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MeeLiH SIGNED

Measure of the Ecological influence in Epigenetic-mediated Learning and memory formation in the Honeybee

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Project "MeeLiH" data sheet

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Coordinator	BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER ALEXANDER FLEMING Organization address address: FLEMING STREET 34 city: VARI-ATHENS postcode: 16672 website: www.fleming.gr contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Greece [EL]
Total cost	152˙653 €
EC max contribution	152˙653 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
Code Call	H2020-MSCA-IF-2017
Funding Scheme	MSCA-IF-EF-CAR
Starting year	2018
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2018-05-02 to 2020-08-16

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER ALEXANDER FLEMING BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER ALEXANDER FLEMING Organization address address: FLEMING STREET 34 city: VARI-ATHENS postcode: 16672 website: www.fleming.gr contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	EL (VARI-ATHENS)	coordinator	152˙653.00

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Project objective

Understanding the mechanisms of species adaptation within ecosystems in perpetual change is one of the greatest contemporary scientific challenges. Pollinating insects such as honeybees are particularly sensitive to the changes brought by the intensive mono-agricultural practices and insecticide exposure. Anticipating the widespread decline of bees requires a better understanding of the molecular pathways that affect their cognition such as memory, within their natural habitats. The unique field based behavioural experiments used in this proposal will provide memory and adaptation indexes from honeybees of various ecological and geographical places in Greece. It will help monitoring bee heath, improve beekeeper practices and consequently, participate in a better pollinator European management strategy. The recent discovery of epigenetic mechanisms that can explain phenotypic plasticity of honeybee holds great promise in understanding epigenetic-mediated adaptation. This proposal will also use state-of-the-art ‘-omic’ and super-resolution microscopy techniques to determine the brain cells type associated with the epigenetic dynamic occurring during memory formation in bees. These results will greatly participate to the understanding mechanisms of brain plasticity. The multidisciplinary approach of this proposal is feasible thanks to the unique combination of the researcher expertise on epigenetic study in social insects together with the extensive competence for the characterisation of the molecular pathways involved in memory formation of the host lab. Moreover the two partner organizations and their network will bring additional expertise and infrastructure for honeybee management used in this proposal. Together, the results of this proposal will generate new health indexes for bees, molecular biomarkers to the environmental quality and will participate to a better management of pesticide for sustainable agriculture.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2019	Alison Gray, Robert Brodschneider, Noureddine Adjlane, Alexis Ballis, Valters Brusbardis, Jean-Daniel CharriÃ¨re, Robert Chlebo, Mary F. Coffey, Bram Cornelissen, Cristina Amaro da Costa, TamÃ¡s CsÃ¡ki, BjÃ¸rn Dahle, JiÅ™Ã DanihlÃk, Marica Maja DraÅ¾iÄ‡, Garth Evans, Mariia Fedoriak, Ivan Forsythe, Dirk de Graaf, AleÅ¡ Gregorc, Jes Johannesen, Lassi Kauko, Preben Kristiansen, Maritta Martikkala, Loss rates of honey bee colonies during winter 2017/18 in 36 countries participating in the COLOSS survey, including effects of forage sources published pages: 1-7, ISSN: 0021-8839, DOI: 10.1080/00218839.2019.1615661	Journal of Apicultural Research	2019-08-05

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