Program Lecture Room 2

Wednesday 8

10:00

Short break

10:10

Contributed talks

Chair: Laurent Lehmann

:10

Andrés E. Quiñones: A unified model of the transition from solitary to eusocial life(5)

:30

Mélissa Verin: The neutral evolution of iteroparity(41)

:50

Paul Calcraft: Group selection is not needed to explain the structure of sub-social spider colonies(127)

11:10

Coffee break

11:40

Contributed talks

Chair: Reinhardt Bürger

:40

Ricardo Martinez-Garcia: Fitness tradeoffs between spores and non-aggregating cells can explain the coexistence of diverse genotypes in cellular slime molds (14)

:00

Michael Renton: Simulating the evolution of structural root growth strategies in plants in different environments (48)

:20

Marie Rescan: Interactions between genetic and ecological effects on the evolution of life cycles (130)

12:40

Lunch

14:00

Mini-symposium: The ecological dynamics of insect infections (1)

Chairs: Penelope Hancock and Ace North

:00

Florence Débarre: Spatial structure and the evolution of altruistic host defence strategies

:30

Thomas Churcher: The importance of parasite density in malaria transmission

15:00

Short break

15:15

:15

Steven L. Peck: An ecologically complex agent-based model of tsetse fly suppression programs in Senegal(80)

:35

Ben Lambert: A novel estimation of mosquito longevity using a Bayesian meta-analysis(83)

:55

Penelope Hancock: Density-dependent population dynamics in Aedes aegypti slow the spread of wMel Wolbachia(86)

16:15

Coffee break