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Plant-Herbivore Interaction
February 21-26, 2010
Hotel Galvez
Galveston, TX
Chair:
Heidi M. Appel

Vice Chair:
Colin M. Orians

The 2010 Gordon Research Conference on Plant Herbivore Interactions will be held Feb 21-26 2010 at a new venue in Galveston, TX. Hotel Galvez is located on the Gulf of Mexico about 40 miles from Houston.

The 2010 meeting will be the 11th Gordon Research Conference on Plant-Herbivore Interactions. For over 25 years, the GRC series on Plant-Herbivore Interactions has served as a premier forum for scientists investigating the ecology and evolution of plant-herbivore interactions. In addition to being an important venue for sharing late-breaking results, its broad influence makes the conference series an influential determinant of research directions in the field.

The 11th GRC on Plant-Herbivore Interactions will bring together an outstanding group of junior and senior scientists. Sessions will range from genetic and biochemical mechanisms to populations, communities and ecosystems, embrace mechanism and theory, and link chemistry, ecology and evolution. To complement the diverse themes of the session presentations, three poster sessions are scheduled for the evenings and all attendees are encouraged to contribute a poster.

The collegial atmosphere of this Conference and breadth of research areas represented, with programmed morning and evening discussion sessions and informal gatherings in the afternoons, provides an exciting venue for scientists from different disciplines to brainstorm and debate across disciplinary boundaries.

