Beekeeping in the Tallinn city on the roof of the building. Credit: Tallinn University

 

 

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

 

 

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MONDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER

17:00-20:00

Registration and info desk are open, come by!

19:00-22:00

Welcome reception at the Creative Hub

 

 

 

TUESDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER

08:00-18:00 Registration and info desk are open
08:30-09:30

ROOM: Black Box
Plenary session

Honeybee Vaccination – a New Frontier in Animal Health Sector
Dalial Freitak
, University of Graz, Austria

Moderator: Risto Raimets

09:30-09:45 Coffee break
09:45-10:45

ROOM: Black Box

1-2 Bee immunity and diseases

 

Moderators: Dalial Freitak & Fabio Manfredini 

 

09:45-10:00 Sarah C. Wood: JUDICIOUS ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY OF THE ENIGMATIC EUROPEAN FOULBROOD DISEASE

 

10:00-10:15 Anna Papach: SOCIAL ENCAPSULATION OF PARASITE EGGS BY HONEY BEE COLONIES

 

10:15-10:30 Benjamin Dainat: PAENIBACILLUS MELISSOCOCCOIDES: A NEW PATHOGEN OF HONEY BEE BROOD?

 

10:30-10:45 Benjamin Dainat: DEFENSE MECHANISMS OF HONEY BEE COLONIES AGAINST THE BROOD PATHOGEN MELISSOCOCCUS PLUTONIUS

ROOM: Stalker

4 Pollinators and pollination ecology in natural and agricultural landscapes

 

Moderator: Tsipe Aavik & Reet Karise

 

09:45-10:00 Erica Holzer: EXPLORING HONEYBEE FORAGING PATTERNS AND MELISSOPALYNOLOGY AS INDICATORS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DIVERSITY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY IN ITALY AND BOLIVIA

 

10:00-10:15 Denise Bertleff: PROMOTING WILD POLLINATORS IN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES - WILD BEE DIVERSITY, RESOURCE-USE AND YIELD IN A LATE MASS-FLOWERING CROP

 

10:15-10:30 Jacek Jachuła: NOTES ON CALCULATING NECTAR AND POLLEN RESOURCES FOR POLLINATORS AT DIFFERENT LEVELS: SPECIES, HABITAT AND LANDSCAPE

 

10:30-10:45 Anu Tiitsaar: LONG-TERM BUMBELBEE MONITORING DEMONSTRATES THE BENEFITS OF ORGANIC AND ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY FARMING PRACTICES

ROOM: Woodblock

10 Bee diversity, conservation and interaction among species

 

Moderator: Helena Wirta

 

09:45-10:00 Chiara Benedetta Boni: BOMBUS TERRESTRIS TERRESTRIS  AS A THREAT FOR THE PROTECTION OF BOMBUS XANTHOPUS IN THE TUSCAN ARCHIPELAGO (ITALY)

 

10:00-10:15 Francesca Coppola: TROPHIC REPARTITION OF THE POLLEN SOURCE BETWEEN MANAGED HONEY BEES AND UNMANAGED BEES

 

10:15-10:30 Silvio Erler: MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION IN A SOLITARY BEE (Andrena vaga) - ENDOPARASITE (Stylops ater) SYSTEM

 

10:30-10:45 Wiebke Sickel: WILD BEE MONITORING IN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES – A CONCEPTUAL APPROACH INCORPORATING DNA ANALYSES IN BIODIVERSITY MONITORING

ROOM: Terrace

9 Beekeeping issues (Eesti mesinike teabepäeva sessioon) - translated to Estonian

 

Moderators: Sigmar Naudi & Erki Naumanis 

 

09:45-10:05 Pike Stahlmann-Brown: PERSPECTIVES ON WELLBEING AMONG COMMERCIAL BEEKEEPERS IN NEW ZEALAND

 

10:05-10:25 Ildikó Arany: METHODOLOGICAL OVERVIEW OF THE VALUATION OF HONEY PROVISIONING CAPACITY AS AN ECOSYSTEM SERVICE – RESULTS OF AN INTERPRETIVE SYNTHESIS REVIEW

 

10:25-10:45 Anna-Maria Borshagovski: TOWARDS DOMESTIC POLLINATION WITH BUMBLEBEES

10:45-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-12:00

ROOM: Black Box

1-2 Bee immunity and diseases

 

Moderators: Dalial Freitak & Fabio Manfredini 

 

11:00-11:15 Maggie Gill: ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFICACY OF EXISTING AND NEW IN FIELD AND LABORATORY TROPILAELAPS SPP. DETECTION METHODS

 

