Objective Our network will offer 13 two-year postdocs, training young European genetics, evolutionary modelling and organic chemistry with specialities researchers to become highly competitive in the expanding and important area of population biology. Special emphasis will be on interdisciplinary in ants, bees and wasps. We aim to understand social evolution by addressing the key factors: kinship (local genetic variation), questions of genetic diversity, chemical ecology and the long-term effects of diseases. Extensive working visits to several laboratories of other productivity (as affected by reproductive competition), communication (including kin-recognition), and disease. These factors are of general network partners are an essential part of all our postdoc training programmes. In addition, 6 workshops and 3 symposia organised by the relevance to biology and social insects are ideally suited as model network will extend our expertise and training to a selection of European systems to study their significance. The wide expertise of the network will allow us to study specifically the interactions among these key factors in postdocs and Ph.D. students from outside the network, creating a broader recruitment basis for TMR postdocs in later years of the network. ways that would be difficult for a single research group. Our network will combine both theoretical, experimental, and field studies and has extensive expertise in the numerous advanced techniques necessary for 1. the determination of kinship with hyper variable DNA-markers, 2. evolutionary modelling, 3. the (GC-MS) micro-analysis of communication substances and pheromones, 4. the analysis of reproductive competition, 5. the study of insect diseases. Fields of science natural sciencesbiological sciencesgeneticsnatural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistrynatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologysocial scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivitynatural sciencesbiological scienceszoologyentomology Programme(s) FP4-TMR - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of the training and mobility of researchers, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 01 - NETWORKS Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme NET - Research network contracts Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS Address 68,nordlandsvej 68 8240 Risskov Denmark See on map EU contribution No data Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Am hubland 97074 Würzburg See on map Other funding No data SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ZUERICH Switzerland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Clausiusstrasse 25 8092 Zurich See on map Other funding No data UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via romana 17/19 50125 Firenze See on map Other funding No data UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Western bank S10 2TN Sheffield See on map Other funding No data University of Keele United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address ST5 5BG Keele - staffordshire See on map Other funding No data Uppsala University Sweden EU contribution € 0,00 Address 181,dag hammarskiölds väg 750 07 Uppsala See on map Other funding No data
