Insect Cell Technologies for Innovative New Studies and Insecticide Development

Organizer(s)

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  Man-Yeon Choi

  United States Department of Agriculture
  Corvallis, Oregon
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  Raghuvir Viswanatha (he/him/his)

  Lecturer on Genetics
  Medical School
  Harvard University
  Boston, Massachusetts
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  Stephanie Mohr (she/her/hers)

  Director of the Arthropod Cell Screening Facility
  Genetics
  Harvard Medical School
  Boston, Massachusetts

Attendees will (i) learn about cutting-edge technologies that can be applied in cultured cells; (ii) learn about the types of studies these technologies can facilitate; and (iii) have an opportunity to engage with technology experts to forge new collaborations and discuss potential new technology applications.

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM - 1:32 PM Pacific

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Stephanie Mohr (she/her/hers) – Harvard Medical School
• 1:32 PM - 1:57 PM Pacific

  Identifying transcriptional repressors for CRISPR-interference in Aedes aegypti cell culture
  

  Presenting Author: Esme Cope – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Zachary Adelman – Texas A&M University
• 1:57 PM - 2:22 PM Pacific

  Genome-wide CRISPR screening in insects to reveal novel regulators of developmental signaling pathways
  

  Presenting Author: Raghuvir Viswanatha (he/him/his) – Harvard University

  Co-Author: Zhongjie Zhang – Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Norbert Perrimon (he/him/his) – Harvard University

  Co-Author: Stephanie Mohr (she/her/hers) – Harvard Medical School
• 2:22 PM - 2:47 PM Pacific

  Establishment and application of genome-wide CRISPR screens in mosquito and tick cells
  

  Presenting Author: Stephanie Mohr (she/her/hers) – Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Matthew Butnaru – Harvard University

  Co-Author: Raghuvir Viswanatha (he/him/his) – Harvard University

  Co-Author: Enzo Mameli – Harvard University

  Co-Author: Yanhui Hu – Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: William McKenna – Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Srishti Goswami – Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Norbert Perrimon (he/him/his) – Harvard University
• 2:47 PM - 3:12 PM Pacific

  Insect cell-based screening of bioactive peptides for receptor interference
  

  Presenting Author: Nivetha Ramanathan, PhD – Oregon State University

  Co-Author: Man-Yeon Choi – United States Department of Agriculture

  Co-Author: Robert Kenneth Vander Meer – USDA-ARS
• 3:12 PM - 3:15 PM Pacific

  Brief intro to insect cell line resources at the DGRC in Bloomington, IN
  

  Presenting Author: Andrew Zelhof – Drosophila Genomics Resource Center
• 3:15 PM - 3:27 PM Pacific

  Discussion
• 3:27 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific

  Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Man-Yeon Choi – United States Department of Agriculture