11:15-11:30 Heather Broccard-Bell: TRACKING THE EVOLUTION OF VIRAL TITERS IN COLONY SUB-POPULATIONS THROUGHOUT THE SEASON AND IN RESPONSE TO VARROA TREATMENT STRATEGIES

 

11:30-11:45 Regis Lefebre: POPULATION-WIDE MODELLING REVEALS PROSPECTS OF MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION FOR PARASITIC MITE RESISTANCE IN HONEY BEES

 

11:45-12:00 Eliška Pinďáková: THE EFFECT OF OXALIC ACID TREATMENT AGAINST VARROA MITES ON HONEY BEES (APIS MELLIFERA)

ROOM: Stalker

4 Pollinators and pollination ecology in natural and agricultural landscapes

 

Moderator: Tsipe Aavik & Reet Karise

 

11:00-11:15 Anne-Charlie Robert: MANAGEMENT METHODS TO OPTIMIZE COMMERCIAL BUMBLE BEE (BOMBUS IMPATIENS) COLONIES’ PERFORMANCE DURING THE LOWBUSH BLUEBERRY (VACCINIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM) POLLINATION

 

11:15-11:30 Frédéric McCune: COMMERCIAL POLLINATOR DENSITY AND LOWBUSH BLUEBERRY YIELD IN QUÉBEC, CANADA: AN AGRO-ECONOMIC STUDY

 

11:30-11:45 Ana María Quiroga Arcila: OPTIMIZATION OF LOWBUSH BLUEBERRY POLLINATION AND EVALUATION OF HONEY BEE’S AND BUMBLE BEE’S HEALTH

ROOM: Woodblock

10 Bee diversity, conservation and interaction among species

 

Moderator: Helena Wirta

 

11:00-11:15 Helena Wirta: WHAT MAKES THE ELTONIAN NICHE OF HONEYBEES CHANGE?

 

11:15-11:30 Daniela Lupi: URBAN ORNAMENTALS, PARKS, AND GARDENS: EXPLORING THE INTRICATE INTERPLAY BETWEEN  BEE POLLINATORS AND THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT

 

11:30-11:45 Asia Piovesan: SPATIO-TEMPORAL POPULATION GENETICS OF SOLITARY BEES TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF MANAGEMENT

 

11:45-12:00 Norman L Carreck: THE ISLES OF SCILLY – A MICROCOSM FOR EUROPEAN HONEY BEE CONSERVATION.

ROOM: Terrace

9 Beekeeping issues (Eesti mesinike teabepäeva sessioon) - translated to Estonian

 

Moderators: Sigmar Naudi & Erki Naumanis 

 

11:00-11:20 Róbert Chlebo: EUROPEAN BEEKEEPING: THREATS, CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES

 

11:20-11:40 Carolin Rein: VESPA VELUTINA - A NEW THREAT TO HONEY BEE COLONIES IN SOUTHWEST GERMANY

 

11:40-12:00 Dan Etheridge: THE UK'S RESPONSE TO YELLOW LEGGED ASIAN HORNET (VESPA VELUTINA) INCURSION

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-14:00

ROOM: BLACK BOX
Plenary session


Complex Cognition of Bumblebees: Spontaneous Learning to Cooperation

Olli Loukola, University of Oulu, Finland


Moderator: Dalial Freitak

14:00-15:15

ROOM: Black Box

1-2 Bee immunity and diseases

 

Moderators: Dalial Freitak & Fabio Manfredini 

 

14:00-14:15 Ewa Mazur: VARROA CONTROL STRATEGIES OF DIFFERENT BEEKEEPER GROUPS AND CORRESPONDING HONEY BEE COLONY MORTALITY IN CENTRAL EUROPE

 

14:15-14:30 Alice Šárková: UNRAVELLING FUNCTIONS OF NITRIC OXIDE IN HONEY BEE HEALTH AND IMMUNITY

 

14:30-14:45 Avi Eliyahu: THE EFFECT OF SYMPATRIC MANAGED AND WILD BEES’ FORAGING PATTERNS AND IMMUNITY ON THE INTER-TAXA VIRUS SHARING

 

14:45-15:00 Nikolas Basler: THE CORE VIROME QUEST – BACTERIOPHAGES IN A LARGE EUROPEAN SAMPLE SET OF APIS MELLIFERA

 

15:00-15:15 Assaf Tzdaka: THE EFFECT OF JUVENILE HORMONE ON THE ACTIVITY OF VIRUSES IN BUMBLE BEES

ROOM: Stalker

11 Bee nutrition

 

Moderator: Björn Dahle

 

14:00-14:15 Salena Husband: SUNFLOWER’S REWARD: CURRENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE OF SUNFLOWER NUTRITION ON BEE HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT

 

14:15-14:30 Giulia Mainardi: SPRING FLORAL DIVERSITY ENHANCES WINTER SURVIVAL PROBABILITY OF HONEY BEE COLONIES IN DIFFERENT CLIMATES

 

14:30-14:45 Sara Leonhardt: HOW DOES THE DIVERSITY AND AVAILABILITY OF FLOWERS AFFECT BEE NUTRITION?

