Health

Monday, 30 September

Morning Session: Symposium 1
Chair: Jeff Pettis
Time Author Co-author(s) Topic Country
9:00-9:20 Jamie Ellis Daniel Schmehl ARE HONEY BEES NEGATIVELY AFFECTED BY FIELD-RELEVANT DOSES OF PESTICIDES IN THE HIVE? USA
9:20-9:40 Elena Saltykova Luisa Gaifullina, Aleksandr Poskryakov, Aleksey Nikolenko IMMUNODEFICIENCY PROBLEM AS THE CAUSE OF WEAKENING AND LOSS OF BEE COLONIES ON THE BACKGROUND OF NEONICOTINOIDS ACTION Russia
9:40-10:00 Jung Chuleui   TOXICOLOGY OF PESTICIDES USED IN APPLE PEST MANAGEMENT ON EUROPEAN HONEYBEE, APIS MELLIFERA Korea
10:00-10:20 Louisa Hooven   EFFECT OF FUNGICIDES ON DEVELOPMENT AND BEHAVIOR OF HONEY BEES USA
10:20-10:40 Claire Jabot VULLIET Emmannuelle, WIEST Laure, BULETE Audrey, GIROUD Barbara DISTRIBUTION OF NEONICOTINOIDS AND PYRETHRINOIDS IN APIARIAN PRODUCTS: BEEBREAD AND BEESWAX France
10:40-11:20 Break
11:20-11:40 Giovanni Guido Umberto Vesco, Lucia Piana, Giancarlo Quaglia, Francesco Panella A SURVEY OF PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN POLLEN LOADS COLLECTED BY HONEYBEES IN ITALY: PRELIMINARY RESULTS Italy
11:40-12:00 Peter Kozmus Andrej Simončič ESTIMATING THE INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AREAS ON THE APPEARANCE OF PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN THE BEE PRODUCTS AND THEIR THEIR
INFLUENCE ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND HEALTH OF HONEY BEES
Slovenia
12:00-12:20 Julie Aufauvre VIGUES Bernard, DELBAC Frédéric, BLOT Nicolas INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE PARASITE NOSEMA CERANAE AND NEUROTOXIC INSECTICIDES IN APIS MELLIFERA. France
12:20-12:40 Mohamed Alburaki Pierre-Luc Mercier, Sébastien Boutin, Yves Loublier, Madeleine Chagnon, Nicolas Derome NEONICOTINOID PESTICIDES AND VIRAL INFECTIONS: SYNERGIC IMPACT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF HONEY BEE POPULATIONS BEE POPULATIONS
APIS MELLIFERA IN QUEBEC
Canada
12:40-13:00 Ales Gregorc Jay D . Evans, James Ellis CELLULAR RESPONSE AND GENE EXPRESSION IN HONEY
BEE (APIS MELLIFERA) LARVAE EXPOSED TO PESTICIDES
AND VARROA MITES
Slovenia
13:00-14:30 Lunch

Monday, 30 September

Afternoon Session: Symposium 2
Chair: M.-P. Chauzat
Time Author Co-author(s) Topic Country
14:30-14:50 Violeta Santrac   GOOD VETERINARY PRACTICE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY OF BEE DECLINE Bosnia and Herzegovina
14:50-15:10 Marie-Pierre Chauzat
THE PAN-EUROPEAN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PROGRAMME FOR THE SURVEILLANCE OF HONEYBEE COLONY LOSSES France
15:10-15:30 Marec Chmielewski   THE EPIZOOTIC INVESTIGATIONS OF APIARIE WITH MASSIVE COLONIES DEPOPULATION SYNDROM IN THE EAST PROVINCE OF POLAND Poland
15:30-15:50 Franco Mutinelli CLAUDIO PORRINI, MARCO LODESANI,ANGELO LIBERTA, LAURA BORTOLOTTI, ALBINO GALLINA, ROBERTO COLOMBO, FABIO SGOLASTRA, PIOTR Medrzycki, MARIA AUGUSTA BOZZA BEENET: ITALIAN BEEKEEPING MONITORING NETWORK Italy
15:50-16:10 Preben Kristiansen   VARROA CONTROL AND WINTER LOSSES IN SWEDEN Sweden
16:10-16:30 Metka Pislak Ocepek Aleš Gregorc QUESTIONNAIRE AS A TOOL TO RECOGNIZE THE RISK FACTORS OF BEE COLONY LOSSES IN THE COUNTRY Slovenia
16:30-17:00 Break
17:00-17:20 Dennis vanEngelsdorp Marla Spivak, David Tarpy, Eugene Lengerich THE BEE INFORMED PARTNERSHIP: A MULTI-PRONGED EXTENSION EFFORT AIMED AT REDUCING COLONY LOSSES USA
17:20-17:40 Yves LE CONTE   USE OF A BEE COUNTER FOR REMOTE AND REAL TIME VIDEO MONITORING OF BEE COLONY MORTALITY France
17:40-18:00 Patricia Aldea NAOMI DURAN, ELISABETH REINIKE, PAULA DEL RIO, RAFAEL RODRÍGUEZ HEALTH STATUS DETERMINATION AT THE BEGINNING OF PRODUCTIVE SEASON IN APIARIES FROM MELIPILLA Chile
18:00-18:20 Dainat Benjamin Neumann Peter DEFORMED WINGS HONEYBEES AS A MARKER FOR COLONY HEALTH Switzerland
18:20-18:40 Roy Francis Steen Lykke Nielsen, Per Kryger VARROA - VIRUS INTERACTION IN COLLAPSING HONEY BEE COLONIES Denmark
18:40-19:0 Joachim de Miranda Rodrigues Orlando Yanez, Robert Paxton, Peter Neumann THE HITCHHIKERS’ GUIDE TO THE QUASI-SPECIES: EXPERIMENTING WITH HONEYBEE VIRUS EVOLUTION Sweden

Tuesday, 1 October

Morning Session: Plenary
Chair: Wolfgang Ritter, Marek Chmielewski
Time Author Co-author(s) Topic Country
9:00-9:20 Wolfgang Ritter   CURRENT SITUATION OF BEEHEALTH IN THE WORLD Germany
9:20-9:40 Jeff Pettis   THE ROLE OF PESTICIDES IN QUEEN HEALTH AND SPERM VIABILTIY USA
9:40-10:00 Geoffrey Williams Richard Odemer, Gina Tanner, Janina Boltin, Cornelia di Poto, Marion Mehmann,Peter Retschnig, Pius Winiger, Peter Neumann, Peter Rosenkranz INFLUENCE OF PATHOGENS AND AGRO-CHEMICALS ON
HONEY BEE LONGEVITY AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
Switzerland
10:00-10:20 Juliana Rangel   THE EFFECTS OF MITICIDES ON THE MATING HEALTH OF HONEY BEE (APIS MELLIFERA L.) QUEENS USA
10:20-10:40 Dirk de Graaf   RESTRAIN OF MOBILITY AS A MEANS TO CONTROL THE SPREAD OF EMERGING DISEASES OF HONEYBEES Belgium
10:40-11:20 Break
11:20-11:40 Eva Forsgren   PATHOGEN SPILL-OVER FROM APIS MELLIFERA TO APIS CERANA? Sweden
11:40-12:00 Ricarda Kather Stephen Martin GHOSTS INSIDE THE HIVE: HOW VARROA
EVADES THE RECOGNITION SYSTEM OF ITS
HONEY BEE HOST, APIS MELLIFERA
UK
12:00-12:20 Victoria Soroker Nurit Eliash, Nitin Kumar Singh, Leonid Anshelevich, Erika Plettner CAN WE DISRUPT THE HONEYBEE SENSING BY VARROA DESTRUCTOR? Israel
12:20-12:40 Ralph Büchler Meixner Marina, Bienefeld Kaspar PERSPECTIVES FOR THE SELECTION FOR VITALITY AND THE PRESERVATION OF EUROPEAN HONEYBEE BIODIVERSITY Germany
12:40-13:00 Steve Pernal Abdullah Ibrahim, Shelley Hoover, Rob Currie, Heather Higo, Elizabeth Huxter, Marta Guarna, Leonard Foster EVALUATION OF PROTEOMIC
MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION IN HONEY
BEES
Canada
13:00-14:30 Lunch

