Living With The Neighbors – How Plants Cope With Other Organisms

Saturday, October 5, 2013: 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
212 B (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)
Chairs:
John Harada, PhD, Professor, University of California, Davis and Ann Sakai, PhD, Professor, University of California, Irvine

Description: As sessile organisms, plants must be able to adapt to their environment. Of critical importance is the plant’s ability to interact with both beneficial and harmful organisms. The speakers in this session will discuss the strategies that plants have evolved to exploit or defend themselves against neighboring species.

Sponsored by: by the Minority Affairs Committee of the American Society of Plant Biologists and the Botanical Society of America



4:00 PM
Introductory Remarks
4:05 PM
Deceiving Your Host: Stealthy Feeding and Mixed Messages
Linda Walling, PhD , Professor , University of California, Riverside
4:25 PM
Spit, Decoys, and Aspirin: Weapons in the Plant-Aphid War
Gustavo MacIntosh, PhD , Associate Professor , Iowa State University
4:45 PM
Effects of Habitat Structure on Plant-Insect Interactions
Brenda Molano-Flores, PhD , Research Scientist and Adjunct Associate Professor , Illinois Natural History Survey
5:05 PM
Cnidarian Development is Modulated by Algal Symbionts
Mónica Medina, PhD , Associate Professor , Pennsylvania State University