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My name is Sathees Chandra. I came to Rothenbuhler Honey bee lab to work with Dr. Brain Smith as his graduate student in April, 1996. My interests are learning beaviour of bees ( Apis mellifera) and the molecular analysis of learning. As the first part of my research, I studied a learning phenomenon called  Latent Inhibition : when subjects are exposed to repeated odors without reinforcement, that should result in retarded learning. At present we have established two genetic lines - fast and slow learners - by reversal learning  training procedure. Our final objective of this project is to, develop a qantitative trait loci map for fast and slow learner bees using a Polyemerase chain reaction (PCR).