Meeting Presentations

XXVII Symposium of Myrmecology: An International Ant Meeting 2025 — Recife

Powell Lab Roundtable & Presentations

Laís Mizraim Souza Barros & Scott Powell
Poster: "New insights into Neivamyrmex diversity through the first descriptions of queens of two species"
Tuesday November 4, 2025, 17:30 - 19:00.

Laís Mizraim Souza Barros
Roundtable Talk: "Ecology and the morphological evolution of army ants: Insights from the long-overlooked Neivamyrmex".
Mesa-redonda IX | The present and future of army ant research
Wednesday November 05, 2025, 14:00 - 16:00.
Talk at approx. 14:50.

Scott Powell
Roundtable Talk: "From prey detection to retrieval: The integrated traits of social predation in New World army ants".
Mesa-redonda IX | The present and future of army ant research
Wednesday November 05, 2025, 14:00 - 16:00.
Talk at approx. 15:15.

Scarlett Reis Epifanio & Scott Powell
Poster: "Unraveling trait-mediated competition: insights from the morphological diversity of coexisting turtle ants".
Wednesday November 05, 2025, 17:30 - 18:30

Aline Machado Oliveira & Scott Powell
Oral Presentation: "How a young and diverse clade of turtle ants has filled morphospace".
Thursday November 06, 2025, 10:15 - 10:30

Laís Mizraim Souza Barros, Eder Cleyton Barbosa de França, Jaqueline Macarroni Paes & Scott Powell
Oral Presentation: "Discovery of a new rare Cheliomyrmex species in Panama highlights the importance of cryptic army ant diversity".
Thursday November 6, 2025, 11:45 - 12:00

IUSSI 2022 — San Diego

Powell Lab Presentations & Co-organized Symposium

Scott Powell
"How niche expansion and niche subdivision shape the adaptive radiation of the turtle ants".
Sunday July 3, 17:30 - 19:00, Poster Session 1, San Diego Ballroom.

Symposium 5: "Spatial structure and organization within social insect colonies".
Co-organized by Matina Donaldson-Matasci (Harvey Mudd College, USA), Elva Robinson (University of York, UK) & Scott Powell (George Washington University, USA).
Thursday July 7, 10:00 - 12:15, Pacific Ballroom 23-24.

Benjamin Adams & Scott Powell
"Exploring the nest networks of polydomous ants in the highly constrained arboreal environment".
Thursday July 7, 10:00 - 10:15, Symposium 5, Pacific Ballroom 23-24.

Jignasha Rana, Ted R. Schultz & Scott Powell
"Phylogenomics reveal complex patterns of species production in the turtle ant adaptive radiation".
Thursday July 7, 14:00 - 14:15, Themed Session 6, Pacific Ballroom 25-26.

Collaborator Presentations

Kenneth Mitchell, Carter Moyer, Simon Woodside & Matina Donaldson-Matasci
"Turtle ant movement and nest choice on modular tree branches"
Sunday, July 3, 17:30 - 19:00, Poster Session 1, San Diego Ballroom.

Valentin Lecheval, Dominic Burns, Samuel Ellis, Scott Powell, Matina Donaldson-Matasci & Elva Robinson.
"Studying polydomy as a collective behaviour system".
Monday July 4, 14:45 - 15:00, Symposium 10, Pacific Ballroom 21.

Matina Donaldson-Matasci, Benjamin Adams, Elva Robinson & Scott Powell.
"The structure and formation of arboreal ant transportation networks".
Monday July 4, 15:00 - 15:15, Symposium 10, Pacific Ballroom 21.

Elva Robinson, Dominic Burns, Kate Parr, Dan Franks, Ida Holmberg & Heikki Helantera.
"Dynamic resource-sharing networks in polydomous wood ants".
Tuesday July 5, 17:00 — 17:15 18-20, Symposium 9, Pacific Ballroom 18-20.