PROGRAM
CONFERENCES, TALKS, AND ROUND TABLES
The program for the XXIII Simpósio de Mirmecologia will include eight plenary talks and 16 round table discussions as well as over 300 talks and posters during different sessions.
Sixty-one speakers, both from Brazil or abroad, all well-known specialists in the covered thematic areas, are awaited for this international meeting.
For the first time in 30 years this event will take place in the capital city of Paraná State, within the Atlantic Forest biome and in recognition of the research efforts on entomology and myrmecology developed in the southern part of the country. Nevertheless research advancements from al regions of Brazil will be an integral part of the event.
SCHEDULE
*At the day 25 (wednesday) the activities' end time will be, invariably, 18:45h, reflecting the number of talks at round table 7.
Day 23 (Monday)
18:00h
Opening ceremony - How foliage-foraging ants are perceived from above: A view from butterflies and bees. - Dr. Paulo S. Oliveira, UNICAMP, SP, Brazil.
Day 24 (Tuesday)
09:00h -10:00h
Formicidae Room
CONF 1 - Fighting leaf-cutting ants: will the future remain the present? - Dra. Terezinha Della Lucia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil.
(Portuguese)
10:00h - 11:30h
Formicidae Room
MR 1 - Ant community structuring: taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic perspectives.
(English)
Jérôme Orivel (CNRS – French Guiana) - Coordinator
Talk: Local habitat heterogeneity shapes taxonomic and functional composition of Neotropical ant assemblages.
Fabricio B. Baccaro (UFAM - Brazil)
Talk: Vertical distance from drainage drives ant taxonomical and functional changes in an Amazonian rainforest.
Rogerio R. Silva (MPEG - Brazil)
Talk: Morphological structure of ant assemblages in tropical and temperate forests.
Xavier Arnan (UFPE - Brazil)
Talk: Environmental and spatial drivers of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in European ants.
Myrmicinae Room
MR 2 - Advances in leaf-cutting ants control.
(Portuguese)
Wilson Reis Filho (EMBRAPA-Florestas - Brazil) & Mariane A. Nickele (UFPR – Brazil) – Cooordinators
Talk: Influence of forest management in the control of Acromyrmex spp. in pine plantations.
Ronald Zanetti Bonetti Filho (UFLA - Brazil)
Talk: Bioecology and management of leaf-cutting ants in eucalyptus plantations.
Odair Correa Bueno (UNESP-Rio Claro - Brazil)
Talk: Alternatives for leaf-cutting ants control: use of botanical extracts.
Martin Bollazzi (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
Talk: Reducing the use of baits for the control of Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants in southern South America: adequacy of baits and efect of forest management.
Karina Dias Amaral (UFV – Brazil)
Talk: Alternatives for leaf-cutting ants control: use of immunosuppressive substances.
13:30h - 14:30h
Formicidae Room
CONF 2 - The present role and the future of Natural History collections - Dr. Carlos Roberto F. Brandão, Museu de Zoologia /Museu de Arte Contemporânea – Universidade de São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
(English)
14:40h - 15:40h
Oral presentation - Formicidae Room, Myrmicinae Room, Ponerinae Room e Ectatomminae Room.
15:40h - 16:45h
Coffee-break and poster session
16:45h - 18:20h
Formicidae Room
MR 3 - Functional traits in ant communities: ecological causes and consequences.
(English)
Flávio Camarota (George Washington University - USA) – Coordinator
Talk: Functional traits and community assembly in arboreal ants.
Scott Powell (George Washington University - USA)
Talk: The role of community interactions in the diversification of functional traits: Insights from the turtle ants (Cephalotes).
Xavier Arnan (UFPE - Brazil)
Talk: Functional traits, trade-offs and environmental gradients in European ant communities.
Lucas Paolucci (IPAM/UFV - Brazil)
Talk: How do different fire regimes impact the functional diversity of Amazonian ants?
