8:45

Registration, Coffee and Muffins

9:00-9:05

Welcome and introductions, Michael Herman and Loretta Johnson

9:05-9:20

Ted Morgan, Division of Biology, Association mapping in Drosophila: The role of SNPs in SMP-30

9:20-9:35

Kun Yan Zhu, Department of Entomology, Analysis and functional annotation of expressed sequence tags from the Aquatic Midge (Chironomus tentans)

9:35-9:50

Samantha Wisely, Division of Biology, Contrasting ecological genomics of disease transmission and evolutionarily independent strains of rabies

9:50-10:05

Gary Gadbury, Department of Statistics, Some challenges and approaches to the analysis of high-dimensional data

10:05-10:15

Ruth Welti, Division of Biology, High carbon dioxide levels alter polar lipid metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana

10:15-10:45

BREAK

10:45-11:00

Loretta Johnson, Division of Biology, Testing for local adaptation in ecotypes of the dominant grass Andropogon gerardii along the sharp precipitation gradient of the Great Plains

11:00-11:15

Haiyan Wang, Department of Statistics and Doina Caragea, Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Computational methods to  identify regulatory networks involved in plant response to abiotic stresses

11:15-11:30

Mark Ungerer, Division of Biology, Relaxed selection on the CBF/DREB1 regulatory genes underlies reduced freezing tolerance in the southern range of Arabidopsis thaliana

11:30-1:00

LUNCH & Ecogen Quarterly Meeting in the Flint Hills Room of the Union

1:00-1:15

David Siemens, Black Hills State University, Selection and the maintenance of variation in plant defense

1:15-1:30

Shannon Fehlberg, Division of Biology, Genetic structure, gene flow, and speciation in the closely related species Phlox woodhousei and P. amabilis Polemoniaceae

1:30-1:45

Anna Whitfield, Department of Plant Pathology, Investigation of biological parameters that influence thrips-TSWV interactions

2:00-2:15

Punya Nachappa, Department of Entomology, Potential antagonistic cross-talk between defensive signaling pathways in tomato plants in response to a viral pathogen and an arthropod herbivore, and the effect on the third trophic level

2:15-2:30

Break

2:30-3:30

Student Data Blitz

KSU: Lindsey Fallis, Heather Barton, Vinod, Lorena Gomez, Keerthi Mandyam, Ju Lin Weng

BHSU:  Riston Haugen

3:30

Closing remarks & Adjourn to Konza for 5:30 p.m. BBQ!