molecules for Gene-Targeting in Plants and Arthropods
Wayne Hunter, USDA Agricultural Research Service; Jackie Lin Metz, USDA-ARS; Kristen Pelz-Stelinski, Univeristy of Florida, Citrus Research and Education Center; Andres F. Sandoval Mojica, Univeristy of Florida, Citrus Research and Education Center; Sidney Altman, Yale University; Michael J. Boyle, Smithsonian Marine Station at Ft. Pierce; Veenu Aishwarya, AUM LifeTech, Inc

10:25 AM
Concluding Remarks


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