 

14:45-15:00 Andreia Quaresma: INSIGNIA-EU: ITS2 METABARCODING MONITORING OF THE FLORA VISITED BY HONEY BEES IN EUROPE

ROOM: Woodblock

12 Information flow from research to public and practice

 

Moderator: Robert Brodschneider

 

14:00-14:15 Lotta Fabricius Kristiansen: DIAL "B" FOR BEEKEEPING: A GLOBAL SURVEY ON APICULTURAL EDUCATION AND INFORMATION SERVICES TO IMPROVE HONEY BEE COLONY VITALITY

 

14:15-14:30 Violeta Santrac: EMERGING THREAT OF ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE IN PAENIBACILLUS LARVAE: CONSEQUENCES FOR HUMAN HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY

 

14:30-14:45 Jovana Bila Dubaić: HONEY BEE WATCH DEVELOPS PARTICIPATORY MONITORING PROTOCOL TO STUDY FREE-LIVING APIS MELLIFERA COLONIES

 

14:45-15:00 Laura Bortolotti: TOOLS AND INITIATIVES TO INCREASE PUBLIC AWARENESS AND ENCOURAGE BEST PRACTICES FOR POLLINATOR CONSERVATION IN THE LIFE 4 POLLINATORS PROJECT

 

15:00-15:15 Valérie Fournier: LEVERAGING COMMUNITY SCIENCE FOR LARGE-SCALE MONITORING OF INSECT POLLINATORS: INSIGHTS FROM ABEILLES CITOYENNES

ROOM: Terrace

9 Beekeeping issues (Eesti mesinike teabepäeva sessioon) - translated to Estonian

 

Moderators: Sigmar Naudi & Erki Naumanis 

 

14:00-14:20 Evgeniya N. Ivanova: IDENTIFYING THE MAIN REASONS FOR THE HONEY BEE COLONY LOSSES IN BULGARIA

 

14:20-14:40 Maritta Martikkala: FLUCTUATION OF WINTER LOSSES IN FINLAND AND VARROA FREE ÅLAND

 

14:40-15:00 Jiří Danihlík: ADVANCING BEE HEALTH: FIELD SCREENING FOR EUROPEAN FOULBROOD USING HIVE DEBRIS

 

15:00-15:20 Elemir Simko: SAMPLING STRATEGIES OF EXTRACTED HONEY USED FOR AFB RISK ASSESSMENT AND SURVEILLANCE OF ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE IN COMMERCIAL BEEKEEPING OPERATIONS

15:15-16:00 Coffee break + poster session
16:00-17:30

ROOM: Black Box

7 Communication and behavior

 

Moderator: Fabio Manfredini

 

16:00-16:15 Fatih Dikmen: ANTENNAL TRANSCRIPTOME ANALYSIS AND BEHAVIORAL STUDIES TO DECIPHER THE GENETIC BASIS OF OLFACTION IN BOMBUS TERRESTRIS L

 

16:15-16:30 Alexis Beaurepaire: SOCIAL IMMUNITY THROUGH SOCIAL LEARNING

 

16:30-16:45 Fanny Mondet: IMPACT OF PARASITE AND PESTICIDE EXPOSURE ON THE PRODUCTION AND PERCEPTION OF PHEROMONES IN THE HONEY BEE

 

16:45-17:00 Tesni Houlston: INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF DEFORMED WING VIRUS INFECTION IN THE BRAIN ON HONEYBEE LEARNING

 

17:00-17:15 Amélie Noël: SPECIFICITY OF VARROA SENSITIVE HYGIENE BEHAVIOUR

 

17:15-17:30 Nicholas Scaramella: CHARACTERIZING THE PHENOTYPIC MECHANISMS OF NATURALLY ADAPTED VARROA MITE RESISTANCE IN HONEY BEES

ROOM: Stalker

11 Bee nutrition

 

Moderator: Björn Dahle

 

16:00-16:15 Chrysoula Tananaki: EFFECTS OF PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTARY VITAMINS, AMINO ACIDS AND FATTY ACIDS IN HONEYBEE NUTRITION

 

16:15-16:30 M. Shantal Rodríguez-Flores: HEADSPACE SOLID-PHASE MICROEXTRACTION GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE VOLATILE PROFILE OF HONEYDEW HONEY FROM NORWEST OF IBERIAN PENINSULA

 