Contributors
SUNDAY
4:00 pm - 8:00 pmArrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmWelcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff
7:40 pm - 9:30 pmA NEW DECADE OF PLANT-HERBIVORE STUDIES
Discussion Leader: Heidi Appel (University of Missouri)
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm Welcome and Session Introduction by Chair
7:50 pm - 8:40 pmMay Berenbaum (University of Illinois)
"New Perspectives in Plant Herbivore Interactions"
8:40 pm - 9:00 pm Discussion
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm Opening Reception
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
8:30 amGroup Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pmHERBIVORES IN COMPLEX COMMUNITIES
Discussion Leader: Susan Hartley (University of Sussex)
9:00 am - 9:10 am Discussion Leader - Announcements and Session Introduction
9:10 am - 9:40 amCandy Feller (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center)
"Does nutrient enrichment influence patterns of herbivory in the grey mangrove along a climatic gradient"
9:40 am - 9:50 am Discussion
9:50 am - 10:20 amMat Vanderclift (CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research)
"Corals and kelps: the ecological role of herbivores in tropical and temperate marine ecosystems in western Australia"
10:20 am - 10:30 am Discussion
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 amTodd Palmer (University of Florida)
"Direct, indirect, and net effects of species interactions on Acacia population dynamics"
11:30 am - 11:40 am Discussion
11:40 am - 12:10 pmJennifer Rudgers (Rice University)
"Role of endophytes in plant-herbivore interactions"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmEVOLUTION OF HERBIVORE RESPONSES TO PLANT CHEMISTRY
Discussion Leader: Heidi Appel (University of Missouri)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm Discussion Leader - Announcements and Session Introduction
7:40 pm - 8:15 pmDenise Dearing (University of Utah)
"Functional Genomics of Diet Switching in a Vertebrate Herbivore"
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm Discussion
8:25 pm - 9:00 pmLindy McBride (Rockefeller University)
"Evolution of taste and smell receptors during herbivore host shifts"
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmPLANT DEFENSIVE CHEMISTRY - ACTION & DETOXIFICATION
Discussion Leader: Jonathan Gershenzon (Max Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology)
9:00 am - 9:10 am Discussion Leader - Announcements and Session Introduction
9:10 am - 9:40 amJuha-Pekka Salminen (University of Turku)
"Chemical ecology of tannins and other magnificent polyphenols: why still bother?"
9:40 am - 9:50 am Discussion
9:50 am - 10:20 amWilliam Foley (University of Queensland)
"Monkeys, marsupials and moose - plant chemistry and population dynamics"
10:20 am - 10:30 am Discussion
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 amJohn Tewksbury (University of Washington)
"Secondary metabolite function in ripe fruit"
11:30 am - 11:40 am Discussion
11:40 am - 12:10 pmMartin Heil (Cinvestav, Mexico)
"Damaged-self recognition elicits expression of indirect defenses"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmEVOLUTION OF PLANT AND INSECT DEFENSE: GLUCOSINOLATES
Discussion Leader: Art Zangerl (University of Illinois)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm Discussion Leader - Announcements and Session Introduction
7:40 pm - 8:15 pmChristopher Wheat (Pennsylvania State University)
"Macroevolutionary patterns and microevolutionary dynamics of insect adaptation to glucosinolates"
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm Discussion
8:25 pm - 9:00 pmDaniel Kliebenstein (University of California, Davis)
"Genetic networks controlling glucosinolate defenses against invertebrates"
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmINTERACTION MODELS: FROM ECOLOGY TO GENES
Discussion Leader: Anurag Agrawal (Cornell University)
9:00 am - 9:10 am Discussion Leader - Announcements and Session Introduction
9:10 am - 9:40 amJordi Bascompte (Doñana Biological Station, CSIC, Spain)
"Plant-Animal Interaction Networks: The Architecture of Biodiversity"
9:40 am - 9:50 am Discussion
9:50 am - 10:20 amNico Bluthgen (University of Wurzburg)
"Specialization and complementarity in plant-herbivore associations - a network perspective"
10:20 am - 10:30 am Discussion
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 amDavid Weston (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
"Scaling networks from genes to metabolites to ecological interactions"
11:30 am - 11:40 am Discussion
11:40 am - 12:10 pmSharon Strauss (University of California, Davis)
"Blending field and phylogenetic approaches to understand ecological specialization"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pmBusiness Meeting: Part I
(Discuss nominations for the next Vice Chair; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences)
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmEXTENDED PHENOTYPES AND EVOLUTION
Discussion Leader: Marcel Dicke (Wageningen University)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm Discussion Leader - Announcements and Session Introduction
7:40 pm - 8:15 pmThomas Whitham (Northern Arizona University)
"Extended Community Phenotypes of Plant-Herbivore Interactions: From Genes to Ecosystems"
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm Discussion
8:25 pm - 9:00 pmJohn Thompson (University of California, Santa Cruz)
"The Assembly of Coevolving Networks"
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmINTEGRATING BELOW GROUND INTERACTIONS
Discussion Leader: Nicole van Dam (Institute of Water and Wetland Research)
9:00 am - 9:10 am Discussion Leader - Announcements and Session Introduction
9:10 am - 9:40 amMark Hunter (University of Michigan)
"Whose phenotype is it anyway? Mycorrhizal fungi as mediators of plant defense against herbivores"
9:40 am - 9:50 am Discussion
9:50 am - 10:20 amMattias Erb (University of Neuchatel)
"Dynamic interactions between above and below ground defensive chemistry"
10:20 am - 10:30 am Discussion
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 amMelissa Mitchum (University of Missouri)
"Molecular Mimicry in Nematode signaling with host plants"
11:30 am - 11:40 am Discussion
11:40 am - 12:10 pmKatrin Meyer (University of Göttingen)
"Above-belowground plant-herbivore interactions - a modeller's perspective"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pmBusiness Meeting: Part 2
(Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Finalize discussion of future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair)
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmNEW PERSPECTIVES ON INVASIVE SPECIES
Discussion Leader: Colin Orians (Tufts University)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm Discussion Leader - Announcements and Session Introduction
7:40 pm - 8:15 pmMirka Macel (NIOO-KNAW, Netherlands)
"Metabolomics of Invasive Plants"
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm Discussion
8:25 pm - 9:00 pmKenneth Raffa (University of Wisconsin)
"Partners in Crime: Roles of Symbionts in Biological Invasions by Insect Herbivores"
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDepart
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