Myrmecology For All: Combining Morphology, Molecules, Ecology, and Behavior to Advance Ant Systematics

Organizer(s)

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  Andrea Lucky

  Department of Entomology and Nematology
  University of Florida
  Gainesville, Florida
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  Corrie Moreau

  Departments of Entomology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
  Cornell University
  Ithaca, New York
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  Rachelle Adams

  Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology
  The Ohio State University
  Columbus, Ohio

Myrmecology, with its rich interplay of research across diverse scientific fields, can be regarded as a model for integrating different types of science into a systematic backbone. We highlight research on ants that contributes to our understanding of evolutionary history and advances systematics by reaching beyond phylogenetics and revisionary taxonomy.

Presentations:

• Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Andrea Lucky – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Corrie S. Moreau – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Rachelle M. Adams – The Ohio State University
• Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Andrea Lucky – University of Florida
• Myrmecology, gender, and geography: changing demographics of a research community over thirty years
  

  Presenting Author: Andrea Lucky – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Rachel A. Atchison – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Leo Ohyama – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Yuanmeng Miles Zhang – University of Edinburgh

  Co-Author: Jason Lee Williams – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Catherine Lippi – University of Florida

  Co-Author: J. Louis Pinkney, IV – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Keara Clancy – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Alexandra Nielsen – University of Florida
• Taking the pulse of the city: measuring metabolism and counting ants with students
  

  Presenting Author: James S. Waters – Providence College

  Co-Author: Nicole Korzeniecki – UC Davis / Animal Behavior Graduate Group
• Surprising evolutionary complexity of queen winglessness in Megalomyrmex Forel, 1885 ants
  

  Presenting Author: Rachelle M. Adams – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Livia Prado – Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi

  Co-Author: Kyle S. Sozanski – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Ted R. Schultz – Smithsonian Institution

  Co-Author: Rachelle M. Adams – The Ohio State University
• Connecting phenomes with functional genomes in ants, manipulated by a fungal parasite
  

  Presenting Author: Charissa De Bekker – University of Central Florida
• The ant microbiome
  

  Presenting Author: Corrie S. Moreau – Cornell University

  Co-Author: John T. Wertz – Calvin College

  Co-Author: Jacob Russell – Drexel University
• Morphological insights into the evolution of eusociality in Formicidae
  

  Presenting Author: Brendon Elias Boudinot – Friedrich-Schiller-Universit�t Jena

  Co-Author: Ziad Khouri (he/him/his) – University of California, Davis

  Co-Author: Adrian Richter – Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

  Co-Author: Thomas van de Kamp – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Phillip Barden – New Jersey Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Vincent Perrichot

  Co-Author: Júlio Chaul
• Paleontology and lost branches in ant evolution
  

  Presenting Author: Phillip Barden – New Jersey Institute of Technology
• The evolution of army ant mass raiding
  

  Presenting Author: Daniel J.C. Kronauer – The Rockefeller University

  Co-Author: Vikram Chandra – Harvard University

  Co-Author: Asaf Gal
• Are ant morphological traits "functional" when it comes to herbivory?
  

  Presenting Author: Elizabeth G. Pringle – University of Nevada

  Co-Author: Talitha Ferreira dos Santos – U. Federal do Amazonas

  Co-Author: Leonardo Paz Borges – U. Federal do Amazonas
• The evolution of worker body size and polymorphism in ants
  

  Presenting Author: Michael Rivera

  Co-Author: Andrew Suarez – University of Illinois

  Co-Author: Phillip Barden – New Jersey Institute of Technology