ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Social Insect Evolution Today: Clarifying Leading Hypotheses with Novel Approaches

Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 8:00 AM-5:30 PM
Room D1, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)
Organizers:
Theresa L. Pitts-Singer
Brielle J. Fischman
S. Hollis Woodard
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM
1357
Social terminology redux
James Costa, Highlands Biological Station
8:21 AM
1358
What evolves and what does not in a Darwinian paradigm
John Wenzel, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
8:37 AM
1359
Evolution of phenotypic plasticity in social insects
Michael A. D. Goodisman, Georgia Institute of Technology
8:53 AM
1360
Social evolution in termites: a case study and its implications
Judith Korb, University of Osnabrueck
9:09 AM
Break 1
9:19 AM
1361
Hypothesis-driven insights into proximate mechanisms of termite sociality: nutrition and endocrinology
Michael E. Scharf, Purdue University
9:35 AM
1362
Integrative physiological and genomic analyses of behavior in bees and wasps: insights into social evolution
Amy L. Toth, Iowa State University
9:51 AM
1363
Solitary and social lives of Xylocopa virginica - the ecological effect
Miriam Richards, Brock University
10:07 AM
1364
The evolution of caste determination: insights from the solitary bee, Megachile rotundata
Brielle J. Fischman, University of Illinois
10:23 AM
1365
The evolution of brood-feeding behavior in bumble bees
S. Hollis Woodard, University of Illinois
10:39 AM
Break 2
10:49 AM
1366
Opportunities and constraints in brain evolution for social animals
Sean O'Donnell, Drexel University
11:05 AM
1367
Using the unique mode of caste determination and the genome of Pogonomyrmex barbatus to gain insight into the mechanisms of caste determination
Chris R. Smith, Earlham College
11:21 AM
1368
Reproductive physiology, behavior, and evolution in the ant, Pogonomyrmex californicus
Adam G. Dolezal, Arizona State University
11:37 AM
1369
Dynamics of symbioses between ants and their gut bacteria
Jacob A. Russell, Drexel University
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