Schedule

1:00PM - 1:30PM: Coffee & Registration

1:30PM - 1:35PM: Welcome & Opening Remarks 
Karine Le Roch, PhD
Director, Center for Infectious Disease and Vector Research
UC Riverside

1:35PM - 2:20PM: Population Conversion with Allelic-Drives
Ethan Bier, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of California, San Diego

2:20PM - 3:05PM: How Climate and Pathogen Diversity Impact Outcomes of a Vector-Borne Plant Disease
Rodrigo Almeida, PhD
Professor and Hildebrand-Laumeister Chair in Plant Pathology
University of California, Berkeley

3:05 - 3:15 Coffee Break

3:15PM - 4:00PM: Plant-derived antimicrobial peptides control vector-transmitted citrus Huanglongbing and grape Pierce’s disease
Hailing Jin, PhD
Professor of Plant Molecular Genetics & CY Mouradick Endowed Chair
University of California, Riverside

4:00PM - 4:30PM: The Hidden Symbiont: Characterizing New Liberibacter Lineages & Their Important Role in Psyllid Nutrition
Allison Hansen, PhD.
Associate Professor of Entomology
University of California, Riverside

4:30PM - 5:00PM: From Aggregation to Release: Probing the Molecular Forces Driving AAV Stability and Encapsulated DNA Dynamics
Tibo Duran, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
University of California, Riverside

5:00PM - 6:00PM: Reception - Genomics Auditorium Lobby