Arthropod Genomics 2015
NINTH ANNUAL
Arthropod Genomics
S Y M P O S I U M
June 17 – June 19, 2015
Kansas State University
Alumni Center, 1720 Alumni Center
17th and Anderson
Manhattan, Kansas, U.S.A.
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Insect Genetic Technology Research Coordination Network (IGT-RCN) Workshop
K-State Alumni Center, Banquet Rooms B & C
Schedule
7:15
8:15
10:00
10:30
12:00
Registration opens
Poster Set-Up
Breakfast served in foyer outside Banquet Rooms
Welcome and Speaker Presentations
BREAK
Discussion
LUNCH
Afternoon
1:00
Poster Session
2:00
Speaker Presentations
4:00
Discussion Groups
5:30
Workshop concludes
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NINTH ANNUAL ARTHROPOD GENOMICS SYMPOSIUM
Schedule
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Registration – K-State Alumni Center
6:30–8:30 pm
Please note:
Registration, Foyer outside banquet rooms
Display of posters will begin at 7:15 a.m. on Thursday morning.
GENERAL SESSION – Banquet Rooms B & C; Session chair: TBA
Welcome
7:30 pm
Susan J. Brown, Director, Center for Genomic Studies on Arthropods Affecting Human, Animal and Plant
Health, Kansas State University
Keynote Speaker
7:35-8:30 pm David A. O’Brochta, University of Maryland College Park, Insect genetic technologies and their applications
to physiological genetics and functional genomics
Welcome Reception
8:30-10:30 pm Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and beverages
Thursday, June 18, 2015
GENERAL SESSION
7:15-10:00 am Registration, Poster Set-up, and Breakfast; K-State Alumni Center
i5K/Emerging Genomes; Session Co-Chairs: Derek Schneweis, Plant Pathology and Nic Herndon, Biology, Kansas State
University
8:30-9:00
Rosemary Gillespie, University of California, Berkeley, Origins of spider biodiversity: Genomic approaches
at the nexus of ecology, behavior, and evolution
9:00-9:20
Invited abstract presentation: Joshua Benoit, University of Cincinnati, Genome sequence of the bed bug,
Cimex lectularius
9:20-9:40
Invited abstract presentation: Jessica Garb, University of Massachusetts Lowell, The i5K house spider
genome reveals unexpected diversity and shifts in the expression of genes associated with the extreme
toxicity of black widow venom
9:40-10:00
Invited abstract presentation: Haobo Jiang, Oklahoma State University, Sequence conservation,
phylogenetic relationships, and expression profiles of nondigestive serine proteases and serine protease
homologs in Manduca sexta
10:00-10:20
Invited abstract presentation: Robert Waterhouse, University of Geneva Medical School, i5K@OrthoDB
10:20-10:50
BREAK
10:50-11:20
Duane McKenna, University of Memphis, The Asian longhorned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis
(Cerambycidae) genome yields new insights into the genomic basis of phytophagy and the evolution of
beetle megadiversity
Invited abstract presentation: Kristen Panfilio, University of Cologne, Progress and insights from the
milkweed bug genome project: towards a reference species for the Hemiptera
Invited abstract presentation: Sheina Sim, University of Hawaii, Manoa, From sequence to locus: Using GBS
and whole genome sequencing to identify the genetic basis of white pupae in SIT colony Medflies
Invited presentation: Monica Poelchau, USDA-ARS, National Agricultural Library, The i5K pilot project:
progress on sequencing a phylum
11:20-11:40
11:40-12:00
12:00-12:20
12:30-1:15
Buffet lunch served at the Alumni Center
POSTER SESSION I and Annotation Café
1:15-2:30
Poster session: Authors present ODD NUMBERED posters.
The Annotation Café will be open with staff on hand to answer your annotation and curation questions.
Vector Genomics; Session Chair: Tori Davidson, Biology, Kansas State University
2:40-3:10
Michelle Cilia, USDA Agricultural Research Service and Cornell University, Leveraging 'omics technologies
to develop new initiatives for controlling vector-borne plant pathogens
3:10-3:30
Invited abstract presentation: Scott Emrich, University of Notre Dame, Genome improvement using
third-gen sequencing
3:30-4:00
Daniel E. Neafsey, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Towards cheap, decent reference genome
assemblies: biological and methodological insights from Anopheles
4:00-4:20
BREAK
4:20-4:40
Invited abstract presentation: Joshua Benoit, University of Cincinnati, RNA-seq analysis reveals
mechanisms associated with tsetse fly-symbiont dynamics during larval development
4:40-5:10
Martin James Donnelly, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute,
UK, The Anopheles gambiae 1000 genomes (Ag1000G) project
5:10-5:30
Invited abstract presentation: Molly Duman-Scheel, Indiana University School of Medicine and the
University of Notre Dame, High-throughput cis-regulatory element discovery in the vector mosquito Aedes
aegypti
5:30-5:50
Epigenomics invited abstract presentation: Anna-Maria Botha-Oberholster, Stellenbosch University, South
Africa, Is methylation one of the drivers of virulence in Diuraphis noxia (Kurd.) Hemiptera: Aphididae?
Dinner on your own, then return to the Alumni Center for evening activities.
