应我校国家自然科学基金“生物防治”创新研究群体学术负责人刘树生教授的邀请，著名昆虫学家、美国康奈尔大学the Daljit S. and Elaine Sarkaria特聘教授Angela E. Douglas博士将于2013年5月5-10日来我校学术访问。
Angela E. Douglas教授在国际学术界享有盛誉，尤其在动物营养生理学领域成就卓著，她的研究首次揭示蚜虫依靠共生细菌合成生存必需氨基酸，从而开辟了昆虫营养生理和刺吸式口器昆虫防治研究的一个新方向。近年她综合应用各种“组学”，探讨昆虫营养和免疫系统如何与共生细菌互作，调控昆虫的生命活动。她是昆虫学领域享有盛誉的经典教材《The Insects: Structure and Function》2012年第5版的主编，美国昆虫学会会士、英国皇家昆虫学会会士。她的学术报告享有深入浅出、语言精湛的盛誉，经常受国际著名大学邀请前往讲学。
学术报告题目：共生细菌如何解决昆虫的糖分冗余困境
时间：2013年5月8日（星期三）晚上7:00 – 8:30
地点：紫荆港农生环大楼A座110
欢迎农学、生物学领域的教师、研究生、本科生参加
Seminar Announcement
Sweet Problems and Symbiotic Solutions: how Insects Cope with the Extreme Diet of Plant Phloem Sap
Speaker: Dr. Angela E. Douglas
Venue: Room: A110, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology
Date and time: 7:00-8:30pm, Wednesday 8 May
Dr. Angela E. Douglas is the Daljit S. and Elaine Sarkaria Professor of Insect Physiology and Toxicology at Cornell University. She received a B.A. in zoology from Oxford University in 1978, and a Ph.D. from Aberdeen University.
Dr. Douglas is a renowned world authority in the field of insect physiology. Her research includes the first direct physiological evidence that symbiotic bacteria provide aphids with essential amino acids, nutrients in short supply in the aphid diet of plant phloem sap. Currently Dr. Douglas conducts research on how the nutrition and immune system of insects interact with symbiotic microorganisms, including the application of genomic data to model metabolic and signaling networks in insect-microbial interactions. Her research is built on the commitment to explain how insects work in terms of underlying molecular mechanisms, and to use this information to predict how insects interact with other organisms and the wider environment. This commitment has informed Dr. Douglas’s’s writing of many scientific reviews and three books, including The Symbiotic Habit (2010), and editing of the classic, standard textbook The Insects: Structure and Function (2012), and it guides her teaching of students and outreach activities for school teachers and the wider community.
