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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 registration deadline has now been extended until Sunday 8 December 2024.

The meeting is kindly sponsored by the Queen Mary University Centre for Biodiversity and Sustainability.

Conference Information

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

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)

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

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

12:50

Lunch

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

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)

15:20

Coffee and posters (see below for poster details)

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

17:00

Reception

Cost?
Includes registration, catering (coffee/tea, lunch) and wine reception

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 membership

Ordinary 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 membership

Global 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

Abstract submission is now closed, but you can still register until 8 December at this link.




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Next International Meeting:

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:

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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