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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background:white">It's "bee" time! </span><span></span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Registration
is underway for the fourth annual<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://honey.ucdavis.edu/events/2018-bee-symposium" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:black">UC Davis Bee Symposium: Keeping Bees Healthy</span></a>,
set Saturday, March 3 in the UC Davis Conference Room on Alumni Drive. It's
sponsored by the<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://honey.ucdavis.edu/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:black">UC Davis Honey and
Pollination Center,</span></a><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Robert
Mondavi Institute of Wine and Food Science, and the<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:black">UC Davis
Department of Entomology and</span></a><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Nematology.<span></span></span></p>

<p style="font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> Keynote
speaker is noted bee scientist/professor/author<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://pages.nbb.cornell.edu/seeley.shtml" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:black">Tom
Seeley</span></a><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>of Cornell
University, Ithaca, N.Y., who will speak on "Darwinian Beekeeping" at
9:15 a.m.<span></span></span></p>

<p style="font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Seeley is
the Horace White Professor in Biology, Department of Neurobiology and
Behavior, where he teaches courses on animal behavior and researches the
behavior and social life of honey bees. He's the author of<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/titles/2355.html" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><em><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">Honeybee Ecology: A Study of Adaptation in Social Life</span></em></a>(1985),<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/titles/9267.html" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><em><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">The Wisdom of the Hive: the Social Physiology of Honey Bee
Colonies</span></em></a><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>(1995),
and<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/titles/9267.html" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><em><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">Honeybee Democracy</span></em></a>(2010), all published by
Princeton University Press. His books will be available for purchase and
signing at the symposium.<span></span></span></p>

<p style="font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The
daylong event "is designed for beekeepers of all experience levels,
including gardeners, farmers and anyone interested in the world of pollination
and bees," said Amina Harris, director of the Honey and Pollination
Center. "In addition to our speakers, there will be lobby displays
featuring<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="external-link">graduate student research posters</span>, the latest in
beekeeping equipment, books, honey, plants, and much more."<span></span></span></p>

<p style="font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Graduate
students throughout the country are invited to submit their research posters.
The winners will share $1800 in cash prizes. Applications must be submitted to
Liz Luu at<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:luu@caes.ucdavis.edu" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:black">luu@caes.ucdavis.edu</span></a>,
by Feb. 12. For the rules,<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://honey.ucdavis.edu/events/2018-bee-symposium/#gradstudent" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:black">see this web page</span></a>.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">See more at <a href="http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=26176">http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=26176</a><span></span></p>





<br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Kathy Keatley Garvey<br>UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology<br><a href="mailto:kegarvey@ucdavis.edu" target="_blank">kegarvey@ucdavis.edu</a> <br>Or<br><a href="mailto:kathykeatleygarvey@gmail.com" target="_blank">kathykeatleygarvey@gmail.com</a> <br><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Website: <a href="http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/" target="_blank">http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/</a><br></span>Department News:<span>  </span><a href="http://ucanr.edu/blogs/entomology/" target="_blank">http://ucanr.edu/blogs/entomology/</a> <br>
Bug Squad blog: <a href="http://ucanr.edu/blogs/bugsquad/index.cfm" target="_blank">http://ucanr.edu/blogs/bugsquad/index.cfm</a><br></span><br></div></div></div></div>
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