Symposium topics

Welfare in bees and ONEHEALTH

Pathogens of managed and wild bees

Nutrition

Biochemical markers of welfare

Pesticides

Bee cognition

Agroecology

Effects of landscape and farm management on managed and wild bees

Plant and pollinator diversity interaction

Crop pollination

Climate change

Phenological mismatches

Impact on floral rewards

Mitigation measures

Impact on wild and honey bee populations

Adaptive mechanisms of species and subspecies

Relationship between managed
and wild bees

Phenological mismatches

Impact on floral rewards

Mitigation measures

Impact on wild and honey bee populations

Adaptive mechanisms of species and subspecies

Technological applications
for the bee science

Sensors for monitoring bees

AI-based solutions

Bee-based monitoring networks

Environmental quality

Sentinels for invasive species

Epidemiology of bee pathogens

Novel and specific purposes (human pathogens, microplastics, antibiotic resistance etc.)

Plasticity and genomic variation
to overcome threats

Intra-specific strategies

Inter-specific behaviours

Drivers of (social) learning

Monitoring genetic resources

Decline of bee populations
and policies

Agri-environmental policies

Environmental risk assessment

Benefits & drawbacks of policies

Monitoring tools, administrative and practical aspects

Veterinarian policies

Good practices

Information flow from research to public and practice

Ethics in bee science

Respectful use of experimental individuals

Same objective but different approach: bee and environmental safeguard for ethical vs anthropocentric motivations

Do sentient invertebrates deserve ethical treatments?

Ethical considerations concerning the people involved

Bee products, ecosystemic services
and circular economy

Analytical approach to adulterations

Characterisation of bee products

Products from non-Apis mellifera bees

Assessment of pollinator externalities

Valorisation of hive residues

Microbiome and nutrition

Diet diversity and host–microbiota coevolution

Nutrient-driven microbial functions in pollinators

Diet-modulated resistance to pathogens

Feeding influence on immune–microbiome interactions

Pesticide and forage landscape effects on gut microbes

Environmental microbes from diet and their impact on bees

Beneficial microbes and prebiotics

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