09.00-09.15 Conference Report by the Dean of the Faculty of Forestry

09.15-09.30 Welcome and Opening Ceremony by the Acting President of Kasetsart University

09.30-10.00 Keynote Speaker I: Ant research and management in the weak of Climate Change by Dr. Himender Bharti,

President of ANeT, India

10.00-10.30 Keynote Speaker II: Twenty years of ANeT by Prof. Seiki Yamane

10.30-10.50 Coffee break

10.50 – 11.10 Bayer Product for Ant Management by Dr. Kasem Sookkongwaree

11.10 – 11.30 Corporate myrmecology Commercializing ants by Jan Kofahl, CEO of Canopy Guard

11.30 -12.00 Presidential Panel Discussion on Ants Management

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.00-15.00 Session I: Ant history and taxonomy

Moderator: Dr. Weeyawat Jaitrong

Secretary: Mr Kanyakorn Piroanapicha

13.00 – 13.15 The history and recent developments of Asian Myrmecology, the international journal of Asian ants by

Dirk Mezger, Martin Pfeiffer and Adam Cronin

13.15 – 13.30 A preliminarily study of the ant genus Dolichoderus Lund, 1831

(Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Southeast Asia by Zakaria Barabag, Bakkhtiar Effendi Yahya and Weeyawat Jaitrong

13.30 – 13.45 Unravelling the ants in tree bark – species diversity of the genus Rhopalomastix (Hymenoptera: Formicidae:

Myrmicinae) in Southeast Asia by Wang, Wendy, Yong, Gordon and Weeyawat Jaitrong

13.45 – 14.00 New records and updated ant checklist in Thailand (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): morphological taxonomy

and spatial distribution by Patchara Sriwichai, Salinee Khachonpisitsak, Seiki Yamane and Weeyawat Jaitrong

14.00 – 14.15 Taxonomy of the ponerine ant genus Platythyrea Roger, 1863 in Thailand by Natthaporn Phengsi, Weeyawat

Jaitrong and Salinee Kachonpisitsak

14.15 – 14.30 An Updated Checklist of Nepalese Ants by Indra P Subedi, Prem B Budha, Himender Bharti and Leeanne Alonso

14.30 – 14.45 A preliminary inventory of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Rilagala Forest Reserve in Nuwara-Eliya

District, Sri Lanka by R.K.S. Dias, W.S. Udayakantha and W.P.S.P. Premadasa

14.45 – 15.00 DNA Barcodes of Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in selected areas of Mindanao faunal region, Philippines

by Eddie P. Mondejar, Olga M. Nuneza, Edward L. Vargo

15.00-15.30 Coffee break

15.30-17.30 Session II: Morphology and function of ants in ecosystem

Moderator: Dr. Salinee Khachonpisitsak

Secretary: Miss Sirapitcha Keawjulsri

15.30 – 15.45 Functional morphology of the exocrine glands in the ant Strumigenys mutica by Chu Wang, Michael

Steenhuyse-Vandevelde, Chung-Chi Lin and Johan Billen

15.45 – 16.00 Pretarsus structure in relation to climbing ability in the ants Brachyponera sennaarensis and Daceton

armigerum by Johan Billen, Mohammed S. Al-Khalifa and Rogério R. Silva

16.00 – 16.15 Reverse Janzen-Connell effects in New Guinean ant-plants by Tom M. Fayle, Conor Redmond, Pavel Fibich,

Bradley Gewa, Lucie Houdkova, Petr Klimes, Thomas Pius, Nichola Plowman, Simon Segar, Shafia Zahra, George

Weiblen and Vojtech Novotny

16.15 – 16.30 Isolation of the antibiotic-producing bacteria from Tetraponera rufonigra by Wongsakorn Phongsopitanun

16.30 – 16.45 Wasabi, a new weapon to open a new battle against fire ant invasions in Japan by Yoshiaki Hashimoto

16.45 – 17.00 Colony composition and queen-worker dimorphism of the Oriental non-army ant doryline Cerapachys

sulcinodis species complex by Riou Mizuno, Weeyawat Jaitrong and Fuminori Ito

17.00 – 17.15 Rhopalomastix ants chew tunnels in healthy wood for their armoured scale insect partners (Diaspididae) by

Christian Peeters, Gordon Yong, Danièle Matile-Ferrero, Weeyawat Jaitrong

17.15 – 17.30 Community phylogenetics and trait dispersion of arboreal ants after rainforest conversion to monocultures

in Sumatra by Jochen Drescher, Damayanti Buchori, Purnama Hidayat and Stefan Scheu

17.30-18.30 ANeT Committee Meeting

18.30-22.00 Welcome Party,

20^th ANeT Anniversary Party,

Ant- Loy Kra Tong Festival 2019