Biology & Genomics of Social Insects
May 5 - 8, 2018

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Program information: An electronic version of the program abstract book will be sent three working days prior to the first day of the meeting, and hard copies will be available for collection upon your arrival at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. First night and keynote speakers are informed of their session date and time, otherwise program information is only available upon release of the electronic version of the abstract book. The reason we do this is to try and maximize interactions by encouraging participants to stay for the duration of the meeting.

Please check your email for talk length, poster instructions, and how to have your poster printed at CSHL for collection upon arrival. 

Abstract Status

Presenting Author

Abstract Title

Talk/Poster

Amiri, Esmaeil

Transgenerational effects in honey bees—Focus on the egg

talk

Amsalem, Etya

The origin of castes in social insects—Examining the Diapause Ground Plan Hypothesis in bumblebees

poster

Arsenault, Samuel V

Transcriptomic impacts of developmental environment and “supergenotype” on the red imported fire ant,  Solenopsis invicta

talk

Avalos, Arian

Genomic division of labor during colony defense in a gentle Africanized honey bee

talk

Barron, Andrew

How instincts evolve

talk

Bentley, Michael A

Mechanisms of the major evolutionary transition to superorganismality

talk

Bloch, Guy

Social and molecular regulation of size-related division of labor in the bumblebee Bombus terrestirs

talk

Bluher, Sarah E

Population structure and cooperation in Polistes paper wasps

poster

Bonasio, Roberto

Epigenetics of social behavior in ants

talk

Dogantzis, Kathleen A

Genomic tools for tracking invasive Africanized honey bees

talk

Doke, Mehmet A

A tale of three bees—How honey bees mix and match the nurse and forager transcriptomes to generate a unique winter phenotype

poster

Dyson, Carl J

Evolution of duplicate genes through DNA methylation in eusocial insects.

poster

Elsik, Christine

HymenopteraMine—Data mining warehouse of the Hymenoptera Genome Database

talk

Evans, Jay

Holobee 2.0—Leveraging metagenomics for honey bee health and evolution

talk

Felden, Antoine

Invasive Argentine ant populations are characterised by distinct transcriptomic signatures associated with functional adaptations

talk

Ferguson, Stephen T

Exploring the role of odorant receptor signaling in distinguishing friend from foe in Camponotus floridanus

talk

Friedman, Daniel

The genetics and neurophysiology of variation in foraging activity among colonies of red harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus)

talk

Giurfa, Martin

Cooperative defense operates by social modulation of biogenic amine levels in the honeybee brain

talk

Grozinger, Christina

Bee health—From genomes to landscapes

talk

Hart, Thomas

Generation of transgenic lines using piggyBac transposons in the clonal raider ant

talk

Hasselmann, Martin

Stingless bees and microbes—Diversity and dynamics in the hive

talk

Hefetz, Abraham

Disparate social structures lead to disparate chemical communication systems

poster

Helantera, Heikki

Sociogenomics and theory—Potential and problems

talk

Herb, Brian R

Epigenetic signatures of discrete individual behaviors in honeybee brains

poster

Jones, Beryl M

Reproductive worker honey bees—A glimpse of ancestral sociality?

talk

Jongepier, Evelien

Do slavemaker ants lose perception?—Convergent loss of olfactory receptors along independent origins of slavery

talk

Kapheim, Karen M

Developmental plasticity as cause and consequence of social evolution

talk

Karpe, Snehal D

Candidate olfactory receptor protein subfamilies involved in the shift to eusociality—Computational survey of ORs from two solitary bees

poster

Keating, Rebekah

Linking pheromone information bias and olfactory neuromorphology in Dolichoderinae (Odorous) ants

poster

Kheradmand, Bahram

Influence of landmarks on honey bee foraging and waggle dancing

poster

Kronauer, Daniel J

Communication and social behavior in the clonal raider ant

talk

Kulmuni, Jonna

Formica ants reveal a gene network that underlies speciation

talk

LeBoeuf, Adria C

Molecular evolution of juvenile hormone esterase-like proteins in a socially exchanged fluid

talk

Lee, Si Hyeock

Pathway profiles based on gene-set enrichment analysis in the honey bee Apis mellifera under brood rearing-suppressed conditions

poster

Leitner, Nicole E

One mechanism to rule them all? Response thresholds to task-related stimuli may not drive task allocation in Temnothorax rugatulus ants

poster

Lopez-Osorio, Federico

Sociogenomics of social parasitism in Dolichovespula wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

poster

Lourenco, Anete P

Immunity in bees—Comparative analyses among bee genomes, including the eusocial bee Frieseomelitta varia (Apidae, Meliponini)

poster

Lovegrove, Mackenzie R

Evolving eusociality—Using Drosophila to understand how queen pheromone inhibits reproduction in Apis mellifera workers

talk

Miller, Sara E

Comparative genomics provides insight into the loss of cooperative nesting in the paper wasp Polistes metricus

talk

Moran, Nancy

Conflict and sharing in the bacterial gut community of social bees

talk

Morandin, Claire

Caste specialization—What can we learn from gene co-expression networks?

