joint meeting of the International Society for Chemical Ecology and the Chemical Signals in Vertebrates group ISCE-CSiV July 8–12, 2014 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign www.life.illinois.edu/isce-csiv Illini Union Meeting locations: Illini Rooms ABC, Room 210 (General Lounge), and Room 407 ADA Access Art Gallery Colonial Room Event Services Hotel President’s Unisex Front Desk Lounge Elevators Bathroom North Lounge Pine Lounge Room 104 Courtyard Cafe Espresso Royale Stage ADA ADA Access Access M Illini Room W A Illini Room U of I B Credit Location Key Union Jamba Juice Illini Room A W C M B Quad Shop Elevators Quad Cones Elevator C A La Mode ATMs SW SE South Lounge South Lounge Foyer Foyer Tech Zone 210 South Patio 407 ADA Access M Men’s Restroom N MAIN LEVEL W Women’s Restroom Stairs Illini Union Illini Union Accounting Director’s Oce/ Parent Programs Oce M 217 215 211 209 W M 409 407 405 403 Elevators Ballroom Elevators 210 General 408 406 404 402 W Lounge Illini Union Board Marketing M Men’s Restroom M Men’s Restroom 2ND (NORTH) N N Illini Union 4TH (NORTH) W Women’s Restroom Stairs W Women’s Restroom Stairs Illini Union Contents 2 Welcome from May Berenbaum 4 Committee Members 5 General Information 5 Registration Desk Hours 5 Meeting Venues 5 Conference Hotels 6 Transportation 6 Parking 7 Emergency Numbers and Procedures See pages 7 Checking E-mail 8–12 for the full 7 Moderators, Speakers, Poster Presenters, and Exhibitors schedule grid 8 Schedule at a Glance 13 Special Meetings 14 Social Events 16 Abstracts 16 Plenary Presentations 20 Symposium Presentations 65 Concurrent & Open Presentations 124 Poster Presentations 158 Author Index 163 Participant List 175 Map of Conference Meeting Venues and Hotels 176 Sponsors July 8–12, 2014 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1 www.life.illinois.edu/isce-csiv Welcome! Welcome to the twin cities of Urbana and Cham- the university Website (www.illinois.edu/about/ paign, in the heart of east central Illinois. In case about). you’re wondering, they’re not identical twins; their UIUC is a residential campus of classrooms, labo- births were separated by about 30 years. Urbana ratories, libraries, residence halls, and recreational dates back to 1822, when William Tompkins built and cultural facilities with, 200 major buildings the first homestead on the site that 11 years later was on the central campus of 1,783 acres. Nearby are officially platted as a new city, whereas Champaign the University’s 1,650-acre Willard Airport; Robert didn’t come into existence until 1852, when the Illi- Allerton Park, the campus’s 1,768-acre nature and nois Central Railroad laid tracks two miles outside of conference center; and 3,600 acres of agricultural Urbana and residents who settled close by rejected land. An additional 3,700 acres of farmland elsewhere annexation efforts and instead incorporated their in Illinois are used by the College of Agricultural, own city a few years later. Despite the fact that the Consumer, and Environmental Sciences as experi- two cities now share many services (as well as Wright mental fields. The University also owns close to 1,000 Street, the official dividing line) and are cooperative acres of natural areas within a 50-mile radius of the and cordial with each other, referenda to merge campus, held for the express purpose of conducting the two into a single metropolis have been, since ecological research. 1855, consistently and resoundingly defeated. The courthouse in Urbana, the permanent county seat for Champaign County, was frequented in the 1840s About the 2014 ISCE-CSiV Meeting and 1850s by a young lawyer who practiced law in The campus has a long history of hosting scientific the 8th Judicial Circuit. In 1854, this lawyer—named meetings, dating back at least to 1890, when the first Abraham Lincoln—delivered one of his first public meeting of the American Association of Economic speeches against slavery in the county courthouse Entomologists was held in Urbana. The 2014 meeting in downtown Urbana. of the International Society of Chemical Ecology is the 30th annual meeting of the society, the first held About the University of Illinois at in the United States since the 2008 meeting at Penn- Urbana-Champaign sylvania State University and the first held jointly with Chemical Signals in Vertebrates group (www. The lives of the residents of Urbana and Champaign wku.edu/csiv), which is holding its 13th triennial were changed forever when, in 1867, the Illinois meeting. These two groups, dedicated to understand- Industrial University, later to become the University ing the role of chemical communication in the lives of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was chartered. of organisms, share a common history. The Chemical The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a Signals in Vertebrates group originated in a 1976 comprehensive, major public university that is ranked symposium in Saratoga Springs, NY; individuals with among the best in the country. Founded in 1867 as a shared interest in the subject then