Symposia Abstract
Symposia Group 1 - Genomics of Social Insects
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Thiago da Silva Depintor | Differential expression of developmental genes in response to the morphogenetic hormones in Apis mellifera |
Jack Howe | Is worker reproduction in Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants affected by genomic imprinting? |
Romain Libbrecht | Epigenetic regulation of circadian rhythm in ants |
Paul Hurd | The epigenetic basis of nutrition-mediated caste identity in the honey bee |
Kenji Matsuura | Genomic imprinting drives the evolution of termite eusociality |
Boris Yagound | Is worker reproduction influenced by sperm-specific DNA methylation in the honey bee? |
Nicholas Myles Allen Smith | Genomic Imprinting in South African honey bees |
Elizabeth Jenness Duncan | Genome organisation and response to queen mandibular pheromone in the honeybee (Apis mellifera). |
Speakers | Abstract |
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Laurent | The origin of sex chromosomes in fire ants |
Natalia de Souza Araujo | Unveiling the expression dynamics of genes involved in bee sociality |
Waring Trible | Frequency-dependent selection of a recently derived social parasite in the clonal raider ant |
Amy L. Toth | Polistes wasps: a model genus for social evolution in the genomic era |
Kohei Oguchi | Juvenile hormone action inducing neotenic differentiation in the damp-wood termite |
Tim Gernat | Reduced trophallactic activity in response to virus infection in automatically monitored honeybee colonies |
Anete Pedro Lourenço | Genes and genetic pathways in bees: from solitary to social behavior |
Amro Zayed | Studying the genetics of colony-level traits using GWAS in honey bees (Apis mellifera) |
Martin Beye | Genetic instruction of behaviors in honeybees? |
Hua Yan | Generating genetic tools in ants to study behavior and neural development |
Speakers | Abstract |
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David Henry Collins | Gene expression and larval caste differentiation in social and socially parasitic bumble bees |
Guy Bloch | Social and molecular regulation of size-related division of labor in the bumblebee Bombus terrestirs |
Priscila Karla Ferreira dos Santos | The genome of the solitary bee Tetrapedia diversipes |
Gyan Harwood | Vitellogenin’s gene regulatory role in honey bee division of labor. |
Jens Van Eeckhoven | What can a solitary bee tell us about the evolution of reproductive constraint in honeybees? |
Joan Theresa King | Differential expression analysis of Nylanderia fulva workers and queens under varying dietary treatments |
Mariana Velasque | Doublesex regulates reproductive division of labour in honey bees |
Tobias Weichselgartner | Vasa: A marker to study larval queen/worker differentiation in the ant Cardiocondyla obscurior |
Lauren Mee | Investigating Patterns of Selection in Immune-Responsive Genes across Anthophila |
Symposia Group 2 - Neurobiology, Communivation and Behavior
Speakers | Abstract |
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Volker Nehring | Associative learning of recognition templates |
CHOLE Hanna | Social contact acts as appetitive reinforcement and supports associative learning in honeybees (Apis mellifera) |
Lisa Joanne Evans | How intra-colony differences in bumble bee learning ability influences their foraging choices |
Morgane Nouvian | Towards automated conditioning of honeybees in complex tasks |
Chelsea Cook | Variation in learning shapes foraging behavior in Honey Bees |
Martin Giurfa | Good at simple, good at complex: proficiency is maintained across elemental and higher-order visual learning tasks in an insect |
Fernando Locatelli | Competing aversive and appetitive memories in the crab Neohelice and in honey bees |
Theo Mota | Bimodal patterning discrimination in harnessed honey bees |
Hiroyuki Ai | How do the honeybees learn waggle dance? |
Speakers | Abstract |
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Yuki Mitaka | Multifunctionality of soldier pheromone in a termite |
Margarita Orlova | Effect of immune challenge on production of queen pheromones in the honeybee |
Fabio Nascimento | Queen pheromones did not inhibit reproduction but maintain social cohesion in an Orchid bee |
Cintia Akemi Oi | The royal pheromones of wasp colonies |
