Milestones

Module 2 - Diagnosis of harm due to crop protection products

Responsibility

Prof. Dr. B. Grünewald, Oberursel
b.gruenewald@bio.uni-frankfurt.de

Milestones

  1. Behaviour diagnostics and field trial

    • Creation of standardised behavioural tests: homing ability and odour learning.
    • Field trial: multifactorial pollutants; behavioural experiments.
    • Behaviour of immunosuppressed bees.
    • Transcriptome answers of insecticide-damaged bees.

 

  1. Immunodiagnostics and mechanisms of action

    • Development of a cell culture system for immune cells.
    • Effects of insecticides on nerve cells and immune cells.
    • Immunomodulation of immunocompetent cells: marker proteins and marker genes.
    • Development of a stress-signalling diagnostic tool.