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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">May 1,
2010<B><o:p></o:p></B></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">May 15<SUP>th</SUP>
Abstract Submission Deadline: International Conference on Pollinator Biology,
Health and Policy Hosted by The Center for Pollinator Research at Penn State
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">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 <B>July
24-28, 2010</B> at the University Park campus. The abstract
submission deadline is <B>May 15, 2010</B>, and the early registration
deadline is <B>June 1, 2010</B>. For more information and online
registration, please visit the conference website at <SPAN class=link-external><B><A title=http://agsci.psu.edu/pollinator-conference href="http://agsci.psu.edu/pollinator-conference" target=_blank>http://agsci.psu.edu/pollinator-conference</A>.</B></SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">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 <SPAN class=link-external>the conference website.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">The conference is
supported by generous donations from </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">Häagen-Dazs</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">, 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.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">For more
information, visit the conference website or contact conference organizers:
Christina Grozinger, (814)-865-1895 or </SPAN><A title=mailto:cmg25@psu.edu href="mailto:cmg25@psu.edu"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">cmg25@psu.edu</SPAN></A><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">; Diana Cox-Foster,
(814) 865-1022 or </SPAN><A title=mailto:dxc12@psu.edu href="mailto:dxc12@psu.edu"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">dxc12@psu.edu</SPAN></A><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">; or Ed Rajotte, (814)
863-4641 or uvu@psu.edu. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">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.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">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</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'"> 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</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'"> 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
<B>http://ento.psu.edu/pollinators.</B><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">Symposia and confirmed
speakers (as of 4/30/10) include:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">• <B>Welcome Reception,
</B> - Bruce McPheron, Dean, College of Agricultural Sciences, Penn State
University; May Berenbaum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Keynote
Speaker)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">• <B>Behavioral
Ecology</B> - Robert Gegear, University of Massachusetts; Christina Grozinger,
Penn State University; </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">Abraham Hefetz, Tel Aviv
University; </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">Heather Mattila,
Wellesley College</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">; Theresa Pitts-Singer,
USDA-ARS; Peter Teal, USDA-ARS</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">• <B>Evolving Policies
on Pollinator Risk Assessment and Conservation</B> - </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">Doug Holy, USDA-NRCS;
Mary Purcell-Miramontes, USDA-NIFA; </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">Thomas Moriarty,
Environmental Protection Agency;</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'"> R. Thomas Van Arsdall,
Pollinator Partnership; </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">Mace Vaughan, Xerces
Society</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">• <B>Status of
Pollinators Worldwide</B> - David De Jong, University of São Paulo,
Brazil</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">; Keith Delaplane,
University of Georgia</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">; Yves Le Conte,
Institut National de la Re</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">cherche Agronomique,
Avignon-France; Peter Neumann, Honeybee Pathology Section </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">Swiss Bee Research
Centre, Switzerland</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">; </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">Stuart Roberts, Bees
Ants Wasps Recording Society (BWARS), UK; </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'"> Dennis
vanEngelsdorp, Penn State University; <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">• <B>Impacts of
Environmental Toxins</B> - </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">Reed Johnson, University
of Nebraska; </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">Chris Mullin, Penn State
University</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">; Andreas Thrasyvoulou.
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman,
USDA-ARS; Jeff Pettis, USDA-ARS</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">• <B>Disease Ecology</B>
- 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<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">• <B>Conservation and
Ecological Applications of Native Pollinators</B> - David Biddinger, Penn
State University</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">; Sydney Cameron,
University of Illinois; Jim Cane, USDA-ARS;</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">Amotz Dafni, Haifa
University, Israel; Tamar Keasar, University of Haifa</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">, Israel; </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">Claire Kremen, UC
Berkeley; </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">Yael Mandelik, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Israel</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">; </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">David Mortensen, Penn
State University; </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'"> Uma Partap,
International Centre for Integrated Mo</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">untain Development,
Nepal; Mark Scriber, Michigan State University</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">; Sharoni Shafir, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, B. Triwaks Bee Research Center</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">, Israel; John Tooker,
Penn State University</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">; Baldwyn Torto,
International Centre of Insect Physiology and </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">Ecology,
Kenya.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Contact:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">Kristie
Auman-Bauer<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">PA IPM
Program<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">(814)
865-2839<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'">kma147@psu.edu<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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