16:30-16:45 Kristýna Myslínová: IMPACT OF DIFFERENT DIETARY PROTEIN SOURCES ON THE COMPOSITION OF HONEY BEE HAEMOLYMPH

 

16:45-17:00 Maria Belén Branchiccela: UNRAVELLING THE IMPACT OF NUTRITIONAL STRESS ON HONEY BEE COLONIES

 

17:00-17:15 Alessandra Giacomelli: A NOVEL MALDI-MS PROTOCOL FOR IDENTIFYING POLLEN IN HONEYBEE CORBICULAE AND ANALYSING THEIR TROPHIC POTENTIAL 

 

17:15-17:30 Chiara Braglia: THE TROPHIC POTENTIAL OF POLLENS WITH DIFFERENT BOTANICAL ORIGIN: A COMPREHENSIVE PROTEOMIC AND MICROBIOLOGICAL APPROACH

ROOM: Woodblock

12 Information flow from research to public and practice

 

Moderator: Robert Brodschneider

 

16:00-16:15 Arrigo Moro: THE CITIZEN SCIENCE MONITORING OF IRISH FREE-LIVING COLONIES: A MODEL FOR FUTURE LARGE-SCALE STUDIES FOR ASSESSING WILD HONEY BEE SURVIVAL

 

16:15-16:30 Michela Bertola: ADDRESSING CHALLENGES IN BEEKEEPING DATA COLLECTION: LESSONS FROM ITALIAN COLOSS MONITORING

 

16:30-16:45 Giles Budge: IMPROVING BEEKEEPING RESILIENCE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BEEGUARDS EU PROJECT

 

16:45-17:00 Annette Bruun Jensen: HOW TO IMPLEMENT MODERN METHODS IN BEE BREEDING

 

17:00-17:15 Dirk Louis P. Schorkopf: SUPPORTING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION EFFORTS IN AUSTRIA THROUGH PARTICIPATION OF BEEKEEPERS AND BIDIRECTIONAL INFORMATION FLOW

 

17:15-17:30 Jan Brus: MANDATORY INFORMATION OF HONEY BEE COLONIES LOCATION GIVES ADDED VALUE TO BEEKEEPER-PROVIDED EPIDEMIOLOGIC COLONY MORTALITY DATA

 
17:30-18:30 ROOM: Black Box
EurBee members' meeting

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER

07:45-14:00 Registration and info desk are open
08:15-08:30 Report from EurBee members' meeting
08:30-09:30

ROOM: Black Box
Plenary session

 

Bee Health: Breeding for Varroa Resistance

Stefan Mandl


Moderator: Risto Raimets

09:30-09:45 Coffee break
09:45-10:45

ROOM: Black Box

1-2 Bee immunity and diseases

 

Moderators: Dalial Freitak & Fabio Manfredini 

 

09:45-10:00 Marie-Pierre Chauzat: HONEY BEE HEALTH: EXPOSURE INDEX GENERATED FROM LARGE DATASETS CORRELATES PESTICIDES BUT NOT PATHOGENS WITH THE AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT

 

10:00-10:15 Silvie Dostálková: INSIGHTS INTO THE IMMUNE RESPONSE OF HONEY BEES (APIS MELLIFERA)

 

10:15-10:30 Marta Montoro: API-VECTORING OF THE ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGUS BEAUVERIA BASSIANA BY BOMBUS TERRESTRIS FOR THRIPS CONTROL IN STRAWBERRY TUNNELS

 

10:30-10:45 Tristan Durand: CHRONIC AND ACUTE BEE PARALYSIS VIRUS INTERACTIONS IN ARTIFICIALLY INOCULATED ADULT HONEY BEES

ROOM: Stalker

4 Pollinators and pollination ecology in natural and agricultural landscapes

 

Moderator: Tsipe Aavik & Reet Karise

 

09:45-10:00 Lucia Lenzi: POLLINATION DEFICITS IN PEAR ORCHARDS IN NORTHERN ITALY: THE ROLE OF POLLINATOR COMMUNITY, LANDSCAPE CONTEXT AND PESTICIDE RISK

 

10:00-10:15 Sharon Asis: IMPROVING AVOCADO POLLINATION BY INTEGRATING INTER-ROW NATURAL AND SOWN ANNUAL PLANTS

 

10:15-10:30 Gabriel Arbona: OSMIA BEES AS POLLINATORS OF ALMOND ORCHARDS: CURRENT WORK AND INSIGHTS FROM STUDIES IN THE BALEARIC ISLANDS (SPAIN)

 

10:30-10:45 Huw Evans: HIVE ORIENTATION AND COLONY STRENGTH AFFECT HONEY BEE COLONY ACTIVITY DURING ALMOND POLLINATION

ROOM: Woodblock

10 Bee diversity, conservation and interaction among species

 

