Please notice that the time refers to CEST.
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Wednesday 29th September |
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| 18:00 | Peter Baumann and Susanne Foitzik - Welcome address |
| 18:15 | Laurent Keller - Social life, phenotypic plasticity and ageing |
| 18:55 | Judith Korb - How and why can social insect queens live so long? Insights from experimental studies in termites |
| 19:35 | Dinner and Leisure time / Get together |
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Thursday 30th September |
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| 09:00 | Abel Bernadou - Macronutrient balance and the longevity/fecundity trade-off in the clonal ant, Platythyrea punctata |
| 09:20 | Charlotte de Vries - Modeling the evolution of senescence in eusocial species |
| 09:40 | Megha Majoe - Age shows stronger effects on the transcriptomic profiles of brains compared to the ovaries and fat body of leaf-cutting ant queens |
| 10:00 | Coffee break + Poster session |
| 11:20 | Adria Leboeuf - Rewiring the fecundity–longevity trade-off with the social circulatory system |
| 12:00 | Guy Bloch - Juvenile hormone regulates brain-reproduction tradeoff in bumble bees but not in honey bees |
| 12:40 | Lunch break |
| 13:40 | Olav Rüppell - Social stress resistance: Can it explain aging patterns of social insects? |
| 14:20 | Barbara Feldmeyer - Longevity/fecundity trade-off in social insects: insights from the ant T. rugatulus |
| 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 | Tobin Hammer - The gut microbiome of bumblebee workers does not senesce (online) |
| 15:50 | Jürgen Liebig - The neglected morph: Aging and plasticity in workers of the ant Harpegnathos saltator (online) |
| 16:30 | Gro Amdam - Lifespan or Healthspan? Reflections before the Wine Hike (online) |
| 17:40 | Wine Hike |
| 19:00 | Dinner and Leisure time / Get together |
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Friday 1st October |
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| 09:00 | Luisa Jaimes - Late-life fitness gains explain the delay of the selection shadow in ants |
| 09:20 | Matteo Negroni - Autophagy, nutrient intake and the longevity-fecundity trade-off reversal in the ant Temnothorax rugatulus |
| 09:40 | Marina Choppin - Histone acetylation regulates the expression of genes involved in worker reproduction and lifespan in the ant Temnothorax rugatulus |
| 10:00 | Coffee break + Poster session |
| 11:20 | Susanne Foitzik - The molecular basis of an extreme lifespan extension in cestode-infected ants |
| 11:40 | Ido Pen - Eusociality and the evolution of aging in superorganisms |
| 12:20 | Lunch break |
| 13:40 | Romain Libbrecht - Queens are not queens unless they have workers: The social environment controls queen behavior in ants |
| 14:20 | Alexei Maklakov - Ageing as ‘early-life inertia’: Disentangling life-history trade-offs along a lifetime of an individual |
| 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 | Andrew Bourke - Sociality, ageing and costs of reproduction in eusocial insects (online) |
| 16:10 | Daniel Kronauer - Differentiation, communication, and collective behavior in the clonal raider ant (online) |
| 16:50 | Coffee break |
| 17:20 | Karen Meusemann - Aging and the fecundity-longevity trade-off in social insects: a comparative approach (online) |
| 17:40 | Kate Hunter - Life history trade-offs in the flexibly social Megalopta genalis (online) |
| 18:00 | Hongmei Li-Byarlay - The lifespan and levels of oxidative stress between feral and managed honey bee colonies (online) |
| 18:20 | Short walk |
| 19:15 | Thomas Flatt - Asymmetry, division of labor, and the evolution of aging |
| 20:00 | Dinner and Leisure time / Get together |