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The 2018 International Congress of Invertebrate Pathology And The 2018 International Congress of Invertebrate Pathology and Microbial Control and the 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology QT Gold Coast // Sun 12 Aug - Thu 16 Aug 2018 [Type here] 51st ANNUAL MEETING of the SOCIETY FOR INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY and INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY AND MICROBIAL CONTROL 12-16 August 2018 QT GOLD COAST HOTEL SURFERS PARADISE QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA 2 2018 SIP Meeting At a glance Workshop and Symposia At a glance Programme for SIP2018 Sunday 12 August 2018 8:30-17.00 SIP Executive meeting Malibu Registration Hotel foyer Cloudbreak, Northbreak and 13.00-17.00 Bacterial Division Workshop: Protein specificity and its impact on safety and resistance Southbreak 17.30 - 19.30 Welcome Mixer Stingray bar Monday 13 August 2018 8.00-8.30 Welcome Pipeline 8.30-10.00 Founders lecture Pipeline 10-10.30 Morning tea Plenary Symposium. Insect pathology and microbial control – progress and prospects 10.30-12.30 in the Asia-Pacific region Pipeline 12.30-1.30 Lunch (lunch is NOT supplied) 12.30-1.30 JIP meeting Southbreak Nematode Division Symposium 13.30-15.30 Pipeline Use of Parasitic Nematodes to Control Pine-Killing Woodwasps Fungi Contributed papers 1 Maui 3 Viruses Contributed papers 1 Maui 1&2 15.30-16.00 Afternoon tea Microbial Control Division Symposium The challenge of CRB-G to palm production in 16.00-18.00 Pipeline the Pacific and prospects for microbial control. Beneficial Invertrebrates and Microsporidia contributed papers 1 Maui 1&2 18.00-20.00 ICTV Baculoviridae/Nudiviridae Study Group Southbreak 20.00-22.00 Microbial Control Division business meeting Maui 2 Viruse Division business meeting Maui 3 Microsporida Division business meeting Northbreak Bacteria Division business meeting Cloudbreak Tuesday 14 August 2018 Virus Division Symposium 8.00-10.00 Pipeline Interactions between arboviruses and their vectors Bacteria Contributed papers 1 Maui 1&2 10-10.30 Morning tea Bacterial Division Symposium 10.30-12.30 Insect resistance mechanisms to Bt. Pipeline Virus Contributed papers 2 Maui 1&2 12.30-17.00 Excursions 17.00-17.10 BBQ: Buses depart from QT 19.00-22.00 BBQ dinner Wednesday 15 August 2018 8.00-10.00 Bacterial Division Symposium Insecticidal protein structures Pipeline Microbial Control Contributed papers 1 Maui 1 and 2 Viruses Contributed papers 3 Maui 3 10-10.30 Morning tea Diseases of Beneficial Insects Division Symposium 10.30-12.30 Title: Health issues of bee and non-bee pollinators Pipeline Microbial control contributed papers 2 Maui 1&2 12.30-13.30 lunch (lunch is NOT supplied) 12.30-13.30 Nematode Division business meeting Maui 3 13.30-15.30 Posters Conference foyer 15.30-16.00 Afternoon tea 16.00-18.00 Bacteria Contributed papers 2 Pipeline Beneficial Invertrbates and Micosporida continuted papers 2 Maui 3 Fungi Contributed papers 2 Maui 1 and 2 20.00-22.00 DBI Division business meeting Maui 3 Fungi Division business meeting Maui 1 and 2 Thursday 16 August 2018 Fungal Division Symposium 8.00-10.00 Fungus-insect interactions in post genomic era: Advances and perspectives Pipeline Viruses Contributed papers 4 Maui 1&2 Microbial control contributed papers 3 Maui 3 10-10.30 Morning tea 10.30-12.30 SIP General Membership meeting Pipeline 12.30-1.30 Lunch (lunch is NOT supplied) Science careers workshop Maui 3 Cross Divisional Symposium (Virus and Diseases of Beneficial Insects) 13.30-15.30 White Spot Syndrome Virus - Emergence and control Pipeline Nematodes contributed papers 1 Maui 3 Bacteria Contributed papers 3 Maui 1& 2 No sessions 19.00- Conference banquet 3 Programme summary 51st ANNUAL MEETING of the SOCIETY FOR INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY and INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY AND MICROBIAL CONTROL PROGRAMME and ABSTRACTS 12 – 16 AUGUST 2018 QT GOLD COAST HOTEL Surfers Paradise, Australia 4 Programme summary TABLE OF CONTENTS At a glance Page 3 Programme summary Page 5 Society for Invertebrate Pathology Page 8 Programme Page 11 Abstracts Page 36 Author Index Page 134 Attendees Page 5 Programme summary SUNDAY 12 August 2018 The challenge of CRB-G to palm production in the 9.00-17.00 Registration Hotel Foyer Pacific and prospects for microbial control 9.00-17.00 SIP Council Meeting Malibu Progress with control of a virus resistant coconut rhinoceros beetle. Sean. Marshall 13.00-17.00 Workshop Cloudbreak, Northbreak, & Attempted microbial control of coconut rhinoceros Southbreak beetle, Oryctes rhinoceros, Biotype G on Guam Protein specificity and its impact on safety and using Oryctes rhinoceros nudivirus and resistance Metarhizium majus. Aubrey Moore 17.30-19.30 WELCOME MIXER Stingray Bar Biotype and diversity of Oryctes rhinoceros in Japan. Madoka Nakai MONDAY 13 August 2018 CRB damage and resistance assessment in the Palau 08.00-08.30 WELCOME Pipeline Archipelago. Madoka Nakai 08.30-10.00 FOUNDERS LECTURE Pipeline Infectivity of Malaysian Oryctes nudivirus (OrNV) propagated in