Gro Amdam – School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Vaccinating Honey Bees: Concept, Data, Feasibility

Mo Way – Texas A&M Research and Extension Center, Beaumont, TX. Recent Issues and Research in Texas Rice IPM

Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes – Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. Mechanisms and dispersal of resistance to Bt corn in the fall armyworm

Doug Landis – Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Designing Agricultural Landscapes for Multiple Ecosystem Services

Greg Ebel – Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. Population biology and emergence of arboviruses, the new global pathogen

Kyle G. Koch – Department of Entomology, Texas A&M AgriLife Research at Weslaco Analysis of Cereal Aphid Feeding Behavior and Transcriptional Responses Underlying Switchgrass-Aphid Interactions

Dr. Steve Frank.  North Carolina State University. Title: Can forests take the heat: protecting trees and ecosystem services in a changing climate.

Dr. Clifford Spiegelman, Department of Statistics, TAMU. Title: JFK assassination: Chemistry, metallurgy, and statistics increase doubt about lone gunman theory and its implications for forensic entomology.

Dr. Norman Elliott, USDA ARS Plains Area Title: Cereal aphids and their natural enemies from a landscape ecology and area wide management perspective.

Dr. Laura Harrington, Cornell University Title: Blood feeding biology and mating behavior of the arbovirus vectors: Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus.

Dr. Corrie Moreau, Field Museum of Natural History, University of Chicago Title: Ants, plants, and bacteria: Symbiosis as a driver of evolutionary diversification.

Dr. Adriana E. Alvarez, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Salta, Argentina Title:  Searching for Strategies to Control the Green Peach Aphid on Potato Crops

Dr. Ada Szczepaniec, Texas A&M University Agrilife Research/TAMU Department of Entomology. Title: Mechanisms underlying sugarcane aphid-plant host interactions in late – colonized sorghum.

Dr. Albert Mulenga,  Texas A&M University. Title: It’s taken so long, should we just give up on tick bite vaccines? Tick saliva proteomics says NOT YET.

Heath Blackmon, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University Title: The evolution of genome structure across the tree of life

Rachelle Adams, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University Title: Exploitation of a symbiotic network: Behavioral and chemical transitions of predators, parasites and protective symbionts

Gene Robinson, Department of Entomology and Director, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Title:  From Me to We: Searching for the Genetic Roots of Sociality

 J.P. Michaud, Department of Entomology, Kansas State University Title:  Parental effects in the Coccinellidae: Condition-dependence, age-specific changes, and benefits arising from polyandry

Allen Knutson,  Department of Entomology, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Dallas Title: Biological control of saltcedar with leaf beetle in Texas: Unfulfilled promises

Cesar Rodriguez-Saona, Department of Entomology, Rutgers University Title: The potential consequences of crop domestication on tri-trophic interaction

Thomas Chouvenc, Department of Entomology, University of Florida Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center Title: Hybridization of two termite invaders and its potential consequences