Edward Lind Vargo | Identification of a queen and king recognition pheromone in the subterranean termite, Reticulitermes flavipes |
Callum Kingwell | Chemical fertility signaling in a flexibly eusocial insect |
Christoph Johannes Kleineidam | Adaptive resource defense and experience-dependent nestmate recognition in ants |
Alison Mcafee | Death pheromones triggering hygienic behaviour in honey bees (Apis mellifera) |
Robert Kenneth Vander Meer | Chemicals passed from fire ant males to females during mating have multiple functions that enhance colony foundation success |
Symposia Group 3 - Social Evolution and Sociobiology
Speakers | Abstract |
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Eckart Stolle | Early evolution and structure of a young supergene governing social behavior |
Sanja Maria Hakala | Selfish Progeny of Great Societies - dispersal and supercoloniality in Formica ants |
Anindita Brahma | Current indirect fitness and future direct fitness are not incompatible |
Timothy Linksvayer | Prospects for using comparative genomics to elucidate the evolution of eusociality |
Madison Sankovitz | Reproductive partitioning in polygynous, perennial Vespula pensylvanica colonies |
Jacobus Boomsma | Monogamous sperm storage and permanent worker sterility in a long-lived ambrosia beetle |
Etya Amsalem | The origin of castes in social insects: examining the diapause ground plan hypothesis in bumblebees |
Mackenzie R Lovegrove | Evolving Eusociality: Using Drosophila to understand how queen pheromone inhibits reproduction in Apis mellifera workers |
Miriam Richards | Social trait correlations and phylogenetic patterns in sweat bees |
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Ulrich G. Mueller | Social insects and their diverse colony organizations elucidate principles of microbiome-inheritance, differential microbiome-cycling, and microbiome-engineering |
Helder Hugo dos Santos | From random to coordinated collective motion in termites |
Jacobus J. Boomsma | Superorganismality as defined by Wheeler is crucial for understanding major evolutionary transitions to caste-differentiated colonies |
Luis Alberto Martínez Vaquero | Value-sensitive collective decision making under an evolutionary game theory perspective |
Dominic Burns | Why are some ant colonies polydomous? |
Boris H. Kramer | Long live the queen: eusociality and the evolutionary theory of ageing |
Paul John Eggleton | Drawing the line: the problems of termites and superorganismality |
Sabrina Amador-Vargas | Democracy dilemma: (dis)advantages of having several individuals deciding about a solitary task. |
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Thomas Owen Richardson | Social insects modulate their behaviour according to caste and spatial context |
Tomonari Nozaki | Queen-destined parthenogenetic daughters as a preadaptation for asexual queen succession in termites |
Robin J. Southon | Male paper wasps are not just flying sperm |
Mathilde Vidal | Royal matchmaking: ant workers promote outbreeding by their sexual sisters by transporting them to alien nests |
Naoto Idogawa | Social and genetic structure of Monomorium triviale, a clonal ant with queen-worker dimorphism |
Karen Meusemann | Why do social insect queens live so long? Workers take on the queen’s burdens |
Sruthi Unnikrishnan | Age polyethism in the tropical primitively eusocial wasp, Ropalidia cyathiformis |
Sheina Koffler | Selection of male traits in a monogamous social bee: evidences from behavior and quantitative genetics |
Pierre Blacher | Alternative colony-founding strategies in the Alpine silver ant |
Symposia Group 4 - Health and Immunity
Speakers | Abstract |
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Arran J Folly | The effect of caffeine on the epidemiology of Nosema bombi a detrimental bumblebee parasite |
Christoph Kurze | Social networks and disease transmission |
Paul Schmid-Hempel | Parasites in social insects: from sparse beginnings to a key issue |
Natalie Imirzian | Foraging dynamics in sniper alley |
Sylvia Cremer | Social immunity – the immune system of the superorganism? |
Sina Metzler | Pathogen-mediated sexual selection in ants |
Maéva Angélique TECHER | Understanding successful host switches of honeybee Varroa mites using whole genome sequencing and population genomics |
Rebeca B. Rosengaus | Termites as an (often neglected) outgroup in ecological immunology studies |