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Date |
Morning
(8:30-12:00) |
Afternoon
(2:30-5:30) |
Evening
(8:00-9:30) |
April 7,
Monday |
Registration |
Registration and pre-meeting city tour |
Welcome reception |
April 8, Tuesday |
Session I
Midgut in vitro systems and cell culture |
Session II
Midgut structure, physiology and molecular biology |
Pearl River night tour |
April 9, Wednesday |
Session III
Midgut peritrophic membrane and insecticide targets |
Session IV
Interaction between insect midgut and plants |
Session V
Interactions of the insect midgut with pathogens (1) |
April 10,Thursday |
Session VI
Interactions of the insect midgut with pathogens (2) |
Scientific tour |
Free |
April 11, Friday |
Session VII
Midgut functional genomics |
Sessionn VIII
Midgut proteomics |
Farewell banquet |
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| Detailed Symposium Program |
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Monday, April 7, 2008
| Time |
Activity |
| 08:30-18:00 |
Registration |
| 08:30-18:00 |
City tour |
| 18:30-20:30 |
Welcome reception and dinner |
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Welcome speech by Prof. Guojiang Wang, the President of SCNU |
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Welcome speech by Mr. Royman Wang, the Director of Division of External Cooperation, Department of S & T of Guangdong Province |
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Plenary presentation by Dr. Guoping Zhao |
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
| Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 07:00-08:15 |
Breakfast |
| 08:15-08:30 |
Introductory remarks by organizers |
| 08:30-12:00 |
Session I: Midgut in vitro Systems and Cell Culture
Coordinators: Basil Arif, Yongping Huang |
| 08:30-09:05 |
Robert Granados |
Insect in vitro culture systems |
| 09:05-09:40 |
Guy Smagghe |
Use of cell cultures in the study of compounds with insect midgut action |
| 09:40-10:00 |
Morena Casartelli |
A megalin-like receptor is involved in protein endocytosis by Bombyx mori midgut cells in culture |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Gaulle Le Goff |
Effects of hormone agonists in a lepidopteran cell line Sf9 |
| 10:20-10:40 |
Coffee break |
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| 10:40-12:00 |
Session II: Midgut Structure, Physiology and Molecular Biology
Coordinators: Michael Adang, Weihua Xu |
| 10:40-11:15 |
Reddy Palli |
Molecular analysis of midgut remodeling |
| 11:15-11:50 |
Sarjeet Gill |
Mosquito Midgut: Interaction with Toxins and Viruses |
| 12:00-14:30 |
Lunch and Poster Session |
| 14:30-14:50 |
Angela Lange |
Distribution and function of neuropeptides in midgut endocrine cells of insects |
| 14:50-15:10 |
Ian Orchard |
Diuresis in the blood-gorging bug, Rhodnius prolixus (the vector of Chagas’ disease) |
| 15:10-15:30 |
Chikara Hirayama |
Regioselective formation of 5-O-glucosylated flavonoids and their role in the silkworm, Bombyx mori |
| 15:30-15:50 |
Coffee break |
| 15:50-16:10 |
Que Lan |
Lipid uptake through the midgut in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti |
| 16:10-16:30 |
Nujira Tatun |
Hormonal control of soluble and membrane-bound trehalase activities and gene expression in larval midgut of the bamboo borer, Omphisa fuscidentalis |
| 16:30-16:50 |
Robert Simpson |
The ‘Neutral’ Aminopeptidases of the Lightbrown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana, Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) |
| 16:50-17:10 |
Dwayne Hegedus |
Do serpins play a role in insect midgut physiology? |
| 17:30-20:00 |
Dinner and Poster Session |
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008
| Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 07:00-08:30 |
Breakfast |
| 08:30-12:00 |
Session III: Midgut Peritrophic Membrane and Insecticide Targets
Coordinators: Sarjeet Gill, Chen-Zhu Wang |
| 08:30-09:05 |
Wang Ping |
The peritrophic membrane -- a midgut barrier interacting with host plants and microbial pathogens |
| 09:05-09:40 |
Dawn Luthe |
The plant bites back: a maize cysteine protease that attacks the caterpillar midgut |
| 09:40-10:15 |
John Gatehouse |
The insect midgut – target for orally delivered insecticides |
| 10:15-10:35 |
Coffee break |
| 10:35-10:55 |
Umut Toprak |
Characterization of new proteins from the Mamestra configurata midgut |
| 10:55-11:15 |
Agata Jakubowska |
Identification and recombinant expression of a novel chitin-binding protein from the midgut of the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera |
| 11:15-11:35 |
Vidya Gupta |
Molecular diversity in digestive proteases of Helicoverpa armigera |
| 11:35-11:55 |
Yidong Wu |