talk

Muratore, Isabella B

Division of labor, neuroanatomy, and brain gene expression in fungus-growing ants

poster

Nagel, Manuel

Spatial patterns of gene expression in ant brains based on in situ sequencing

talk

Nguyen, Hung N

Investigating genome compositional features of Apis and other hymenopteran species

poster

Oettler, Jan

Evolutionary causes and consequences of high recombination rate in the ant Cardiocondyla obscurior

poster

Ortiz-Alvarado, Carlos A

The effect of uncontrollable stress on plasticity and stress related gene expression in the Honey bee, Apis mellifera

poster

Ortiz-Alvarado, Yarira

Antibiotics in bee hives influence gut microbeeota, metabolism, and behavioral development

talk

Otte, Marianne

To bee or not to bee a female—Heteromeric protein complexes initiate the female sex-determining cascade

talk

Patel, Harshil

The genetic basis of hygienic behaviour  and overwintering  mortality in the Honeybee

poster

Privman, Eyal

Gene expression profiles associated with communication skills in golden ants

poster

Purcell, Jessica

Selfish gene, social outcome—Exploring the genetic basis of a complex social trait

talk

Ray, Allyson M

Examining the distribution of recently identified bee-infected viruses in managed honey bee (Apis mellifera) populations in the United States

poster

Rehan, Sandra

From solitary to eusocial—Comparative genomics of very early stages of insect social evolution

talk

Reiner Brodetzki, Tali

Unraveling cryptic speciation in the desert ant Cataglyphis

poster

Rose, Steven

Association mapping to study the genetics of honey production and aggressive behaviour in honey bees

poster

Rubin, Benjamin

Harnessing natural variation to study the evolution of social behavior in bees

talk

Rueppell, Olav

Comparative analysis of honey bee genomes reveals genus evolution

poster

Saleh, Nicholas W

The genetic and behavioral mechanisms of eusociality in the orchid bee, Euglossa dilemma.

talk

Schrader, Lukas

Genome evolution and speciation of inquiline social parasites

talk

Shah, Aridni

Egr-1, a candidate molecular player involved in time-related learning and memory processes in honey bees ?

talk

Shpigler, Hagai

Transcriptomic analysis of juvenile hormone signaling in bumble bee (Bombus terrestris) workers—Implications for social physiology

poster

Simoes, Zila Luz

The genome of the eusocial Frieseomelitta varia stingless bee—A model species for reproductive dominance studies

poster

Smith, Chris R

Osiris gene evolution—Essential yet mysterious

poster

Smith, Nicholas M

Genomic imprinting in South African honey bees

poster

Snow, Jonathan

Thermal stress induces broad transcriptional changes in signaling pathways in response to tissue damage in the honey bee

talk

Stolle, Eckart

Genetic mapping in the genomics era—The unusual genetic architecture of thelytokous reproduction in honeybees

talk

Stuart, Sarai H

Brain transcriptomic changes associated with colony defense in the stingless bee, Tetragonisca angustula

talk

Thompson, Graham J

Soldier-biased gene expression in a termite implies indirect selection for defensiveness

poster

Tian, Li

Different genetic mechanisms drive parallel color variation in mimetic bumble bees

talk

Tiwari, Tanushree

Dissecting the genetic underpinnings of pathogen loads in the honey bee Apis mellifera

talk

Tolley, Sarah

Wolbachia symbionts in leaf-cutter ants differ in horizontal transmission potential and functional capabilities

poster

Toth, Amy

Molecular underpinnings of cooperation and conflict in Polistes wasps

talk

Trible, Waring

Frequency-dependent selection of a recently derived social parasite in the clonal raider ant

talk

Tsvetkov, Nadia

Conservation genomics of Bombus terricola

talk

Vernier, Cassondra

Nestmate recognition cues mature via socially-regulated ontogenetic processes in the honey bee

talk

Wurm, Yannick

Brain gene expression response to pesticide exposure indicates effects on cognition

poster

Wurm, Yannick

Degenerative expansion of a young social chromosome

talk

Yagound, Boris

Honey bee males produce semen with unique DNA methylation profiles

poster

Zhang, Guojie

A genomic perspective on evo-devo of ant superorganisms

talk