We contribute to the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America with presentations
Junbo presented an update genome editing in whiteflies in collaboration with Peter Atkinson and Linda Walling at UC Riverside and Dave O’Brochta at University of Maryland, for the ESA Workshop on Insect Genome Editing: Why and How
Seung Ho presented to the physiology section symposium on the genetic determinants of aphid nutritional phenotypes
Fran contributed to the symposium on “It Takes Two: Co-Evolutionary Innovation in Insect-Based Mutualisms” with an invited presentation on the genetic basis of variation in the aphid-Buchnera symbiosis
John presents on the dissection of gut microbiome function in Drosophila in the PBT Section 10 minute talks for graduate students