Programme
Speakers should limit the duration of their presentations to 30 minutes to ensure ample time for discussion and transition between speakers.
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Sunday 20 March
17.00 Registration and conference materials (Taechi Bar)
18.00 Welcome reception and drinks (Taechi Bar)
Introductory lecture (Conference Room) (Chair: Daniel Kronauer)
19.00 Harmit Singh Malik (Fred Hutchinson Research Center, USA)
Genetic conflicts: beyond the usual suspects
20.00 Dinner (Restaurant)
Monday 21 March
Session 1. Vertebrates (Chair: Daniel Kronauer)
09.00-09.40 Karen Bales (University of California, Davis, USA)
09.45-10.25 Lauren O’Connell (Harvard University, USA)
Brain evolution and mechanisms underlying convergent social behavior
10.30 Refreshment break
11.00-11.40 Russell Fernald (Stanford University, USA)
Cognitive skills used for social behaviors
12.00 Lunch (Restaurant)
Session 2. Social insects (Chair: Joel Levine)
13.15-13.55 Daniel Kronauer (The Rockefeller University, USA)
Social dynamics in the clonal raider ant
14.00-14.40 Laurent Keller (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
14.45 Refreshment break
15.15-15.55 Kenji Matsuura (Kyoto University, Japan)
Genetics of social systems, social evolution and pheromone communication in termites
16.00-16.40 Solenn Patalano (The Babraham Institute, UK)
Epigenetic and transcriptional responsiveness of social insects to environmental changes
18.30 Aprés-ski (Taechi Bar)
19.30 Dinner
Tuesday 22 March
Session 3. Drosophila (Chair: Daniel Kronauer)
09.00-09.40 Kristin Branson (Janelia Research Campus, USA)
Machine vision methods for tracking social interactions
09.45-10.25 Pavan Ramdya (California Institute of Technology, USA)
The neuronal basis for collective behavior in Drosophila
10.30 Refreshment break
11.00-11.40 Jonathan Schneider (University of Toronto, Canada)
Organization of social behavior in Drosophila melanogaster
11.45 Lunch (Restaurant)
12.30 Social event
19.00 Dinner in alpine hut
Wednesday 23 March
Session 4. Collective behaviour (Chair: Joel Levine)
09.00-09.40 Iain Couzin (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany)
The evolution of physical computation in animal collectives
09.45-10.25 Ofer Tchernichovski (Hunter College, USA)
Development of coordinated social interactions in songbirds
10.30 Refreshment break
11.00-11.40 Ofer Feinerman (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
Balancing between group and individual during ant cooperative transport
11.45-12.25 Guy Theraulaz (CNRS, France)
Quantitative analysis and 3D modeling of collective nest construction in ants
12.30 Lunch (Restaurant)
13.15-16.30 JEB Editors Meeting (JEB Editors and Directors only)/Free time
Session 5. Microbes (Chair: Joel Levine)
16.30-17.10 Corina Tarnita (Princeton University, USA)
The ecology and evolution of social aggregations: case study Dictyostelium discoideum
17.15-17.55 Gregory Velicer (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
The evolution of social diversity in a cooperative microbe
18.00 General discussion and feedback (Chairs: Daniel Kronauer and Joel Levine)
19.30 Conference Dinner (including talk on ‘The History of Mürren’)
Thursday 24 March
Departure
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