BIOLOGY

Monday, 30 September

TimeAuthorCo-author(s)TopicCountry
9:00-9:20Karl CrailsheimWHAT IS NEW IN HONEYBEE SCIENCE?Austria
9:20-10:00Robert E. Page, JrPRINCIPLES OF BEE BREEDING USA
10:00-10:20Schuehly WolfgangHernández-López Javier, Riessberger-Gallé Ulrike, Crailsheim KarlDOES IMMUNE PRIMING OF HONEYBEE QUEENS LEAD TO INCREASED RESISTANCE OF OFFSPRING?Austria
10:20-10:40John McMullanTHE IMPACT OF RESEARCH ON BEEKEEPING PRACTICES OVER THE PAST 100 YEARS Ireland
10:40-11:20Break
11:20-11:40Pilar De la RuaLaura Jara, Irene Muñoz, Almudena Cepero,Encarna Garrido-Bailón, Raquel Martín-Hernández, Mariano HigesARE PATHONGENS AND PARASITES SHAPING THE GENETIC DIVERSITY OF THE HONEY BEES?: A CASE STUDY IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULASpain
11:40-12:00Mike GoblirschMarla Spivak, Timothy KurttiAPPLICATION OF HONEYBEE CELL CULTURE IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND APICULTURE USA
12:00-12:20Songkun SuTHREE GENES WERE DETERMINED TO BE RELATED WITH ROYAL JELLY YIELD OF HONEY BEE USING GENE CHIPChina
12:20-12:40Angel Roberto BarchukUNRAVELING THE MOLECULAR DETERMINANTS OF CASTE DEVELOPMENT IN THE HONEYBEE APIS MELLIFERABrazil
12:40-13:00 Per KrygerRoy Mathew Francis, Esmaeil Amiri, Marina Meixner, Maria Bouga, Cecilia CostaGENETIC DIVERSITY AND HONEY BEE VITALITYDenmark
13:00-14:30Lunch

Monday, 30 September

TimeAuthorCo-author(s)TopicCountry
14:30-14:50Osman KaftanogluREARING HONEY BEES (APIS MELLIFERA L.) IN VITRO: EFFECTS OF FOOD QUANTITY ON SURVIVAL AND DEVELOPMENTUSA
14:50-15:10Baohua XuYing WangDIGESTION OF TWO TYPES OF POLLEN IN HONEYBEE (APIS MELLIFERA L.) China
15:10-15:30Mark GrecoBrian Coates, Nicholas K. Priest, Nicholas Britton, Edward J FeilTHE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INFECTION MODEL TO STUDY HOW TROPHALLAXIS IMPACTS ON PATHOGEN TRANSMISSION IN THE HONEY BEE APIS MELLIFERAUnited Kingdom
15:30-15:50Peter NeumannTjeerd 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 FORWARDSwitzerland
15:50-16:10Goran MirjanicIvana Tlak – Gajger, Zvonimir Kozaric, Mica MladenovicIMPACT OF DIFFERENT FEED ON INTESTINE HEALTH OF HONEY BEES Bosnia and Herzegovina
16:10-16:30Maja Ivana Smodiš ŠkerlMitja Nakrst, Veronika Kmecl, Aleš GregorcIMPACT OF SUGAR SYRUPS ON LIFESPAN AND AGE RELATED PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION IN CAGED HONEYBEES Slovenia
16:30-17:00Break
17:00-17:20Fani HatjinaChrisovalantis Papaefthimiou, Leonidas Charistos, Maria Bouga, Gerard ArnoldTHE EFFECT OF SUBLETHAL DOSES OF IMIDACLOPRID ON HONEY BEE LIFE SPAN, FOOD CONSUMPTION, SIZE OF HYPOPHARYNGEAL GLANDS AND RESPIRATORY RHYTHM OF HONEYBEESGreece
17:20-17:40Xiaoqing MiaoCOMPARATIVE SUCROSE SENSITIVITY IN APIS MELLIFERA AND A. CERANA FORAGERSChina
17:40-18:00Víctor Hugo Franco OlivaresCarlos Manuel Echazarreta González, Enrique Guillermo Hernández AyalaVALUATION OF DIFFERENT SOURCES OF SUGARS USED IN ARTIFICIAL FEEDING OF BEES (A. MELLIFERA)México
18:00-18:20Jozef SimuthKatarina Bilikova, Kikuji YamaguchiHONEYBEE NUTRITION: THE SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS OF MINOR COMPONENTS OF ROYAL JELLY IN DEFENSE AGAINST PATHOGENS AND CASTE DETERMINATION OF HONEYBEESSlovakia
18:20-18:40Nailya Ishmuratova«QUEEN SUBSTANCE» MELLIFEROUS BEES: UNKNOWN PROPERTIES AND PREPARATIONS ON ITS BASISRussia

