[Pollinator] FW: FREE Lecture of interest-Using Genomic Technologies to Understand Honey Bees Decline

[Tom Van Arsdall]

Information on free lecture shared per request of pollinator supporter Julie
Super.

 

Tom VA, Pollinator Partnership Director of Public Affairs

    <http://www.pollinator.org/> Pollinator Partnership

 

From: Super, Julie [mailto:julie.super at mncppc-mc.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 9:59 AM
To: tva at pollinator.org
Subject: FREE Lecture of interest

 

Hi Tom,

 

I recently received information about the Highway BEES Act (which I
supported) and thought the following lecture may be of interest to other
folks on the pollinator listserve. If you think that assessment is correct,
would you mind forwarding the information?

 

Thanks for your support.

 

Julie Super

Marketing and Media Relations Assistant

Horticulture, Forestry and Environmental Education Division

Montgomery County Department of Parks of M-NCPPC

1800 Glenallan Avenue, Wheaton, MD  20902

301.962.1472 (o)
301.704.5771 (c)

 

 

 

Using Genomic Technologies to Understand Honey Bees Decline

 

Wednesday, July 13; 6:30-8:30pm

Meadowside Nature Center, 5100 Meadowside Lane, Rockville, MD 20855,
301-258-4030

 

Honey bees are important crop pollinators in many countries, including the
U.S. However, the rate at which managed colonies fail to survive the winter
has increased dramatically in recent years, without any unifying
explanation. We will discuss how advances in the field of genomics have been
used to snoop out possible causes of colony collapse disorder and better
understand other bee diseases. This will include a basic primer on what
genomics is and why it has had a profound impact on biology in recent years.
We will also learn about the current hypotheses for bee declines that are
being tested. Speaker: Scott Cornman, Postdoctoral Scientist, Bee Research
Lab, United States Department of Agriculture -Agricultural Research
Services.

Please register at parkPASS.org
<http://parkpass.org/Activities/ActivitiesCourseDetails.asp?cid=153399> 

 

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