Biology

Monday, 30 September

Morning Session: Plenary
Chair: Karl Crailsheim, Stepan Kerek
Time Author Co-author(s) Topic Country
9:00-9:20 Karl Crailsheim   WHAT IS NEW IN HONEYBEE SCIENCE? Austria
9:20-10:00 Robert E. Page, Jr   PRINCIPLES OF BEE BREEDING  USA
10:00-10:20 Schuehly Wolfgang Hernández-López Javier, Riessberger-Gallé Ulrike, Crailsheim Karl DOES IMMUNE PRIMING OF HONEYBEE QUEENS LEAD TO INCREASED RESISTANCE OF OFFSPRING? Austria
10:20-10:40 John McMullan   THE IMPACT OF RESEARCH ON BEEKEEPING PRACTICES OVER THE PAST 100 YEARS  Ireland
10:40-11:20 Break
11:20-11:40 Pilar De la Rua Laura Jara, Irene Muñoz, Almudena Cepero,Encarna Garrido-Bailón, Raquel Martín-Hernández, Mariano Higes ARE PATHONGENS AND PARASITES SHAPING THE GENETIC DIVERSITY OF THE HONEY BEES?: A CASE STUDY IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA Spain
11:40-12:00 Mike Goblirsch Marla Spivak, Timothy Kurtti APPLICATION OF HONEYBEE CELL CULTURE IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND APICULTURE  USA
12:00-12:20 Songkun Su   THREE GENES WERE DETERMINED TO BE RELATED WITH ROYAL JELLY YIELD OF HONEY BEE USING GENE CHIP China
12:20-12:40 Angel Roberto Barchuk   UNRAVELING THE MOLECULAR DETERMINANTS OF CASTE DEVELOPMENT IN THE HONEYBEE APIS MELLIFERA Brazil
12:40-13:00  Per Kryger Roy Mathew Francis, Esmaeil Amiri, Marina Meixner, Maria Bouga, Cecilia Costa GENETIC DIVERSITY AND HONEY BEE VITALITY Denmark
13:00-14:30 Lunch

Monday, 30 September

Afternoon Session : Symposium 1
Chair: Karl Crailsheim
Time Author Co-author(s) Topic Country
14:30-14:50 Osman Kaftanoglu   REARING HONEY BEES (APIS MELLIFERA L.) IN VITRO: EFFECTS OF FOOD QUANTITY ON SURVIVAL AND DEVELOPMENT USA
14:50-15:10 Baohua Xu Ying Wang DIGESTION OF TWO TYPES OF POLLEN IN HONEYBEE (APIS MELLIFERA L.)  China
15:10-15:30 Mark Greco Brian Coates, Nicholas K. Priest, Nicholas Britton, Edward J Feil THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INFECTION MODEL TO STUDY HOW TROPHALLAXIS IMPACTS ON PATHOGEN TRANSMISSION IN THE HONEY BEE APIS MELLIFERA United Kingdom
15:30-15:50 Peter Neumann Tjeerd Blacquière, Norman Carreck, Nor Chejanovsky, Karl Crailsheim; Vincent Dietemann; James D Ellis; Aleš Gregorc, Fani Hatjina; 
Per Kryger; Yves Conte Le; Marina Meixner, Asli Özkirim; Sjeef Van der Steen; 
Rommée Van der Zee; Dennis vanEngelsdorp; Geoff Williams; Maria Bouga
COLONY LOSSES: THE WAY FORWARD Switzerland
15:50-16:10 Goran Mirjanic Ivana Tlak - Gajger, Zvonimir Kozaric, Mica Mladenovic IMPACT OF DIFFERENT FEED ON INTESTINE HEALTH OF HONEY BEES  Bosnia and Herzegovina
16:10-16:30 Maja Ivana Smodiš Škerl Mitja Nakrst, Veronika Kmecl, Aleš Gregorc IMPACT OF SUGAR SYRUPS ON LIFESPAN AND AGE RELATED PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION IN CAGED HONEYBEES  Slovenia
16:30-17:00 Break
17:00-17:20 Fani Hatjina Chrisovalantis Papaefthimiou, Leonidas Charistos, Maria Bouga, Gerard Arnold THE EFFECT OF SUBLETHAL DOSES OF IMIDACLOPRID ON HONEY BEE LIFE SPAN, FOOD CONSUMPTION, SIZE OF HYPOPHARYNGEAL GLANDS AND RESPIRATORY RHYTHM OF HONEYBEES Greece
17:20-17:40 Xiaoqing Miao   COMPARATIVE SUCROSE SENSITIVITY IN APIS MELLIFERA AND A. CERANA FORAGERS China
17:40-18:00 Víctor Hugo Franco Olivares Carlos Manuel Echazarreta González, Enrique Guillermo Hernández Ayala VALUATION OF DIFFERENT SOURCES OF SUGARS USED IN ARTIFICIAL FEEDING OF BEES (A. MELLIFERA) México
18:00-18:20 Jozef Simuth Katarina Bilikova, Kikuji Yamaguchi HONEYBEE NUTRITION: THE SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS OF MINOR COMPONENTS OF ROYAL JELLY IN DEFENSE AGAINST PATHOGENS AND CASTE DETERMINATION OF HONEYBEES Slovakia
18:20-18:40 Nailya Ishmuratova   «QUEEN SUBSTANCE» MELLIFEROUS BEES: UNKNOWN PROPERTIES AND PREPARATIONS ON ITS BASIS Russia

