March 24, 2010 SIPTI Cornell Workshop on Dipteran Insects

March 24th, 2010

Nearly fifty colleagues from the Ithaca campus and Geneva Experimental Station at Cornell and from the University of Rochester, Binghamton University and SUNY University at Buffalo met at Warren Hall, Cornell University to share their research on dipteran insects. Diptera Day included talks listed below, posters and the opportunity for discussion.
Diptera Day was organized by Angela Douglas and Brian Lazzaro, with support by Stephanie Westmiller. We thank the speakers, poster presenters and all participants for their contributions, and SIPTI and the Department of Entomology for financial support.

Laura Sirot (Cornell, Dept Entomology) Mosquito and fruit fly seminal fluid proteins: nature and processing

Chip Aquadro (Cornell, Dept Molecular Biology & Genetics) Finding the needles in the haystack: uncovering the basis of adaptation in Drosophila

Itai Cohen (Cornell, Dept Physics) Flight of the fruit fly: life at intermediate Reynolds numbers

David Deitcher (Cornell, Dept Neurobiology & Behavior) Arrested development: new evidence for bursicon hormone signaling in Drosophila

Art Agnello (Cornell, Dept Entomology) An overview of recent advances in apple maggot IPM: from monitoring to behaviorally based management tactics

Peter Piermarini (Cornell, Dept Biomedical Sciences) Putative role of an anion exchanger in the diuresis mediated by mosquito renal tubules

Harvey Reissig (Cornell, Dept Entomology) Field trapping of Rhagoletis pomonella using host fruit odors: A major success and a major conundrum

John Jaenike (Rochester, Dept Biology) Drosophila and their nematode enemies: Spiroplasma to the rescue

Jacob Crawford (Cornell, Dept Entomology) Cracking Anopheles funestus: next-generation sequencing in a non-model system

Andy Clark (Cornell, Dept Molecular Biology & Genetics) Wild sex (determination mechanisms) in the house fly

John Sanderson (Cornell, Dept Entomology) An unexpected surprise: a hunter fly, Coenosia attenuata Stein, in North American greenhouses

Colin Meiklejohn (Rochester, Dept Biology) Meiotic sex chromosome inactivation in Drosophila

Cole Gilbert (Cornell, Dept Entomology) Evolution of a sense organ in the necks of flies