Saturday 15.8.2026: Photo workshop (14:00-20:00)
Sunday, 16.8.2026: Photo Workshop (10:00-16:00); Registration and Welcome Reception (15:00-20:00)
Lunch is included in the conference fees from Monday through Thursday – here’s the menu: https://iussi.bcfr.de/
| Monday 17.8. | Tuesday 18.8. | Wednesday, 19.8. | Thursday 20.8. | |
| 09:00 | Plenary | Hamilton Award | West Eberhard Award | Plenary |
| 10:15 | Symposia | Symposia | Symposia | Symposia |
| 12:15 | Lunch break | Lunch break | Lunch break | Lunch break |
| 13:15 | Plenary | Plenary | Plenary | Plenary |
| 14:30 | Symposia | Symposia | Symposia | Symposia |
| 16:45 | Poster Session & special lecture* | Symposia | Symposia | General Assembly |
| 18:45 | Section Assemblies | International Assembly | 18:15 Poster Session | 19:30 Farewell Dinner (Ganter Beergarden) |
*special lecture by Joan Herbers: “Problematic terminology in science: why we need to watch our language”
Friday 21.8.2026: Excursions
24-28.8.: Ant Ecology in an Era of Global Change: Ant Ecol – an international summer school, Arolla (Switzerland)
Poster Session A, Monday:
- 00-Open
- 04 – The evolution and regulation of reproductive division of labor across social insects
- 11 – The organismal social insect colonies
- 14 – Complex phenotypes in social insects: the interplay of genes and environment
- 17 – Chemical communication in social insects – mechanisms, evolution, and applications
- 20 – Integrative evolutionary and ecological morphology
- 25 – Social insect invaders around the globe
- 28 – Arthropod inquilines of social insects’ colonies
- 23 – Social insects’ responses and challenges in a changing world
- 27 – Host-microbe interactions in social insect
Poster Session B, Wednesday:
- 01 – Adult phenotypic plasticity and the regulation of division of labor in social insects
- 02 – New frontiers in the study of division of labour in social insects
- 03 – Stingless bees – emerging models for understanding life history diversity in highly eusocial bees
- 05 – Life-history evolution in social insects – fertility and ageing
- 06 – From founding to function: early-stage dynamics in the life cycle of social insects
- 07 – Nutrition and insect health, from single individuals to colonies
- 08 – The role of brood in social insect colonies
- 09 – The role of maternal care on the evolutionary trajectory of sociality
- 10 – Mechanisms facilitating the evolution of social behavior in insects
- 12 – From simple rules to collective resilience in a changing world
- 13 – Comparing miniature cognitions
- 15 – Navigating the superorganism: molecular, behavioral, and computational perspectives on decision-making in social insects
- 16 – The role of innate and experience-driven chemical communication in regulating insect social behavior
- 18 – Vibroacoustic signalling in (eu)social insects
- 19 – Mechanisms and evolution of insect sensory systems: implications in the Anthropocene
- 21 – Transgenic approaches for studying the biology of social insects
- 22 – Beyond-omics: new perspectives on social insect big datasets
- 24 – Social insect conservation
- 26 – The role of citizen science in social insect research
- 29 – Tiny but mighty: viruses in social insects
