Program

The 41st annual meeting will start with afternoon registration and an evening welcome mixer on Sunday, August 3, 2008, followed by a full scientific program Monday through Thursday. The scientific program will open Monday morning with the Founder’s lecture and plenary session, followed by afternoon symposia and contributed papers. The excursion and BBQ will be on Tuesday afternoon, and the meeting will close with the banquet on Thursday evening.

Symposia and contributed paper sessions will be conducted throughout the meeting (except Tuesday afternoon). Contributed papers are being solicited on all topics related to invertebrate pathology. Posters will go up on Monday and will be displayed until Thursday morning. The Division business meetings are slated for the evenings of Monday and Wednesday, to be followed by division workshops. The Society’s business meeting will be held late morning on Thursday.

Plenary Session

Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder

Dennis vanEngelsdorp, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, USA

Colony Collapse Disorder: CSI in the bee hive

Ingemar Fries, Department of Entomology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Microsporidia infections in pollinating insects

Jay Evans, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD, USA

Applied beenomics: Molecular studies of honey bee disease and resistance

Diana Cox-Foster, Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Unraveling the pathogens in honey bees undergoing Colony Collapse Disorder

Workshops

Fungus Division
Molecular phylogenetic and morphological species identification in Beauveria and Metarhizium

Microbial Control
Biological solutions to pest control

Microsporidia Division
Use of QPCR to quantify microsporidia infection

Nematode Division
Nematode-bacterium associations: A multidisciplinary research perspective

Virus Division
Invertebrate virus discovery

Student Workshop
Spreading the word: Skills for communicating science and getting it funded