Hemipteran-Plant Interactions Symposium
Piracicaba / SP, Brazil
11 to 14 July, 2011
PROGRAMME
SUNDAY, JULY 10
7:00-9:30 pm Welcome reception (at Bristol Hotel)
MONDAY, JULY 11
7:45 am
Registration starts
8:45 am
Opening ceremony
Welcome by the Organization of the Hemipteran-Plant
Interactions Symposium
9:15 am
Keynote
address: Reliability of EPGs in answering plant-insect questions.
Freddy Tjallingii,
Wageningen Univ., Dept. Plant
Sciences, Lab. Entomology, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
10:15 am
Coffee Break
Plenary Session
Hemipteran-Plant Pathogen Interactions
10:45 am
Keynote
address: Early molecular pathways
triggered upon plant-insect interaction can be used by viruses to
improve transmission.
Stéphane Blanc, UMR BGPI, INRA-CIRAD-AgroM, Montpellier, France.
11:30 am
Cauliflower mosaic virus uses the plant host cell to sense the
aphid vector and optimise its own transmission.
Alexandre Martinière1,2; Stéphane
Blanc1; Martin Drucker1.
1UMR 385 BGPI, Montpellier, France;
2Plant Endomembrane Research, Oxford Brookes
Univ., Oxford, UK.
11:50 am
The effects of a viral silencing suppressor
protein on plant-aphid interactions.
John Carr, Dept. Plant Sciences, Univ. Cambridge,
Cambridge, UK.
12:10 pm
Do all noncirculative aphid-transmitted viruses share the same
retention sites?
A.
Moreno; B. Dader; Alberto Fereres.
Instituto de Ciencias Agrárias.
CSIC. Madrid, Spain
12:30 pm
Lunch
2:30 pm
Plant and aphid partners of poleroviruses: role
in virus transmission by aphids?
Sylvaine Boissinot1,
Baptiste Monsion1, Bouchaïb Bencharki1,2;
Véronique Brault1.
1UMR INRA-UDS, Colmar, France;
2Hassan 1st University Applied Biology.
2:50 pm
Transmission of Lettuce
infectious yellows virus is determined by a virus capsid protein
mediated virion retention mechanism in the foregut of whitefly vectors.
James Ng1; Angel Chen1; Greg Walker2.
1Dept. Plant Pathology and Microbiology,
2Dept. Entomology, University of California, Riverside, USA.
3:10 pm
Whitefly vector (Bemisia tabaci) proteome
elucidation: First steps toward unravelling the complexity of
whitefly-begomovirus interactions.
Judith K. Brown1; Breci, L2; Saripalli, C1;
He, R.3; Cicero, J.1; Nelson, W.M.4;
Tsprailis, G.5; Gang, D.R.3; Soderlund, C.4.
1Dept. Plant Sciences, 2Dept.
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Univ. Arizona, 3Inst. Biological
Chemistry, Washington State Univ.; 4BIO5 Institute;
5Center for Toxicology, University of Arizona. USA.
3:30 pm
Bemisia tabaci
secondary symbionts: their functional roles in virus transmission and
whitefly biology.
Murad Ghanim. Inst. Plant Protection, Dept. Entomology, Israel.
3:50 pm
Targeting the key protein responsible for
insect mediated viral transmission: an approach towards resistance
development in plants.
Sampa Das1, Prasenjit
Saha1, Santanu Banerjee1, Indranil Dasgupta2.
1Division of Plant Biology, Bose Inst.,
Kolkata, India; 2Dept. Plant Molecular Biology, Univ. Delhi
South, India.
4:10 pm
Coffee Break
4:40 pm
Regulation of host switching and transmission
in Xylella fastidiosa.
Rodrigo P.P. Almeida1; Nabil Killiny3; Steven
Lindow2.
1Dept. Environmental Science, Policy and
Management; 2Dept. Plant and Microbial Biology, Univ.
California, Berkeley, USA; 3Citrus Research and Education
Center, Dept. Microbiology and Cell Science, Univ. Florida, Lake Alfred,
USA. .
5:00 pm
Host-plant determines the phytoplasma
acquisition and transmission competence by leafhopper vectors.
Domenico Bosco1, Luciana Galetto2, Cristina
Marzachì2.
1Università degli Studi di Torino, DI.VA.P.R.A, Grugliasco
Italy; 2Istituto di Virologia Vegetale, CNR, Torino, Italy.
5:20 pm
A phytoplasma effector targets specific plant
transcription factors to promote progeny production of phytoplasma
leafhopper vectors.
Akiko Suggio, Heather N. Kingdom, Allyson MacLean, Victoria M. Grieve,
Saskia A. Hogenhout.
Dept. Disease and Stress Biology, The John Innes Centre,
Norwich, UK.
5:40 pm
Latent period of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ in Diaphorina citri.