Tuesday, 1 October

Morning Session: Symposium 2
Chair: Peter Neumann
Time Author Co-author(s) Topic Country
9:00-9:20 Khem Raj Neupane Jerzy Wilde, Sanu Maya Poudel NESTING SITE PREFERENCE AND BEHAVIOR OF GIANT HONEY BEE APIS DORSATA Nepal, Poland
9:20-9:40 M.S. Reddy Mahesh Pattabhiramaiah RT-PCR ANALYSIS DEFORMED WING VIRUS (DWV) IN ASYMPTOMATIC HONEYBEES (APIS MELLIFERA) INDIA , Germany
9:40-10:00 Alexandros Papachristoforou Alexia Kagiava, Chrisovalantis Papaefthimiou, Aikaterini Termentzi, Nikolas Fokialakis, Alexios-Leandros Skaltsounis, Alexios-Leandros Skaltsounis, Max Watkins, Gerard Arnold Arnold, George Theophilidis 2-HEPTANONE SECRETED FROM HONEYBEE MANDIBLES DURING A BITE ACTS AS A LOCAL ANAESTHETIC IN INSECTS AND MAMMALS Greece
10:00-10:20 Ahmet GÜLER Yüksel BEK, Oktay GENÇ, Cevat NİSBET, Hasan ESSE, Feyzullah KONAK, Seyit Hasan ÖZTÜRK, Belgin GÜNBEY, Selim BIYIK CHANGE LEVEL OF HYGIENIC BEHAVIOUR IN THE CAUCASIAN HONEY BEE (A. M. CAUCASICA G.) SUBSPECIES Turkey
10:20-10:40 Carlos Castillo Hao Chen, Carolyn Graves, Alban Maisonnasse, Yves Le Conte, Erika Plettner BIOSYNTHESIS AND SEASONAL VARIATION OF ETHYL OLEATE, A PRIMER PHEROMONE OF THE HONEY BEE (APIS MELLIFERA L.) Canada, United Kingdom, France
10:40-11:20 Break
11:20-11:40 De-fang Niu Huo-qing Zheng, Yuan-yuan Lu, Xuan Chen, Fu-liang Hu TRANSCRIPTOME COMPARISON BETWEEN INACTIVATED AND ACTIVATED OVARIES OF QUEEN APIS MELLIFERA China
11:40-12:00 Limin Yan Songkun Su, Shaowu Zhang, Shun Ping, Fang Liu DIFFERENTIAL MICRORNAS EXPRESSIONS IN HEAD OF FORAGER BETWEEN APIS MELLIFERA AND APIS CERANA China
12:00-12:20 Wenfeng Li Songkun Su, Shaowu Zhang, Zachary Huang JUVENILE HORMONE ACID METHYLTRANSFERASE IN THE HONEY BEE, APIS MELLIFERA China, Australia, United States
12:20-12:40 Hyung Joo Yoon   BREEDING OF THE KOREAN NATIVE BUMBLEBEE, BOMBUS IGNITUS Korea
12:40-13:00 V. Papp S. Kerek, E. Keyl, V. Gaydar DIFFERENTIATION OF THE PRODUCED TYPES OF THE CARPATHIAN HONEY BEES Ukraine
13:00-14:30 Lunch

Wednesday, 2 October

Afternoon session: Symposium 3
Chair: Maria Bouga
Time Author Co-author(s) Topic Country
14:30-14:50 Cecilia Costa   REINTRODUCTION PLAN FOR THE ENDANGERED SICILIAN BLACK BEE APIS MELLIFERA SICILIANA  Italy
14:50-15:10 Maria Alice Pinto   PATTERNS OF SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM (SNP) VARIATION: FURTHER INSIGHTS INTO THE COMPLEX HISTORY OF THE IBERIAN HONEYBEE Portugal
15:10-15:30 Lehébel-Péron Ameline Schatz Bertrand, Dounias Edmond, LeBorgne Floriane PRESERVING LOCAL BEE POPULATION AND BEEKEEPING HERITAGE IN A FRENCH NATIONAL PARK France
15:30-15:50 Nizar Haddad Ahmed Bataineh, Osama Megdadi, Zaed Hammore, Jeurgen Tautz, Stefan Fuchs OBSERVATIONS ON APIS FLOREA IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA REGION Jordan, Germany
15:50-16:10 Ayca Ozkan Koca Irfan Kandemir LANDMARK AND OUTLINE METHODOLOGIES FOR THE DISCRIMINATION OF HONEY BEE SUBSPECIES DISTRIBUTED IN THE MIDDLE EAST Turkey
16:10-16:30 Mert Kükrer Meral Kence, Devrim Oskay, Aykut Kence 15 YEARS OF CHANGE IN POPULATION STRUCTURE OF HONEY BEES (APIS MELLIFERA) IN TURKEY: A COMPARISON OF MIGRATORY VS. STATIONARY APIARIES AND ISOLATED VS. NOT ISOLATED REGIONS Turkey
16:30-17:00 Break
17:00-17:20 MARIA BOUGA Fani Hatjina APIS MELLIFERA CECROPIA AND APIS MELLIFERA ADAMI: THE NEGLECTED SUBSPECIES OF A. MELLIFERA HONEY BEE Greece
17:20-17:40 Zhiguang Liu   MULTIVARIATE MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF APIS MELLIFERA IN YILI RIVER VALLEY OF XINJIANG China
17:40-18:00 PARAISO Armand ABIOLA Waliou, GLELE-KAKAÏ Romain MORPHOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS OF BEES’ APIS MELLIFERA ADANSONII IN BENIN Bénin
18:00-18:20 Alexey Nikolenko   EUROPEAN DARK BEE POPULATIONS IN RUSSIA  Russia