Christina Grozinger on "Predicting and Managing Bee Health in a Changing World"
Monday, October 17th, Meeting Schedule
6:30 pm - Refreshments and Welcoming Activities
7:00 pm - Brief Message from the President
7:15 pm - Featured Speaker Presentation
Location
We will meet in-person at the Town of Milton Community Center, 310 North Line Road, Ballston Spa NY 12020.
About the Topic
Christina Grozinger has carried out important research into the ways in which bee stressors affect bees and how factors such as climate change, extreme weather, pathogens, parasites, pesticides, and nutritional deficiencies are affecting worldwide pollinator decline. Her group has determined that bees’ resilience against diseases and pesticides is improved if they have access to high quality nutritional resources from multiple sources. Understanding bees’ nutritional needs is an important step towards pollinator habitat restoration and the improvement of beekeeping practices.
About the Speaker
Christina Grozinger is the Publius Vergilius Maro Professor of Entomology at Pennsylvania State University and the director at its Center for Pollinator Research. Her main areas of expertise as a social insect biologist are the molecular, physiological, and ecological determinants that affect the health of honey bees and other pollinators.
Grozinger has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles that have been cited over 10,000 times. She is the principal investigator at the Grozinger Lab, which has trained 45 undergraduates, 15 Ph.D. students, 6 M.Sc. graduate students, and 13 post-doctoral scholars. In 2021, she received the National Academy of Sciences Prize in Food & Agriculture Sciences for her work. As of 2022, she became co-editor of the Annual Review of Entomology.
Recorded Meeting 10/17/22