International Congress on Invertebrate Pathology and Microbial Control and the 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology Vancouver, Canada August 9-13, 2015 Society for Invertebrate Pathology 48th Annual Meeting August 9-13, 2015 University of British Columbia Vancouver7 BC West 10th --> To To West 4th --> W E S B R O O K M A L L Walter Gage Pharmacy To Wesbrook Village --> Residence & West Coast Suites Doug Mitchell Student MacInnes War Thunderbird Rec Centre 6 Field Memorial Woodward Sports Centre (SRC) Gym Life IRC Sciences Accommodation Centre Student C6 Walter Gage Residence and West Union Bldg Aquatic Trolley N. W. M A R I N E D R I V E Coast Suites (SUB) Centre Bus Loop Hillel House The Nest Osborne Centre Meeting Space 5 Allard Hall New Alumni E5 The Nest Tennis Centre Centre Chan Breakfast Irving K Barber Centre D Buchanan Hennings E5 Pacic Spirit Cafeteria In The Forest Student Union Building C Beaty Biodiversity Sciences B Clock Tower Museum Centre 4 AERL A Chemistry Mixer Flag Pole B3 Sage Bistro Cecil Green Plaza Park House Koerner Henry Angus Earth Sciences Library Scarfe H.R. MacMillan Frederic Sage Bistro EOS Wood 3 Event Thea’s Lounge Geography CIRS Pad Swing First Nations Longhouse Ritsumeikan House Museum of Liu Institute Anthropology Asian Centre 2 Totem Park Residence Nitobe Memorial Garden Marine Drive Residence --> nical Garden To Bota Place Vanier Residence S. W. M A R I N E D R I V E Bus Loop 1 Parking Public Washrooms G6 UBC Hospital F4/5 UBC CAMPUS SECURITY II J SIP 2015 Vancouver Meeting at a Glance SATURDAY – August 8 ● How sea stars get wasted: Evidence of a viral 14:00 – 20:00 Registration Gage Reception etiology and host response to sea star wasting disease – C. Burge SUNDAY – August 9 ● Symbiont-mediated defense against parasitic 7:30 – 18:00 Registration Gage Reception nematodes in Drosophila – S. Perlman 8:30 – 17:30 OECD-CRP Symposium 2301 ● No nematode is an island: Interactions between ‘Microsporidia in the animal to human food entomopathogenic nematodes and other chain: An international symposium to organisms – C. Griffin address chronic epizootic disease’ ● The ecology of virulence in insect associated 9:00 – 17:00 SIP Council meeting 2504 bacteria: Field experiments and experimental 10:30 – 11:00 BREAK evolution – B. Raymond 12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH (on your own) 12:20 – 13:30 LUNCH 12:30 – 14:00 J. Invertebr. Pathol. Board lunch meeting 2508 13:00 – 17:00 Workshop: Bacteria Division 2306/9 14:00 – 16:00 Symposium: Microsporidia/Diseases 2301 ‘Regulatory considerations for the of Beneficial Invertebrates commercialization of new insecticidal ‘Microsporidia as emerging pathogens’ proteins’ ● The complex relationship between microsporidia and fungi – P. Keeling *all meetings ● Current insights on Bt insecticidal protein ● Fish microsporidians: Emerging pathogens or are in specificity and future directions – J. Jurat-Fuentes, N. Crickmore emerging knowledge? – M. Freeman The Nest* ● Proteins 101: structure, function, and evolution ● Understanding phylogenetic relationships among – J. Jez relationships among species in the ● Protein sequences, structures and functions Nosema/Vairimorpha clade: What does genetic similarity say about host switching in the – rules for divergence and rules for conservation – Adam Godzik microsporidia? – W-F. Huang ● ● Modelling of insecticidal toxins and their Emergent pathogens of invertebrates: Environmental sampling to identify novel parasite potential interactions: Challenges and aspirations – C. Berry, N. Crickmore lineages – B. Williams ● Investigations into the composition of the ● Safety considerations derived from Cry34/35Ab1 microsporidian polar tube – L. Weiss structure and function – K. Narva, N. Storer, R. Herman 14:00 – 16:00 Contributed Papers 14:40 – 15:00 BREAK Bacteria 1 2306/9 ● Case study of a novel wCRW insecticidal protein Microbial Control 1 2311 from Chromobacterium sp. – K. Sampson 16:00 – 16:30 BREAK ● Biochemical characterization of parasporin-4 16:30 – 18:30 Symposium: Fungi/Microbial Control 2301 and effects of the pro-parasporin-4diet on the ‘The (underestimated) value of applied health of mice – S. Okumura, H. Kogo, research: Moving the theoretical to the K. Inouye, E. Mizuki practical’ ● Considerations for the safety assessment of novel ● Why biopesticides sometimes fail – R. Gwynn, insect control proteins: A regulatory perspective M. Brownbridge, T. Glare – P. MacDonald ● Multiple roles, so what should we measure? An ● New insecticidal proteins: Optimization and ecological approach to promote the contribution specificity – W. Moar, J. Haas, A.Evdokimov, J. of fungal entomopathogens in pest management Baum, A. Silvanovich, Y. Yin, D. Bowen, within the agro ecosystem – N. Meyling K. Glenn, A. Evan ● Research and