The International Wheat Stem Sawfly Conference will take place March 19-20, 2019 in the Lory Student Center Theatre at Colorado State University. Attendees can register at the door the day of the event.
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
8:00-9:00 | Check in & Late Registration | |
9:00-9:10 | Welcome to CSU | Amy Charkowski |
9:10-9:20 | Welcome from Colorado Wheat | Brad Erker |
9:20-9:40 | Current status of wheat stem sawfly in Montana | David Weaver |
9:40-10:00 | Sawfly in Southeastern Wyoming | Carrie Eberle |
10:00-10:20 | Current status of wheat stem sawfly in Colorado | Frank Peairs |
10:20-10:30 | BREAK | |
10:30-10:50 | Current Sawfly Research in Nebraska | Cody Creech |
10:50-11:10 | Impact of systemic and contact insecticides on wheat stem sawfly and off-target insect populations |
Uta Stuhr |
11:10-11:30 | Field assessment of tritrophic responses to plant signalingspray formulations in wheat stem sawfly infested plots | Christopher Caron |
11:30-1:00 | LUNCH | |
1:00-1:20 | Where are the parasitoids of wheat stem sawfly in Colorado? |
Erika Peirce |
1:20-1:40 | Comparative assessment of wheat stem sawfly host preference and host selection behaviors using wheat and smooth brome. |
Rekha Bhandari |
1:40-2:00 | From microbes to sawflies: multitrophic interactions in Montana wheat fields |
Shealyn Malone |
2:00-2:20 | Does intercropping affect wheat stem sawfly infestation? | Haley Catton |
2:20-2:40 | Effects of varying rainfall levels on wheat stem sawfly performance and biological control | Tatyana A. Rand |
2:40-3:00 | Modeling the combined impacts of host plant resistance and parasitism on wheat stem sawfly population dynamics | Courtney E. Richmond |
3:00-3:10 | BREAK | |
3:10-3:40 |
Impact of non-host crop diversification on wheat stem sawfly populations | David Weaver |
3:40-4:00 |
Role of potential extrafloral nectaries, plus sugar and amino acid nutrients, in the biology of wheat stem sawfly parasitoids |
Laissa Cavallini dos Santos |
4:00-4:20 |
Elucidation of the mechanisms of plant resistance to wheat stem sawfly using metabolomics |
Megan Hager |
4:20-4:40 |
Does wheat stem sawfly larval performance in barley follow maternal varietal choices? | Buddhi B. Achhami |
4:40-5:00 | END OF DAY 1 | |
5:30-7:30 | Social Event at The Mayor of Old Town, 632 S Mason St. |
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
8:30-9:00 | Check in & Late Registration | |
9:00-9:35 | New insights into stem-solidness in wheat: An integrated genomics approach |
Kirby T. Nilsen |
9:35-10:10 | Sawfly Resistance Breeding at CSU – Three More Years Down the Road |
Scott Haley |
10:10-10:20 | North Dakota Search for New Sources of Resistance in Thinopyrum |
Marion Harris |
10:20-10:30 | BREAK | |
10:30-10:50 | An artificial neural network model to predict wheat stem sawfly cutting in solid-stemmed wheat cultivars |
Brian Beres |
10:50-11:10 | Comparison of Three Alleles at a Major Solid Stem QTL for Wheat Stem Sawfly Resistance and Agronomic Performance in Hexaploid Wheat |
Jason Cook |
11:10-11:30 | A Novel QTL in Durum Wheat for Resistance to the Wheat Stem Sawfly |
Hongtao Zhang |
11:30-11:50 | Analysis of Recombinant Inbred Line Populations Derived from Wheat Landraces to Identify New Genes for Wheat Stem Sawfly Resistance | Andrea Varella |
11:50-12:00 | END OF CONFERENCE |