Kyushu University Institute for Asian and Oceanian Studies (Q-AOS) Brown Bag Seminar Series The 66th Seminar 「A sustainable society that inspired from the ants stridulatory communication research」 Brown Bag Seminar The Q-AOS Brown Bag Seminar Series are held every Wednesday lunch time from April 2021. The purpose of this webinar series is to provide opportunities not only to learn research related with SDGs in Asian and Oceanian regions and but also to expand your research network in different academic areas. The webinar is free, available in English and Japanese, and open to everyone! We hope you all come and join us! Details Date 2022/9/21 12:10 ~ 2022/9/21 12:50 Style Zoom Webinar Language Bilingual Japanese-English support (simultaneous interpretation) Admission Fee Free The maximum number for the webinar participants 500 people Contact Person：Kyushu University Q-AOS Administrative Office TEL：+81-92-802-2603・2605 E-mail：aoevent★jimu.kyushu-u.ac.jp（Please change ★ to @） Abstract Do you know that ants are talkative? Since 2014, we have been researching stridulatory communication in ants, and finally unraveling the mysteries of “language” in ants. I would like to talk about the beginning of the story. The species under study are fungus-growing ants, including leaf-cutting ants, which distribute in Central and South America. These ants are "agricultural" ants that cultivate fungus in the nests. Our research team has independently developed a high-resolution recording device and succeeded in precisely recording the antsʼ stridulatory signals, which had previously been impossible to record. We also used electron microscopy to analyse the structure of the stridulatory organs, conducted the experiments in which made pheromone-inhibited and stridulation-inhibited groups, and explored the auditory organs by immunostaining. I would like to introduce our interesting results in this talk. These research results can be applied to various fields in the future. Program 12:10 – 12:15 Introduction Assoc. Prof. Toshinori TANAKA (Research Promotion Coordinator of Q-AOS) 12:15 – 12:40 "A sustainable society that inspired from the ants stridulatory communication research” Associate Professor Takahiro MURAKAMI (Institute of Decision Science for a Sustainable Society, Kyushu University) 12:40 – 12:50 Q&A Material ・Information For Participants： PDF ※Simultaneous interpretation function cannot be used on a web browser. Please download the Zoom application from here. Slides： PDF Privacy statement Your registration data will only be used for this webinar and the next webinar notification mails. Back to all events
