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Grant Award View - GA68459-V1
Becoming expert navigators with tiny brains: Learning in desert ants
GA ID:
GA68459-V1
Agency:
Australian Research Council
Approval Date:
19-Dec-2019
Variation Publish Date:
1-Jun-2021
Variation Date:
1-Jun-2021
Category:
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Research
Grant Term:
18-May-2020 to 17-May-2023
Value (AUD):
$440,000.00
(GST inclusive where applicable)
Varies:
GA68459
- Becoming expert navigators with tiny brains: Learning in desert ants
One-off/Ad hoc:
No
Aggregate Grant Award:
No
PBS Program Name:
ARC 19/20 Discovery
Grant Program:
Discovery Projects
Grant Activity:
Becoming expert navigators with tiny brains: Learning in desert ants
Purpose:
Desert ants with tiny brains learn to use their surrounding visual landscape to navigate. This project investigates in detail how they do that in a few carefully orchestrated trips around their nest called learning walks. Desert ants are known now to use magnetic cues to orient during their learning walks. The project also probes the role that magnetic cues play in the ants’ learning, as well as the sensory basis of the perception of magnetic cues. Geomagnetic cues in the area of the nest will be artificially manipulated to test how ants use this cue. Probing the use of magnetic cues has potential benefits for projects of artificial autonomous navigation in situations when visual cues are unavailable, such as exploring a deep mine.
GO ID:
GO Title:
Discovery Projects for funding commencing in 2020
Internal Reference ID:
DP20 Round 1
Selection Process:
Targeted or Restricted Competitive
Confidentiality - Contract:
No
Confidentiality - Outputs:
No
Grant Recipient Details
Recipient Name:
Macquarie University
Recipient ABN:
90 952 801 237
Grant Recipient Location
Suburb:
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY
Town/City:
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY
Postcode:
2109
State/Territory:
NSW
Country:
AUSTRALIA
Grant Delivery Location
State/Territory:
NSW
Postcode:
2109
Country:
AUSTRALIA