Three mutated alleles of a cadherin gene confer resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis toxin Cry1Ac in the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera |
| 12:00-14:30 |
Lunch and Poster Session |
| 14:30-17:35 |
Session IV: Interaction Between Insect Midgut and Plants
Coordinators:Le Kang, Wang Ping |
| 14:30-15:05 |
Xiaoya Chen |
Silencing insect defense genes by RNA interference from plant to midgut |
| 15:05-15:40 |
Gary Felton |
Caterpillar secretions and the induction of antinutritional plant proteins |
| 15:40-16:00 |
Coffee break |
| 16:00-16:35 |
Keyan Zhu-Salzman |
Gaining Insight into Insect Counter-Defense Regulation |
| 16:35-16:55 |
Yonghong Hu |
Cloning, identification and characterization of a glucose oxidase-like gene expressed in the labial salivary gland of Helicoverpa armigera |
| 16:55-16:15 |
Kotaro Konno |
Mulberry defense by alkaloidal glycosidase inhibitors in latex and counteradaptation of Bombyx mori by inhibitor-insensitive glycosidases in midgut and other tissues |
| 16:15-16:35 |
Ashok Giri |
Identification and characterization of insect proteinase inhibitor genes from plants |
| 16:35-17:55 |
Martin Erlandson |
Midgut proteases of larval Mamestra configurata (bertha armyworm):Gene characterization and analysis of protease adaption on artificial and plant diets |
| 18:00-19:30 |
Dinner and Poster Session |
| 19:30-21:30 |
Session V:Interactions of the Insect Midgut with Pathogens (1)
Coordinators:Zhihong Hu, Yi Pang |
| 19:30-20:05 |
Marcelo Jacobs-lorena |
Molecular interactions between plasmodium and its mosquito vector |
| 20:05-20:25 |
Yogesh Shouche |
Transcriptome analysis of Plasmodium-infected and uninfected midgut tissue of adult female Anopheles stephensi |
| 20:25-20:45 |
Lee Haines |
Unravelling the mysteries of vector competence in the tsetse fly |
| 20:45-21:05 |
Daniel Selvaraj |
Midgut histopathology of Corcyra cephalonica Stainton (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) larvae infected with Bacillus thuringiensis Kurstaki (Berliner) |
| 21:05-21:25 |
Salvador Herrero |
REPAT, a novel family of proteins from Spodoptera exigua involved in the response to Bacillus thuringiensis and baculovirus |
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
| Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 07:00-08:30 |
Breakfast |
| 08:30-12:15 |
Session VI: Interactions of the Insect Midgut with Pathogens (2)
Coordinators: Karl Gordon, Reddy Palli |
| 08:30-09:05 |
Basil Arif |
The role of midgut enzymes in the infectivity of baculoviruses |
| 09:05-09:40 |
Just Vlak |
Functional significance of invertebrate virus peroral infectivity |
| 09:40-10:00 |
Coffee break |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Zhihong Hu |
Functional studies of per os infectivity factors of Helicoverpa armigera single nucleocapsid nucleopolyhedrovirus |
| 10:20-10:40 |
Keiko Kadono-Okuda |
Molecular genetics of Bombyx densovirus resistance genes expressed in the midgut |
| 10:40-11:00 |
Yongping Huang |
Resistance of silkworm to DNV virus in the gut system |
| 11:00-11:20 |
Ahmad Dezianian |
In vivo investigation on contamination comparison of eggs and potato tubers in Phthorimea operculella granulovirus (PTM) multiplication |
| 11:20-11:40 |
Yogesh Shouche |
Midgut bacterial diversity of Aedes mosquitoes and its role in transmission of dengue virus |
| 11:40-12:00 |
Dalial Freitak |
The role of the midgut in the immune response of an insect herbivore (Trichoplusia ni, Lepidoptera) |
| 12:00-14:30 |
Lunch and Poster Session |
| 14:30-18:30 |
Visit University City of Guangzhou and Baomo Garden |
| 18:30-20:00 |
Dinner and Poster Session |
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Friday, April 11, 2008
| Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 07:00-08:30 |
Breakfast |
| 08:30-12:15 |
Session VII: Midgut Functional Genomics
Coordinators: Marcelo Jacobs-lorena, John Gatehouse |
| 08:30-09:05 |
Karl Gordon |
From digestion to defence – functional genomics of the midgut of the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera |
| 09:05-09:40 |
Qingyu Xia |
Insight into the midgut of domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori: genome-wide transcriptional profiling and proteomics |
| 09:40-10:15 |
Qili Feng |
Gene and protein expression profiles in the midgut of Spodoptera litura during molting and metammorphosis |
| 10:15-10:35 |
Coffee break |
| 10:35-10:55 |
John Christeller |
The nutritional regulation of larval midgut lipase gene expression in the tortricid, Epiphyas postvittana |
| 10:55-11:15 |
Bert Breugelmans |
The first pacifastin-like peptides in Lepidoptera: cloning, tissue distribution, recombinant production and activity |
| 11:15-11:35 |
Heiko Vogel |
Large-scale transcriptional responses of Helicoverpa armigera to chemical and plant-induced stress |
