U.S. - Europe International Workshop: Study of Genes, Brain, and Behavior with Honey Bees; Bellagio, Italy

0000262罗宾逊这一为期一年的奖项将支持美国参加一个国际研讨会，新的方法来研究基因，大脑和蜜蜂的行为，将在贝拉焦，意大利，在2000年6月26日至30日举行。 伊利诺伊大学的吉恩罗宾逊和新西兰奥塔哥大学的艾莉森美世将组织这次研讨会。 该研讨会涉及美国研究人员参加一个由来自美国，欧洲和亚洲的多学科研究人员组成的论坛，为神经科学和基因组学新兴技术的未来合作开发机会，提高蜜蜂作为行为，神经生物学和遗传学综合研究模型的价值。会议的重点将是在分子水平上展示基因、环境及其相互作用的影响的行为研究。这些研究的目的是解释整合社会中个体活动的行为机制的功能和进化，调节个体大脑行为的神经和神经内分泌机制，以及编码这些大脑机制并从而影响社会行为的基因。

0000262RobinsonThis one-year award will support US participation in an international workshop, New Approaches to the Study of Genes, Brain, and Behavior with Honey Bees, to take place in Bellagio, Italy, on June 26-30, 2000. Gene Robinson of the University of Illinois, and Alison Mercer, University of Otago, New Zealand, will organize the workshop. The workshop involves US researchers' participation in a forum for a multidisciplinary group of researchers from the US, Europe, and Asia to develop opportunities for future collaboration on emerging technologies in neuroscience and genomics, enhancing the value of the honey bee as a model for integrated studies of behavior, neurobiology, and genetics. The focus of the meeting will be on studies of behavior that demonstrate, at the molecular level, the influences of genes, the environment, and their interaction. The goal of these studies is to explain the function and evolution of behavioral mechanisms that integrate the activity of individuals in a society, neural and neuroendocrine mechanisms that regulate behavior within the brain of the individual, and the genes that encode these brain mechanisms and thereby influence social behavior.