Programs - Entomology - Michener Lectures

Speaker

Institution

Title

2004

Michael Wade

Indiana University

The Evolutionary Origin and Elaboration of Sociality in the Aculeate Hymenoptera: Maternal Effects, Sib-social Effects, and Heterochrony

Lee Ehrman

SUNY/Purchase

Drosophila paulistorum: symbionts and behavior

2002

Jeffrey W. Shultz

University of Maryland

Resolving Arthropod Phylogeny: Morphology, Molecules & Mayhem

2001

Ronald Hoy

Cornell University

The Host is Toast: Parasitism and Evolutionary Innovation in the Auditory System of a Fly

It All Began With  Ken Roeder: Bats and Bugs, Revisited

2000

Laurent Keller

University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Sex ratio: Theory, Constraints and Facts

1999

Kenneth Ross

University of Georgia

Fire Ants

1997

Gene Robinson

University of Illinois, Champagne/Urbana

The Genetics of Social Evolution

Bert H`lldobler

University of Wurtzberg, Germany

Ants

1996

Berndt Heinrich

University of Vermont

Social Foraging in Ravens

Insect Thermoregulation

Robert Jeanne

University of Wisconsin

Productivity, Information Flow, and Colony Size in a Social Wasp

Caste Differentiation in Social Wasps: Recent Results and Emerging Patterns

Uses of Phylogenetic Analysis in Studies of the Evolution of Social Behavior

1995

Bernard Crespi

Simon Fraser University, Canada

Patterns of Social Organization in Thrips (Order Thysanoptera)

Uses of Phylogenetic Analysis in Studies of the Evolution of Social Behavior

Joan Herbers

Colorado State University

Ecological Determinants of Social Structure in a Forest Ant, Myrmica punctiventris

Evolutionary Ecology of Queen Number in Leptothorax Ants

1994

R. Gadagkar

Bangalore, India

Evolution of Eusociality

Kin and Nestmate Discrimination in a Primitively Social Wasp: Implications for the Evolution of Eusociality

Serial Polygyny in the Primitively Eusocial Wasp Ropalidia marginata: Implications for the Evolution of Eusociality

Jon Seger

University of Utah

Genetics, Ecology, and Politics in the Evolution of Hymenopteran Social Behavior

Sex, Size, and Scaling: Mother Bees Tell All

1993

Steve Rissing

Arizona State University

Behavioral Ecology of Ants

1992

Stephen T. Emlen

Cornell University

Sexual Selection

1991

Deborah Gordon

Stanford University

Flexibility and the Foraging Ecology of Seed-Eating Ants

1990

Daniel Rubenstein

Princeton University

Ecology and Social Organization of Horses, Zebras, and Asses

1989

Adam Lomnicki

Jagiellonian University, Poland

Population Ecology of Individuals

William Eberhard

Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica

Sexual Selection and Cryptic Female Choice

Michelle P. Scott

Boston University

Evolution of Parental Care in Insects

Barbara Thorne

Harvard University

Evolution of the Termites: Social Roots in Paleozoic Forests

Susan Reichert

University of Tennessee

Games Spiders Play

1989 – "Michfest"

Mary Jane West-Eberhard

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

Individual Plasticity and Behavior as Keystones for a New Evolutionary Biology of the Phenotype

Marcus W. Feldman

Stanford University

Population Genetic Perspective on the Evolution of Behavior

Frances D. Horowitz

University of Kansas

The Shape and Shaping of Human Behavior

Patrick Bateson

University of Cambridge, England

The Relevance of Development to the Study of Behavior

1988

H. H. W. Velthuis

University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

Kin Selection and the Evolution of the Social Bees

Thomas Seeley

Cornell University

Honey Bee Foraging: Information Center Hypothesis

Jerram Brown

SUNY/Albany

Flexible Strategies and Social Evolution in Birds

Martin Lindauer

Zoologisches Institut, Wurzberg, Germany

The Honey Bee Community - Old and New Problems in Communication and Orientation

Stuart Altmann

University of Chicago

The Monkey and the Fig

James Traniello

Boston University

The Ecology of Social Behavior in Insects

K. E. Linsenmair

Zoologisches Institut, Wurzberg, Germany

Behavioral Ecology of an Unusual Subsocial Desert Isopod

Steven N. Austad

Harvard University

Animal Sociality and the Evolution of Senescence

Nigel Franks

University of Bath, England

The Colony of the Minds

Jeanne Altmann

University of Chicago

Mom I've Got No One to Play With!: The Effect of Demographic Structure on Social Behavior and Development in Primates

1987

David J. C. Fletcher

Bucknell University

Understanding Eusocial Behavior - Alice Through a Small Door

P. Kirk Visscher

Cornell University

Kinship Discrimination in Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)

Laurence Packer

University of Alberta, Canada

Sociality in a Marginal Environment

P. E. Howse

Southhampton University, England

Ant and Ant-Termite Interactions: Communication and Defense