past meetings
Japanese section meeting on 17th September 2012 (16:45-18:45) in Tamagawa Univ. C 424, Machida.
Evolutionary Ecology of Insect Family
Chaired by Seiji Suzuki and Shin-ichi Kudo
Symposium 18 March 14:00-17:00 Ryukoku Univ. (Seta, Otsu) Room B
S02 Evolutionary community ecology of biological invasion: a lesson from social insects
Organizer: Kazuki Tsuji (Univ. Ryukyus)
Dispersal of organisms plays a key role in ecology and evolution, from individual to ecosystem levels. Biological invasion, initially caused by human-mediated long-distance migration, provides an ideal opportunity to directly study ecological and evolutionary dynamics in action. We primarily focus on social insects as a model system because of their ecological dominance. We show that many other interesting biological processes, such as sex, altruism, symbiosis, competition, life history evolution and speciation, are included in tangled and fascinating ways in the dynamical processes caused by dispersal.
S02-1 Asexuality a deux: Frequent partner-swapping in the ecological success of the symbiosis between the asexual fungus-growing ant Mycocepurus smithii and its clonal fungal cultivars
Ulrich Mueller, Katrin Kellner, Christian Rabeling, Anna G. Himler（Univ. Texas at Austin）
S02-2 Invasion of the termites: Insights from genetic studies of two subterranean termite species.
Edward Vargo（North Carolina State Univ.）
S02-3 Ecology and genetics of little fire ant invasions
Alexander S. Mikheyev（Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology）
S02-4 Revisiting the ants of Melanesia and the Taxon Cycle: historical and human-mediated invasions of an island ecosystem
Evan Economo（Univ. Michigan）
S02-5 Spread and consequences of an unusual invasive ant species: the case of Pachycondyla chinensis
Benoit Guenard, Rob R. Dunn（North Carolina State Univ.）
S02-6 Concluding remarks: Biological invasion and lifehistory evolution
Kazuki Tsuji（Univ. of the Ryukyus）
International symposium organized by PES (The Society of Population Ecology) and JIUSSI on 14th—16th October 2011 in Okayama.
Chaired by K. Matsuura and K. Tsuji
Expected speakers
Laurent Keller (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
William Hughes (University of Leeds, UK)
Alexander Mikheyev (Okinawa Inst Sci. & Technol., Japan)
Evan Economo (University of Michigan, USA)
Kazuki Tsuji (University of the Ryukyus, Japan)
Kenji Matsuura (Okayama University, Japan)
Japanese section meeting on 18th September 2011 (16:15-18:15) in Matsumoto.
Chaired by Kiyoto Maekawa
Expected speakers
M. Hattori (Shinshu Univ.)
K. Ogawa (Hokkaido Univ.)
T. Tsuchida (Toyama Univ)