Moderator: Helena Wirta

 

09:45-10:00 Ahlam Sentil: THE USE OF CROPS AS HABITAT PLANTS SUPPORT WILD POLLINATORS IN MOROCCAN FARMLANDS

 

10:00-10:15 Abdessamad Aglagane: APPLYING GENETICS TO SUPPORT CONSERVATION ASSESSMENTS OF MOROCCAN BIODIVERSITY: THE SAHARAN HONEYBEE (APIS MELLIFERA SAHARIENSIS) AS A CASE STUDY

 

10:15-10:30 Cayetano Herrera: SPREAD OF VESPA VELUTINA IN SPAIN, SUCCESSFUL CONTROL ON THE BALEARIC ISLANDS

 

10:30-10:45 Cayetano Herrera: A METABARCODING TOOL TO ESTIMATE PREY SPECTRUM OF VESPA VELUTINA (HYMENOPTERA: VESPIDAE) ON THE LOCAL ENTOMOFAUNA

ROOM: Terrace

9 Beekeeping issues (Eesti mesinike teabepäeva sessioon) - translated to Estonian

 

Moderators: Sigmar Naudi & Erki Naumanis 

 

09:45-10:05 Vasilios Liolios: EFFECT OF HARVESTING PRACTICES ON THE MICROBIAL LOAD OF FRESH COLLECTED POLLEN

 

10:05-10:25 Kirsten Traynor: THE GERMAN BEE MONITORING PROJECT. WHAT PESTICIDES DO WE FIND IN STORED POLLEN

 

10:25-10:45 Dimitrios Kanelis: APPLICATION OF BEEKEEPING PRACTICES TO PRODUCE STRAWBERRY TREE HONEY AND INVESTIGATION OF THE FINAL PRODUCT'S QUALITY

10:45-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-12:00

ROOM: Black Box

1-2 Bee immunity and diseases

 

Moderators: Dalial Freitak & Fabio Manfredini 

 

11:00-11:15 Raquel Martín-Hernández: GAME OF DRONES: THE KEY FOR TRYPANOSOMATIDS’ DISPERSAL IN APIS MELLIFERA?

 

11:15-11:30 Belén Bordenave: EFFECT OF THE INFECTION LEVEL OF VARROA DESTRUCTOR AND RNA VIRUSES IN BEE POPULATION AND COLONY LOSSES

 

11:30-11:45 Aleksandra Żmuda: DEFORMED WING VIRUS AFFECT SURVIVAL OF A SOLITARY BEE OSMIA BICORNIS IN LABORATORY CONDITIONS

 

11:45-12:00 Sigmar Naudi: COULD HIVE DEBRIS SAMPLES AND QPCR EASE THE INVESTIGATION OF FACTORS INFLUENCING AMERICAN FOULBROOD SPORE LOADS?

ROOM: Stalker

4 Pollinators and pollination ecology in natural and agricultural landscapes

 

Moderator: Tsipe Aavik & Reet Karise

 

11:00-11:15 Itsik Sadeh: IMPACT OF GAMMA IRRADIATION ON POLLEN QUALITY AND COLONY DEVELOPMENT IN BOMBUS TERRESTRIS

 

11:15-11:30 Claude Flener: ADAPTING GREENHOUSE POLLINATION PRACTICES TO NORDIC CLIMATE CONDITIONS

 

11:30-11:45 Francesco Lami: MULTIFUNCTIONALITY OF FLOWERING COVER CROPS: SUPPORTING POLLINATORS WHILE ENHANCING WEED CONTROL AND SOIL QUALITY

 

11:45-12:00 Estelle Bridoux: EFFECTS OF FLOWER PLANTINGS ON BEES EXPOSURE TO PESTICIDES AND POLLINATION SERVICE IN APPLE ORCHARDS

ROOM: Woodblock

10 Bee diversity, conservation and interaction among species

 

Moderator: Helena Wirta

 

11:00-11:15 David Lugo: PATHOGEN PRESENCE AND PREVALENCE IN OCEANIC ISLANDS: IMPLICATIONS FOR BEE CONSERVATION IN THE CANARY ISLANDS

 

11:15-11:30 Álvaro Urueña: INTERACTIONS BETWEEN GLYPHOSATE USE AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON THE PREVALENCE OF PATHOGENS IN MANAGED AND WILD BEES

 

11:30-11:45 Agata Morelli: DRIVERS OF WILD BEE AND HOVERFLY COMMUNITIES IN URBAN CONTEXTS

 

11:45-12:00 Erik Stange: HONEYBEES' EFFECTS ON SPECIES DIVERSITY AND PLANT POLLINATOR INTERACTIONS: INSIGHT FOR IMPLEMENTING SUSTAINABLE BEEKEEPING PRACTICES

ROOM: Terrace

9 Beekeeping issues (Eesti mesinike teabepäeva sessioon) - translated to Estonian

 

Moderators: Sigmar Naudi & Erki Naumanis 

 

11:00-11:20 Omer Kama: THE SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS CONTROLLING HONEY BEE QUEEN REARING.

