11/11: Nutritional homeostasis in social insects

11/11 - Nutritional homeostasis in social insects
(parallel sesion)

 

ORGANISERS: Sara Arganda a, Audrey Dussutour b, Sara Leonhardt c

a University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain; b Centre de la Recherche sur la Cognition Animale, University Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, France; c University of Munchen, Germany 

CONTACT: sarijuela@gmail.com

 

SUMMARY: Nutrition is the main factor defining the spatial distribution and temporal activity pattern for most organisms. A major challenge for any organism is maintaining homeostasis in nutritionally heterogeneous environments and changing demands of growth, development and reproduction. In social insects this challenge is especially complex as nutrition is a decentralized homeostatic process where food is collected by only a small number of workers and shared among all members of the colony. Our aim in this symposium is to better understand the role of nutrition in the life history of social insects, as an important extension to models of collective behaviour, sociality, and nutritional ecology of social insects. We therefore invite researchers to apply to our symposium to present their works focusing on 1) individual and collective mechanisms to adjust the nutrient supply in response to changes in colony size, demography and health, 2) the impact of nutrients on physiology, behaviour, and sociality and 3) the role of nutrition in ecological interactions among species.

 

ZOOM LINK:

 

https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/94440600099?pwd=ZTJpY0dMNlJCaXFpMGdDOEVIcnVaZz09
Meeting ID: 944 4060 0099
Passcode: 3k5fCq

 

PROGRAMME (London time, pm):

 

Time

  Speaker

Title

12:00

 

Welcome

12:02

  Micky Eubanks

Variation in foraging behavior in invasive ants

12:42

  Fabian Rüdenauer

Honey bees vs. bumble bees: Differences and similarities in their nutrient perception

12:57

  Lina Pedraza

Origin, condition, or morphology: What determines the resistance of ants to starvation?

13:06

  Daniela Römer

Organization of resource distribution in an obligate insect-fungus symbiosis

13:15

  Jon Shik

Deconstructing a nutritional symbiosis to explore the rise of fungus-farming ants

13:30

  Lena Barascou

Pollen nutrition fosters honeybee tolerance to pesticides

13:39

  Swetashree Kolay

Individual and collective decision making during foraging in desert ants

13:48

 

Break

14:08

 Felix Schilcher

Influence of larval diet and in-vitro rearing on social behaviour and physiology in honeybees

14:23

  Yohai Nirenberg

Dual fluorescence imaging reveals the spatial flow of nutrients in ant colonies

14:32

  Veronika Rau

High protein content in nutrition does not reduce lifespan in the wood-dwelling termite Cryptotermes secundus

14:41

  Louise Bestea

Neuropeptide sNPF modulates sensory perception and appetitive learning in honey bees (Apis mellifera)

14:56

  Lior Baltiansky

Emergent regulation of foraging activity through distributed control of foragers’ movement inside the nest

15:05

  Stéphane Kraus

Bumblebees adjust nutrient collection to temperature variations

15:14

  Shaolin Han

Seasonality in compensatory foraging for the nutritional deficiencies in free-living social insects

15:23

 

Final discussion

 

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