Myrmicinae Room
MR 4 - Taxonomia de formigas: made in the South.
(Portuguese/Spanish/English)
John E. Lattke (UFPR - Brazil) – Coordinator
Talk: Ants of the genus Protalaridris Brown, 1980, more than just awesome mandibles (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Fernando C. Fernández (ICN - Colombia)
Talk: Quo vadis Neotropical Ant Taxonomy.
Lina M. Pedraza (ICN - Colombia)
Talk: Molecular phylogeny and species groups in Neotropical Crematogaster ants.
Lívia P. do Prado (Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi - Brazil)
Talk: Taxonomic progress in the genus Octostruma Forel, 1912.
Claudia Marcela Ortiz (Université Lille - France)
Talk: Towards a taxonomic revision of the ant genus Brachymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Mônica A. Ulysséa (Museu de Zoologia da USP - Brazil)
Talk: Taxonomic progress in the ant genus Hylomyrma Forel, 1912 (Myrmicinae: Pogonomyrmecini).
Day 25 (Wednesday)
09:00h -10:00h
Formicidae Room
CONF 3 - The origins and rise of the ants revealed in amber. - Dr. Vincent Perrichot, Université de Rennes, France.
(English)
10:00h - 11:30h
Formicidae Room
MR 5 - Women in Myrmecology: past, present and future
(English)
Gabriela P. Camacho (UFPR - Brasil) - Coordinator
Talk: A context for women contributions to Mirmecology.
Juliana M. Calixto (Arizona State University - USA) - Coordinator
Talk: Why we need to talk about black women in science.
Rachelle Adams (Ohio State University - USA)
Talk: Symbiotic Associations: In research and throughout my career.
Inara R. Leal (UFPE - Brazil)
Talk: Women in science: Brazil has the highest gender parity in science.
Laura C. Leal (UNIFESP - Brazil)
Talk: When quantity is not enough: what can we do to keep woman in science?.
Myrmicinae Room
MR 6 - Ants in threatened species lists in Brazil.
(Portuguese)
Félix Baumgarten Rosumek (Technische Universität Darmstadt - Germany) – Coordinator
Talk: Local species lists and their particularities: the case of ants in the state of Santa Catarina.
Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie (CEPLAC - Brazil)
Talk: Challenges encountered in assessment of ants for the Brazilian national list of species threatened by extinction.
Sofia Campiolo (UESC - Brazil)
Talk: Assessment of invertebrates conservation status: advances and challenges.
13:30h - 14:30h
Formicidae Room
CONF 4 - Orientation and trail following in ants. - Dr. Johan Billen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
(English)
14:40h - 15:40h
Oral presentation - Formicidae Room, Myrmicinae Room, Ponerinae Room, Ectatomminae Room.
15:40h - 16:45h
Coffee-break and poster session
16:45h - 18:45h
Formicidae Room
MR 7 - Tribute to Barry Bolton.
(English)
Brian L. Fisher (California Academy of Sciences - USA) - Coordinator
Talk: Barry Bolton: From chocolate to building the foundation for global ant research.
Phil S. Ward (University of California, Davis - USA)
Talk: The consilience of morphology and molecules in ant systematics: building on Bolton’s legacy.
John T. Longino (University of Utah - USA)
Talk: Illumina-ting alpha taxonomy.
Christian Rabeling (Arizona State University - USA)
Talk: Inferring speciation and convergent evolution of ant social parasites by integrating morphological taxonomy and molecular phylogenetics.
Flavia Esteves (California Academy of Sciences - USA)
Talk: To lump or to split: the pitfalls of using morphology for delimiting Discothyrea species.
Ted Schultz (Smithsonian Institution - USA)
Talk: Implications of phylogeny for biogeography and biology in the Attini s.l.
Brendon Boudinot (University of California, Davis - USA)
Talk: Stem or crown: The puzzling placement of the Cretaceous ant fauna in the ant tree of life.
Myrmicinae Room
MR 8 - Ant community response to different anthropogenic disturbances.
