Program, Wednesday, 24th March 2021
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All times refer to Central European Time
9.00 - 9.15 WELCOME
Marina Meixner, Acting Chairperson, Association of the German Bee Reserach Institutes e.V.
Torsten Ellmann, President of the German Beekeepers' Association
Catrin Westphal, meeting organisator, Georg-August University of Göttingen
9.15 - 10.00 KEYNOTE AND DISCUSSION
Prof. Dr. Sara Leonhardt, Technical University Munich A matter of taste? - Does the nutritional quality of floral resources play a role for bee health and performance?
three PARALLEL SESSIONS before Lunch
with 12+3min talks and lightening talks (3mins)
between 10.15 - 14.35 in Zoom Room No 1
Ecology, Pollination, Wild Bees
Chair: Catrin Westphal, Georg-August University of Göttingen
Talks:
Ina Heidinger: Perennial wildflower mixtures providing energy for humans and flower visiting insects
Johanna Lill: The bees are buzzing in the air: Is the bioenergy crop Sorghum bicolor an attractive pollen source for honeybees (Apis mellifera L.)?
Nicole Beyer: Past and present mass-flowering crop cultiva-tion effects on bee pollinators and their pollination services
Margaux Tréguy: Landscape and crop identity effects on trap nesting bees
Felix Klaus: Vergleich von Blühmischungen für Wild- und Honigbienen in der Agrarlandschaft
Samuel Boff: Chronicle exposure to a new classe of pesticide may imposes severe risks to foragers of wild bees
Carmen Kirsch: The effects of fertilization, arbuscular mycorrhiza-fungi (AMF), and pollination in strawberries (Fragaria ananassa)
Henri Greil: Zur Situation von Wildbienen in urbanen Räumen am Beispiel des Forschungsmodellprojekts „Bienenstadt Braunschweig“
Monika Weber: Impact of different anthropogenic land use and impervious surface on urban wild bee communities
Vera Joedecke & Manuel Treder: Practical approaches to pro-mote pollinator diversity in urban areas by using perennials
Melanie Marquardt: Occurrence of wild bees in the city of Stuttgart and ornamental plants as a potential food source
Lightening talks:
Siede: Insektenfreundliche Bioenergieerzeugung auf dem Acker: Mischanbau von Sorghumhirsen mit blühenden Untersaaten
Rongstock: Floral resources in urban and agricultural environments – Influences on the nest-growth of Bombus terrestris
Grauberger: Attractivity of native and non-native Acer and Tilia species for bees
Loidolt: Silver linden trees and bumblebee mortality
between 10.15 - 13.15 in Zoom Room No 2
Genetics and Breeding
Chair: Marina Meixner, LLH Bee Institute Kirchhain
Talks:
Ivelina Ivanova: Use of Apis mellifera drone’s olfactory sensitivity towards pathological odours as a selection trait in the breeding against Varroa destructor
Martin Gabel: Mechanisms of Varroa-resistance – from biological principles to practical usage
Manuel Du: Challenges in heritability estimations for honey bees
Birgit Gessler: SETBie: Innovative combination of classical breeding, genetic analysis and evaluation in the practice
Richard Bernstein: Validating Genomic Selection for Honey Bees
Andreas Hoppe: Substantial genetic progress in the international Apis mellifera carnica population since the implementation of genetic evaluation
Victoria Viert: Europe’s First Gene Bank for Honeybees
Jakob Wegener: Delayed flight-time as an alternative method of controlled honeybee mating
Marina Doris Meixner: A comparative study of survival, colony performance and disease levels in the endemic honeybee A. m. ruttneri and the introduced A. m. ligustica in Malta
Teweldemedh Hailu: Insights into Ethiopian honey bees based on morphometric and genetic analyses
Lightening talk:
Degirmenci: Investigation of two honeybee sugar receptors with CRIPSR/Cas9
between 10.15 - 12.15 in Zoom Room No 3
Bee Pathology
Chair: Elke Genersch, Institute for Bee Research Hohen Neuendorf e.V.
