Honey Bee Neurobiology and Behavior Program

该奖项为昆虫学系提供资金， 伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳分校建立一个夏季研究 一个专注于蜂蜜的行为和神经解剖学的项目 蜜蜂 学生将有独特的机会，联合收割机 用现代实验室技术进行引人注目的实地考察。 学生 培训将是一个三方面的过程。 首先，讲座将 昆虫神经系统的结构和功能; 昆虫变态和神经发育的激素调节 昆虫行为的激素调节;以及 实验设计 第二，学生将获得实用 安全处理蜜蜂群的培训， 观察蜜蜂的行为，并有充分的机会， 练习这些新技能。 第三，学生还将获得 光组织学技术实验室指导 昆虫神经系统的显微镜研究。 每个学生将 然后进行一个研究项目，其中蜜蜂大脑的一个方面， 形态学、细胞数量、神经化学、神经递质 表达、基因表达或激素反应性等， 研究了已知年龄和行为状态的蜜蜂。 的目标 这个项目是介绍学生谁已经有兴趣 神经科学和行为生物学对社会价值的影响 昆虫作为复杂神经生物学研究的模型 行为 该项目代表了一个正在进行的 两个实验室之间的合作， 昆虫学和神经科学项目 伊利诺伊州厄巴纳-香槟。 它将设在蜜蜂研究所， 实验室和该部另外两个设备齐全的实验室 昆虫学

This award provides funds to the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana to establish a summer research program that focuses on the behavior and neuroanatomy of honey bees. Students will have the unique opportunity to combine compelling fieldwork with modern laboratory techniques. Student training will be a three-fold process. First, lectures will be given on the structure and function of the insect nervous system; the hormonal regulation of insect metamorphosis and neural development; the hormonal regulation of insect behavior; and experimental design. Second, students will receive practical training in the safe handling of colonies of honey bees and in observation of honey bee behavior, and ample opportunity to practice these new skills. Third, students will also receive laboratory instruction in histological techniques for the light microscopic study of the insect nervous system. Each student will then carry out a research project in which an aspect of bee brain morphology, cell number, neurochemistry, neurotransmitter expression, gene expression, or hormonal responsiveness etc. is studied in bees of known age and behavioral status. The goal of this project is to introduce students who already have an interest in neuroscience and behavioral biology to the value of social insects as models for the study of the neurobiology of complex behavior. This project represents and extension of an ongoing collaboration between two laboratories in the Department of Entomology and the Neuroscience Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It will be based in the Bee Research Facility and two other well-equipped laboratories in the Department of Entomology.