(Portuguese/English)
Renata Bernardes Faria Campos (Univale - Brazil) – Coordinator
Talk: Ants in urban fragments of riparian forest .
Sérvio Pontes Ribeiro (UFOP - Brazil)
Talk: Effect of fire on ground and arboreal ant fauna in the ruprestrian grasslands .
Graziele Santiago Silva (UFLA - Brazil)
Talk: Hydroelectric dams impacts in epigaeic ants and seed removal.
Maria Fernanda Brito Almeida (UFV/UFOP - Brazil)
Talk: Mariana disaster: the mud from the dam breach and impacts on doce river riparian forest ant fauna.
Day 26 (Thursday)
09:00h -10:00h
Formicidae Room
CONF 5 - Patterns of invasion and mechanisms of success of New World ants - Dr. Andrew Suárez, University of Illinois, USA.
(English)
10:00h - 11:30h
Formicidae Room
MR 9 - 3D ants - how new imaging technologies change the role of morphology in 21st century myrmecology
(English)
Francisco Hita-Garcia (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology - Japan) - Coordinator
Talk: Micro-CT for ant systematics: from next-generation morphological character discovery and evaluation to virtual avatars of type material.
Christian Peeters (Université Pierre et Marie Curie - France)
Talk: Evolved for strength: loss of flight enabled the biomechanical remodelling of the ant worker thorax.
Roberto Keller (Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência - Portugal)
Talk: Ants protect their mouthparts with a novel interlocking mechanism.
Phillip Barden (American Museum of Natural History - USA)
Talk: Next generation phenomics: how CT-scanning is bringing paleomyrmecology into the 21st century.
Andrew Suarez (University of Illinois - USA)
Talk: Micro-CT analyses reveal repeated morphological evolution of a complex innovation in hyper-diverse trap-jaw ants Strumigenys.
Myrmicinae Room
MR 10 - Subterranean ants: What have been advanced in the last frontier of ant biodiversity studies?
(English)
Fernando Augusto Schmidt (UFAC - Brazil) - Coordinator
Talk: Filtering role of soil pore system on ant morphology and its implication to species assemblage composition.
Maurice Leponce (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences - Belgium)
Talk: Spatio-temporal variation of ant distribution among ground layers in an andean tropical forest.
Mila Ferraz de Oliveira Martins (UFPR - Brazil)
Talk: How subterranean ants respond to different land-use systems?
13:30h - 14:30h
Formicidae Room
CONF 6 - What makes a zombie ant tick? Towards understanding how a fungal parasite controls ant behavior - Dra. Charissa de Bekker, University of Central Florida, USA.
(English)
14:40h - 15:40h
Oral presentation - Formicidae Room, Myrmicinae Room, Ponerinae Room, Ectatomminae Room.
15:40h - 16:45h
Coffee-break and poster session
16:45h - 18:20h
Formicidae Room
MR 11 - Global patterns of biotic interactions involving ants
(English/Spanish)
Xavier Arnan (UFPE - Brazil) – Coordinator
Talk: A global test of the behavioral dominance and species diversity relationship in ant communities.
Inara R. Leal (UFPE - Brazil)
Talk: A global meta-analysis on the impact of disturbance intensity on ant-mediated seed dispersal.
Alejandro G. Farji-Brener (Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Bariloche, Argentina)
Talk: The effects of ant nests on soil fertility and plant performance: a meta-analysis.
Laura C. Leal (UNIFESP - Brazil)
Talk: Water availability across the globe and its role on the outcome of a protective ant-plant mutualism.
Myrmicinae Room
MR 12 - The territory of the ants, bees and wasps: who wins this dispute?
(Portuguese)
Rogério Silvestre (UFGD - Brazil) – Coordinator
Talk: The territory of the ants.
Fernando Barbosa Noll (UNESP-Rio Preto - Brazil)
Talk: Do ants and wasps get along?
