Programme
Schedule for Friday 17th December 2021
9:50 – 10:00 Welcome
10:00 – 10:15 Ben Conlon, University of Copenhagen
“The key to a good relationship: inter-kingdom communication in a fungal-ant nutritional symbiosis”
10:15 – 10:30 Alicja Witwicka, Queen Mary University of London
“Expression of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits varies across bee tissues, life stages, castes, and species"
10:30 – 10:45 Daniel Schalaepii, University of Bristol
“Impact of neonicotinoid insecticide and Acute bee paralysis virus on Lasius niger”
10:45 – 11:00 Aoife Cantwell-Jones, Imperial College London
“Bumblebee museum specimens reveal increasing stress over the 20th century”
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 11:30 Richard Gill, Imperial College London
“Pesticide effects on bumblebee behaviour are temperature dependent”
11:30 – 11:45 Ana Cuesta, University of Copenhagen
“Resistance of the honeybee gut bacteria to commonly used pesticides”
11:45 – 12:00 Rodrigo Pracana, Queen Mary University of London
“Adaptive introgression of a supergene controlling social organisation in fire ant species”
12:00 – 12:25 Rapid-fire talks session 1
1. Mille Bolander
2. Caio A. Leal-Dutra
3. Enrico Gavagnin
4. Sam England
5. Beth Harris
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 14:30 Plenary: Dr Claire Carvell, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
“20 years of UK bumblebee research”
14:30 – 14:45 Joe Palmer, Royal Holloway University of London
“Waggle dance foraging distance distributions quantify social and private information use in honeybees”
14:45 - 15:00 Louis Bell-Roberts, University of Oxford
“The evolution of worker caste polymorphism in ants”
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:15 NW EU IUSSI AGM
16:15 – 16:30 Jan Kreider, University of Groningen
“Unidirectional resource transfers lead to the emergence of division of labour”
16:30– 16:45 Alann Rathery, Roehampton University
“Temperature and colony formation: example of the oviposition in Lasius niger queens”
16:45 – 17:00 Anindita Brahma, The Rockefeller University
“Larger, more connected societies of ants have a higher prevalence of viruses”
17:00 – 17:25 Rapid fire talks session 2
1. Luke Leckie
2. Juan Lagos-Oviedo
3. Claire Tsui
4. Adriano A Wanderlingh
5. Ruyan Li
17:45 “Virtual pub” & student prizes – a chance to catch up and network over a drink, and announcement of student prizes for best presentation and rapid-fire talk.
