Jane E Visvader* and Geoffrey J Lindeman Stem Cells and Cancer Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Medical Biology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Medical Oncology, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia and Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia *C...

Studies were conducted on the physiological mode of action and mode of perception of a queen pheromone that inhibits dealation (wing-shedding) and ovary development in virgin queens of the fire ant Solenopsis inuicta. Winged virgin queens were removed from the pheromonal signal (queen) to compare the response time for dealation, a behavioral response, and ovary development, a physiological resp...

Western honey bees, Apis mellifera, live in highly eusocial colonies that are each typically headed by a single queen. The queen is the sole reproductive female in a healthy colony, and because long-term colony survival depends on her ability to produce a large number of offspring, queen health is essential for colony success. Honey bees have recently been experiencing considerable declines in ...

St Vincent’s Institute, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia, Centre for Functional Genomics and Human Disease, Monash Institute of Medical Research, Monash University, 27-31 Wright Street, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1G Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC 3050, Australia, Amgen, One Amgen Centre Drive, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA and Ludwig Institute for Cancer Researc...

From the * Thymus Biology Unit, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria 3050, Australia; ‡ Cooperative Research Centre for Vaccine Technology at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, The Royal Brisbane Hospital, Herston, QLD 4029, Australia; and § The Monash Medical School, Alfred Hospital, Prahran, Victoria 3181, Australia

This extended abstract introduces research into persuasive dialogue modelling which is to be carried out as part of PIPS,1 one of the five Integrated Projects funded from the first call of the EU 6th Framework Programme in the field of e-Health. One of PIPS’ aims is to design and build a personal computational advisory system to support European Citizens in taking informed health-related decisi...

We investigated how group members achieve collective decision-making, by considering individual intrinsic behavioural rules and behavioural mechanisms for maintaining social integration. Using a simulated burrow environment, we investigated the behavioural rules of coordinated workload for soil distribution in a eusocial mammal, the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber). We tested two predicti...

Queen Victoria was one of the longest rulers in history, and one of the few British women to carry a nation from near revolution to empire in the course of her lifetime. With such an impressive longevity, the Queen saw many events pass by, and experienced many important landmarks in her own life as well. Living through so much rich history, she was one of the most documented monarchs. In this p...