SINNERS 2

Arrival, breakfast and registration

Welcome

Daniel Kronauer

Rockefeller University

"Ventilation in a termite mound"

Hunter King and Samuel Ocko

Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Living infrastructure: The dynamics of army ant self-assemblages"

Matthew Lutz

Princeton University

"The function of leaf-caching behavior in leaf-cutter ant supply chains"

Courtney Rockenbach

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Coffee break

"Myrmecophiles of Acacia drepanolobium"

Naomi Pierce

Harvard University

"Beyond ants: Their myrmecophilous ‘house mates’"

Aniek Ivens and Christoph von Beeren

The Rockefeller University

"Testing for sympatric speciation in socially parasitic fungus-growing ants"

Christian Rabeling

Harvard University

Tour of Field Research Center

Sean McKenzie

Rockefeller University

Lunch and walk to Innisfree

"Optic lobe degeneration in Harpegnathos saltator gamergates"

Giacomo Mancini

New York University

"Transcriptome analysis of the fat body during the worker to gamergate transition in Harpegnathos saltator"

Hua Yan

New York University Medical Center

"The potential role of plasticity in division of labour in advanced ant societies"

Sofía Ibarrarán

McGill University

Coffee break

"Conserved microsatellite loci and universal primers for population genetics in ants"

Ian Butler

The Rockefeller University

TBA

Cerapachys Group

The Rockefeller University

"Fungal pathogens and microbial gut interactions in honey bee larvae"

Lana Vojvodic

University of Arizona

"Memory in mass-recruitment; illuminating the role of forager experience in dynamic foraging"

Katharina Hildebrandt and Chris Reid

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Closing remarks

Daniel Kronauer

Rockefeller University

Beer at Copperfields

Dinner at Copperfields