Symposia
Below is the list of symposia that will form the backbone of IUSSI2010, along with their organizers and the provisional list of invited speakers. You can read more details of each symposium by clicking on the symposium number. A PDF file with details of all symposia can also be downloaded here.
| Symposium | Time | Organizers | Invited speakers | |
From colonies to communities: the consequences of behaviour for communities | Mon | Nathan Sanders | Don Feener | |
Invasion biology of social insects | Thurs | Anne-Geneviève Bagnères | Marc Kenis | |
Going big: large scale spatial and temporal patterns in social insect communities | Fri | Robert Dunn | Alan Andersen | |
Ecological and evolutionary implications of inter-specific, multipartite interactions | Fri | Raphael Boulay | Nico Blüthgen | |
Major transitions in termite feeding biology and their consequences | Fri | Paul Eggleton | Christine Nalepa | |
The role of relatedness in social evolution: a critical assessment of when it matters and when not | Thurs | Juergen Liebig | Juergen Heinze | |
Sex and the insect society: focus on unorthodox breeding systems | Tues | Tamara Hartke | Trine Bilde | |
Brood parasitism and inquilinism in social insects | Tues | Ben Oldroyd | Rebecca Kilner | |
Insect-microbe symbioses as evolutionary innovation | Thurs | Michael Poulsen | Meredith Blackwell | |
The social evolution of fusion and exclusion | Tues | Duur Aanen | Rick Grosberg | |
Kin structure variation, gene flow and social adaptation | Fri | Heikki Helanterä | Michel Chapuisat | |
Integrating molecular and morphological approaches to elucidate social insects phylogenies | Tues | Caspar Schöning | Sean Brady | |
Patterns and processes of aging and lifespan: how special are social insects? | Tues | Olav Rueppell | Gro Amdam | |
Evolution of morphological novelty in social insects | Mon | Diana Wheeler | Armin Moczek | |
Genetics of Social Behaviour | Thurs | Martin Beye | Stephen Goodwin | |
The genetic basis and consequences of social evolution | Fri | Tim Linksvayer | Laurent Keller | |
The beneficial use of ants and termites in agriculture and nutrition | Thurs | Mogen G. Nielsen | Renkang Peng | |
Optimization in natural systems: designing nature-inspired algorithms using social insects | Thurs | Madeleine Beekman | Stephen Pratt | |
Behavioral syndromes in social insects: the evolution of behavioral variation between individuals and colonies | Fri | Anna Dornhaus | Andy Sih | |
Insect societies as complex systems | Tues | Ana Sendova-Franks | Kim Christensen | |
Communication and the integration of multiple information sources in colony organisation | Tues | Christoph Grüter | Tom Seeley | |
Semiochemicals in insect societies: the effects of genes and environment and their interaction | Thurs | Steve Martin | Gary Blomquist | |
Nestmate and other kin-recognition systems: from ecology and behaviour to molecular and neurophysiological techniques | Mon | Margaret Couvillon | Francis Ratnieks | |
New insights into social evolution: Molecular and genomics approaches to comparative neuroethology | Fri | Andrew Barron | Yehuda Ben-Shahar | |
My brain made me do it: Neurological basis of behavioral repertoire changes in social insects | Tues | Marc Seid | Allison Mercer | |
Trajectories towards sociality across arthropod taxa | Thurs | Ally Harari | Sara Helms Cahan | |
Immunity and sociogenomics of host-parasite interactions | Mon | Sylvia Cremer | Dan Hultmark | |
Parasites in social insects | Fri | William Hughes | Jay Evans | |
The living past of insect sociobiology | Mon | John Wenzel | Michael Breed | |
| 30 | Open session - Social insect behaviour | Wed | IUSSI2010 | |
| 31 | Open session - Miscellaneous | Wed | IUSSI2010 |