 

11:20-11:40 Pierre Giovenazzo: APIOMIC, HONEY BEE BREEDING USING GENOMICS

 

11:40-12:00 Tristan Kistler: OPTIMIZING HONEYBEE BREEDING SCHEMES: REDUCING THE GENERATION INTERVAL OF DAMS TO ONE YEAR WITH PARTIAL PHENOTYPING

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-14:00

ROOM: Black Box
Plenary session


Consequences of sharing pollinators in the Anthropocene

Tia-Lynn Ashman, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA


Moderator: Dalial Freitak

14:00-14:30 Group photo outside the venue
14:30-15:00

ROOM: Terrace

9 Beekeeping issues (Eesti mesinike teabepäeva sessiooni jätk) - translated to Estonian

Marin Kovačić: BREEDING, SELECTION AND QUEEN PRODUCTION OF APIS MELLIFERA CARNICA ON A KOVAČIĆ FAMILY BEE FARM IN CROATIA

 

Moderators: Sigmar Naudi & Erki Naumanis 

14:30-... Start of the city tour or bog hike

 

 

THURSDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER

08:00-18:00 Registration and info desk are open
08:30-09:30

ROOM: Black Box
Plenary session

Conservation Genetics of Bee Populations with a Focus on Honey Bees, Stingless Bees and Bumblebees

Pilar de la Rua, University of Murcia, Spain


Moderator: Reet Karise

09:30-09:45 Coffee break
09:45-10:45

ROOM: Black Box

6 Ecotoxicology, pesticides, pollutants

 

Moderator: Jens Pistorius

 

09:45-10:00 Bhanu Yadav: TOXICOLOGICAL COMPARISON OF COMMERCIAL INSECTICIDE FORMULATIONS ON FIVE HONEYBEE GENOTYPES

 

10:00-10:15 Ming Wang: FROM IN SILICO TO IN VIVO: UNDERSTANDING HONEYBEE FORAGING UNDER PESTICIDE EXPOSURE

 

10:15-10:30 Lena Barascou: LABORATORY TOXICITY OF MOSQUITO CONTROL PRODUCTS TO HONEY BEES (APIS MELLIFERA)

 

10:30-10:45 Hagai Y. Shpigler: THE EFFECT OF LITHIUM CHLORIDE TREATMENT ON HONEY BEE BEHAVIOR

ROOM: Stalker

8 Evolution and population genetics of bees

 

Moderator: Silvio Erler

 

09:45-10:00 Alain Vignal: ON THE LIMITS IN USING A SINGLE REFERENCE GENOME FOR POPULATION GENOMICS: TOWARDS PAN-GENOMES

 

10:00-10:15 Ségolène Maucourt: OBSERVATION OF GENETIC GAIN WITH INSTRUMENTAL INSEMINATION OF HONEYBEE QUEENS

 

10:15-10:30 Carlos A. Yadró: EXPLORING POPULATION STRUCTURE AND ADAPTATION IN HONEY BEE SUBSPECIES FROM SOUTHERN GLACIAL REFUGIA: A. M. IBERIENSIS AND A. M. LIGUSTICA

 

10:30-10:45 Dora Henriques: GENOMIC INSIGHTS INTO MIDDLE EASTERN HONEY BEE SUBSPECIES: POPULATION STRUCTURE AND GENETIC INTEGRITY

ROOM: Woodblock

3 Impacts of climate change and other factors in a changing environment

 

Moderator: Laura Bortolotti

 

09:45-10:00 Victor Scharnhorst: SHIFTING SANDS OF METACOMMUNITY OCCUPANCY: OCCURRENCE OF WILD BEES OVER 100 YEARS IS LINKED TO CLIMATIC NICHES

 

10:00-10:15 Vahap Eldem: CHROMOSOME-SCALE GENOMIC ANALYSIS INSIGHTS INTO LOCAL ADAPTATION AND FUTURE CLIMATE-INDUCED VULNERABILITY OF TWO BUMBLEBEE SPECIES: BOMBUS LAPIDARIUS AND BOMBUS NIVEATUS

 

10:15-10:30 Valon Mustafi: BROOD PAUSE IN WINTER PROLONGS LIFESPAN OF WINTER BEES AND DECREASES PARASITE LOAD IN HONEY BEE COLONIES

 

