38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology

Note: you can download the program (2.3MB PDF).

The 38th annual meeting will start with afternoon registration and an evening welcome mixer on Sunday, August 7, 2005, followed by a full scientific program Monday through Thursday. The scientific program will open Monday morning with the Founder’s lecture and plenary session, followed by afternoon symposia and contributed papers. The excursion and BBQ will be on Tuesday afternoon, and the meeting will close with the banquet on Thursday evening.

Symposia and contributed paper sessions will be conducted throughout the meeting (except Tuesday afternoon). Contributed papers are being solicited on all topics related to invertebrate pathology. Posters will go up on Monday and stay up until Thursday morning. The Division business meetings are slated for the evenings of Monday and Wednesday, to be followed by division and student workshops. The Society’s business meeting will be held late morning on Wednesday.

Founder's Lecture
James J. Becnel, Research Entomologist, USDA/ARS
Expanding Frontiers for Microsporidia: A Tribute to Professor Elizabeth U. Canning

Plenary Session

Invertebrate Pathogens: Evolution and Impact

Chu Fang Lo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
One step ahead of emerging crustacean viruses

Raymond St Leger, University of Maryland, USA
Molecular adaptations for pathogenicity in Metarhizium anisopliae

Greg Dwyer, University of Chicago, USA
All models are wrong, but some models are useful: using mechanistic models to understand insect pathogens

Richard ffrench-Constant, University of Bath, UK
Invertebrates as a source of emerging human pathogens

Workshops