General program
    General program

Session 1: Midgut in vitro systems and cell culture
   
  Session coordinators   Basil Arif (Canadian Forest Service, Canada); Yongping Huang (Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, China)
  Invited Speaker 1   Robert Granados, The Boyce Thompson Institute at Cornell University, USA, email: rg28@cornell.edu
  Title   Insect in vitro Culture Systems
  Invited Speaker 2  

Guy Smagghe, Ghent University, Belgium, email: guy.smagghe@ugent.be

  Title   Use of cell cultures in the study of compounds with insect midgut action

Session 2: Midgut structure, physiology and molecular biology
   
  Session coordinators   Reddy Palli (University of Kentucky, USA), Weihua Xu (Zhongshan University, China)
  Invited Speaker 1  

Walter Terra, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. email: warterra@iq.usp.br
  Title   Plasma Membranes of Insect Midgut Cells
  Invited Speaker 2  

Reddy Palli, University of Kentucky, USA,email: rpalli@email.uky.edu
  Title   Molecular analysis of midgut remodeling
  Invited Speaker 3  

Xiaoya Chen, SIPPE, CAS, China, Email: xychen@sibs.ac.cn

  Title   Silencing insect defense genes by RNA interference from plant to midgut

Session 3: Midgut peritrophic membrane and insecticide targets
   
  Session coordinators   Wang Ping (Cornell University, USA), Chen-Zhu Wang (Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy Sciences, China)
  Invited Speaker 1   Wang Ping, Cornell University, USA. email: pw15@cornell.edu
  Title  

The peritrophic membrane -- a midgut barrier interacting with host plants and microbial pathogens
  Invited Speaker 2   Dawn Luthe, Pennsylvania State University, USA. Email:dsl14@psu.edu
  Title   The Plant Bites back:A Maize Cysteine Protease that Attacks the Caterpillar Midgut

Session 4: Interaction between insect midgut and plants
   
  Session coordinators   Le Kang (Beijing Institute of Zoology, China); John Gatehouse (University of Durham, UK)
  Invited Speaker 1   John Gatehouse University of Durham, UK, email: j.a.gatehouse@durham.ac.uk
  Title   Exploiting interactions of plant proteins with the insect midgut to produce novel insecticides
  Invited Speaker 2   Gary Felton,Pennsylvania State University, USA. email:gwf10@psu.edu
  Title  

Induction of Antinutritional Plant Defense Proteins by Insect Feeding
  Invited Speaker 3   Keyan Salzman, Texas A&M University, USA, email: ksalzman@tamu.edu
  Title  

Gaining Insight into Insect Counter-Defense Regulation


Session 5: Interaction between midgut-insecticide
   
  Session coordinators   Sarjeet Gill (CaliforniaUniversity, Riverside, USA）, Yi Pang (Zhongshan University, China)
  Invited Speaker 1   Sarjeet Gill, CaliforniaUniversity, Riverside, USA, email: gill@mail.ucr.edu
  Title   Mosquito Midgut: Interaction with Toxins and Viruses
  Invited Speaker 2   Qili Feng, South China Normal University, China, email:qlfeng@scnu.edu.cn
  Title  

Gene and protein expression profiles in the midgut of Spodoptera litura during molting and metammorphosis


Session 6: Interactions of the insect midgut with pathogens
   
  Session coordinators   Marcelo Jacobs-lorena (Johns Hopkins university, USA), Zhihong Hu (Wuhan Insitute of Virology, China)
  Invited Speaker 1   Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, Johns Hopkins university, USA,email: mlorena@jhsph.edu
  Title   Molecular Interactions Between Plasmodium and Its Mosquito Vector
  Invited Speaker 2   Basil Arif, Canadian Forest Service, Canada, email:barif@NRCan.gc.ca
  Title  

The Role of Midgut Enzymes in the Infectivity of Baculoviruses
  Invited Speaker 3   Just Vlak , Wageningen University, Netherlands, email:just.vlak@wur.nl
  Title  

Functional Significance of Invertebrate Virus Peroral Infectivity



Session 7: Midgut functional genomics
   
  Session coordinators   Karl Gordon(CSIRO, Australia),Qingyou Xia (Southwest UniversityChina)
  Invited Speaker 1   Karl Gordon, Australia CSIRO, email:Karl.Gordon@csiro.au
  Title   From digestion to defence - functional genomics of the midgut of the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera
  Invited Speaker 2   Qingyu Xia, Southwest University, China, email: xiaqy@swu.edu.cn
  Title   Insight into the midgut of domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori: genome-wide transcriptional profiling and proteomics

Session 8: Midgut proteomics
   
  Session coordinators   Michael Adang (University of Georgia, USA), Qili Feng (South China Normal University, China)
  Invited Speaker 1   Michael Adang, Georgia University， USA, email:adang@uga.edu
  Title   The Insect Midgut Proteome and Bacillus thuringiensis Toxin Interactions
  Invited Speaker 2   Hideyuki Kajiwara, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan, email: kajiwara@affrc.go.jp
  Title   Proteomic analysis of silkworm and the construction of its database

 
 
 
 
 

中国，广州，华南师范大学 2008年4月7-11日 

   
 

South China Normal University,Guangzhou,China April 7-11, 2008