Tuesday, December 12, 2006: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Rooms 101-103 (Convention Center)
Program Symposium: Contribution of Social Insect Studies to Science and Society
Organizer(s):	Tugrul Giray, tgiray2@yahoo.com Zachary Y. Huang, bees@msu.edu
8:00 AM	0025		Test
8:20 AM			Introductory Remarks
8:25 AM	0026		Genetics and conservation of honey bees in Turkey   Aykut Kence, aykut@metu.edu.tr, Meral Kence, mkence@metu.edu.tr, Cağr&iota Bodur, cagribodur@gmail.com
8:45 AM	0027		Termites as a model system for the study of disease transmission in animal societies   Rebeca B. Rosengaus, r.rosengaus@neu.edu
9:05 AM	0028		Social insects on islands   Bert Rivera-Marchand, bertriveram@yahoo.com
9:25 AM	0029		Regulation of division of labor in social insects   Zachary Y. Huang, bees@msu.edu
9:45 AM	0030		Integration of detection, decision, and action in behavioral development   Tugrul Giray, tgiray2@yahoo.com
10:05 AM	0031		Primer pheromones in honey bee   Yves Le Conte, leconte@avignon.inra.fr
10:25 AM			Break
10:40 AM	0032		The evolution of antibiotics in fungus-growing ants: Possible lessons for understanding antibiotic resistence in human and crop pathogens   Hermogenes Fernandez-Marin, fernandezh@si.edu
11:00 AM	0033		Impact of Africanized bees on science and society   Ernesto Guzman-Novoa, eguzman@uoguelph.ca
11:20 AM	0034		How termite studies contributed to science and society Edward L. Vargo, ed_vargo@ncsu.edu
11:40 AM	0035		Macahel: Combining apiculture and local biodiversity for rural development   Irfan Kandemir, kandemir@karaelmas.edu.tr
12:00 PM	0036		Giving something back to social insects   Walter R. Tschinkel, tschinkel@bio.fsu.edu

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