Tuesday, December 12, 2006: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room 110 (Convention Center)
Section C Symposium: Genomic Approaches to Understanding Insect Sociality
Organizer(s):	Colin S. Brent, colin.brent@asu.edu
Moderator(s):	James H. Hunt, jimhunt@umsl.edu
8:00 AM			Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM	0682		Queen determination in honey bees: Exploring the role of the insulin signaling pathway   Diana Wheeler, dewsants@ag.arizona.edu
8:27 AM	0683		Genomic analysis of reproductive states in honey bees Christina Grozinger, christina_grozinger@ncsu.edu
8:49 AM	0684		Uncovering a genetic ground plan of social life-history traits Gro V. Amdam, gro.amdam@asu.edu
9:11 AM			Break
9:21 AM	0685		Learning from the exception: Genetic caste determination in the harvester ant Sara Helms Cahan, sara.cahan@uvm.edu
9:43 AM	0686		Genomic analysis of ant colony behavior   John Wang, John.Wang@unil.ch
10:05 AM	0687		A role for status quo inhibitory factors in termite caste regulation   Michael E. Scharf, mescharf@ifas.ufl.edu
10:27 AM			Break
10:37 AM	0688		Brain gene expression patterns associated with division of labor in Apis and Polistes   Amy Toth, amytoth@uiuc.edu, Gene Robinson, generobi@life.uiuc.edu
10:59 AM	0689		Genomic approaches to unraveling caste in Polistes: Initial investigations and promising horizons   James H. Hunt, jimhunt@umsl.edu
11:21 AM	0690		Future research directions and opportunities for utilizing a genomics-based approach to understanding eusociality   Robert Page, robert.page@asu.edu

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