Conference Room
USDA-ARS,Grain Marketing and Production Research Center
1515 College Avenue, Manhattan, KS 66502
USDA Contact: Frank Arthur (785-776-2783)
Program Contact: Bh. Subramanyam (785-532-4092)
Thursday, November 20, 2003
Thursday, November
20, 2003
| Moderator |
Frank Arthur |
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| 3:00 3:15 pm |
Welcome & Introductions
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Don Koeltzow /Jim Throne |
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| 3:15
3:30 pm |
Project
activities K-State, Entomology |
Sonny Ramaswamy |
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| 3:30
3:50 pm |
Project
Activities Purdue Univ., Ag & Bio-Engineering |
Dirk Maier |
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| 3:50
4:10 pm |
Pilot bin trials Purdue
Univ., Ag & Bio-Engineering |
Klein Illeleji |
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| 4:10
4:30 pm |
Spatial and physical factors
affecting the biological control of Indianmeal moth by
Trichogramma in retail environments Matt Grieshop |
Matt Grieshop |
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| 4:30
4:50 pm |
A simulation model for the
population dynamics of the Indian meal moth, Plodia
interpunctella (Hόbner) |
Shiva Mohandass |
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| 4:50
5:30 pm |
Poster Viewing |
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| 6:30
PM |
Dinner at Royal
Thai Palace |
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Friday, November
21, 2003
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| 7:30
- 8:00 am |
Continental
Breakfast/Poster viewing |
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| Moderator |
Sonny Ramaswamy |
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| 8:00
8:10 am |
Project
Activities Oklahoma State Univ., Entomology |
Tom Phillips |
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| 8:10
8:25 am |
Flight responses
of the lesser grain borer and associated insects |
Peter Edde |
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| 8:25
8:45 am |
Testign InsectorTM
in a commercial grain facility |
Edmond Bonjour |
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| 8:45
9:00 am |
Host
relationships of the parasitoid Anisopteromalus calandrae |
Mukti Ghimire |
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| 9:00
9:15 am |
Applications
of low pressure for disinfesting postharvest commodities |
Raj Hulsare |
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| 9:15
9:30 am |
Controlled
field test of mating disruption for suppression of the
Indianmeal moth |
Charles Konemann |
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| 9:30
9:45 am |
Diversity
and medical importance of stored- product insects in feed
mills |
Zeb Larson |
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| 9:45
- 10.00 am |
Gauging
heat treatment effectiveness in a pilot flour mill using traps
and grain/product samples |
Andrew Allen |
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| 10:00
10:15 am |
Break |
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| 10:15
10:45 am |
Suppression
tools and overall project impacts |
Tom
Phillips |
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| 10:45
11:00 am |
Entomopathogenic nematode-host
interactions |
Olgaly Ramos |
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| 11:00
11:10 am |
Effects
of stored-product insects on biodegradable plastics |
Jaclyn Rowan |
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| 11:10
11:25 am |
Project activities K-State,
Grain Science & Industry |
Bhadriraju Subramanyam |
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| 11:25
11:40 am |
A
novel model for predicting survival of insects during heat
treatment |
Dhanaraj Boina |
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| 11:40
11:55 am |
Polymorphic
microsatellite loci for the Indianmeal moth, Plodia
interpunctella |
Tony Grace |
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| 12:00
1:00 pm |
Lunch
(Pizza)/poster viewing |
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| Moderator |
Tom Phillips |
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| 1:00
1:30 pm |
Project
activities USDA, Grain Marketing & Product Research
Center |
Frank Arthur |
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| 1:30
2:00 pm |
Spatial
distribution and dispersal behavior of the lesser grain borer,
Rhyzopertha dominica |
Godfrey
Chingoma |
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| 2:00
2:30 pm |
Regulation of digestive proteinases
in the yellow mealworm. |
Sheila
Prabhakar |
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| 2:30
2:40 pm |
Break |
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| 2:40
3:00 pm |
Variation
in thermotolerance levels in Tribolium
castaneum life stages and the role of heat shock proteins in
thermotolerance |
Rizana Mahroof |
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| 3:00
4:00 pm |
Poster viewing |
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| 4:00
5:00 pm |
Group discussion/Reviewer input |
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5:00 PM
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Adjourn |
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Poster Presentations
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Yaowaluk
Chanbang: Evaluation of diatomaceous earth plus methoprene to control the
lesser grain borer (Rhyzopertha dominica)
in rough rice.
