New Molecular Tools Workshop

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Monday, 18.05.2009 - Hotel Glocke

Arrival and informal social gathering in the evening

09:00-09:30: Transportation from the Hotel Glocke to the Swiss Bee Research Centre
09:30-10:00: Registration and Coffee
10:00-10:10: Welcome
10:10-11:00: Laurent Keller: "Gene by social environment interacitons on gene expression and behavior in ants"
11:00-11:30: Coffee break
11:30-12:30: Jay Evans: "Molecular diagnostics and the causes of honey bee declines"
12:30-14:00: Lunch
14:00-15:00: Axel Brockmann: "Quantitative peptimdomics and the role of neuropeptides in honey bees foraging behavior"
15:00-15:20: Cédric Alaux: "Finding molecular markers of infection and resistance to environmental stressors in honey bees: the use of the genome-wide transcriptomic"
15:20-15:40: Alex Gregorc: "The study of lethal and sublethal effects on honeybees"
15:40-16:00: Dieter Behrens: "Lethal infection tresholds of Paenibacillus larvae for honeybee drone and worker larvae (Apis mellifera)"
16:00-16:30: Coffee break
16:30-17:30: Open discussion: molecular tools and colony losses (incl. 5 min. talks) / chaired by Peter Neumann
19:00-open: Social event in the old town of Bern

09:00-09:30: Transportation from the Hotel Glocke to the Swiss Bee Research Centre
09:30-09:50: Eva Forsgren: "Quantification of Nosema apis and Nosema ceranae using real-time PCR"
09:50-10:10: Rudolfo Jaffé: "Can mating flights hinder the vertical transmission of a honeybee (Apis mellifera) virus?"
10:10-10:30: Tamas Revay: "Genetic diversity of Hungarian honeybee colonies based on morphological and RAPD markers"
10:30-11:00: Coffee break
11:00-12:30: Poster session (19 contributions)
12:30-14:00: Lunch
14:00-15:30: Open discussion: methodological pitfalls or what to learn from negative results (incl. 5 min. talks) chaired by Maria Navajas
15:30-16:00: Coffee break
16:00-17:30: Open discussion: new frontiers (incl. 5 min. talks) chaired by Jay Evans
18:30-20:30: Guided evening tour through the old town of Bern from Bern Central Train Station to the Bärengraben