[Pollinator] Registration open for the 2013 International Conference on Pollinator Biology, Health and Policy

[Jennifer Tsang]

Fwded from Christina Grozinger:



Registration open for the 2013 International Conference on Pollinator
Biology, Health and Policy

Registration for the 2013 International Conference on Pollinator Biology,
Health and Policy is now open!  The conference will be held at Penn State
from August 14-17, 2013.  For more information and to register and submit
abstracts, please see:

http://agsci.psu.edu/pollinator-conference

We have an outstanding group of internationally renowned speakers, with
sessions including behavioral ecology, physiology and development,
host-parasite interactions, ecology and conservation, ecosystems services,
and policy.  A theme of the conference will be examining and mitigating the
effects of environmental contaminants on pollinators.

The deadline for submission of abstracts for oral and poster presentations
is May 15, and the early registration deadline is July 1.

Additionally, there will be a Xerces Pollinator Conservation Short Course at
Penn State on August 14, the Society for Invertebrate Pathology Annual
Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA on August 11-15, and the Eastern Apicultural
Society Annual Meeting in West Chester, PA on August 5-9.

For more information on the International Pollinator Conference, please
contact the conference organizers, Christina Grozinger (cmg25 at psu.edu),
Chris Mullin (camullin at psu.edu), and Neal Willliams
(nmwilliams at ucdavis.edu).  The conference is supported by Penn State's
Center for Pollinator Research, Department of Entomology, College of
Agricultural Sciences and the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. We are
also grateful for the generous support of Bayer, BASF, and Ernst
Conservation Seeds.

We look forward to seeing you in August!


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Christina M. Grozinger
Associate Professor, Department of Entomology
Director, Center for Pollinator Research
Center for Chemical Ecology
Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
Pennsylvania State University
Chemical Ecology Lab 4A
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-2214
Email: cmgrozinger at psu.edu
Webpage: www.grozingerlab.com
Center for Pollinator Research: http://ento.psu.edu/pollinators