Friends and Foes: New Advances on Plant-Insect-Microbe Interactions

Organizer(s)

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  Caitlin Rering

  Research Chemist
  Chemistry Research Unit-ARS
  USDA-ARS
  Gainesville, Florida
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  Cesar Rodriguez-Saona

  Extension Specialist in Entomology
  Department of Entomology
  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  Chatsworth, New Jersey

Insects are profoundly impacted by microorganisms they encounter in their environment. This symposium will explore interactions between insects and environmental or plant-associated microorganisms. Presentations will include antagonistic and mutualistic interactions occurring in diverse plant-insect systems.

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:50 PM PT

  Polydnavirus mediates fitness across multiple trophic levels
  

  Presenting Author: Gary W. Felton (he/him/his) – Pennsylvania State University
• 1:50 PM – 2:05 PM PT

  Soil microbiomes influence plants to influence insect microbiomes
  

  Presenting Author: Alison Bennett – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Antonino Malacrinò – University of Reggio Calabria
• 2:05 PM – 2:20 PM PT

  Spotted lanternfly gut-associated microorganisms when feeding on grape and tree of heaven
  

  Presenting Author: Flor E. Acevedo – Pennsylvania State University
• 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM PT

  Making a difficult situation worse: Concerted assaults of plant defenses and gut microbiota on insect herbivores
  

  Presenting Author: Charles Mason – USDA-ARS
• 2:35 PM – 2:40 PM PT

  Break
• 2:40 PM – 2:55 PM PT

  Biodiversity belowground and aboveground interactively shape insect food webs
  

  Presenting Author: Carmen K. Blubaugh – University of Georgia
• 2:55 PM – 3:10 PM PT

  A transcriptomic look at the multifaceted interface between MEAM1 whiteflies, cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus and melon plants
  

  Presenting Author: Marco Gebiola – University of California

  Co-author: Brandon Le – University of California

  Co-author: Kerry Elizabeth Mauck – University of California
• 3:10 PM – 3:25 PM PT

  Potyviral regulation of aphid-induced volatiles and related biosynthesis pathways
  

  Presenting Author: Chad T. Nihranz – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Clare L. Casteel – Cornell University
• 3:25 PM – 3:40 PM PT

  Developmental changes in the microbial community of the ground-nesting bee Anthophora bomboides
  

  Presenting Author: Shawn Christensen (he/him/his) – University of California

  Co-author: Rachel L. Vannette – University of California

  Co-author: Bryan N. Danforth – Cornell University

  Co-author: Stephen Buchmann – University of Arizona

  Co-author: Quinn McFrederick – University of California
• 3:40 PM – 3:55 PM PT

  Odors from the fungal pathogen Colletotrichum fioriniae repel Drosophila suzukii
  

  Presenting Author: Caitlin Rering – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Cesar R. Rodriguez-Saona – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey