[Pollinator] Also ignore going back in time to Penn State

[Ladadams at aol.com]

Proving once again that working on Sunday is not  a great idea, please ALSO 
ignore the call for abstracts from last year that I  circulated to the 
LISTSERV from the Penn State conference of 2010.   Apparently I am urging us all 
to go back in time for some  reason.  So sorry.  Laurie
 
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 4:41  PM
To: pollinator at nappc.org
Subject: [Pollinator] Fwd:  Abstract Deadline: Penn State 
PollinatorConference
 
 
May 1,  2010 

May  15th Abstract Submission Deadline: 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.  For more information and online  registration, please 
visit the conference website at _http://agsci.psu.edu/pollinator-conference_ 
(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, the 
National Honey Board,  Anthropologie/Urban Outfitters, Bayer CropScience, 
Syngenta, The Almond Board  of California, as well as 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 at psu.edu_ (mailto:cmg25 at psu.edu) ; Diana Cox-Foster, (814)  865-1022 or 
_dxc12 at psu.edu_ (mailto:dxc12 at psu.edu) ; or Ed Rajotte, (814)  863-4641 or 
uvu at 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 4/30/10) include: 
• Welcome Reception,  - Bruce McPheron, Dean, College of Agricultural 
Sciences, Penn State  University; May Berenbaum, University of Illinois, 
Urbana-Champaign (Keynote  Speaker) 
• Behavioral Ecology  - Robert Gegear, University of Massachusetts; 
Christina Grozinger, Penn State  University; 
Abraham Hefetz, Tel Aviv  University; 

Heather Mattila, Wellesley  College
; Theresa Pitts-Singer,  USDA-ARS; 
Peter Teal, USDA-ARS 
• Evolving Policies on  Pollinator Risk Assessment and Conservation - 

Doug Holy, USDA-NRCS; Mary  Purcell-Miramontes, USDA-NIFA; 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; 
Jeff Pettis, 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-ARS; 
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 Physiology and Ecology,  Kenya. 

#### 
Editors  Contact: 
Kristie  Auman-Bauer 
PA IPM  Program 
(814)  865-2839 
kma147 at psu.edu 

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