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

0000262这一为期一年的奖项将支持美国参加2000年6月26日至30日在意大利贝拉吉奥举行的国际研讨会，即研究蜜蜂基因、大脑和行为的新方法。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·默瑟将组织这次研讨会。研讨会涉及美国研究人员参加一个论坛，论坛由来自美国、欧洲和亚洲的多学科研究人员组成，旨在为未来在神经科学和基因组学新兴技术方面的合作开发机会，增强蜜蜂作为行为、神经生物学和遗传学综合研究的模型的价值。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行为机制的功能和进化，这些机制整合了个人在社会中的活动，神经和神经内分泌机制，调节个人大脑内的行为，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.