PROGRAM
Provisional schedule is now available, see bottom
Plenary talks
- Prof. James T. Costa - Western Carolina University (USA)
Beyond selfish herds: Structure, ecology and evolution of larval societies - Prof. Stuart West - Edinburgh University (United-Kingdom)
Social evolution in microbes - Prof. Laurent Keller - Université de Lausanne (Suisse)
Ant behavior is modulated by complex interactions between genes and social environment - Dr. Tom Wenseleers - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
Altruism in insect societies and beyond: voluntary or enforced?
Symposia
The meeting will be organised in 11 symposia, each chaired by a recognised scientist.
- Social Organization, Collective Processes and Division of Work
- Reproductive Strategies and Population Genetics
- Ethology and Neuroethology
- Genes, Genomics and Social Biology
- Disease and Immunity in Social Insects
- Social Insects Molecular Systematics
- Anatomy and Morphology
- Chemical Ecology
- Coevolution Between Social Insects and Social and Macro- parasites
- Disease and immunity in social insects (relationships with pathogens and symbionts)
- Cooperation and Conflicts in Social Systems
- Biodiversity, Community Ecology and Invasion Biology
Oral presentations
Plenary talks will last 45 minutes plus 15 minutes discussion. Other speakers will be given slots of 15 minutes talk plus 5 minutes discussion. All presentations must be done in Power Point and compatible with MS PowerPoint 2003 or an older version of the same program. PCs only will be used as computer sources. It is strongly recommended to bring your presentation on a CD or flash disk. McIntosh users are kindly requested to convert their files to make them compatible with PCs.
There will be opportunities to review and update presentations at the Congress. Note that the finalised version of your presentation must be submitted to the desk office 24 hours before your talk.
Poster presentations
Oral sessions will have a limited number of openings. If the number of requests for oral presentations exceeds the number of slots available, abstracts will be selected for talks by the scientific committee. Other attendees will be encouraged to make poster presentations.
If you are presenting a poster, please make sure that it will fit within the designated size, as we are planning two posters per board with no extra space. The size of the posters should be a maximum of 1.5 m high (vertical) and 1 m wide (horizontal).
Provisional schedule
Please find here a provisonal schedule of all accepted oral presentations