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
0928
Connecting network structure to function in social and social insect networks
Jennifer H. Fewell, Arizona State University
8:18 AM
0929
Structural properties, functional outcomes and mechanistic basis of social networks in insect colonies
Dhruba Naug, Colorado State University
8:34 AM
0930
Interaction networks and the foraging ecology of harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus)
Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford University
8:50 AM
0931
Does inter-individual variation in task allocation play a key role in social organization in the ant Pheidole dentata?
Sofia Ibarraran, McGill University
9:06 AM
0932
Subterranean ant nest architecture: How do they do it?
Walter R. Tschinkel, Florida State University
9:22 AM
0933
Chitin-out and chitin-in: Modeling how information flow affects division of labor
Sean O'Donnell, Drexel University
9:38 AM
0934
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
0935
The adaptive evolution of individual position in social networks
Edmund D. Brodie III, University of Virginia
10:24 AM
0936
Colony level gene regulatory networks
Timothy A. Linksvayer, University of Pennsylvania
10:40 AM
0937
Genetic and behavioural basis of ant caste regulation
Sandra M. Rehan, University of Pennsylvania
10:56 AM
0938
The role of genotype in self organizing processes of task allocation in honey bees
Brian Johnson, University of California, Davis
11:12 AM
0939
Building busier bees with genetic diversity
Heather Mattila, Wellesley College
11:28 AM
0940
The interplay of genes and ecology in the social behavior of a halictid bee
Sarah D. Kocher, Harvard University
11:44 AM
0941
What drives the evolution of eusociality in insects? Combining the evidence
Juergen Liebig, Arizona State University
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