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PS: Social Insects as Models for Biological Complexity: Lessons Learned and Challenges on the Horizon

Tuesday, November 18, 2014: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Portland Ballroom 251 (Oregon Convention Center)
Organizers:
Simon Garnier
Zachary Shaffer


1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:35 PM
1423
Withdrawn
1:35 PM
1423
Questioning the presence of cement pheromones in stigmergic construction
Paul Bardunias, SUNY-ESF
1:52 PM
1424
Investigating the self-organized living architectures of Eciton army ants
Chris Reid, New Jersey Institute of Technology
2:09 PM
1425
Fire ants as self-healing materials
David Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology
2:26 PM
1426
Adaptive foraging strategies and group leadership in ants
Claire Detrain, Université Libre de Bruxelles ; Bertrand Collignon, Université Libre de Bruxelles
2:43 PM
1427
Diversity of collective decision-making patterns resulting from gregarious behavior
Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Université Libre de Bruxelles
3:00 PM
1428
Coordinating foraging in insect societies: Why are multiple information signals used?
Francis Ratnieks, University of Sussex
3:17 PM
Break
3:29 PM
1429
The interplay of abiotic and biotic factors in driving diversification in the ants
Corrie Moreau, Field Museum of Natural History
3:46 PM
1430
The evolutionary genetic basis of social regulation of caste development
Timothy A. Linksvayer, University of Pennsylvania
4:03 PM
1431
Regulation of work in ant colonies
Laurent Keller, University of Lausanne ; Danielle Mersch, University of Lausanne
4:20 PM
1432
Green brain: Computational modelling of the honeybee brain
James Marshall, University of Sheffield
4:37 PM
1433
The hidden demographics of distributed information processing: The role of intermediates in a social-insect colony
Theodore Pavlic, Arizona State University
4:54 PM
1434
Chemically armed ants pillage and protect fungus-farming societies
Rachelle Adams, University of Copenhagen
5:11 PM
1435
The ecology of collective behavior in ants
Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford University
5:28 PM
Concluding Remarks
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