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Member Symposium

Plant-Insect Ecosystems

Physiology, Biochemistry, and Toxicology

Suckers, Spreaders, and Survivors: The Resilience of Hemipteran Pests

Sunday, November 9, 2025
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific
Location: Oregon Convention Center, D137-138, OCC

Oral Presentation

Deepen the understanding on hemipteran physiology and their interactions with plants.
Understand the similarities and dissimilarities of different insect types within the same order in terms of biology, feeding preferences and behavior
Availability of cutting edge tools like 'omics', electrophysiology and imaging, opportunities and limitations of these tools.

Presentations:

  • 9:00 AM - 9:05 AM Pacific
    Introductory remarks

    Presenting Author: Sajjan Grover – Bayer Crop Science

  • 9:05 AM - 9:25 AM Pacific
    Genetic insights in two Colladonus leafhopper species that infect cherry trees with the X-disease pathogen

    Presenting Author: William Benjamin Walker, III – United States Department of Agriculture

    Co-Author: Katherine Easterling – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: Adrian Marshall – USDA-ARS Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research Unit

    Co-Author: Marco Pitino – USDA-ARS

  • 9:25 AM - 9:45 AM Pacific
    Swapping hosts and spreading microbes: The secret double life of Bactericera maculipennis

    Presenting Author: Mona Tran – University of California

    Co-Author: Jaimie Kenney – University of California, Riverside

    Co-Author: Marco Gebiola – University of Naples Federico II

    Co-Author: Kerry Mauck – University of California

  • 9:45 AM - 10:05 AM Pacific
    Sorghum-aphid interactions: The tug-of-war for survival

    Presenting Author: Joe Louis – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  • 10:05 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific
    Break
  • 10:15 AM - 10:35 AM Pacific
    Defining feeding physiology through combined single-cell transcriptomics and proteomics approaches in the southern green stink bug

    Presenting Author: Flinn O'Hara – University of Florida

    Co-Author: Ruchir Mishra – University of Florida

    Co-Author: Surjeet Arya – University of Kentucky

    Co-Author: S. Reddy Palli (he/him/his) – University of Kentucky

    Co-Author: Douglas Harrison – University of Kentucky

    Co-Author: Bryony Bonning (she/her/hers) – University of Florida

    Co-Author: Daniel Swale – University of Florida

  • 10:35 AM - 10:55 AM Pacific
    Virtual visualization of voracious vectors: Insights into xylem sap-ingestion in hemipterans through 3D imaging

    Presenting Author: Elizabeth Clark – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    Co-Author: Rodrigo P. Almeida – UC Berkeley

  • 10:55 AM - 11:15 AM Pacific
    ThryvOn: The first transgenic trait for control of plant bugs and thrips in cotton

    Presenting Author: Waseem Akbar – Bayer Crop Science

  • 11:15 AM - 11:35 AM Pacific
    Panel discussion
  • 11:35 AM - 11:40 AM Pacific
    Closing remarks

    Presenting Author: Sajjan Grover – Bayer Crop Science