Session: Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, SysEB: Behavior and Ecology (2010 ESA Annual Meeting (December 12-15, 2010))

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 :

Margaret

Moderators:

John W. Wenzel
Juliana Rangel

9:40 AM

Introductory Remarks

9:45 AM

The proximate bases of resistance against ectoparasitism in Drosophila melanogaster

Beth Cortright, University of Cincinnati

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; 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, Arizona 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 C. Pratt, Arizona State University

10:45 AM

Break

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 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 California; Neil Tsutsui, University of California

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

11:45 AM

Concluding Remarks

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