2009 (Park City, Utah)
-Travel awards:
Kelly Simms, Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of
Florida: "Thripinema fuscum parasitism reduces the vector competency of
Frankliniella fusca to transmit Tomato spotted wilt virus".
John Chaston, Department of Bacteriology, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, "Mutational Analysis Yields Insight into the Role of a
Bacterial Host Association Factor in a Model Animal-Bacterial Mutualism"
2008 (University of Warwick)
-Travel awards:
Benjamin A. McGraw, Department of Entomology, Rutgers University, NJ 08901, USA, "Can endemic entomopathogenic nematode populations be used in conservation biological of the Annual Bluegrass Weevil (Listronotus maculicollis)?".
Ayako Hirao, Department of Biotechnology and Biological control, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany, "Analysis of the population development of S. carpocapsae and S. feltiae in liquid culture".
2007
(Québéc City)
-Travel
awards:
Ming-Min Lee, Department of
Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, “A phylogenetic hypothesis
on the evolution and interactions of Xenorhabdus spp. and their Steinernema hosts”.
Bishwo
Adhikari, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Brigham Young
University, Provo, UT, USA, “Biological control of Hoplia philanthus (Coleptera: Scarabaeidae) using entomopathogenic nematodes”.
2005
(Anchorage)
- Oral
presentation:
Honorable
Mention: Jayne Christen, Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, USA,
“Infection preferences of an entomopathogenic nematode, Steinernema riobrave”.
- Poster:
First
Place: Carolyn Lipke, Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, USA;
“Xenorhabdus nematophila secreted proteases and their role in insect
pathogenesis”.
Second
Place: Xinyi Li, Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University,
USA, “Infectivity of entomopathogenic nematodes and immune responses of their
insect hosts”.
- Travel
award:
Fabienne
Vigneux, Montpellier University, France, “The hemolysin alphaxenorhabdolysin
secreted by pathogenic enterobacteria belongs to a new family of cytotoxins and
triggers apoptosis”.
2004
(Helsinki)
- Oral
presentation:
Honorable
Mention (tie): Lemma Ebssa, Hannover University, Germany, “Does it matter for
entomopathogenic nematodes if thrips pupate at different soil depths, and for
thrips to decide where to pupate if nematodes are around?”.
- Travel
award:
Jennifer
Bauman, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arizona, AZ, Tucson.
Vladmir
Puza, Faculty of Biological Science, University of South Bohemia.