| 11:35-11:55 |
Wenyin He |
Identification of midgut-specific genes expressed in the Spodoptera litura midgut |
| 12:00-14:30 |
Lunch and Poster Session |
| 14:30-18:15 |
Session VIII: Midgut Proteomics
Coordinators: Qingyou Xia, Qili Feng |
| 14:30-15:05 |
Michael Adang |
Proteomic identification of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry toxin binding proteins in midgut membranes from lepidopteran and dipteran larvae |
| 15:05-15:40 |
Hideyuki Kajiwara |
Proteomic analysis of silkworm and the construction of its database |
| 15:40-16:00 |
Coffee break |
| 16:00-16:20 |
Lizhen Chen |
Proteomic analysis of novel Cry1Ac binding proteins in Helicoverpa armigera |
| 17:30-20:00 |
Farewell banquet |
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Poster Presentations
No. |
Presenter |
Title |
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Maeva Giraudo |
Xenobiotic effects in Spodoptera frugiperda midgut and Sf9 cells |
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Larry Gringorten |
Fate of cytotoxic leaf compounds in the lepidopteran midgut – an in vitro study |
3 |
Gaia Cermenati |
Cell penetration and electrophysiological effects of an insect parvovirus in the midgut of Spodoptera frugiperda |
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Abolfazl Asadi Dizaji |
Sensitive to honey bee stings |
5 |
Seiji Miyake |
Molecular cloning, tissue and cellular characterization of two isoforms of aquaporin in silkworms, differently expressed in the hindgut and midgut of Bombyx mori |
6 |
Naoya Wasano |
A novel latex protein confers insect resistance on mulberry trees: Involvement of the chitin-binding protein in larval toxicity in the midgut of caterpillars |
7 |
Jun Yang |
Influence of a protein toxin from Xenorhabdus nematophila on the peritrophic membrane of Helicoverpa armigera |
8 |
Mahaswetta Saikia |
Identification of midgut serine proteinases from the larvae of Antheraea assama (Westwood) reflects host “plant choice” |
9 |
Silvia Caccia |
Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ac toxin binding and pore forming activity in brush border membrane vesicles prepared from anterior and posterior midgut of lepidopteran larvae |
10 |
Khondkar Ehteshamul Kabir |
In vivo entomotoxic and micro-morphological effects of Serratia marcescens chitinase on the larvae of Eri silkworm, Samia ricini (Lepidoptera: Saturindae) as a Biological Pest Control Agent (BCA) (Biopesticides) with special reference to its chitinolytic activity on the chitin-rich structures in the digestive system |
11 |
Luisa Fiandra |
Permeability of lepidopteran larval midgut to the potential insecticidal peptides proctolin and TMOF |
12 |
Qinying Wang |
Effect of an insecticidal toxin from Xenorhabdus nematophila to midgut and proteinases of Plutella xylostella larvae |
13 |
Sungchae Jung |
Synergistic pathogenesis of two entomopathogenic bacteria against the beet armyworm of Spodoptera exigua |
14 |
Daohua Zhou |
Analysis of expressed sequence tags from the midguts of Spodoptera litura (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) at 5th to 6th molting, feeding 6th instar and prepupal stages |
15 |
Jisheng Liu |
Protein expression profiles in the midgut of Spodoptera litura during molting and metamorphosis or feeding on different host plants |
16 |
Xinrong Guo |
Cloning and identification of sterol carrier protein cDNA from the midgut of Spodoptera litura |
17 |
Mingjiong Liao |
Ultrastructural changes and programmed cell death of the midgut epithelium of Spodoptera litura during molting and metammorphosis |
18 |
Mark Teese |
Putative identification of carboxylesterase isozymes from Helicoverpa armigera, the cotton bollworm |
19 |
Changyou Li |
AcMNPV chitinase disrupts the peritrophic membrane and enhances insecticidal activity of Bt and NPV to Helicoverpa armigera |
20 |
Yang Cao |
Programmed cell death in intestinal cells of Bombyx mori during the metamorphosis: morphological observation of autophagy and apoptosis and expression of the ecdysone-regulated genes |
21 |
Yihua Yang |
Molecular evidence of enhanced oxidative detoxification in a pyrethroid-resistant strain of Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) |
22 |
Chi Hao |
Study on mode of action of microcystin-LR on the cotton bollworm Helicoverpa amerigera (HÜBNER) |
23 |
Fangqiang Zheng |
Ultrastructure of larval midgut of Chinese chive fungus gnat Bradysia odoriphaga (Diptera: Sciaridae) |
24 |
Wei Guo |
Molecular cloning and sequencing of SeIIM-8, an insect intestinal mucin cDNA from Spodoptera exigua. |
25 |
Jianghong Li |
Effects of Enhancin, Calcoflour and Congo Red on the Protein Compositions of Peritrophic Membrane and Midgut Physiological Functions of Trichoplusia ni |
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