38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology

INVERTEBRATE RESPONSES TO PATHOGENS
Organizers: Christina Nielsen-LeRoux and James Maruniak

Raffi Aroian, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology University of California, San Diego, USA
B. thuringiensis, pore-forming toxins, and their interactions with C. elegans

Salvador Herrero, Plant Research International B.V., and Laboratory of Virology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Identification of a gene family in Spodoptera exigua expressed in the midgut in response to pathogens: cross-talk between responses to Bt toxin and to baculovirus

Bergmann Ribeiro, Instituto de Ciencias Biologias, Universidade de Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil
Infection and cell-specific replication of the most successful viral insecticide, Anticarsia gemmatalis nucleopolyhedrovirus

Michel Brehélin, INRA and University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Immune depression triggered in insects by the bacteria Xenorhabdus nematophila and Photorhabdus luminescens