{"id":877,"date":"2024-04-03T20:30:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/?p=877"},"modified":"2024-04-03T20:30:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:30:23","slug":"cold-spring-harbor-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/2024\/04\/03\/cold-spring-harbor-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold Spring Harbor Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cold Spring Harbor conference on the Genomics and Biology of Social Insects (co-organized by Olav) just concluded successfully and some cutting edge research was presented.\u00a0 Presentations included our work on egg size plasticity in honey bee queens and our new &#8220;Weak Worker&#8221; hypothesis for explaining division of labor in social insects. The social insect research community is truly amazing although its choral qualities remain to be tested (photo below).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-878\" src=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2024\/04\/5S6A9766-300x126.jpg\" alt=\"Cold Spring Harbor Conference Attendees\" width=\"300\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2024\/04\/5S6A9766-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2024\/04\/5S6A9766-768x322.jpg 768w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2024\/04\/5S6A9766.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cold Spring Harbor conference on the Genomics and Biology of Social Insects (co-organized by Olav) just concluded successfully and some cutting edge research was presented.\u00a0 Presentations included our work <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/2024\/04\/03\/cold-spring-harbor-conference\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/rueppell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}