ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Symposium: Social Networks: The Mechanistic Basis and Evolution of Social Traits

Tuesday, November 13, 2012: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
200 C, Floor Two (Knoxville Convention Center)
Organizers:
Sandra M. Rehan
Timothy A. Linksvayer
Svjetlana Vojvodic


8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:02 AM
9:06 AM
Subterranean ant nest architecture: How do they do it?
Walter R. Tschinkel, Florida State University
9:38 AM
Pathogen effects on behavioural networks and immune gene expression in ant societies
Line Ugelvig, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
9:54 AM
Break
10:08 AM
The adaptive evolution of individual position in social networks
Edmund D. Brodie III, University of Virginia
10:24 AM
Colony level gene regulatory networks
Timothy A. Linksvayer, University of Pennsylvania
10:40 AM
Genetic and behavioural basis of ant caste regulation
Sandra M. Rehan, University of Pennsylvania
10:56 AM
11:12 AM
Building busier bees with genetic diversity
Heather Mattila, Wellesley College
11:44 AM
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