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Monday, December 10, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM |
California, Atlas Ballroom, First Floor (Town & Country) |
Program Symposium: Sensory Ecology: Amazing Ways Insects Connect with Their Environment |
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| Organizer(s): | Andrea L. Joyce, ajoyce@neo.tamu.edu
Miriam F. Cooperband, mcooperband@alumni.ucr.edu
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| 1:30 PM | | | | Introductory Remarks |
| 1:35 PM |  | 0564 | | Insect sensory systems: Strategies, mechanisms, pressures, and conflicts
Miriam F. Cooperband, mcooperband@alumni.ucr.edu |
| 1:55 PM | | 0565 | | Rare males and silent genes: The evolution of moth pheromone communication systems
Wendell Roeloffs, WLR1@cornell.edu |
| 2:15 PM | | 0566 | | Visualizing the olfactory circuit in Drosophila
Jing Wang, jw800@ucsd.edu |
| 2:35 PM | | 0567 | | What makes humans irresistible for African malaria mosquitoes?
Willem Takken, willem.takken@wur.nl |
| 2:55 PM | | 0568 | | How cuticular hydrocarbon based chemical cues inform harvester ant task decisions
Michael Greene, michael.greene@cudenver.edu |
| 3:15 PM | | | | Break |
| 3:25 PM | | 0569 | | War of the flowers: Olfactory espionage and aggression in stingless bee foraging
James Nieh, jnieh@ucsd.edu |
| 3:45 PM | | 0570 | | Detection of forest fires by specialized infrared receptors in different pyrophilous beetles
Helmut Schmitz, h.schmitz@uni-bonn.de |
| 4:05 PM | | 0571 | | Toward an understanding of the evolution of extreme structural and functional complexity in vibrational mating signals
Randy E. Hunt |
| 4:25 PM | | 0572 | | Courtship vibrations of parasitoid wasps: Environmental influences on signals
Andrea L. Joyce, ajoyce@neo.tamu.edu |
| 4:45 PM | | 0573 | | Species-specific learning and memory in parasitic wasps
Louise E. M. Vet, l.vet@nioo.knaw.nl |
| 5:05 PM | | 0574 | | Magnetic nanoparticles in social insects: Are they the geomagnetic sensors?
Darci Motta Souza Esquivel, darci@cbpf.br |
| 5:25 PM | | | | Concluding Remarks |
