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IUSSI North-west European section
International Union for the Study of Social Insects |
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IUSSI North-west European section
International Union for the Study of Social Insects |
| who's where | vacancies | INSECTSmail |
| IUSSI North-west European Section Meetings | Other social insect meetings |
Winter Meeting 2024
The NW EU IUSSI Section invites you to attend our upcoming Winter Meeting on 16th December 2024, to be held at Queen Mary University of London, hosted by Dr. Yannick Wurm.
This meeting will be a one-day, hybrid event.
The meeting will take place on Queen Mary's Mile End Campus, in the Arts Two lecture theatre. This is ca. 20 mins walk east from Whitechapel (Elizabeth line), or 8-16 minute walk from Stepney Green or Mile End tube stations.
You can find a map of how to get there here.
The meeting is kindly sponsored by the Queen Mary University Centre for Biodiversity and Sustainability.
When?
9:15am–6:00pm, 16th December 2024
Where?
Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
The provisional program is given below, and can also be downloaded as a PDF file here.
Details of flash talks and posters can be found on a dedicated page, and in the PDF file mentioned above.
Time |
Event |
Speaker and Affiliation |
Talk Title |
09:15 |
Arrival, coffee |
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09:45 |
Plenary |
Guillaume Chomicki, Durham University |
What can ant-plant interactions tell us about evolution? |
10:45 |
Coffee, posters (see below for poster details) |
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11:15 |
Talk 1 |
Morgan Morrison, Royal Holloway |
Cutting Back on Mowing for Pollinator Conservation |
11:30 |
Talk 2 |
Daniel Turk, University of York |
Digging Deeper: Exploring Ants as Beneficial Ecosystem Engineers |
11:45 |
Talk 3 |
Patricia González Lleida, Institution? |
Behavioral ecology of Ants in a Mediterranean habitat |
12:00 |
Mini Break |
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12:02 |
Talk 4 |
Joseph Gillson, University of Oxford |
The effect of sugar identity and concentration on learning and memory in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris audax) |
12:17 |
Talk 5 |
Elena Couper Coombs, University of Bristol |
Low carbohydrate concentration inhibits bumblebee colony initiation |
12:32 |
Section Business meeting |
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12:50 |
Lunch |
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13:50 |
Talk 6 |
Szymon Szymanski, University of Bristol |
Mushroom body GABA as a potential mechanism of virus-linked changes in bee cognition |
14:05 |
Talk 7 |
Romuald Tcheutchoua, University College London |
Opportunities and challenges of adopting native social wasps as part of integrated pest management in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
14:20 |
Talk 8 |
Jéferson Pedrosa dos Santos, University of São Paulo |
Unraveling the dynamics of cuticular chemical composition in stingless bees: effects of caste and task |
14:35 |
Mini Break |
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14:37 |
Talk 9 |
Madeline Walker, University of Portsmouth |
Why tolerate your neighbour? Testing whether food availability or sibling interactions during early development promotes grouping in spiders. |
14:52 |
Talk 10 |
Oliver Visick, University of Sussex |
Wild-living honey bee colonies in southeast England: density, survival and nest site availability |
15:07 |
Flash talks (see below for speakers) |
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15:20 |
Coffee and posters (see below for poster details) |
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15:50 |
Talk 11 |
Federico López-Osorio, Queen Mary University of London |
Pervasive loss of genetic diversity coupled with recurrent selective sweeps in a social supergene |
16:05 |
Talk 12 |
Chris Wyatt, University College London |
Extensive Genomic Rearrangement and Sensory Gene Expansion in Haplodiploid Insects |
16:20 |
Talk 13 |
Ebi Antony George, University of Lausanne |
Familiarity predicts social wound care in ants |
16:35 |
Talk 14 |
Lena Grinsted, Portsmouth University |
Assured fitness returns through brood adoption in non-social spiders |
16:50 |
Student Prizes and Close of Meeting |
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17:00 |
Reception |
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Students:
£25: in person registration for current members
£35: in person registration & 1-year section membership
£50: in person registration & 3-year section membership
£5: online only for current members
£15: onlne only registration & 1-year section membershipOrdinary members:
£40: in person registration for current members
£60: in person registration & 1-year section membership
£95: in person registration & 3-year section membership
£10: online only for current members
£30: online only & 1-year section membershipGlobal south:
£0: online only registration
You can find out more about joining the NW EU IUSSI Section here: https://www.iussi.org/NWEurope/subs.htm
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Next International Meeting: |
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| 16-20 August 2026 |
XX IUSSI International Congress Freiburg, Germany We would like to invite you to the 20th International Congress of the IUSSI to Freiburg (Germany). It will be held from the 16th to the 20th of August, 2026. Freiburg is a University City with around 230 000 inhabitants, known for its beautiful old town. It is located next to the Rhine valley in the southwestern part of Germany, next to the border of France and Switzerland. By plane, it can be reached via the Frankfurt International Airport or the Euro Airport Basel/Mulhouse/Freiburg with direct train connections to Freiburg. F reiburg is one of the sunniest cities in Germany with a green ethos, surrounded by the nature of the Black Forest and the Rhine valley with its many vineyards. More information with be circulated later this year. We are looking forward to welcoming you! Judith Korb (on behalf of the organizing committee) |
Previous International Meeting: |
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3-7 July 2022 |
XIX IUSSI International Congress Marriott Marquis, San Diego, California, USA For more information about the congress, please see: http://burkclients.com//IUSSI/meetings/2022/site Although the in-person meeting is over, you can continue to experience IUSSI 2022 through IUSSI+, our on-demand conference archive, which will remain active through September. Please go to the Pathable site, where you will find most of the conference presentations available for viewing. This includes all the plenary addresses, over 80% of the posters, and over 70% of the talks. Not all presentations are available, either because the presenters did not upload them or because technical difficulties were encountered during the live sessions. |
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