US-Turkey Workshop: EurBee 2010: Convening the first international symposium-workshop on honey bee behavioral plasticity-an integrative approach, Ankara, September 2010

美国-土耳其研讨会：EurBee 2010：召开首届蜜蜂行为可塑性国际研讨会 - 综合方法研讨会，安卡拉，2010 年 9 月

• 批准号: 1043057
• 负责人: Charles Abramson
• 金额: $ 5.12万
• 依托单位: Oklahoma State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1043057&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Turkey; Workshop; EurBee; 2010

1043057Abramson, Oklahoma State University Summary of Proposal: The project for support of a U.S.-Turkey workshop: EuroBee 2010: International Symposium-workshop on Honey Bee Behavioral Plasticity-an Integrative Approach, Ankara, Turkey, September 2010. The organizers are Dr. Charles Abramson of Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma and Dr. Aykut Kence, Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey. The meeting is to promote the creation of an international network of scientists involved in honey bee research. This will be the first international meeting to focus specifically on integrative study from the level of the nervous system to that of the ecosystem, and only the second international meeting on learning and memory of honey bees since the 1980s. The placement of the workshop at the end of the IVth Biennial European Honey Bee Conference at Ankara, Turkey September 7-9, 2010 will help minimize travel expenses and take advantage of the workshop to draw greater, particularly local participation, especially those interested in diversity in honey bee behavior. Turkey is a center of honey bee subspecific diversity (20% of world subspecies), and the workshop will include visits to sites where four of the five subspecies of honeybees in Turkey can be observed. In addition to the NSF support, several international participants have been able to secure partial or complete support for their attendance at the workshop.Intellectual merit: This meeting will emphasize integration of approaches from neurobiology, development, ecology, and evolution, as well as different behavioral research traditions. There seem to be few examples of this integration due to lack of communication among researchers with various approaches, especially those in different countries. The proposed workshop will help to advance our understanding of (1) how animals with small brains are able to achieve a high level of cognitive sophistication, specifically complex learning and memory abilities and (2) how behavioral variation within and between different species of honey bees, an important model organism, is related to their evolutionary history and ecological adaptations. The PI is an expert in the field of honey bee learning and memory and has extensive experience with foreign collaborations. The meeting will foster collaborative research between scientists from the U.S., Europe and Turkey. The proposed topic for the research is very creative, interdisciplinary and will have a major impact upon the study of honey bees. The logistics of the meeting in Turkey have been well planned. Broader impacts: The meeting will significantly enhance the study of honey bee biology, by focusing on an integrative approach to behavioral plasticity through physiological, ecological, and cellular mechanisms. The results will include the creation of an international network of scientists who are studying behavioral plasticity in a model system that features an animal, the honey bee, which has major significance to human life. The meeting will include the participation of graduate students, women, and others who are members of underrepresented groups. The results will be broadly disseminated through the publication of the proceedings in an edited volume and the preparation of a concept paper for Nature or Science. Both the PI and co-PI have a good record of publication in international, peer-reviewed journals, including the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

1043057俄克拉荷马州立大学阿布拉姆森提案摘要：支持美国-土耳其研讨会的项目：2010年欧洲蜜蜂：国际研讨会-关于蜜蜂行为可塑性的研讨会-综合方法，土耳其安卡拉，2010年9月。组织者是俄克拉何马州斯蒂尔沃特俄克拉荷马州立大学的查尔斯·艾布拉姆森博士和土耳其安卡拉中东技术大学(METU)的艾库特·肯斯博士。这次会议是为了促进建立一个参与蜜蜂研究的科学家的国际网络。这将是第一次专门关注从神经系统到生态系统层面的综合研究的国际会议，也是自20世纪80年代以来第二次关于蜜蜂学习和记忆的国际会议。研讨会将于2010年9月7日至9日在土耳其安卡拉举行的第四届欧洲蜜蜂双年展结束时举行，这将有助于最大限度地减少差旅费用，并利用研讨会吸引更多的人，特别是当地参与者，特别是那些对蜜蜂行为多样性感兴趣的人。土耳其是蜜蜂亚种多样性的中心(占世界亚种的20%)，研讨会将包括参观可以观察到土耳其五个蜜蜂亚种中的四个的地点。除了NSF的支持外，几位国际与会者已经能够为他们参加研讨会获得部分或全部支持。智力优势：这次会议将强调神经生物学、发育、生态学和进化论方法的整合，以及不同的行为研究传统。这种融合的例子似乎很少，因为采用不同方法的研究人员之间缺乏沟通，特别是不同国家的研究人员。拟议的研讨会将有助于增进我们对以下问题的理解：(1)大脑较小的动物如何能够实现高度的认知成熟，特别是复杂的学习和记忆能力；(2)作为重要模式生物的蜜蜂，不同物种内部和之间的行为差异如何与它们的进化史和生态适应有关。PI是蜜蜂学习和记忆领域的专家，并与外国合作拥有丰富的经验。会议将促进来自美国、欧洲和土耳其的科学家之间的合作研究。提出的研究课题具有很强的创新性、跨学科的特点，将对蜜蜂的研究产生重大影响。土耳其会议的后勤工作已经得到了很好的规划。更广泛的影响：会议将显著加强蜜蜂生物学的研究，重点是通过生理、生态和细胞机制对行为可塑性的综合方法。结果将包括建立一个国际科学家网络，他们正在一个模型系统中研究行为可塑性，该模型系统以对人类生活具有重大意义的动物蜜蜂为特色。会议将包括研究生、妇女和其他代表人数不足的群体的成员。结果将通过出版编辑后的会议记录和为《自然》或《科学》编写一份概念文件来广泛传播。PI和共同PI在国际同行评议的期刊上都有良好的发表记录，包括著名的美国国家科学院院刊。