Microbial Interactions and Their Influence on Organisms and Ecosystems

Organizer(s)

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  Jocelyn Holt

  Department of BioSciences
  Rice University
  Houston, Texas
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  Raul Medina

  Department of Entomology
  Texas A&M University
  College Station, Texas
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  Antonino Malacrinò

  University of Reggio Calabria
  Pisa, Italy

The current challenges faced by pest control require novel targets and innovative solutions. An increase in our understanding of the role of interacting microscopic organisms and the communities they form in insect hosts, plants, and soil environments may reveal transformative solutions to some of our most pressing pest control challenges.

Presentations:

• Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Jocelyn R. Holt – Rice University

  Co-Author: Antonino Malacrinò – University of Reggio Calabria

  Co-Author: Raul F. Medina – Texas A&M University
• Can plants selectively engineer beneficial soil microbiomes that protect against insect pests?
  

  Presenting Author: Laramy Enders – Purdue University

  Co-Author: Elizabeth French – Purdue University

  Co-Author: Ian Kaplan – Purdue University
• Interactions between plants, viruses and pollinators shape plant species fitness andcould favor virus persistence in the landscape
  

  Presenting Author: Cristina Rosa – Penn State

  Co-Author: Chauncy Hinshaw – Pennsylvania state University

  Co-Author: Margarita López-Uribe (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University
• Harnessing the wheat curl mite microbiome for pest management in wheat
  

  Presenting Author: Punya Nachappa – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Samantha White – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Tessa Albrecht – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Bradley Borlee – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Grace Borlee – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Priyanka Mittapelly – University of Richmond
• Can a necromenic nematode serve as a biological Trojan horse for an invasive ant?
  

  Presenting Author: Suzanne Ishaq – University of Maine

  Co-Author: Alice Hotopp – University of Maine

  Co-Author: Samantha Silverbrand – University of Maine

  Co-Author: Jean MacRae – University of Maine

  Co-Author: S. Patricia Stock – University of Arizona

  Co-Author: Eleanor Groden – University of Maine
• Beyond host regulation: Changes in gut microbiome of permissive and non-permissive hosts following parasitization by the wasp Cotesia flavipes
  

  Presenting Author: Nathalia Cavichiolli Oliveira – University of Sao Paulo (Esalq-USP)

  Co-Author: Fernando Cônsoli – Universidade de São Paulo
• An integrative approach on plant manipulating Lepidoptera: From leaf-miners to gall-inducers
  

  Presenting Author: David Giron

  Co-Author: Géraldine Dubreuil – University of Tours

  Co-Author: Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde – French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE)

  Co-Author: Issei Ohshima – Kyoto Prefectural University

  Co-Author: Antoine P. Guiguet – Pennsylvania State University
• Interactions of aphids and bacteria in the phyllosphere
  

  Presenting Author: Tory Hendry – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Melanie R. Smee

  Co-Author: Kathryn Herr – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Imperio Real-Ramirez – Cornell University
• Thermal niches of social bee gut symbionts and their potential role in host colonization
  

  Presenting Author: Tobin Hammer – University of Texas at Austin

  Co-Author: Eli Le – University of Texas at Austin

  Co-Author: Nancy A. Moran – University of Texas at Austin
• Functional genomics of microbe mediated asexuality in Trichogramma wasps
  

  Presenting Author: Amelia Lindsey – University of Minnesota
• Microbial community structure and assembly during development of the solitary bee Osmia lignaria
  

  Presenting Author: Rachel L. Vannette – University of California, Davis

  Co-Author: Garrett Keating

  Co-Author: Danielle Rutkowski – UC Davis

  Co-Author: Neal M. Williams – University of California
• A synthesis of insect-microbiome research
  

  Presenting Author: Antonino Malacrinò – University of Reggio Calabria