38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology

WHY STUDY MICROSPORIDIA? – INTERESTING RESEARCH AREAS BESIDES TAXONOMY AND BIOLOGICAL CONTROL
Organizers: Gernot Hoch and Leellen Solter

Patrick Keeling, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Some effects of compaction on microsporidian nuclear genomes

Judith Smith, School of Biology, Leeds University, Leeds, UK
Microsporidian parasites of crustacea, specificity, sex and populations

Jim Fuxa, Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University AgCenter, Baton Rouge, USA
Epizootiology of Thelohania solenopsae in the red imported fire ant, with emphasis on social form of the host

Ann Cali, Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
The Genus Brachiola and human skeletal muscle infection caused by the mosquito microsporidium, B. algerae