Tuesday, 1 October

TimeAuthorCo-author(s)TopicCountry
9:00-9:20Khem Raj NeupaneJerzy Wilde, Sanu Maya PoudelNESTING SITE PREFERENCE AND BEHAVIOR OF GIANT HONEY BEE APIS DORSATANepal, Poland
9:20-9:40M.S. ReddyMahesh PattabhiramaiahRT-PCR ANALYSIS DEFORMED WING VIRUS (DWV) IN ASYMPTOMATIC HONEYBEES (APIS MELLIFERA)INDIA , Germany
9:40-10:00Alexandros PapachristoforouAlexia Kagiava, Chrisovalantis Papaefthimiou, Aikaterini Termentzi, Nikolas Fokialakis, Alexios-Leandros Skaltsounis, Alexios-Leandros Skaltsounis, Max Watkins, Gerard Arnold Arnold, George Theophilidis2-HEPTANONE SECRETED FROM HONEYBEE MANDIBLES DURING A BITE ACTS AS A LOCAL ANAESTHETIC IN INSECTS AND MAMMALSGreece
10:00-10:20Ahmet GÜLERYüksel BEK, Oktay GENÇ, Cevat NİSBET, Hasan ESSE, Feyzullah KONAK, Seyit Hasan ÖZTÜRK, Belgin GÜNBEY, Selim BIYIKCHANGE LEVEL OF HYGIENIC BEHAVIOUR IN THE CAUCASIAN HONEY BEE (A. M. CAUCASICA G.) SUBSPECIESTurkey
10:20-10:40Carlos CastilloHao Chen, Carolyn Graves, Alban Maisonnasse, Yves Le Conte, Erika PlettnerBIOSYNTHESIS AND SEASONAL VARIATION OF ETHYL OLEATE, A PRIMER PHEROMONE OF THE HONEY BEE (APIS MELLIFERA L.)Canada, United Kingdom, France
10:40-11:20Break
11:20-11:40De-fang NiuHuo-qing Zheng, Yuan-yuan Lu, Xuan Chen, Fu-liang HuTRANSCRIPTOME COMPARISON BETWEEN INACTIVATED AND ACTIVATED OVARIES OF QUEEN APIS MELLIFERAChina
11:40-12:00Limin YanSongkun Su, Shaowu Zhang, Shun Ping, Fang LiuDIFFERENTIAL MICRORNAS EXPRESSIONS IN HEAD OF FORAGER BETWEEN APIS MELLIFERA AND APIS CERANAChina
12:00-12:20Wenfeng LiSongkun Su, Shaowu Zhang, Zachary HuangJUVENILE HORMONE ACID METHYLTRANSFERASE IN THE HONEY BEE, APIS MELLIFERAChina, Australia, United States
12:20-12:40Hyung Joo YoonBREEDING OF THE KOREAN NATIVE BUMBLEBEE, BOMBUS IGNITUSKorea
12:40-13:00V. PappS. Kerek, E. Keyl, V. GaydarDIFFERENTIATION OF THE PRODUCED TYPES OF THE CARPATHIAN HONEY BEESUkraine
13:00-14:30Lunch

Wednesday, 2 October

TimeAuthorCo-author(s)TopicCountry
14:30-14:50Cecilia CostaREINTRODUCTION PLAN FOR THE ENDANGERED SICILIAN BLACK BEE APIS MELLIFERA SICILIANA Italy
14:50-15:10Maria Alice PintoPATTERNS OF SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM (SNP) VARIATION: FURTHER INSIGHTS INTO THE COMPLEX HISTORY OF THE IBERIAN HONEYBEEPortugal
15:10-15:30Lehébel-Péron AmelineSchatz Bertrand, Dounias Edmond, LeBorgne FlorianePRESERVING LOCAL BEE POPULATION AND BEEKEEPING HERITAGE IN A FRENCH NATIONAL PARKFrance
15:30-15:50Nizar HaddadAhmed Bataineh, Osama Megdadi, Zaed Hammore, Jeurgen Tautz, Stefan FuchsOBSERVATIONS ON APIS FLOREA IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA REGIONJordan, Germany
15:50-16:10Ayca Ozkan KocaIrfan KandemirLANDMARK AND OUTLINE METHODOLOGIES FOR THE DISCRIMINATION OF HONEY BEE SUBSPECIES DISTRIBUTED IN THE MIDDLE EASTTurkey
16:10-16:30Mert KükrerMeral Kence, Devrim Oskay, Aykut Kence15 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 REGIONSTurkey
16:30-17:00Break
17:00-17:20MARIA BOUGAFani HatjinaAPIS MELLIFERA CECROPIA AND APIS MELLIFERA ADAMI: THE NEGLECTED SUBSPECIES OF A. MELLIFERA HONEY BEEGreece
17:20-17:40Zhiguang LiuMULTIVARIATE MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF APIS MELLIFERA IN YILI RIVER VALLEY OF XINJIANGChina
17:40-18:00PARAISO ArmandABIOLA Waliou, GLELE-KAKAÏ RomainMORPHOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS OF BEES’ APIS MELLIFERA ADANSONII IN BENINBénin
18:00-18:20Alexey NikolenkoEUROPEAN DARK BEE POPULATIONS IN RUSSIA Russia