Maria Cristina C. Rappussi1, Clederson Ferreira1,
Mariana B. Esteves1, Fernanda E. Nascimento1,
Rafael S. Gonçalves2, Helvécio D. Coletta-Filho2,
João Roberto S. Lopes1.
1Univ. São Paulo - ESALQ, Depto. Entomol. Acarol.,
Piracicaba, SP, Brazil; 2Apta Citros Sylvio Moreira, IAC, Cordeirópolis, SP, Brazil.
TUESDAY, JULY 12
Plenary Session
Phloem physiology and phloem-feeding insects
8:30 am
Keynote address: Transport of
nutrients and defensive compounds in the phloem.
Robert Turgeon, Dept. Plant Biology, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY USA.
9:15 am Phloem-feeders versus phloem sealing mechanisms.
Gregory Walker, Dept. Entomology, Univ. California, Riverside, USA.
9:35 am
Influence of a fatty acid desaturase on
plant-aphid interactions.
Fiona
L. Goggin1; Carlos Avila1; Lingling Jia1;
L. Milenka Arevalo-Soliz1; Godshen Palliparambil1;
Zhaorigetu Chen1; Duroy Navarre2.
1Univ. Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA;
2USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Washington State Univ.,
Prosser, WA, USA.
9:55 am
Small RNA responses to aphid feeding in
resistant and susceptible interactions.
James A. Anstead; Sampurna Sattar; Gary A. Thompson.
College of Agricultural Sciences, Pennsyslvania State Univ.
Pennsylvania, USA.
10:15 Coffee Break
10:45 am
A facilitated glucose/fructose transporter of
the phloem-sap feeding insect, the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens.
Singo Kikuta1,2,3, Takahiro Kikawada1, Yuka
Hagiwara-Komoda1, Nobuhiko Nakashima1, Hiroaki
Noda1,2.
1National Inst. Agrobiological Sciences,
Insect Division, Tsukuba, Japan; 2Graduated Sch Frontier
Sciences, Univ. Tokyo, Chiba, Japan; 3Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science, Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
11:00 am
Characterizing feeding behavior of Acyrthosiphon pisum clones on host
and non-host plant species by the electrical penetration graph (EPG)
technique.
Alexander Schwarzkopf, Jonathan Gershenzon, Grit Kunert.
Max Planck Inst. for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany.
11:15 am
Feeding behaviour and performance studies on
different populations of the black currant - lettuce aphid Nasonovia ribisnigri on resistant
and susceptible lettuce cultivars.
Cindy J.M. ten Broeke, Joop J. A. van Loon, Marcel Dicke.
Lab. Entomology, Wageningen Univ., Wageningen, The
Netherlands.
11:30 am
The disruption of primary endosymbionts of Myzus persicae influences the
aphid feeding behavior.
Cristina R. Machado Assefh1, Adriana E. Alvarez2.
1Univ. Nacional de Salta, Argentina;
2CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
11:45 am
Resistance to cabbage whitefly in Brassica oleracea.
Colette Broekgaarden, Roeland Voorrips,
Ben Vosman.
Wageningen UR Plant Breeding, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
12:00 pm
Discussion
12:20 pm LUNCH
Plenary Session
Xylem physiology and xylem-feeding insects
2:00 pm
Keynote
address:The xylem as a target for hemipteran herbivores.
Jeremy Pritchard, School of Biosciences, Univ.
Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
2:45 pm
Some metabolic adaptations of insects that feed
on xylem fluid.
Peter C. Andersen; Brent V. Brodbeck.
NFREC-Quincy, Univ. Florida, Quincy, Florida, USA.
3:05 pm
Xylem nutrient utilization and the life history
of sharpshooter leafhoppers.
Brent V. Brodbeck; Peter. C. Andersen.
NFREC-Quincy, Univ. Florida, Quincy, Florida, USA.
3:25 pm
How do sharpshooter leafhoppers feed and
survive on nutritionally depauperate xylem fluid?
Elaine Backus, USDA-ARS, Crop Diseases, Pests & Genetics Research, Parlier, CA, USA.
3:45
Coffee Break
4:15 pm
Evolution of xylem-feeding in Auchenorrhyncha,
with emphasis on sharpshooter leafhoppers.
Daniela M. Takiya1; Roman A. Rakitov2; Gabriel
Mejdalani3; Dmitry A. Dmitriev2; James N. Zahniser2;
Michael D. Webb4; Christopher H. Dietrich2.
1Lab. Entomologia, Dept. Zoologia, Inst. Biologia, Univ. Fed.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 2Illinois Natural
History Survey, Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign,
IL, U.S.A; 3Dept. Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Univ. Fed. Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil; 4Dept. Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London, UK.
4:35 pm
Applying aphids as biosensors for investigating
the dynamic distribution of systemic insecticides in plants.
Anke Buchholz; Roman Schäfer; Caroline Hess; Philippe
Camblin.
Syngenta Crop Protection AG, Stein, Switzerland.