10:30-10:45 Fernando Doblado: STRESS-RELATED ENZYME ACTIVITY IN APIS MELLIFERA IBERIENSIS

10:45-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-12:00

ROOM: Black Box

6 Ecotoxicology, pesticides, pollutants

 

Moderator: Jens Pistorius

 

11:00-11:15 Ivo Roessink: INTERPRETING THE IMPACT OF ORAL, DIRECT CONTACT, INDIRECT CONTACT VIA TREATED SURFACE, AND CHRONIC DIETARY UPTAKE WITHIN ONE MODELLING FRAMEWORK

 

11:15-11:30 Annelise Rosa-Fontana: HONEYBEE GUT MICROBIOTA AS AN EMERGING ENDPOINT FOR PESTICIDE RISK ASSESSMENTS

 

11:30-11:45 Tomasz Kiljanek: PESTICIDOVIGILANCE - TEN YEARS OF THE HONEYBEE POISONING DIAGNOSTIC PROGRAM IN POLAND

 

11:45-12:00 Cassandra Uthoff: INTEGRATION OF MULTI-OMICS ANALYSES OF THE GUT-BRAIN AXIS WITH IN-HIVE BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSES OF HONEYBEE WORKERS (APIS MELLIFERA) AFTER PESTICIDE EXPOSURE

ROOM: Stalker

8 Evolution and population genetics of bees

 

Moderator: Silvio Erler

 

11:00-11:15 Thibault Leroy: GENETIC DIVERSITY AND DELETERIOUS MUTATION LOAD IN APIS

 

11:15-11:30 Luca Fontanesi: A HIGH-DENSITY AND TIME DYNAMIC DISTRIBUTION MAP OF HONEY BEE MITOCHONDRIAL DNA LINEAGES COVERING THE ENTIRE ITALY

 

11:30-11:45 Malgorzata Cebrat: EXPLORING THE DIPLOID MALE VORTEX IN APIS MELLIFERA: A SIMULATION STUDY OF CSD GENE DYNAMICS AND POPULATION EXTINCTION RISK

 

11:45-12:00 Alexandra Valentine: CHARACTERISATION OF APIS MELLIFERA MELLIFERA IN IRELAND: A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH

ROOM: Woodblock

3 Impacts of climate change and other factors in a changing environment

 

Moderator: Laura Bortolotti

 

11:00-11:15 Raquel Martín-Hernández: SURVIVAL TO THERMAL STRESS IN MEDITERRANEAN SUBSPECIES OF APIS MELLIFERA

 

11:15-11:30 Soledad Sagastume de Andrés: BODY WATER LOSS AS AN ADAPTIVE CAPACITY OF HONEY BEES TO CLIMATE CHANGE

 

11:30-11:45 Soledad Sagastume De Andrés: TOLERANCE TO HEAT AND COLD OF APIS MELLIFERA IBERIENSIS AND APIS MELLIFERA SYRIACA

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-14:00

ROOM: Black Box
Plenary session

 

Bee health: the intricate impacts of pesticides
Simone Tosi, University of Turin, Department of Agricultural, Forest, and Food Sciences, Italy


Moderator: Reet Karise

14:00-15:15

ROOM: Black Box

6 Ecotoxicology, pesticides, pollutants

 

Moderator: Jens Pistorius

 

14:00-14:15 Luis Vélez-Trujillo: A COMMON PESTICIDE IMPAIRS THE MATING BEHAVIOUR AND THE FERTILITY OF A SOLITARY BEE, OSMIA BICORNIS

 

14:15-14:30 Fabio Sgolastra: INTERACTIONS BETWEEN VAIRIMORPHA (NOSEMA) CERANAE MICROSPORES AND A “BEE-SAFE” INSECTICIDE FLUPYRADIFURONE IN THE SOLITARY BEE OSMIA BICORNIS

 

14:30-14:45 Silvia Rönnau: HOW IS BUMBLEBEE FLIGHT PERFORMANCE AFFECTED BY PESTICIDE EXPOSURE?

 

14:45-15:00 Margret Jürison: AZOXYSTROBIN HIDES THE RESPIRATORY FAILURE OF LOW DOSE SULFOXAFLOR IN BUMBLE BEES

 

15:00-15:15 Francesco Patriarca: ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF BOSCALID AND COPPER-BASED COMPOUNDS ON POLLINATORS

ROOM: Stalker

13 Open topic

 

Moderator: Janez Prešern

 

14:00-14:15 Giovanni Cilia: CAN THE MASON BEE OSMIA BICORNIS ACT AS A BIOINDICATOR FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL SPREAD OF ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE?

