Improving Honey Bee Health to Ensure Sustainable Blueberry Pollination
We will discuss integrated pest management strategies to improve colony health before, during and after blueberry pollination to enhance the profitability of both the beekeeping and blueberry industries in North America.
Emergence and Control of Antimicrobial-Resistant Foulbrood Disease
We will discuss evidence-based use of antibiotics in the North American beekeeping industry to minimize the spread of antimicrobial-resistant strains of European and American foulbrood disease.
Sarah Wood, MSc, DVM, PhD, DACVP, Research Chair in Pollinator Health, Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. In 2015, Sarah co-founded the WCVM honey bee health research and teaching program, one of the first honey bee laboratories to be established at veterinary school in North America. Sarah has worked as a small animal veterinarian and a diagnostic veterinary pathologist, and she is now thrilled to serve beekeepers as the first veterinary Research Chair in Pollinator Health in North America. Her research interests include infectious disease and toxicology of honey bees and the role of pollinators in sustainable agriculture.