Bacteria Division Symposium

ENTOMOPATHOGENIC BACTERIA OTHER THAN BACILLUS: PATHOGENESIS AND VIRULENCE FACTORS

Organizers:  Christina Nielsen-LeRoux and Juan-Luis Jurat-Fuentes

Onya Opota, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Drosophila host defense against Pseudomonas entomophila

Mark Hurst, AgResearch, Lincoln, New Zealand

Virulence determinants of Yersinia entomophaga MH96: a Genomic perspective

Richard ffrench-Constant, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK

Insecticidal toxins from Photorhabdus: comparative genomics and Rapid Virulence Annotation (RVA)

Trevor Jackson, AgResearch, Lincoln, New Zealand

Pathogenesis of Serratia entomophila (Enterobacteriaceae) towards the New Zealand grass grub Costelytra zealandica

~This symposium  is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Carleen  Collins, University of Washington, Seattle, USA ~