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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Robinson, Joan,
Springer DE [mailto:Joan.Robinson@springer.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, August 28, 2008
8:37 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Robinson, Joan, Springer DE<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Press release: Springer
bee expert Juergen Tautz wins prize for public communication</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Juergen Tautz, author of the recently published book "The Buzz
about Bees," will receive a prestigious prize from the European Molecular
Biology Organization on September 1st, 2008. If you would like a review copy of
"The Buzz about Bees" or would like to get in contact with Juergen
Tautz, please let me know.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Kind regards,</span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Joan
Robinson, joan.robinson@springer.com, tel +49-6221-4878130</span></font><span
lang=DE> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><font size=5 face=Arial><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Arial;
font-weight:bold'>PRESS RELEASE</span></font></b> <br>
<b><font size=5 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Springer bee expert Juergen
Tautz wins prize for public communication</span></font></b> <br>
<b><font color=black face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>Author of<i><span style='font-style:italic'> The Buzz about
Bees</span></i> singled out by European Molecular Biology Organization</span></font></b>
<br>
<font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:black'>Heidelberg, 28 August 2008</span></font> <br>
<font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:black'>Juergen Tautz will receive a special discretionary prize as
part of the 2008 European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Award for
Communication in the Life Sciences. The award was made in recognition of
Tautz's long-term public communication activity on a single organism using all
available media. Tautz is the author of the Springer book</span></font><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> </span></i><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>The Buzz About
Bees,</span></font></i><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> a fascinating treatise looking at all aspects of bees and
bee colonies.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><i><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black;font-style:italic'>The Buzz about Bees</span></font></i><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'> features over 200 lush, color photographs of bees, honeycombs,
and hives and was published in May 2008. The magazine</span></font><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> </span></i><i><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-style:italic'>Bee
Culture</span></font></i><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> wrote: “The most
up-to-date honeybee biology book I’ve ever seen. It has an incredible
collection of photos showing things never seen, and it explains much of
honeybee biology with a clarity seldom reached...” The original German
version (<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Phaenomen Honigbiene</span></i>)
was a bestseller and sold almost 20,000 copies in 2007, the first year it appeared.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black'>Juergen Tautz is a world-leading zoologist with
a particular interest in exploring the life and evolution of honeybees.
He considers them an optimal model system to investigate the inner structure
and functioning of highly complex systems exhibiting “intelligent”
behavior. Honeybees are currently under threat of extinction and
illustrate the dangers of global warming to animals and humans.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black'>Tautz pursues an active research program in his
capacity as professor and head of the BEEgroup at the Biocenter of the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Wuerzburg</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>. He has published 140
scientific articles and given more than 400 lectures at universities
worldwide. His research focus is honeybee biology and specifically the
principles of disease resistance. As a science communicator, Tautz
targets teachers, high school and university students as well as broader public
audiences – with considerable success.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The
EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences is presented annually to a
practicing scientist in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> for outstanding
communication with the public. Juergen Tautz will receive the
discretionary prize of 2,500 euros at the 7th Annual ELSO Meeting in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Nice</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
on 1 September 2008.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Springer
(</span></font><a href="file:///\\www.springer.com"><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>www.springer.com</span></font></a><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>) is the
second-largest publisher of journals in the science, technology, and medicine
(STM) sector and the largest publisher of STM books. Springer is part of
Springer Science+Business Media, one of the world’s leading suppliers of
scientific and specialist literature.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Juergen Tautz<br>
The Buzz about Bees<br>
Biology of a Superorganism<br>
2008. XIV, 284 pp. with 230 color illus.<br>
Hardcover. €29.95, $39.95, £23.00<br>
ISBN 978-3-540-78727-3 </span></font><br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>For
a review copy or interview with the author, please contact: </span></font><br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Joan
Robinson, tel +49-6221-4878130 (Germany), joan.robinson@springer.com</span></font><span
lang=DE> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;
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