 

14:15-14:30 Giovanni Formato: CONSUMERS’ PREFERENCES FOR HONEY PRODUCTS IN THE EU

 

14:30-14:45 Miguel Ángel Fernández Muiño: BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF HONEY. INFLUENCE OF CHEMICAL EXTRACTION AND GASTROINTESTINAL DIGESTION

 

14:45-15:00 Valeria Taurisano: ENVIRONMENTAL DNA IN HONEY: GENOMIC TOOLS FOR ENTOMOLOGICAL AUTHENTICATION OF THIS PRODUCT

 

15:00-15:15 Katarzyna Kusyk: PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BEESWAX

ROOM: Woodblock

5 Novel technologies and methodologies in bee research

 

Moderator: Sjef van der Steen

 

14:00-14:15 Malgorzata Cebrat: THE USE COMPLEMENTARY SEX DETERMINING GENE DIVERSITY FOR STUDYING THE GENETIC STRUCTURE OF HONEY BEE COLONIES

 

14:15-14:30 Gaia Di Francescantonio: PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTIONS UP CLOSE: A NEW MONITORING TOOL

 

14:30-14:45 Jozef van der Steen: INSIGNIA-EU. THE EU PREPARATORY ACTION FOR MONITORING OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION USING HONEYBEES

 

14:45-15:00 Jeffrey Shaw: ADVANCED IOT SENSORS IMPROVE UNDERSTANDING OF HONEY BEE FORAGING BEHAVIOUR IN APPLE ORCHARDS 

 

15:00-15:15 Florian Loidolt: HOW TO CHANGE A HONEY BEE'S COLOR: KNOCKING OUT PIGMENT SYNTHESIS-RELATED GENES USING CRISPR/CAS9 AND THE EFFECTS ON PHYSIOLOGY

15:15-16:00 Coffee break + poster session
16:00-17:30

ROOM: Black Box

6 Ecotoxicology, pesticides, pollutants

 

Moderator: Jens Pistorius

 

16:00-16:15 Matti Leponiemi: A REVIEW OF NECTAR AND POLLEN SAMPLING METHODS FOR PESTICIDE RESIDUE ANALYSIS

 

16:15-16:30 Nenad Zarić: SELENIUM IN HONEY BEES

 

16:30-16:45 Karoline Wueppenhorst: WHAT ARE THE TRANSFER ROUTES OF FUNGICIDE RESIDUES FROM FIELD TO THE HIVE?

 

16:45-17:00 Charlie Nicholson: THE EXPOSURE AND EFFECTS OF PESTICIDE USE ON POLLINATORS IN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES

 

17:00-17:15 Bjørn Dahle: PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOIDS AND CLOPYRALID CONTAMINATION IN HONEY- CASE STUDY IN NORWAY

 

17:15-17:30 Jana Jemelková: ANTIOXIDANT POTENTIAL OF BIOGENIC AMINES IN HONEY BEES

ROOM: Stalker

13 Open topic

 

Moderator: Janez Prešern

 

16:00-16:15 Daniele Alberoni: MICROBIAL BIO-FERTILIZERS CAN ALTER THE SUNFLOWER’ VOCS PROFILE AND SUGAR PASSIVE TRANSPORTERS GENE EXPRESSION, INFLUENCING POLLINATOR ATTRACTION

 

16:15-16:30 Peter Neumann: A SUPERORGANISM APPROACH TO HONEYBEE COLONY HEALTH

 

16:30-16:45 Rachel Ward: PROTEOMICS OF HONEYBEE WORKERS IN THE SUBTROPICS

 

16:45-17:00 Manuel Du: HOW TO OPTIMIZE HONEYBEE BREEDING SCHEMES VIA INSTRUMENTAL INSEMINATION

 

ROOM: Woodblock

5 Novel technologies and methodologies in bee research

 

Moderator: Sjef van der Steen

 

16:00-16:15 Kaitlin Deutsch: BE-eRNA: USING NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING TO CHARACTERIZE THE COMMUNITY OF HONEY BEE VIRUSES FROM HIVE ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES

 

16:15-16:30 Kairi Raime: HONEY DNA METAGENOMIC ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY HONEY COMPOSITION AND MONITOR HONEYBEE PATHOGENS

 

16:30-16:45 Uros Glavinic: THE POTENTIAL OF AME-711 CONTINUOUS HONEY BEE CELL LINE IN GENOTOXICOLOGY RESEARCH

 

16:45-17:00 Hollie Pufal: COST-EFFECTIVE WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING TO IDENTIFY LOCAL OUTBREAKS OF EUROPEAN FOULBROOD

 

17:00-17:15 Joris Mattheijssens: COMPUTER VISION MONITORING OF KIWIBERRY POLLINATION

17:40-18:00 ROOM: Black Box
Closing ceremony
20:00-00:00 Banquet
Dress up! 

 

 

Please note that the Scientific Committee reserves the right to make necessary changes to the programme if needed.