Session: Honoring Hölldobler and Wilson by Celebrating the Social Insects (2009 ESA Annual Meeting, December 13-16, 2009)

Honoring Hölldobler and Wilson by Celebrating the Social Insects

Tuesday, December 15, 2009: 8:00 AM-6:00 PM

Room 107-108, First Floor (Convention Center)

Organizers:

Walter R. Tschinkel
Sanford D. Porter

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:05 AM

The evolutionary ecology of harvester ants

Blaine J. Cole, University of Houston

8:30 AM

Extreme specializations of castes in ants

Diana Wheeler, University of Arizona

8:55 AM

Understanding why: efficiency, robustness, and division of labor in bumble bees

Anna Dornhaus, University of Arizona

9:20 AM

Open Mike

9:35 AM

Break

9:45 AM

Age, size, brain and subcaste evolution in the ant genus Pheidole

Amy Mertl, Boston University; Mario Muscedere, Boston University; James F. A. Traniello, Boston University

10:10 AM

On the metapleural gland of ants, reloaded

Ulrich G. Mueller, The University of Texas; Sze Huei Yek, University of Texas; Jeffery A. Riffell, University of Arizona

10:35 AM

Endosymbionts and the evolution of herbivory in ants and the diversification of the ants

Naomi E. Pierce, Harvard University; Jacob A. Russell, Drexel University; Corrie S. Moreau, University of California-Berkeley; Benjamin Goldman-Huertas, Harvard University; Mikiko Fujiwara, Harvard University; David J. Lohman, National University of Singapore

11:00 AM

Intermission

1:30 PM

Ant conservation: importance and challenges

Leeanne E. Alonso, Conservation International

1:55 PM

Vibrational signals influence development in Polistes wasps

Robert L. Jeanne, University of Wisconsin; Sainath Suryanarayanan, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2:20 PM

Advances in ant systematics: phylogenetics and species-level taxonomy

Philip S. Ward, University of California

2:45 PM

How many ants can an island hold? An integrative survey of Madagascar's ants

Brian Fisher, California Academy of Sciences

3:10 PM

Open Mike

3:25 PM

Break

3:40 PM

Causes and consequences of genetic diversity in ant societies

Jürgen Gadau, Arizona State University

4:05 PM

The evolution of eusociality in termites

Barbara L. Thorne, University of Maryland

4:30 PM

Honeybee democracy

Thomas D. Seeley, Cornell University

4:55 PM

Concluding Remarks

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