Aphid Day

November 14th, 2008

The lab contributed to the one-day Aphid Day meeting of talks and informal discussion.  We joined colleagues from various departments at Cornell and external colleagues, including Dayalan Srinivasan and Shuji Shigenobu from Princeton University, Jonathon Newman, Simone Haerri and Gerry Ryan from Guelph University and Marco Cabrera-Brandt from Universidad Austral de Chile.  Our thanks to Georg Jander and colleagues at Boyce Thompson Institute on Cornell campus, where the meeting was hosted.

Seminars were provided by

Shuji Shigenobu (Princeton) Aphid bacteriocytes -- the development and the transcriptome
Dayalan Srinivasan (Princeton) Molecular characterization of facultative parthenogenesis
Sophie Bouvaine (Cornell) Investigating the role of the GroEL chaperon in the transmission of
  luteoviruses by aphids
Martin de Vos (Boyce Thompson) Myzus persicae-induced resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana: role for
  salivary components
Anurag Agrawal (Cornell) Niche differentiation among three specialist aphids on milkweed
Jonathon Newman (Guelph) Will climate change be beneficial or detrimental to aphids?
Marco Cabrera-Brandt (Universidad Austral de Chile) Genes involved in xenobiotic responses in
  the aphid Myzus persicae
Gerry Ryan (Guelph) Grass-endophyte-aphid interactions in current and future climates
John Losey (Cornell) Shift in coccinelid composition and impacts on aphid populations
Simone Haerri (Guelph) Can aphids learn to cope with the presence of endophytic fungi in their
   food plants?
Marina Caillaud (Ithaca College) Host-plant specialization in the pea aphid: effect of secondary
  symbiosis and microarray analysis of differences in gene expression

With thanks to Rodrigo Vega who took the photographs.