2010 Upcoming MCD Symposium & Workshop
MCD Symposium: Biological control of corn rootworm (Diabrotica spp.)
Organizer: Ken Narva, Dow AgroSciences
Title: Global perspective on the spread and impact of Diabrotica virgifera virgifera
Speaker: Thomas Guillemaud, INRA of Sophia-Antipolis, France
Title: Control of Western Corn Rootworm with the entomopathogenic nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora
Speaker: Ralf-Udo Ehlers, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel
Title: Challenges to resistance management for transgenic maize targeting Diabrotica spp.
Speaker: Blair Siegfried, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Title: Assessing the impact of Corn rootworm resistant Bt-maize on non-target predatory arthropods in lab and field studies
Speaker: Stefan Rauschen, RWTH-Aachen University
MCD Workshop: Pathogens of arthropods other than insects
Organizer: Surendra Dara, UC Cooperative Extension
Title: Host parasite interaction between ticks and entomopathogenic fungi
Speaker: Itamar Glazer, Agricultural Research Organization, Israel
Title: Iridovirus and Rickettsiella infections of isopods
Speaker: Brian Federici, University of California-Riverside, USA
Title: Pathogens of beneficial arthropods used for biological pest control
Speaker: Susan Bjornson, Saint Mary’s University, Canada
Title: Interactions between a large DNA virus (WSSV) and an invertebrate host (shrimp)
Speaker: Grace Chu-Fang Lo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
BT Workshop 2007
View Presentations
"So Many Strains, So Few Products!
Opportunities and Constraints to
Commercial Development of New Bt
Products:
The Regulatory Challenge"
by Brian Belliveau, Ph.D.
"Natural variation in Bt Cry
toxins"
by Neil Crickmore
"Why Companies Don't Pick Up
New Strains?"
by Ramon Georgis & Prem Warrior
"Criteria for selection and
use of native Bt and
Bs strains"
by Rose Monnerat
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