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Pollinator Conference In July
Register Now for the International Conference on Pollinator Biology, Health and Policy
Hosted by The Center for Pollinator Research at Penn State
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The first International Conference on Pollinator Biology, Heath and
Policy is being hosted by the Penn State Center for Pollinator Research on July 24-28, 2010 at
the University Park campus. The abstract submission deadline is May 15, 2010, and the early
registration deadline is June 1, 2010. Registration is limited to 300 people. For more
information and online registration, please visit the conference website at
http://agsci.psu.edu/pollinator-conference.
The focus of the conference will be current research on pollinator biology and health, as well as
policies related to pollinator conservation. The keynote speaker will be Dr. May Berenbaum,
Professor and Head of the Department of Entomology at University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign. Dr. Berenbaum is internationally recognized for both her research and conservation
efforts related to pollinators, including chairing the National Research Council’s Committee on
the Status Pollinators in North America in 2007. A full listing of the symposia and confirmed
speakers is below, and can also be found at the conference website.
The conference is supported by generous donations from Häagen-Dazs, Anthropologie/Urban
Outfitters, Bayer CropScience, Penn State's Department of Entomology, College of Agricultural
Sciences, and The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. For more information, visit the
conference website or contact conference organizers: Christina Grozinger, (814)-865-1895 or
cmg25@psu.edu; Diana Cox-Foster, (814) 865-1022 or dxc12@psu.edu; or Ed Rajotte, (814)
863-4641 or uvu@psu.edu.
Additionally, a Pollinator Conservation Short Course will be offered by the Xerces Society at the
conclusion of the conference on July 29. Topics include the basic principles of
pollinator biology, the economics of insect pollination, recognizing native bee species, and
assessment of pollinator habitat. More information is available on the conference website.
The Penn State Center for Pollinator Research is devoted to the study of pollinators, pollination,
and pollinator management and protection. The Center combines the resources of 26 research
and education programs spanning Penn State’s Departments of Entomology, Biology,
Horticulture, Crop and Soil Science and Landscape Architecture; the Arboretum at Penn State;
the PA Department of Agriculture; and the USDA. Center activities are supported by
government grants, corporate gifts, the beekeeping industry and Penn State’s College of
Agricultural Sciences. For more information, please visit the Center for Pollinator Research
website at http://ento.psu.edu/pollinators.
Symposia and confirmed speakers (as of 3/12/10) include:
• Behavioral Ecology - Robert Gegear, University of Massachusetts; Christina Grozinger, Penn
State University; Abraham Hefetz, Tel Aviv University; Heather Mattila, Wellesley University ;
Theresa Pitts-Singer, USDA-ARS; Peter Teal, USDA-ARS
• Evolving Policies on Pollinator Risk Assessment and Conservation - Doug Holy, USDANRCS;
Thomas Moriarty, Environmental Protection Agency; R. Thomas Van Arsdall, Pollinator
Partnership; Mace Vaughan, Xerces Society
• Status of Pollinators Worldwide - David De Jong, University of São Paulo, Brazil ; Keith
Delaplane, University of Georgia ; Yves Le Conte, Institut National de la Recherche
Agronomique, Avignon-France; Peter Neumann, Honeybee Pathology Section Swiss Bee
Research Centre, Switzerland ; Stuart Roberts, Bees Ants Wasps Recording Society (BWARS),
UK; Dennis vanEngelsdorp, Penn State University;
• Impacts of Environmental Toxins - Reed Johnson, University of Nebraska; Chris Mullin,
Penn State University ; Andreas Thrasyvoulou. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece;
Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, USDA-ARS
• Disease Ecology - Diana Cox-Foster, Rajwinder Singh, and Abby Kalkstein, Penn State
University; Ben Sadd and Paul Schmid-Hempel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Marla Spivak,
University of Minnesota; Rosalind James and Junhuan Xu, USDA-ARS; Michael Otterstatter
and James Thomson, University of Toronto, Canada; Thomas H. Kunz, Boston University; Dick
Rogers, Bayer Crop Science
• Conservation and Ecological Applications of Native Pollinators - David Biddinger, Penn
State University ; Sydney Cameron, University of Illinois; Jim Cane, USDA;
Amotz Dafni, Haifa University, Israel; Tamar Keasar, University of Haifa , Israel;
Claire Kremen, UC Berkeley; Yael Mandelik, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ;
David Mortensen, Penn State University; Uma Partap, International Centre for Integrated
Mountain Development, Nepal; Mark Scriber, Michigan State University ; Sharoni Shafir,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, B. Triwaks Bee Research Center , Israel; John Tooker, Penn
State University ; Baldwyn Torto, International Centre of Insect, Kenya.
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