Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, SysEB: Behavior and Ecology

Monday, December 13, 2010: 9:40 AM-12:00 PM
Fairfield (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)
Organizer:

Moderators:
John W. Wenzel
Juliana Rangel


9:57 AM
Behavior of honey bees (Apis mellifera) and beetle invaders at the nest entrance and within the nest
Edward Blake Atkinson, University of Florida ; James Douglas Ellis, University of Florida
10:09 AM
Rest behavior in Anastrepha ludens using an electronic behavioral monitoring system
Amy E. Morice, University of California, Davis ; Sige Zou, Laboratory of Experimental Gerontology ; Kevin D. Kaub, University of California, Davis ; Pablo Liedo, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) ; Leopoldo A. Robles, Computer Vision Laboratory, National Institute for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics ; Donald K. Ingram, Nutritional Neuroscience and Aging Laboratory ; James F. Harwood, University of California, Davis ; James R. Carey, University of California, Davis
10:21 AM
Annual patterns of forager allocation in the Florida harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex badius)
Christina Kwapich, The Florida State University ; Walter R. Tschinkel, Florida State University
10:33 AM
Cooperative foraging in the ant Temnothorax rugatulus:  Recruitment, advantages of group size, and collective decision-making
Zachary Shaffer, Arizona State University ; Stephen Pratt, Arizona State University
10:45 AM
10:57 AM
Colony-level variation in foraging behavior of the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta)
Alison A. Bockoven, Texas A&M University ; Craig J. Coates, Texas A&M University ; Micky D. Eubanks, Texas A&M University
11:09 AM
Nestmate recognition behaviors and chemical cue diversity of the co-habitating ants Camponotus femoratus and Crematogaster levior in French Guiana
Virginia Emery, University of Cailfornia, Berkeley ; Neil Tsutsui, University of California, Berkeley
11:21 AM
Nestmate recognition in the ant Formica argentea
Michelle Ochomogo, University of Colorado, Boulder
11:33 AM
Emergence of group rationality from irrational individuals
Takao Sasaki, Arizona State University ; Stephen Pratt, Arizona State University