development of biological crop 16:20 – 17:00 DISCUSSION protection products – R royalty, D.Manker ● Adapting field trials for microorganisms – in 18:00 – 21:00 Mixer Sage Bistro MONDAY – August 10 practice – E. Ladurner ● How do we improve efficacy monitoring or 7:30 – 18:00 Registration Outside Great Hall biopesticides? – T. Glare, M. Brownbridge, 8:00 – 10:00 Opening Ceremony Great Hall R. Gwynn Todd Kabaluk & Mark Goettel 16:30 – 18:30 Contributed Papers – Organizing Committee Viruses 1 2306/9 Peter Krell – President, SIP Microsporidia 2311 Welcome Addresses; Award Presentations 20:00 – 22:00 Division meetings Microbial Control 2301 Founders’ Lecture Diseases of Beneficial Invertebrates 2306/9 James Becnel – Chair of Founders’ Lecture + Workshop: Environmental DNA Committee TUESDAY – August 11 Honoree: Phyllis T. Johnson 8:00 – 10:00 Symposium: Bacteria 2301 Lecturer: G. Stentiford ‘Mechanisms of field resistance to Bt pesticides and Bt-crops’ ● Bt resistance in Plutella – too many trees? 10:00 – 10:30 BREAK – N. Crickmore 10:30 – 12:30 Plenary Symposium Great Hall ● Multiple resistance mechanisms selected in ‘Insect pathogens in nature: Ecology and cabbage looper populations resistant to Dipel – P. Wang evolution’ ● Pink bollworm resistance to Bt cotton: Similar mechanisms in the lab and the field – J. Fabrick 4 ● Mechanism of Spodoptera frugiperda resistance ● Metarhizium as a multifactorial plant growth to Cry1Fa in Bt corn – J. Jurat-Fuentes promoter – R. St. Leger ● Characterization of potential resistance 14:00 – 15:00 Nematodes Workshop 2311 mechanisms to Cry3Bb1 in western corn rootworm 14:00 – 16:00 Contributed Papers (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera) – J. Haas Viruses 4 2306/9 8:00 – 10:00 Contributed Papers 16:00 – 16:30 BREAK Diseases of Beneficial Invertebrates 1 2311 16:30 – 18:30 POSTER SESSION Great Hall Viruses 2 2306/9 20:00 – 22:00 Division meetings: 10:00 – 10:30 BREAK Fungi 2311 10:30 – 11:30 Contributed Papers Viruses + Workshop: Definition of Bacteria 2 2301 2301 virus species concept Diseases of Beneficial Invertebrates 2 2311 Microsporidia + Workshop: War and 11:45 Excursion+BBQ buses leave Gage Residence Peace: the comparative impact of 15:30 BBQ only buses leave Gage Residence morphology- and sequence-based 2314 18:00 5k race Cheakamus Center phylogenies on practical taxonomy and 19:00 BBQ Cheakamus Center evolutionary history of microsporidia WEDNESDAY – August 12 Bacteria 2306 8:00 – 10:00 Symposium: Viruses 2301 Nematodes 2309 ‘Advances in host and insect virus genomics’ THURSDAY – August 13 ● Macro- and Micro-evolutionary trends in 8:00 – 10:00 Symposium: Nematodes 2301 baculoviruses – J. Jehle ‘Recent advances in entomopathogenic ● Alphabaculoviruses: Host transcriptome responses nematode infection behavior: inside and to infection – G. Blissard outside’ ● Polydnaviruses: From discovery to current insights – M. Strand ● Advances in entomopathogenic nematode dispersal and host-finding behavior ● Disctrovirus – hijacking the host translational machinery – E. Jan – D. Shapiro-Ilan ● Sex, age and following the leader drive infection ● Insect metagenomics-based discovery of novel, small RNA viral genomes – S. Liu dynamics of entomopathogenic nematodes 8:00 – 9:45 Contributed Papers – E. Lewis Microbial Control 2 2306/9 ● Impact of infection behavior on lethal male fighting in Steinernema – C. Griffin Nematode 1 2311 ● The stability of virulence in insect parasitic 10:00 – 10:30 BREAK nematodes is determined by social interactions 10:30 – 12:30 Symposium: Nematodes/Bacteria 2306/9 – B. Raymond ‘Intracellular response to bacteria and 8:00 – 10:00 Contributed Papers bacterial toxins’ Fungi 2 2306/9 ● Insecticidal action, cellular interactions and Microbial Control 3 2311 response of combinations of Photorhabdus-insect related (Pir) and Bacillus thuringiensis Crystal 10:00 – 10:30 BREAK (Cry) toxins – A. Castagnola 10:30 – 12:30 SIP Business Meeting Great Hall ● Response to Cry1Ac intoxication in midgut cells 12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH (on your own) of Heliothis virescens larvae – C. Oppert 14:00 – 16:00 Symposium: Microbial Control 2301 ● Syringe-like infection mechanism of bacterial ABC ‘Synergies enabling the registration & toxins revealed in molecular detail adoption of biological pest controls – the role – C. Gatsogiannis of governments, academic programmes, and ● Caenorhabditis elegans nck-1 plays a distinct and specific role in defense against bacterial pore- industry’ ● Facilitating the registration and adoption of forming toxins – A. Sitaram ● The cell biology of Wolbachia - filarial nematode biological pest controls in Canada – T. Laengle ● interactions and the dark side of symbiosis The IR-4 biopesticide and organic support program – B. Barney – W. Sullivan ● How does academia