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International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI)
North-West Europe Section
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Registration starts at 9am, and the conference starts at 9.45.
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Conference dinner on Monday evening (18th December): a buffet menu at the Orangery at Goldney Hall
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Last talk ends at 3.30pm on 19th December.
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Registration includes refreshments during the breaks and the conference dinner, but not the lunches on Monday and Tuesday.
Goldney Hall
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Fry Building
Programme
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Plenary speakers
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Francis Ratnieks
University of Sussex
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p128567-francis-ratnieks/
Adria LeBoeuf
University of Cambridge
https://leboeuflab.com/
Our plenary speakers this year will be Professors Adria LeBoeuf and Francis Ratnieks.
Plenary 1 (Adria LeBoeuf): 'Metabolic division of labour across the superorganism'
Plenary 2 (Francis Ratnieks): 'Stingless bees: insights into social evolution and behaviour from Darwin to the present day'
Schedule
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