Another Speaker Confirmed for Heartland Apiculture Society’s 2018 Conference in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS – Dr. May Berenbaum, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, will be at Heartland Apicultural Society’s (HAS) annual conference July 11-13, 2018 at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Established in 2001 by several professional entomologists, the conference rotates through the Midwest offering basic and advanced beekeeping classes to make it easier for local beekeepers to attend sessions focused on the latest beekeeping methods and research.
Among the speakers confirmed to date:
ST. LOUIS – Dr. May Berenbaum, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, will be at Heartland Apicultural Society’s (HAS) annual conference July 11-13, 2018 at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Established in 2001 by several professional entomologists, the conference rotates through the Midwest offering basic and advanced beekeeping classes to make it easier for local beekeepers to attend sessions focused on the latest beekeeping methods and research.
Among the speakers confirmed to date:
- Dr. May Berenbaum, Entomology department head at University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, whose research focuses on the chemical interactions between herbivorous insects and their host-plants,
- Dr. Marla Spivak, a MacArthur Fellow at University of Minnesota’s Bee Lab;
- University of Minnesota Bee Squad, a beekeeping instructional and public outreach program to encourage collaboration and public education about bees;
- Dr. Keith Delaplane, director of the University of Georgia Honey Bee Program;
- Jennifer Berry, University of Georgia Honey Bee program lab manager.
- Dr. Dennis vanEngelsdorp, University of Maryland Honeybee Lab, who directs the Bee Informed Partnership, the Tech Transfer Program and the annual national beekeeping management surveys, and
- Samuel Ramsey, University of Maryland PhD candidate and researcher.