insect cell line DSIR-HA-1179 Ray Akhurst: A legacy of groundbreaking against the rhinoceros beetle, Oryctes contributions in insect pathology and rhinoceros. Nur Ain Farhah Ros Saidon Khudri nematology. Patricia Stock Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle (CRB) control efforts in oil 10-10.30 MORNING TEA palm: Papua New Guinea (CRB-P) versus Solomon Islands (CRB-G). Mark Ero 10.30-12.30 Plenary Symposium Pipeline The status of Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle, Oryctes Insect Pathology and Microbial Control – progress rhinoceros (L) Scarabaeidae : Dynastinae, in and prospects in the Asia-Pacific region Solomon Islands. Francis Tsatsia Microbial control in New Zealand. Travis Glare Challenge of a new biotype of the coconut rhinoceros Microbial control in pest management and beetle (CRB-G) to the Pacific. Maclean Vaqalo IRMS in Australia. Caroline Hauxwell 16.00-18.00 Beneficials & microsporidia 1 Maui 1 & 2 Progress of Bacillus thuringiensis research and 18.00-20.00 ICTV Nudiviridae Study Group Southbreak application in China. Ming Sun 20.00-22.00 Viruses Business meeting Maui 3 Microbial control as a component of IPM in the 20.00-22.00 Microsporida Business meeting Northbreak production of oil palm in Malaysia. 20.00-22.00 Bacteria Business meeting Cloudbreak Norman Kamarudin 20.00-22.00 Microbial Control business meeting Maui 2 Microbial control for the Pacific Island states. Sean Marshall Tuesday 14 August 2018 08.00-10.00 Symposium (Virus) Pipeline 12.30-13.30 LUNCH (lunch is NOT supplied) Interactions between arboviruses and their vectors Barriers to arbovirus infection in mosquitoes. Rollie 12.30-1.30 JIP MEETING Southbreak Clem 13.30-15.30 Symposium (Nematodes) Pipeline Mosquito and viral determinants that condition host Use of Parasitic Nematodes to Control Pine-Killing specificity, tissue tropisms and transmission: Woodwasps spotlight on the flaviviruses. Lyric Bartholomay Commensal Viruses of Mosquitoes: Host Restriction, Control of sirex using the nematode Beddingia Transmission, and Interaction with Arboviral siricidicola: Past, Present and Future. Pathogens. Jody Hobson-Peters Robin Bedding Contribution of microRNAs in mosquito-virus Mechanisms responsible for Sirex noctilio interactions. Sassan Asgari nematode biocontrol program disruption 8.00-10.00 BACTERIA 1 Maui 1 & 2 in Australia. Angus Carnegie Predicting Sirex biocontrol success in subtropical Australia: can Deladenus 10-10.30 MORNING TEA siricidicola take the heat? Helen Nahrung Genetic diversity in global collection of 10.30-12.30 Symposium (Bacteria) Pipeline Deladenus siricidicola. Katrin Fitza Insect resistance mechanisms to Bt. Potential for non-target effects using biological Combining deleterious ABC transporter C2 alleles of control nematode against Sirex noctilio in independent origin causes field resistance to North America. Ann Hajek insecticidal Bt toxins. Simon Baxter 13.30-15.30 FUNGI 1 Maui 3 Bt Resistance in Australian Insect Pests. Sharon VIRUS 1 Maui 1 & 2 Downes MAPK signaling pathway trans-regulates differential expression of aminopeptidases N and confers 15.30-16.00 AFTERNOON TEA resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ac toxin in diamondback moth. Zhaojiang Guo 16.00-18.00 Symposium (Microbial Control) Pipeline 6 Programme summary Field-evolved resistance to Bt corn in fall armyworm: 10.30-12.30 MICROBIAL CONTROL 2 Maui 1 & 2 mechanism, dispersal and biological implications. Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes 12.30-13.30 LUNCH (lunch is NOT supplied) Mutations of ABC transporters and Bt 12.30-13.30 Nematode Division business meeting resistance in cabbage loopers. Ping Wang Maui 3 Function and role of ATP-binding cassette transporters as a Cry toxins receptor. 13.30-15.30 POSTERS CONFERENCE FOYER Ryoichi Sato 15.30-16.00 AFTERNOON TEA 10.30-12.30 VIRUS 2 Maui 1 & 2 16.00-18.00 BACTERIA 2 Pipeline 12.30-17.00 EXCURSIONS 16.00-18.00 BENEFICIAL & VIRUSES 2 Maui 3 17.00-17.10 BUSES DEPART FROM QT 16.00-18.00 FUNGI 2 Maui 1 & 2 19.00-22.00 BBQ DINNER 20.00-22.00 DBI Division Business Meeting Maui 1 & 2 WEDNESDAY 15 August 2018 20.00-22.00 Fungi Division Business Meeting Maui 3 08.00-10.00 Symposium (Bacteria) Pipeline Insecticidal protein structures THURSDAY 16 August 2018 Cryo-EM structure of an insecticidal toxin–ion 8.00-9.00 Symposium (Fungi) Pipeline channel complex reveals thecomplex molecular basis of allosteric modulation of channel Fungus-insect interactions in post genomic era: gating. Glenn King Advances and perspectives - Genomic and Pleurotolysin: a pore forming toxin from the transcriptomic studies on Beauveria including plant carnivorous oyster mushroom. Michelle associations Dunstone Genomic and transcriptomic studies on Beauveria Lessons from the vertebrate immune system: how including plant associations. Travis Glare the membrane attack complex shoots an Genetic analysis of Beauveria bassiana JEF-007 as a evolutionary moving target. Bradley Spicer biopesticide against bean bug. Se Jin Lee Cryo-EM structures of the pore-forming ABC toxin from Yersinia entomophaga.
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