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First meeting of the working group

“Prevention of bee losses in Europe”

 
March 5 and 6  2007,  Wageningen, The Netherlands

Program

Monday March 5

10.00          Registration

12.00          Opening, welcome and lunch

13.00          Session on Monitoring

13.00          Honey bee losses in USA - Jeff Pettis, USA

13.10          French monitoring project - Marie-Pierre Chauzat, France

13.20          Monitoring bee losses in Spain -  Mariano Higes, Spain

13.30          German monitoring project - Peter Rosenkranz, Germany

13.40          Monitoring bee losses in Switzerland - Jean Daniël Charrière, Switzerland

13.50          Monitoring vs specific research, pro’s and con’s -  Lonne Gerritsen, the Netherlands

14.00          Experience of the Int. Apis Health Assessment Committee -Piotr Medrzycki

14.10          Discussion

15.00          Coffee break

15.20                    Session on Mortality Factors

15.20                 Pesticides: effect on honey bees - Maria Bouga, Greece

15.30          GMO’s: Bt-maize, cotton and other plants, a new risk  assessment for honey bees  - Maria Bouga, Greece

15.40          Genetic impact on viability and disease tolerance  - Ralph Büchler, Germany

15.50          Effects of pesticides and acaricides on bee mortality - Ales, Gregorc, Croatia

16.00          Causative association between colonies signs and  Nosema sp. presence - Mariano Higes, Spain

16.10          Discussion

17.00          Session on Tools for monitoring and cooperation

17.00          Demonstration of the software program for monitoring  -  Romee van der Zee

17.10          Elaboration of SPA (survival prediction approach) as the base for field studies of the impact of different 
                  factors on bee colony health - Piotr Medrzycki

17.20          Literature network, proposal - Toni Imdorf

17.30          Discussion

18.30          Dinner

9.00            Session on Relationship with other groups

9.00            The Bee shop project - Peter Rosenkranz

9.10            other groups -  Antonio, Nanetti

9.20            Discussion

9.45            Session on The plan for the working group

9.45            Discussion 

12.00          End of the meeting