Tenth Annual Graduate Student Forum
August 20, 2007, Heep Center Room 103
First Place: Christopher Jagge
"GPRdir Transcript Regulation in Female Malphigian Tubules of the Mosquito Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)"
Second Place: Kristie Reddick
"Diversity and Distribution of Solifuges (Solifugae: Arachnida) in Kenya"
Third Place: Hsiao-Ling Liu "Localization of the Vitellogenin Receptor in the Red Imported Fire Ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren"
Student Presentations:
Group I
Maggie Toothaker, "Progress in Evaluating Converted Cotton Race Stocks for Resistance to Whiteflies"
Ricardo Hernandez, "Liriomyza Species Composition and Parasitoid Gills in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas"
Brad Hopkins, "Pyrethroid Insecticide Resistance in Helicoverpa zea (Boddie) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)"
Katrina Menard, "Revealing Australia's Diversity: New Species of Sejanus (Heteroptera: Miridae) described from Western Australia"
Mika D. Cameron, "A Morphological Evaluation of the Sub-Apical Dorsal Notch of the Ovipositor in Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera)"
Group II
Therese A. Catanach, "A Phylogeny of the Leafhopper Genus Flexamia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) Constructed with Morphological and Molecular Characters"
Michelle R. Sanford, "Evolutionary and Ecological Aspects of Associative Learning in Mosquitoes"
Aubrey M. Colvin, "Rank Has Its Privileges: A Taxonomic Revision of Metopius (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)"
Kristie Reddick, "Diversity and Distribution of Solifuges (Solifugae: Arachnida) in Kenya"
Hsiao-Ling Lu, "Localization of the Vitellogenin Receptor in the Red Imported Fire Ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren"
Hyeog Sun Kwon, "Cloning and Expression Analysis of the Diruretic Hormone 31 Receptor cDNA From the Malphigian Tubules of Aedes aegypti Females"
Christopher Jagge, "GPRdir Transcript Regulation in Female Malphigian Tubules of the Mosquito Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)"
Ji-Eun Ahn, "A Molecular Insight into the Transcriptional Regulation of Insect Counter-Defense"