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.

1043057Abramson，俄克拉荷马州立大学 提案摘要：支持美国-土耳其研讨会的项目：EuroBee 2010：蜜蜂行为可塑性国际研讨会 - 综合方法研讨会，土耳其安卡拉，2010 年 9 月。组织者为 Charles 博士俄克拉荷马州斯蒂尔沃特俄克拉荷马州立大学的艾布拉姆森和艾库特博士Kence，土耳其安卡拉中东技术大学 (METU) 的教授。这次会议旨在促进建立参与蜜蜂研究的科学家国际网络。这将是第一次专门关注从神经系统层面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。 研讨会安排在 2010 年 9 月 7 日至 9 日在土耳其安卡拉举行的第四届两年一度的欧洲蜜蜂会议结束时举行，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人，特别是本地人，尤其是那些对多样性感兴趣的人的参与在蜜蜂的行为中。土耳其是蜜蜂亚种多样性的中心（占世界亚种的 20%），研讨会将参观可以观察土耳其蜜蜂 5 个亚种中的 4 个的地点。除了 NSF 的支持外，一些国际参与者还获得了参加研讨会的部分或全部支持。 学术价值：本次会议将强调神经生物学、发育、生态和进化以及不同学科方法的整合。行为研究传统。由于采用各种方法的研究人员之间缺乏沟通，特别是来自不同国家的研究人员，这种整合的例子似乎很少。拟议的研讨会将有助于加深我们对以下方面的理解：（1）大脑较小的动物如何能够实现高水平的认知复杂性，特别是复杂的学习和记忆能力，以及（2）不同种类蜜蜂内部和之间的行为差​​异如何作为一种重要的模式生物，与其进化历史和生态适应有关。 PI是蜜蜂学习记忆领域的专家，具有丰富的对外合作经验。这次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。 该研究提出的主题非常有创意、跨学科，将对蜜蜂的研究产生重大影响。土耳其会议的后勤工作经过精心策划。 更广泛的影响：会议将重点关注通过生理、生态和细胞机制实现行为可塑性的综合方法，从而显着加强对蜜蜂生物学的研究。其成果将包括建立一个国际科学家网络，这些科学家正在以对人类生命具有重大意义的动物蜜蜂为特征的模型系统中研究行为可塑性。 研究生、女性和其他代表性不足群体的成员将参加会议。 研究结果将通过出版编辑集的会议记录以及为《自然》或《科学》编写概念论文来广泛传播。 PI 和 co-PI 均在国际同行评审期刊上发表过良好记录，其中包括著名的《美国国家科学院院刊》。