Wednesday, 2 October

Morning Session: Symposium 3
Chair: Ales Gregorc
Time Author Co-author(s) Topic Country
9:00-9:20 Tatiana Yefimenko Anastasia Ignatieva, Oksana Smirnova, Yuri Tokarev, Anna Pavlichenko NOSEMA CERANAE IN UKRAINE Ukraine
9:20-9:40 Lim Hee-Young Joong-Gu Lee, Soon-Bok Lee, Byoung Su Yoon APPLICATION OF NUCLEIC ACID-BASED TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE DETECTION OF HONEY BEE DISEASES South Korea
9:40-10:00 María Belén Branchiccela Raquel Martin-Hernandez, Mariano Higes, Pablo Zunino, Karina Antúnez GENETIC DIVERSITY OF NOSEMA CERANAE ASSESSED BY INTER SEQUENCE SIMPLE Uruguay
10:00-10:20 Mathieu Roudel Aufauvre Julie, Delbac Frederic, Blot Nicolas NEW INSIGHTS ON THE GENETIC DIVERSITY OF THE HONEYBEE PARASITE NOSEMA CERANAE BASED ON MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE ANALYSIS. France
10:20-10:40 Uros Glavinic Jevrosima Stevanovic, Bojan Gajic, Predrag Simeunovic, Zoran Stanimirovic FINDING OF HONEY BEE MICRISPORIDIA NOSEMA SP. IN HONEY BEE MITE VARROA DESTRUCTOR Serbia
10:40-11:20 Break
11:20-11:40 Eva Vianey Alquisíra-Ramírez Guadalupe Peña-Chora, José R. Paredes-Fuentes, Víctor Hernández-Velázquéz IN VITRO EVALUATION OF BACILLUS SPP. AGAINST VARROA DESTRUCTOR AND EFFECT IN ADULT OF APIS MELLIFERA
México
11:40-12:00 Gina Tanner Williams Geoff R., Mehmann Marion M. , Yañez Orlando, De Miranda Joachim Rodrigues, Neumann Peter SUSCEPTIBILITY TO PATHOGENS VARIES BETWEEN DRONE AND WORKER HONEY BEES, APIS MELLIFERA Switzerland
12:00-12:20 Aygün Schiesser Ömür Gençay Çelemli, Aslı Özkırım, Nevin Keskin THE PRELIMINARY STUDY ABOUT THE EFFECT OF PROPOLIS AGAINST DIFFERENT GENOTYPES OF PAENIBACILLUS LARVAE Turkey
12:20-12:40 Petrusia Kotlar Nancy Ostiguy ALTERNATIVE HONEY BEE NUTRITION- BEYOND SUGAR SYRUP USA
12:40-13:00 Ulrich Bröker   RESPECTING THE BEE´S NEEDS FIRST Germany
13:00-14:30 Lunch

Thursday, 3 October

Morning session: Symposium 4
Chair: Marek Chmielewski
Time Author Co-author(s) Topic Country
9:00-9:20 Bernd Grünewald  Fuchs Stefan AREA-WIDE VARROA TREATMENTS WITH ALTERNATING COUMAPHOS AND FLUMETHRIN ON HONEYBEE COLONIES: A FIELD STUDY IN GERMANY Germany
9:20-9:40 Nikolaus Koeniger Gudrun Koeniger, Bernd Grünewald, James D. Ellis, Klemens J. Krieger FUNCTION AND EFFICACY OF THE VARROA-GATE; a DEVICE PLACED IN THE HIVE ENTRANCE FOR CONTROL OF VARROA DESTRUCTOR INFESTATION IN HONEY BEE Germany
9:40-10:00 Max Watkins   HOPGUARD - A NATURAL VARROA CONTROL UK
10:00-10:20 Rafael Calderon Marianyela Ramirez, Fernando Ramirez CONTROL OF VARROA MITES WITH FORMIC ACID AND THYMOL IN AFRICANIZED HONEY BEE COLONIES Costa Rica
10:20-10:40 Aleksandar Uzunov Hrisula Kiprijanovska, Sreten Andonov, Ales Gregorc, Ralph Büchler THYMOVAR EFFICACY ON VARROA
DESTRUCTOR UNDER EXCESSIVE SUMMER
CONDITIONS
Macedonia
10:40-11:20 Break
11:20-11:40 Zoran Stanimirovic Milena Radakovic, Jevrosima Stevanovic, Nada Lakic, Ninoslav Djelic EVALUATION OF THE GENOTOXIC EFFECTS OF AMITRAZ BY COMET ASSAY Serbia
11:40-12:00 Alessandra Giacomelli Marco Pietropaoli, Marcella Milito, Martina Pizzariello, Francesco Scholl, Giovanni Formato IS THE INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT AGAINST VARROA DESTRUCTOR THE BEST WAY TO INCREASE THE ACARICIDE EFFICACY OF LOW ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT COMPOUNDS? Italy
12:00-12:20 Grzegorz Borsuk Krzysztof Olszewski, Jerzy Demetraki, Aneta Strachecka, Aneta Ptaszyńska, Zbigniew Lipiński, Jarosław Szubstarski, Dagna Szubstarska GENETIC, EPIGENETIC, MORPHOMETRIC AND BIOCHEMICAL IDENTIFICATION OF RESISTANCE AND SENSITIVE TO TAU-FLUVALINATE VARROA DESTRUCTOR MITES FROM THE EASTERN POLISH APIARIES Poland
12:20-12:40 Susana Majboroda Mauricio Rabinovich, Silvia Graciela Ortiz, Marina Mabel Yabar, Silvia M. Raffellini IISOLATION OF POTENTIALLY PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISMS FROM VARROA MITES IN ARGENTINA Argentina
12:40-13:00 Chrisovalantis Papaefthimiou Alexandros Papachristoforou, George Theophilidis AMITRAZ, AN ACARICIDE AGAINST HONEYBEE MITES, INDUCING SEVERE BIPHASIC EFFECTS ON THE HONEYBEE HEART AT UNUSUALLY LOW CONCENTRATIONS Greece
13:00-14:30 Lunch