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8:00 AM-12:00 PM |
| 5th Bee Molecular Biology Workshop |
1:30 PM-3:30 PM |
| Honey Bee Pathogens Workshop |
5:00 PM-7:00 PM |
| Reception welcome |
7:00 PM-9:00 PM |
| Reception |
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9:00 AM-11:30 AM |
| Keynote and Plenary Session 1 |
12:00 PM-6:00 PM |
| Posters and Exhibits, Group A |
1:30 PM-3:30 PM |
| Symposium 5: Conflict and cooperation in symbioses between social insects and micro-organisms |
1:30 PM-6:00 PM |
| Symposium 1: Social recognition |
| Symposium 2: Body size and natural history |
| Symposium 3: Molecular and hormonal signaling pathways in caste development and reproduction |
| Symposium 4: Phylogeny and Evolution of Bees: A Tribute to Charles Michener |
4:00 PM-6:00 PM |
| Symposium 6: Genetic and reproductive structure of termite colonies |
6:00 PM-7:00 PM |
| Section Business Meeting - Japanese Section |
| Section Business Meeting - North American Section |
| Section Business Meeting - Russian-language Section |
| Section Business Meetings - Australian, Bolivarian, Brazilian, and French Sections |
| Section Business Meetings - German-speaking, British, and Italian Sections |
7:00 PM-9:00 PM |
| Informal Symposium: Episodes in the History of Insect Sociobiology |
7:00 PM-9:30 PM |
| Movies |
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8:00 AM-9:30 AM |
| Plenary Session 2 |
8:00 AM-10:00 PM |
| Posters and Exhibits Group A. - continued |
10:00 AM-12:00 PM |
| Contributed Papers Session 1 |
| Symposium 7: The consequences of polyandry for colony organization |
10:00 AM-12:20 PM |
| Symposium 10: Evolution of Termite Life Histories |
| Symposium 8: Building behavior and the control of climate in social insects |
| Symposium 9: Social complexity from solitary circuits: A new paradigm for insect sociality |
1:30 PM-6:00 PM |
| Contributed Papers Session 2 |
| Symposium 11: The immune system of social insects: challenges of a colonial life |
| Symposium 12: Ant phylogenetics: New molecular trees to address old problems in ant biology |
| Symposium 13: Current topics in reproductive physiology |
| Symposium 8: Building behavior and the control of climate in social insects |
6:00 PM-7:00 PM |
| International Committee Business Meeting |
7:00 PM-9:00 PM |
| Contributed Papers Session 4 |
| ContributedPapers Session 3 |
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8:00 AM-9:30 AM |
| Plenary Session 3 |
8:00 AM-10:00 PM |
| Posters and Exhibits, Group B |
10:00 AM-12:00 PM |
| Contributed Papers Session 5 |
| Symposium 14: Ants communities and biodiversity: Global Assessments and Monitoring |
| Symposium 15: Collective and Individual Intelligence |
| Symposium 16: Social Insect Semiochemicals: a Symposium in honor of Murray Blum |
| Symposium 17: Evolution and development in caste differentiation of termites |
1:30 PM-6:00 PM |
| Symposium 14: Ant communities and biodiversity: community ecology |
| Symposium 15: Collective and Individual Intelligence |
| Symposium 16: Social Insect Semiochemicals: a Symposium in honor of Murray Blum |
| Symposium 18: Genes, genomics and social biology |
| Symposium 19: Caste Interactions and Social Reproduction |
6:00 PM-7:00 PM |
| General Business Meeting IUSSI |
7:00 PM-9:00 PM |
| Contributed Papers Session 6 |
| Contributed Papers Session 7 |
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8:00 AM-9:30 AM |
| Plenary Session 4 |
8:00 AM-1:00 PM |
| Posters and Exhibits, Group B - continued |
10:00 AM-12:00 PM |
| Contributed Papers Session 8 |
| Symposium 20: Invasive ants |
10:00 AM-12:20 PM |
| Symposium 21: Coevolution between social insects and their macroparasites |
| Symposium 22: Structure, function and dynamics of social networks |
1:30 PM-6:00 PM |
| Symposium 20: Invasive ants |
| Symposium 23: Neuroethology of Social Insects |
| Symposium 25: Pheromonal mediation of honey bee social behavior, a symposium in honor of Mark Winston |
| Symposium 26: The myth of the sterile worker: A reconsideration of worker reproductive options in social Hymenoptera without morphological castes |
1:30 PM-6:20 PM |
| Symposium 24: Conflict Resolution in Insect Societies |
7:00 PM-8:00 PM |
| Banquet reception |
8:00 PM-10:00 PM |
| Banquet |