began a series a state-supported, land-grant institution under the of triennial meetings that continues today. The idea terms of the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 with a for founding an international society of chemical threefold mission of teaching, research, and public ecology was proposed at the first Gordon Confer- service, the UIUC opened its doors to students in 1868 ence on Plant-Herbivore Interactions, held in 1980 and rapidly earned a reputation as an educational in Santa Barbara, California, co-organized by Paul institution of international stature. Today, scholars Feeny of Cornell University and Gerald Rosenthal and educators rank it among a select group of the of University of Kentucky. After the second Gordon world’s great universities. For more information, see Conference on Plant-Herbivore Interactions, in 1983, 2 joint meeting of the International Society for Chemical Ecology and the Chemical Signals in Vertebrates group the Executive Committee convened a meeting to define ISCE’s functions and to plan the first meeting The Story Behind the of the new Society in Austin, TX for 1984. At that meeting, vertebrates featured prominently; among “Elemoth” Logo the 130 participants at the first meeting was Dietland The logo for the 2014 joint meeting of the International Muller-Schwarze, a founding member of CSiV. The Society of Chemical Ecology and the Chemical Signals 30th anniversary of the first meeting (and, as well, in Vertebrates (ISCE-CSiV 2014) is a fictional chimeric the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Journal creature that could be called an “elemoth” -- part Asian of Chemical Ecology, long regarded as the definitive elephant (Elephas maximus) and part cabbage looper journal in the field) thus provides an opportunity to (Trichoplusia ni). The elemoth embodies the fact that evaluate progress over the course of three genera- there are constraints on structure and composition of tions of chemical ecology research. signal chemicals such that the same substance may As for the venue, UIUC has a special place in the be produced by wildly disparate organisms in very history of chemical ecology. It was during his tenure different ecological contexts. Z( )-7-dodecenyl acetate, as a professor of entomology at UIUC, spanning a component of the sex pheromone of over 140 species 1948 to 1972, that Gottfried Fraenkel recognized the of moths, including the cabbage looper Trichoplusia significance of phytochemicals in the diets of her- ni, also is produced as a urinary preovulatory female- bivorous insects; in his landmark paper in Science, to-male pheromone in the Asian elephant (Rasmussen Fraenkel (1959) introduced the concept of chemically et al. 1997). Subsequent analyses of urine from African mediated reciprocal radiation (coevolution) and elephants (Loxodonta africana) have detected the recounted seven decades of empirical support for bark beetle aggregation pheromones frontalin, exo- the idea. As well, toxicologist and UIUC alumnus brevicomin, and endo-brevicomin and the aphid alarm Robert Metcalf returned to the campus in 1968 and pheromones (E,E)-a-farnesene and (E)-a-farnesene during his 30-year tenure pioneered ways of apply- (Goodwin et al. 2006). The basic requirements for life ing chemical ecology toward sustainable pest man- are in force irrespective of the environment—obtaining agement, using kairomones to reduce insecticide nutrients, escaping predation, and reproducing—and applications for controlling corn rootworms from most primary metabolic pathways are shared across pounds per acre to ounces per acre. In the Depart- organisms, so biosynthetic starting materials tend to ment of Chemistry, William Pirkle’s pioneering work be conserved throughout the living world. Moreover, on chromatographic enantioseparation provided all organisms are constrained and directed by the new tools for understanding chiral pheromones and same basic ecological and evolutionary processes. other natural products. Today, UIUC is home to life Thus, chemical identities and transmission dynamics scientists across the campus using new genomic can converge across taxonomic gulfs and many basic tools, computational methods and chemical analytical principles pertaining to chemical signaling emerge. techniques to explore mechanisms underlying many The elemoth seemed to us to be an apt symbol for a phenomena of interest to chemical ecologists. In gathering of scientists dedicated to identifying the addition to departmental programs, the UIUC Insti- substances, characterizing the transmission dynamics tute for Genomic Biology, is an international center and elucidating the mechanisms underlying chemical for insect genomics research. Other unique campus mediation of interactions among organisms. research resources include SoyFACE, a 60-acre facility Goodwin, TE, MS Eggert, SJ House, ME Weddell, BA Schulte and instrumental in documenting the chemical ecology LEL Rasmussen, 2006. Insect pheromones and precursors in female of global climate change in agriculture, the world’s African elephant urine.