SysEB: Social Insects

Moderator(s)

• SW

  S Hollis Woodard

  Assistant Professor of Entomology
  University of California
  Riverside, California
• JF

  Jennifer Fewell

  Presidents Professor
  Arizona State University
  Tempe, Arizona

Presentations:

• 9:00 AM – 9:12 AM PT

  Analysis of bacterial and fungal microbiomes in a newly discovered ant-fungal symbiosis
  

  Presenting Author: Jon N. Seal – University of Texas

  Co-Author: Katrin Kellner (she/her/hers) – University of Texas

  Co-Author: Walter Tschinkel – Florida State University
• 9:12 AM – 9:24 AM PT

  Behavioral ontogeny of maternal care in an annually eusocial insect
  

  Presenting Author: S Hollis Woodard – University of California

  Co-Author: Erica Sarro – University of California

  Co-Author: Kaleigh Fisher – University of California
• 9:24 AM – 9:36 AM PT

  It’s getting hot in here: Sensory reception of hot temperatures leading to social thermoregulation in honey bees
  

  Presenting Author: Chelsea Cook – Marquette University

  Co-Author: Kyara Vazquez – Marquette University
• 9:36 AM – 9:48 AM PT

  Metabolic scaling and early colony growth in harvester ants
  

  Presenting Author: Jennifer H. Fewell – Arizona State University

  Co-Author: Xiaohui Guo – University of California

  Co-Author: Colin Lynch – Arizona State University

  Co-Author: Madeleine Ostwald – University of California

  Co-Author: Jon F. Harrison – Arizona State University
• 9:48 AM – 10:00 AM PT

  Sperm length correlates with the rapid evolution and turnover of male genes in bees
  

  Presenting Author: Garett Slater – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Amy Dapper – Mississippi State University

  Co-Author: Brock Harpur – Purdue University
• 10:00 AM – 10:12 AM PT

  Social behavior and colony trajectory in bumble bees are shaped by the brood
  

  Presenting Author: Etya Amsalem – Pennsylvania State University
• 10:24 AM – 10:36 AM PT

  Spread and social structure of the little fire ant (Wasmannia auropunctata) in Florida
  

  Presenting Author: Maya Saar – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Virginia Rose Seagal (she/her/hers) – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Addison Anh Huy Nguyen – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Hua Yan – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Andrea Lucky – University of Florida
• 10:36 AM – 10:48 AM PT

  Varying reproductive rates in queen Bombus impatiens: A reevaluation of bumble bee queen reproduction and behavior in early-stage nests
  

  Presenting Author: Blanca R. Peto (she/her/hers) – University of California

  Co-Author: S Hollis Woodard – University of California
• 10:48 AM – 11:00 AM PT

  Bacterial and fungal microbiomes of Pogonomyrmex ants and their seed deposits
  

  Presenting Author: Katrin Kellner (she/her/hers) – University of Texas

  Co-Author: Christina L. Kwapich – University of Massachusetts