5:00-6:30 pm Poster Presentations
Poster boards are provided and posters must be set up no
later than 2:00 pm on the first day of the conference
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13
Plenary Session
Plant physiological and molecular responses to hemipteran
feeding
8:30 am
Keynote
address: Hemipteran feeding and plant defense responses: From
cellular destruction to stealthy feeding.
Linda Walling, Dept. Botany and
Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology and Center for Disease
Vector Research, Univ. California, Riverside, USA.
9:15 am
Distinct and common requirements for Mi-1-mediated resistance to
aphids and root-knot nematodes.
Isgouhi Kaloshian1,2,3; Sophie Mantelin1; Kishor
Bhattarai1; Thomas Eulgem3,4; Hsuan-Chieh Peng1.
1Dept. Nematology; 2Center for
Disease Vector Research; 3Center for Plant Cell Biology;
4Dept. Botany and Plant Sciences, Univ. California, Riverside,
USA.
9:35 am
Molecular basis of host defense against green
peach aphid.
Vijay Singh1; Joe Louis1;
Hossain Ali Mondal1; Vamsi Nalam1; Brian Ayre1;
John Reese2;
Jyoti Shah1.
1Dept. Biological Sciences, Univ. North Texas, Denton, USA.;
Dept. Entomology, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, USA.
9:55 am
Functional characterization of effector
proteins that modulate plant-insect interactions.
Saskia Hogenhout, Dept. Disease and
Stress Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK.
10:15 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am
Dissecting resistance to aphids (Acyrthosiphon species) using the
model legume Medicago truncatula.
Katherine G. Zulak; Lars G. Kamphuis; Lingling Gao; Sumin Guo; Judith
Lichtenzveig; John P. Klingler; Karam B. Singh.
CSIRO Plant Industry Floreat, Wembley, Australia.
11:05 am
Tomatoes that repels whiteflies.
Petra Bleeker1; Paul
Diergaarde2; Martin de Vos2; Marcel Prins2;
Michel Haring1; Robert Schuurink1.
1Dept. Plant
Physiology, SILS, Univ. Amsterdam, 2Keygene NV, Wageningen,
The Netherlands.
11:25 am
Herbivory by a phloem-feeding insect inhibits
floral volatile production.
Martín Pareja1,2; Erika Qvarfordt2; Ben
Webster1; Michael A. Birkett3; John A. Pickett3;
Robert T. Glinwood1.
1Dept. Ecology, Swedish Univ.
Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden; 2Dept. Entomologia,
Univ. Fed. Lavras, MG, Brazil; 3Centre for Sustainable Pest
and Disease Management, Rothamsted Research, UK.
11:40 am
The pamp-triggered immunity response is
involved in plant defense response to aphid attack and is suppressed by
an aphid effector.
David Prince; Saskia Hogenhout.
Dept. Disease and Stress Biology, The John Innes Centre,
Norwich, UK.
12:00 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm
LUNCH
Plenary Session
Other modes of piercing-sucking feeding
2:15 pm
Keynote
address: Beyond Vascular Tissue: Tactics for feeding on parenchyma,
epidermis, and reproductive structures of plants.
Paula Levin Mitchell, Dept. Biology,
Winthrop Univ., Rock Hill, USA.
3:00 pm
Cell rupture feeding by Empoasca and Lygus spp. and the causes of their
plant damage.
Elaine Backus, USDA-ARS, Crop
Diseases, Pests & Genetics Research, Parlier, CA, USA.
3:20 pm
Those Crazy Coreids! What EPG tells us about
squash bug feeding behavior.
Astri Wayadande, Dept. Entomology & Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State Univ.,
Stillwater, OK, USA.
3:40 pm
Phloem or xylem feeding? Use of vegetative and
reproductive plant parts and tissues by two large neotropical coreids.
Daniela Rodrigues;
Diana S. Sampaio; Rosy M. dos S. Isaias; Gilson R. P. Moreira.
Instituto de Biologia, Dept. Ecologia, Univ. Fed. Rio de
Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
4:00 pm
Coffee Break
4:30 pm
Dispelling the rasper myth and investigating
how virus infection changes thrips feeding behavior.
Candice Stafford, Univ. California,
Davis, USA.
4:50 pm
Heteropteran Symbionts: Recent advances and
perspectives.
Simone
Prado, EMBRAPA Meio Ambiente,
Jaguariúna, SP – Brazil.
5:10 pm
Jumping plant-lice and host plants interaction, damages on cultivated plants and
forest timbers in Cameroon.
Joseph Lebel Tamesse; Victor Joly Dzokou; Wenceslas Yana; Yves Patrick Mveyo
Ndankeu; Laurentine Soufo; Elisabeth Noubissi; Indou Mapon Nsangou.
Univ. Yaounde I, Higher Teachers Training College, Lab.
Zoology, Yaounde, Cameroon.
5:30 pm
Discussion
6:00 pm
Adjournment
8:00 pm
Farewell Dinner
THURSDAY, JULY 14
8:30 Half-a-day or day tours in Piracicaba and surroundings.