2016 Bee Symposium

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Event Date

Location
UC Davis Conference Center

Date: Saturday, May 7, 2016

Time: 8:00AM - 6:00PM

Location: UC Davis Conference Center

 

Keynote Speakers

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Yves Le Conte

Head, French National Bee Lab, Avignon, France

Dennis vanEngelsdorp

Assistant Professor of Entomology at the University of Maryland
and Project Director for the Bee Informed Partnership

 

Agenda

8:00 – 9:00 am - Registration, Continental Breakfast

9:00 am - Welcome and Introductions

Amina Harris, Director, Honey and Pollination Center, RMI, UC Davis
Neal Williams, Associate Professor, Department of Entomology and Nematology, UC Davis

9:15 am - (KEYNOTE) Honey Bees that Survive Varroa Mite in the World: What We Can Learn from the French Bees

Yves Le Conte, Director, French National Bee Lab, Avignon, France

10:15 am - Microbial Communities in Floral Nectar Influence Pollinator Preference and Foraging

Rachael Vannette, Associate Professor, Department of Entomology and Nematology, UC Davis

10:45 am - Break (Opportunity to visit Graduate Student Posters and Exhibits)

11:15 am -Rediversifying intensive agricultural landscapes to promote native pollinators

Claire Kremen, Professor, Department Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley

11:45 PM - Lunch

Graduate Student Poster Presentations
Educational exhibits

1:30 pm - (KEYNOTE) Reducing Colony Losses. Does it take a village?

Dennis vanEngelsdorp, Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology, University of Maryland

2:15 pm - LIGHTNING ROUND TALKS

6 minute presentations about many different programs in the world of beekeeping

Ola Lundin: Research update on bees and neonicotinoids

Elina L. Niño: Honey Bee Extension at UC Davis

Hasna Wood: Apitherapy

Sonoma County Beekeepers Assoc.: Bee-ing In Total Community

Pat Heitkam: An Introduction to Patrick Ranch Bee Museum and Educational Center

Julie Cridland: Honey Bees of California - Variation in Time and Space

3:15 pm - Break

3:30 pm -The Importance of Division of Labor for Understanding Colony Health

Brian Johnson, Associate Professor, Department of Entomology and Nematology, UC Davis

4:00 pm - The Bee Microbiome

Quinn McFrederick, Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology, UC Riverside

4:30 pm - Winners of the Graduate Student Poster Competition Announce

4:45 pm - Closing Reception

Special thanks to: Rabbit’s Foot Meadery, Sunnyvale, Calif.; Strad Meadery, Fair Oaks, Calif.; Yolo Brewing for their donations to our reception!

Good Life Garden at the Robert Mondavi Institute of Wine and Food Science

6:00 pm - Close

 

Graduate Student Poster Competition

Congratulations to our graduate student winners!

 

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First Place - $1000 (Sara Winsemius and Laura Ward: Exploring potential routes of neonicotinoid exposure within pollinator hedgerows adjacent to seed-treated sunflower)
Second Place - $750 (W. Cameron Jasper: Investigating potential synergistic effects of chronic exposure to amitraz and multiple pesticides on honey bee (Apis mellifera) survivorship
third-place fourth-place
Third Place - $500 (Brittney Goodrich: Honey bee colony health: economic implications for beekeepers in almond pollination)
Fourth Place - $250 (John Mola: Fine-scale population genetics and movement ecology of the yellow-faced bumblebee (Bombus vosnesenskii)

 

Presented by the Honey and Pollination Center at the Robert Mondavi Institute and the Department of Entomology and Nematology, UC Davis.

Topics: Pollinator-related research

Presentation:

Posters should be hung at their assigned spot by 8am. Presenters are responsible for providing their own hanging materials. Authors must be at their posters for judging from 11:45 to 1:30 and will have 7 minutes to present. Winners will be announced before the final speaker.

Poster size: Limit is 48 inches wide x 36 inches tall. Posters should be well-written and organized.

Judging Criteria:

  • Objectives
  • Methodology (Does it provide a clear, consistent description?)
  • Results
  • Research Significance (Are the findings original? Relevant to current issues?)
  • Conclusions
  • Appearance
  • Presentation and interaction with the judges

 

Complementary registration for student poster presenters.

Poster awards:

  • First place: $1000
  • Second place: $750
  • Third place: $500
  • Fourth place: $250

 

2016 Vendors and Exhibitors

   
Bee Progressive CAMBP (California Master Beekeeper Program)
Entomology Graduate Student Association Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven
NOD Apiary Products Project Apis m.
Sonoma County Beekeepers Association Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
Z Specialty Food Dadant & Sons
UC Davis Library UC Davis Bookstore
AMF (American Beekeeping Federation) Planet Bee Foundation
   

2015 Bee Symposium

Take a look at our previous 2015 Bee Symposium: HERE

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"As a new beehive owner I thought the information presented was fascinating and presented in a very efficient manner. I loved every aspect of the presentations!"

"Nice to get science, there is a lot of fuzzy thinking out there."

"Thank you for a well-organized, thoroughly engaging and thought-provoking day."

 

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