9-10am – Breakfast

10-10:20am – Welcome and Opening Remarks

 

Session 1 - Division of labor and Caste Evolution

 

10:20-10:40am - The evolution and development of caste in ants – Waring Trible

 

10:40-11:00am - Life-history strategy and behavioral type: Colony risk-tolerance reflects growth rate andenergy allocation – Sarah Bengston

 

11:00 - The genetic underpinnings of the individual and collective personality in cockroaches – Isaac Planas Sitjà

 

11:08 –Swarm Intelligence–Ivan Simpson-Kent

 

11:16 - Indirect genetic effects & trophallaxis in eusocial ants –Maggie Wisniewska

 

11:25-11:45 How can honeybees optimize the fitness trade-off between queen and drone founded swarms? – Natalie Lemanski

 

11:45-12:05 - Elevation and thermal ecology of Neotropical army ants -Kaitlin Baudier

 

12:05-1:30 Lunch

 

Session 2 – Pathogen, Microbes and Immunity

1:30-1:50pm - Within the fortress: a specialized parasite of ants is not evicted –Emilia Sola

 

1:50-2:10pm - The effect of pathogen exposure and within-host relatedness on ant social network – Svjetlana Vojvodic

 

2:10 - The effect of the social environment on disease resistance in acorn ants –Joseph Scavetta

 

2:18 - Assessing the impact of pesticides on honey bee health in New York State –Sarah Bluher

 

2:26 – Blochmania influence on immunity, cuticle and the brain –Veronica Sinotte

 

2:40 Break

 

3-3:20pm - Mutualism in a community context: lessons from ants, aphids, mealybugs and their internal microbiomes – Aniek Ivens

 

3:20-3:40 - Polygynous hosts and social parasites: Mating system in eusocial ants –Romain Dahan

 

3:40 - Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst: comb building in queenless honey bee colonies - Michael Smith

 

3:48 - Relationship between decorate properties and sunlight exposure in nests of meat ants Iridomyrmex purpureus – Subash Ray

 

3:56 - Finding the source of invasive populations of the clonal raider ant –

Sean McKenzie

 

4:05-4:25 - Varroa destructor mites can nimbly climb from flowers onto foraging honey bees –David Peck

 

4:25-4:45 - All hands on deck for Nitrogen metabolism in a 46 million year old nutritional symbiosis between ants and core gut bacteria – Yi Hu

 

4:45-5:05 - The evolutionary origins of social insect queen pheromones: fertility signaling in a socially polymorphic Halictid bee -by Callum Kingwell

 

5:15 – Human Posters in the Atrium

 

Dinner and Downtown Scranton