Gabriel A. R. Melo (UFPR - Brazil)
Talk: How bees deal with ants.
Day 27 (Friday)
09:00h -10:00h
Formicidae Room
CONF 7 - Community organization, biogeography and species richness of ants in Neotropical savannas - Dr. Heraldo L. Vasconcelos, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil.
10:00h - 11:30h
Formicidae Room
MR 13 - Patterns, processes and the role of multiple scales in ant Ecology.
(English/Portuguese)
Ricardo Solar (UFMG - Brazil) – Coordinator
Talk: Consequences of anthropogenic disturbance on ant diversity in the Amazon.
Frederico de Siqueira Neves (UFMG - Brazil)
Talk: Spatial and temporal mechanisms underpinning ant distribution in tropical megadiverse mountains.
Jonas B. Maravalhas (UFU - Brazil)
Talk: Ant diversity along a productivity gradient in the Cerrado savannas: do drivers and mechanisms vary with spatial scale?
Fabricio B. Baccaro (UFAM - Brazil)
Talk: Unraveling the ant survey effort distribution in Amazon Forests: recent progress and future needs.
Myrmicinae Room
MR 14 - Microbial symbionts as tools for interdisciplinary investigations on ant biology.
(English)
Pedro A. P. Rodrigues (USP - Brazil) - Coordinator
Talk: The ecology of ant-microbe symbiotic interactions.
Manuela de O. Ramalho (UNESP - Brazil)
Talk: Determining the drivers of bacterial community composition in ants.
Raquel G. Loreto (Pennsylvania State University - USA)
Talk: Ant-microbial parasite interactions across spatial scales.
13:30h - 14:30h
Formicidae Room
CONF 8 - Of robots and ants: a brief history of biological and bio-inspired self-assembly - Dr. Simon Garnier, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA.
(English)
14:40h - 15:40h
Oral presentation - Formicidae Room, Myrmicinae Room, Ponerinae Room, Ectatomminae Room.
15:40h - 16:45h
Coffee-break and poster sessions.
16:45h - 18:20h
Formicidae Room
MR 15 - Ant-plant interactions: contrasting positive and negative effects of ants on plant fitness.
(English/Spanish/Portuguese)
Ricardo I. Campos (UFV - Brazil) – Coordinator
Talk: The effect of symbiotic ant colonies on plant growth and defense: an experimental test using an Azteca-Cecropia system.
Lucas A. Kaminski (UFRGS - Brazil)
Talk: Taking advantage of ant-plant interaction: the case of myrmecophilous butterflies.
Alexander V. Christianini (UFSCar - Brazil)
Talk: Does biological invasion by an African grass change post-dispersal seed removal by ants? Tests in a Neotropical Savanna.
Alejandro G. Farji-Brener (Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Bariloche, Argentina)
Talk: Consequences of leaf-cutting ants on plant fitness: integrating negative effects of herbivory and positive effects from soil improvement.
Myrmicinae Room
MR 16 - Management and control of invasive ants.
(Portuguese)
Ana Eugênia de Carvalho Campos (Instituto Biológico de São Paulo - Brazil) – Coordinator
Talk: The most common invasive ants in Brazil.
Odair Correa Bueno (UNESP-Rio Claro - Brazil)
Talk: Cases of ant invasion in Brazil.
Helba Helena Santos Prezoto (UFJF - Brazil)
Talk: New technologies in the fire ant control.
Aline Nondilo (EMBRAPA Uva e Vinho - Brazil)
Talk: Management of Linepithema micans (Forel, 1908) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in vineyards in southern Brazil.
18:20h - 18:30h
"Fungus growing ants" movie - Christian Peeters (Université Pierre et Marie Curie - France)
(English)
18:30h - 18:40h
Book release "Formigas em Ambientes Urbanos do Brasil"- Ana Eugênia Carvalho Campos (Instituto Biológico - Brazil)
(Portuguese)
18:40h - 19:00h
Award ceremony and closing address
(English)