The 11th Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Bangalore, India, August 5-11, 1990, Group Travel Award in U.S. and Indian Currencies.

该项目将资助25名美国科学家前往印度班加罗尔参加将于1990年8月5日至11日举行的国际社会昆虫研究联盟（IUSSI）第11届大会。大会每四到五年举行一次，是唯一一个专门研究群居昆虫的国际论坛，群居昆虫是一种重要的生物群体，在生物学的许多领域都是优秀的模型，在许多地区的动物群中是一种主要的生命形式。主题涵盖遗传学、生理学、行为学、种群生物学、生态学和系统学。与会者来自30多个国家。范围：这是在印度举行的有关该主题的首次重要会议，将为美国科学家提供与印度科学家开展新对话和启动联合研究计划的机会。

Description: This project will support travel of 25 U.S. scientists to Bangalore, India to attend the 11th Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI) to be held August 5-11, 1990. The Congress is held once every four to five years, and is the only international forum devoted exclusively to research on social insects, an important group of organisms that serve as excellent models in many fields of biology, and is a dominant life form in the faunas of many regions. The topics cover genetics, physiology, behavior, population biology, ecology and systematics. Participants come from over 30 countries. Scope: This is the first major conference on the topic to be held in India and will provide U.S. scientists with and opportunity to open new dialogues with Indian scientists and to initiate plans for joint research.