Shiva
Mohandass: Mortality effects of hydroprene on the 5th instar
larvae of the Indianmeal moth, Plodia
interpunctella (Hόbner).
Erika
Jensen: Effect of temperature, exposure interval, and depth of diatomaceous
earth on the biology of Rhyzopertha
dominica F. (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) in wheat.
Joel
Perez-Mendoza: Detection of stored grain insect infestation in wheat
transported in railroad cars.
Peter
Edde: Field responses of
non-target species to semiochemicals of stored-product bostrichidae.
Charles
Konemann: Field validation of
mating disruption to suppress populations of the Indianmeal moth Plodia
interpunctella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae).
Edmond
Bonjour: Evaluating spinosad
and reldan as grain protectants on stored wheat:
laboratory and field trials.
Mutki
Ghimire: Effect of strain and
prior experience on host selection by Anispotermomalus
calandrae (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae).
Philip
Morton: Mapping the response of
Plodia interpunctella males, an important stored product pest.
Fangneng
Huang: Efficacy of spinosad
against several stored-product insects on hard white winter wheat.
Andrew
Allen: Monitoring insects in a pilot flour mill using traps and grain/flour
samples, and effectiveness of heat treatments on insect numbers.
Jaclyn
Rowan: Effects of
stored-product insects on biodegradable plastics.
Tony
Grace: Polymorphic microsatellelite loci for the Indianmeal moth, Plodia interpunctella.
Boina
Dhanaraj: Development of a novel thermal death kinetic model for predicting
stage-specific survivalof the confused flour beetle, Tribolium confusum (Jacquelin du Val), during heat treatments.
Rizana Mahroof: Stage-specific
variations in expression of heat shock proteins in Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) life
stages exposed to different temperatures.
Rizana Mahroof: Developing a simple heat accumulation model for
predicting mortality of Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) life stages exposed
to elevated temperatures.
Poster
Presentations Purdue University
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Dirk
Maier, Charudatta Bhat and Klein Ileleji: Mathematical Model for Low Levels
of CO2 Generation and Movement for Early Detection of
Bio-activity in Grain Bulk.
Dirk
Maier, Klein Ileleji and Michael Montross: Modeling of Different Stored
Grain Ecosystems with the Post-Harvest Aeration and Storage Simulation Tool (PHAST).
Dirk
Maier and Michael Montross: Moisture Accumulation and Surface Crusting.
Dirk
Maier and Justin McGill: System Analysis of Grain Handling Operations.
Klein
E. Ileleji, Dirk E. Maier and Charles P. Woloshuk: Insect infestation patterns in stored corn for three temperature
management strategies; Results from three years of pilot bin studies.
Klein
E. Ileleji, Dirk E. Maier and Charles P. Woloshuk:
Maize weevil, Sitophilus
zeamais (Motschulsky) adult survival and reproduction in stored corn under
three temperature management strategies.
Klein
E. Ileleji, Dirk E. Maier and Charles P. Woloshuk: Red
flour beetle, Tribolium casteneum (Herbst) adult survival and
reproduction in stored corn under three temperature management strategies.
Klein
E. Ileleji, Dirk E. Maier and Charles P. Woloshuk: Egg
to adult emergence, survival and reproduction of Indianmeal moth, Plodia
interpunctella (Hόbner) in stored corn under three temperature management
strategies.
Cameron
A. Cooley and Charles Woloshuk: Biosynthetic and molecular profiles of a
potential model fungus for the grain storage environment.
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