Digital Tools and Ecological Techniques to Understand Complex Insect Behavior

Organizer(s)

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  Sajjan Grover

  Scientist-II
  Bayer Crop Science
  Manchester, Missouri
• 

  Chitvan Khajuria

  Plant Testing Lead
  Plant Biotechnology
  Bayer Crop Science
  Chesterfield, Missouri
• NM

  Navdeep Mutti

  Corteva Agriscience
  Indianapolis, Indiana

This session will have presentations focused on tools and techniques used to understand insect behavior to answer wide range of research questions.

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:10 AM PT

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Sajjan Grover – Bayer Crop Science
• 8:30 AM – 8:50 AM PT

  Connecting the dots: Linking genotype to phenotype to elucidate the underlying mechanisms of plant defense against insects
  

  Presenting Author: Joe Louis – University of Nebraska
• 8:50 AM – 9:10 AM PT

  Aphid video surveillance for biocontrol research and extension
  

  Presenting Author: Robert Orpet – Washington State University

  Co-Author: David Crowder – Washington State University

  Co-author: Vincent Jones – Washington State University

  Co-author: Louis B. Nottingham – Washington State University
• 9:10 AM – 9:20 AM PT

  Break
• 9:20 AM – 9:40 AM PT

  Monitoring insect biodiversity using short range LIDAR
  

  Presenting Author: Klas Rydhmer (he/him/his) – FaunaPhotonics
• 9:40 AM – 10:00 AM PT

  Using laboratory assays to examine host choice selection behavior in insects
  

  Presenting Author: Berenice Romero – University of Saskatchewan

  Co-author: Sean Michael Prager – University of Saskatchewan
• 10:00 AM – 10:20 AM PT

  Using EthoVision software to assess insecticide effects on mobility in Trogoderma granarium
  

  Presenting Author: Michael J. Domingue – Kansas State University

  Co-Author: Rob Morrison, III (he/him/his) – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Sabita Ranabhat – Kansas State University
• 10:20 AM – 10:40 AM PT

  Using remotely sensed data and insect behavior to predict locust outbreaks
  

  Presenting Author: Douglas David Lawton – AgBiome

  Co-Author: Jennifer Learned – Arizona State University

  Co-Author: Cathy Waters – New South Wales Department of Primary Industries

  Co-Author: Stephen Simpson (he/him/his) – The University of Sydney

  Co-Author: Arianne Cease – Arizona State University
• 10:40 AM – 11:00 AM PT

  Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Sajjan Grover – Bayer Crop Science