EAS 2004 Main Conference

The following preliminary schedule has been assembled for the EAS 2004 Main Conference:

Wednesday Aug 11	1:10 pm	Welcome PA Secretary Agriculture Dennis Wolff; Response Jim Bobb, EAS President
	1:15 pm	Marla Spivak, U. Minnesota - Genetics and hygienic behavior
	1:50 pm	Maryann Frazier, Penn State U. - 100 years of Beekeeping - the World and PA
	2:30 pm	Break
	3:15 pm	Mike Stangellini, Rutgers Univ. - Bees and crop pollination
	4:00 pm	Update on Homeland security & honey quality (speaker to be announced)
	4:30 pm	Jim Tew, ATI, Ohio State U. - Some Useless Equipment Every Beekeeper Should Have
	7:00 pm	EAS Ice Cream Social
	8:00 pm	Cliff Sunflower, EAS MB & ’94 EAS Divelbiss awardee - Dancin’ with the Honey Bees
Thursday Aug 12	Concurrent Session #1 - Meeting beekeeping challenges
	8:30 am	Dennis vanEngelsdorp, Pa Apiary Insp - Varroa mite thresholds for the time deprived, penny pinching beekeeper
	9:00 am	John Skinner, U of Tennessee - Southeast Varroa Management Project
	9:30 am	Mike Embrey, U of Maryland - Using queen replacement for IPM control of Varroa mites
	10:00 am	Break
	10:30 am	George Clutter, WV Apiary Inspector - Beekeeping in WV
	11:00 am	Nancy Ostiguy, Penn State Univ. - Why we count & what numbers mean
	11:30 am	Tiffany Crum, PA Dept Agric - Under the Microscope: "A Lab Technician Speaks Out"
	11:45 am	Speaker Q & A session
	Concurrent Session #2 - All about bees
	8:30 am	Jeff Pettis, USDA Beltsville - How to wash away your mite problems - why the microwave won't help!
	9:00 am	EAS Student Award winner presentation - to be announced
	9:30 am	Diana Cox-Foster, Penn State Univ - A Bee's defense: More than a stinger!
	10:00 am	Break
	10:30 am	Wayne Yoder, Frostburg State Univ - Using what they have: Bees and others
	11:00 am	Heather Mattila, Univ of Guelph - To feed or not to feed: supplementing colonies in the spring
	11:30 am	Speaker Q & A session
	Afternoon	Workshops
	Evening	Barbarque and Auction
Friday Aug 13	General Session
	8:30 am	Marcus Denis, St Lucia - Beekeeping Caribbean style
	9:00 am	Kimberly Winter, NAPPC Coordinator, U of MD - Pollinator Protection Campaign
	9:30 am	Julio Ledo, Univ Mayor San Simon (Bolivia) & Dewey M. Caron, U of Del. - Why Africanized bees don’t die from varroa
	10:00 am	Break
	10:30 am	Jennifer Berry, U of Georgia - Three State Varroa IPM Project: The Georgia Component
	11:00 am	Kathy Summers, AI Root Co - What is in store for Ohio 2005 EAS
	11:15 am	EAS Business Meeting
	Special Session
	8:30 am- 12:00 noon	A.I. Root Distinguished Lecture Series on marketing varietal honey
	Afternoon	Workshops
	Evening	Annual Banquet