Jesse Starkey, Ahja Brown, Etya Amsalem. The road to sociality: Brood regulation of worker reproduction in the simple eusocial bee Bombus impatiens. ABS (July 2019)
Past talks
Jesse Starkey, Ahja Brown, Etya Amsalem. Do bumblebees (Bombus impatiens) produce brood pheromone? ISCE 35th Annual Meeting, Atlanta (June 2019)
Margarita Orlova, Erin D. Treanore and Etya Amsalem. The warrior queen: interplay of aggression and fertility signaling in regulating worker reproduction in Bombus impatiens. ISCE 35th Annual Meeting, Atlanta (June 2019)
Nathan Derstine, Gabriel Villar, Abraham Hefetz, Jocelyn Millar, Etya Amsalem. Chemical characterization and behavioral responses to Dufour’s gland esters in Bombus impatiens. ISCE 35th Annual Meeting, Atlanta (June 2019)
Derstine N, Villar G, Amsalem E (2018) The evolution of Dufour's gland esters in bees: from structural to communicative role; Social Insects in the North-East Regions meeting, Philadelphia
Treanore E, Kiner JM, Kerner ME, Amsalem E (2018) The origin of castes in social insects: examining the diapause ground plan hypothesis in bumble bees; Social Insects in the North-East Regions meeting, Philadelphia
Starkey J, Brown A. Amsalem, E (2018) Young brood decreases egg-laying behavior in workers of the bumble bee Bombus impatiens; Social Insects in the North-East Regions meeting, Philadelphia
Treanore E, Kiner JM, Kerner ME, Amsalem E (2018) The origin of castes in social insects: examining the diapause ground plan hypothesis in bumble bees. Entomological Society of America annual meeting, Vancouver, Canada
Starkey J, Brown A, Amsalem E (2018) Young brood decreases egg-laying behavior in workers of the bumble bee Bombus impatiens; Entomological Society of America annual meeting, Vancouver, Canada
Starkey J, Brown A, Amsalem E (2017). "The role of brood in regulating reproduction in Bombus impatiens workers: A pheromonal or behavioral mechanism?," The annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Beekeeping Association, Penn State University
Villar G, Cohanim A, Dipanjan P, Privman E, Shoemaker D, Amsalem E (2017). "The regulation of social organization in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta," Molecular Cellular and Integrative Biosciences program, Penn State University
Amsalem E. (2018) “Mechanisms and evolution of social behavior” Chemical Ecology multistate meeting, Penn State University (invited)
Amsalem E. (2018) “Stressors affecting bumblebee queen survival and performance” meeting of the Center of Pollinator Research at Penn State University
Amsalem E, Treanore E. (2018) “The origin of castes in social insects: Examining the Diapause Ground Plan Hypothesis in bumblebees” The 18th Meeting of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Brazil.
Amsalem E. (2017) "The regulation of reproductive division of labor in bumblebee colonies" Department of Entomology, University of Riverside
Amsalem E. (2017) “Social evolution in insect societies" Molecular Cellular and Integrative Biosciences seminar, Penn State University
Amsalem E, Starkey J, Brown A. (2017) "Regulation of reproductive division of labor in bumble bees – a solved puzzle or an ongoing mystery?" The International Society of Chemical Ecology meeting, ISCE, Kyoto, Japan.
Amsalem E, Starkey J, Brown A, (2017) "The role of brood pheromone in regulating reproductive division of labor in bumblebees" The International conference of Entomology, ESA, Denver, Colarado.
Amsalem E. (2016) “The whys and hows of social behavior in insects" Center for Molecular Investigation of Neurological Disorders, Penn State University
Amsalem E. (2016) "The evolution of social behavior in insects", Robinson's lab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Amsalem E. (2016) "The whys and hows of social behavior in insects", Penn State University, Molecular Cellular and Integrative Biosciences graduate program, Penn State University
Amsalem E. (2016) "Social behavior in insects," U-RISE Undergraduate Research in Science and Engineering, Penn State University
Amsalem E. (2016) “Staying healthy in times of stress: genome wide scale study of bumble bee diapause” International conference of Entomology, Orlando, FL
Amsalem E. (2016) “The whys and hows of social behavior in insects” millennium café, Penn State University
Amsalem E. (2016) “Transitions during the evolution of social behavior” Department of Entomology, Penn State University; Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, Haifa University; Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University; Department of Entomology, the Hebrew University
Amsalem E (2016) “Social regulation of reproduction in bumblebees” Social Insects in the North-East Regions 7. Penn State University, USA