Talks:
Hannes Beims: Abundanz verschiedener Viren in der Königinnenzucht
Viktoria Walther: Prevalence of viruses in black honey bee colonies on the Canary Islands with or without a conservation programme
Anja Tehel: Experimental infection reveal viral spill-over from honey bees to bumble bees but no spill-back
Carolin Rein: Happy hive – happy life: state of knowledge about Lithium Chloride
Lina Sprau: Varroa sensitive hygiene (VSH) and recapping behaviour are not triggered by the reproduction status of the Varroa mite (Varroa destructor)
Lightening talks:
Fleites-Ayil: Presence of RNA viruses in Africanized honey bees and a native stingless bee species of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Blumenschein: Comparison of different varroa treatments in summer and winter
Genath: Ergebnisse einer Proteomanalyse des Ektoparasiten Varroa destructor nach einer Ameisensäurebehandlung
Grünke: A new method for the extraction of hemolymph from adult honeybees to analyze lithium contaminations after Varroa treat-ment
Ehrenberg: Looking for a needle in a haystack – production, selec-tion and characterization of specific monoclonal antibodies for detection and distinction of American and European foulbrood
Schäfer: Molecular diagnostic test for detection of Malpighamoeba mellificae PRELL
two PARALLEL SESSIONS after Lunch
continuation of Session 1 until between 14:35
14.45 - 17:55 in Zoom Room No 1
Bee and Plant Protection and Bee Products
Chair: Jens Pistorius, Julius Kühn-Institut
Talks:
Alina Komm: The current status of the Apis mellifera subspecies in their native range
Harmen Pieter Hendriksma: Honigbienenvitalitätsmonitoring in Raum und Zeit
Norman Tanner: Improved method for routine honey analysis by FTIR-spectroscopy
Anna Wernecke: The potential of adjuvants to increase insecticidial effects on honey bees in laboratory contact toxicity tests
Charlotte Steinigeweg: Assessment of the impacts of microbial plant protection products containing Bacillus thuringiensis on the gut microbiome and the survival of honeybees
Denise Castle: Nutritional conditions modulate responses of different bee species to exposure of plant protection products
Abdulrahim Alkassab: Large scale study comparing the exposure level of honeybees, bumblebees and solitary bees after application of a tank mixture of thiacloprid-prochloraz
Silke Andree-Labsch: The Digital Beehive project – using sensor data to understand side effects of plant protection products on honey bees
Lightening talks:
Höcherl: Bee Warned – the monitoring system for exotic bee pests in Bavaria – what´s next?
Schierling: Contaminants in bee pollen – is that still healthy?
Friedle: Pesticide Residues in Bee Pollen from Baden-Wuerttemberg
Kunz: Bienenschutz: Risikobewertung von Pflanzenschutzmitteln
Eckert: Comparative exposure of honey bee brood (Apis mellifera L.) to pesticides under semi-field and field conditions
Schierling: Risk to honeybee colonies during control of the gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) with Mimic®?
Odemer: Chronic high glyphosate exposure delays individual worker bee development under field conditions
Manzer: Effects of multiple stressors on honeybees
Treder: Effects of chronic radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation (RF-EMF) on honey bees
between 14.15 - 17.05 in Zoom Room No 2
Physiology and Behaviour
Chair: Bernd Grünewald, Goethe University Frankfurt
Talks
Martin Ziron: Verhaltensuntersuchungen zur Häufigkeit und Dauer des Ausfliegens der Bienenkönigin zum Begattungsflug
Paul Siefert: Live imaging of Apis mellifera embryogenesis - Investigating the role of acetylcholine in honey bee development
Anika Meyer: Effect of tergal gland esters on honey bee worker fertility
Gina Retschnig: The dose makes the poison: supplementary feeding with probiotics/vitamins and longevity/body weight of winter honey bees, Apis mellifera
Wolfgang Blenau: AmOctα2R: Charakterisierung eines Honigbienen-Octopamin-Rezeptors, der die Adenylatzyklase-Aktivität hemmt
Svenja Bänsch: Honey bee foraging behavior during and after mass-flowering in agricultural landscapes
Anna Friedel: Do intruders modify the foraging behaviour of the socially polymorphic orchid bee Euglossa viridissima?
Victoria Seeburger: Understanding the Influence of the Environment on the Formation of Melezitose
Thais Chaves: Differences in the feeding preference of summer and winter bees toward nectar and honeydew
Eduard Musin: Olfactometer for honeybee drones in a flight-like scenario
Lightening talks:
Rodríguez: Nutritional conditions modulate responses of different bee species to exposure of plant protection products
Senger: Anomalieerkennung auf Grundlage von Sensordaten