THURSDAY EVENING ACTIVITIES, K-State Alumni Center
Genome Train Workshop, K-State Alumni Center
7:00-8:30 pm Genome Train is a participatory workshop on genomics training where the main considerations for each
stage of a genome sequencing project are introduced.
OPEN Poster Session, K-State Alumni Center
(Cash bar available.)
8:00-10:00 p.m. View posters, talk science, get acquainted with colleagues, network, and establish future collaborations.
Friday, June 19, 2015
GENERAL SESSION
7:15 am
Breakfast, Foyer outside the banquet rooms
Population Genomics Session Chair: Edwina (Eddy) Dowle, Entomology, Kansas State University
8:30-9:00
Greg Ragland, Kansas State University, Climatic selection, population history, and developmental
constraints shape genome-wide divergence in speciating Rhagoletis flies
9:00-9:20
Invited abstract presentation: Jacob Crawford, University of California, Berkeley, Evolution of GOUNDRY, a
cryptic subgroup of Anopheles gambiae s.l., and its impact on susceptibility to Plasmodium infection
9:20-9:50
Amanda Moehring, Western University, Ontario, The genetic basis of female mate preference and species
isolation
9:50-10:10
Invited abstract presentation: Stephen Schaeffer, The Pennsylvania State University, Molecular population
genomics of chromosomal inversions in Drosophila pseudoobscura
10:10-10:40
BREAK
Epigenomics Session Chair: Robert Waterhouse, Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School
10:40-11:10
Armin P. Moczek, Indiana University, The condition-responsive ontogeny of Onthophagus beetles:
transcriptome dynamics, developmental mechanisms, and the integration of sex, nutrition, and tissue type in
evo devo
11:10-11:40
Frank Lyko, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany, DNA methylation patterns of
arthropod genomes
11:40-12:00
Invited abstract presentation: James Walters, University of Kansas, Sex chromosome dosage compensation
in Lepidoptera: insights from nymphalid butterflies, coddling moth, and demasculinized silkworms
LUNCH
12:00-1:15
Buffet lunch served at the Alumni Center
POSTER SESSION II and Annotation Café
1:15-2:30 pm Poster session: Authors present EVEN NUMBERED posters.
The Annotation Café will be open with staff on hand to answer your annotation and curation questions.
Metagenomics and Horizontal Transfer Session Chair: Jonathan Oliver, Plant Pathology, Kansas State University
2:40-3:10
Anne Nathalie Volkoff, INRA (UMR 1333), Université de Montpellier, France, Using genomic tools to
unravel parasitic wasp genome evolution via acquisition of viral genomes
3:10-3:40
Sijun Liu, Iowa State University, Insect virus discovery using a viral metagenomics approach
3:40-4:00
Invited abstract presentation: Cecilia Tamborindeguy, Texas A & M University, Psyllid-symbiont
transcriptome: a two-organism negotiation
4:00-4:20
Invited abstract presentation: Jay Evans, USDA-ARS, Nested genomes: a hologenomic approach to honey
bee health
4:20
CONCLUDING REMARKS
4:30-4:45
REMOVE POSTERS
Meeting concludes.
FRIDAY EVENING MEAL AND ACTIVITIES at Konza Prairie (optional)
Tentative schedule:
5:30 p.m.
Meet outside the K-State Alumni Center to board buses and depart to Konza Prairie.
6:30 p.m.
Meet outside the K-State Alumni Center to board transportation to Konza Prairie.
7:30 p.m.
Approximate time for dinner service to begin. Enjoy the music of the Red State Blues Band.
10:00 p.m.
Board buses to return to hotel, dormitory, and Alumni Center
Saturday, June 20, 2015
ARTHROPOD GENOMICS Symposium 2017 Planning Meeting
7:15 -8:30 am
Consortium Meeting Breakfast Buffet, President’s Room, Holiday Inn at the Campus
8:30 am-Noon Arthropod Genomics Symposium Committee meeting, President’s Room, Holiday Inn at the Campus
12:00 Noon
Meeting concludes.
2015 Symposium Organizing Committee
At Kansas State University: Sue Brown, Division of Biology;
Kristin Michel, Division of Biology;
Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan, Department of Biochemistry;
Yoonseong Park, Department of Entomology;
Gregory Ragland, Department of Entomology;
Anna Whitfield, Department of Plant Pathology
At University of Notre Dame:
Mary Ann McDowell, Department of Biological Sciences, Eck Institute for Global Health
Molly Duman-Scheel, Indiana University School of Medicine and the Eck Institute for Global Health
At University of Illinois:
Hugh Robertson, Department of Entomology
Symposium funded by:
Center for Genomic Studies on Arthropods Affecting Human, Animal and Plant Health, Kansas State University
The Eck Institute for Global Health, University of Notre Dame, http://globalhealth.nd.edu
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Corporate sponsors:
BASF Corporation
Monsanto
Additional sponsors:
Division of Biology, Kansas State University
i5K
KINBRE (Kansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence)
NIH-NIAID (R13AI118218-01)
6/9/15
Visit our booth at the
Save the dates:
2016 International Congress of
Arthropod Genomics Symposium
Entomology (ICE),
June 7 to 11, 2017
September 25 to 30, 2016
The Eck Institute for Global Health
in Orlando, Florida
University of Notre Dame
The Eck Instituptember 25 to 30,
2016
in Orlando, Florida