The Second National Symposium concerning bees will be held at USP in
Ribeirao Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
 June 6-9, 1996, along with an International
Symposium of IUSSI - International Union for the Study of Social Insects
 
Prof. Carlos A. Garofalo is the president of the organizing
committee.
 
This will be mostly in Portuguese, though many speakers from overseas
will give their talks in English.
Here I give the original titles and translations to English where
appropriate:
 
Opening Talk: Os heteroalelos XO nas populacoes de abelhas by
Warwick E. Kerr (The XO heteroalleles in bee populations)
 
Symposium I.  Metodologia para caracterizacao de polimorfismos em abelhas
(Methodology for the characterization of polymorphisms in bees)
chaired by Prof. Zila Luz Paulino Simoes
speakers to be announced
 
Oral communications -
Talks by four grad students - selected from papers sent.
 
Symposium II.  Ultra-estrutura, Citoquimica e Bioquimica de Sistemas
de Abelhas (Ultrastructure, Cytochemistry and Biochemistry of Bee
Systems) chaired by Prof. Carminda da Cruz Landim
speakers to be announced
 
Invited Speaker - Dr. Jesus Santiago Moure (specialist in numerical
taxonomy of bees)
 
Symposium III.  Biogeografia e Estrutura de Comunidades (Biogeography and
the structure of Communities) chaired by Dr. Joao Maria Franco de Camargo
speakers to be announced
Dave Roubik is invited
 
Oral communications by 4 grad students
 
Symposium IV Polinizacao (Pollination)
chaired by Prof. Regina Helena Nogueira Couto
speakers to be announced
 
Posters and Discussion
 
Symposium V  Reproductive strategies in bees: polygyny and laying workers
some european researchers were invited
chaired by Prof. Vera Lucia Imperatriz Fonseca
 
Invited speaker: Dr. Paulo Nogueira Neto - specialist in
ecology and management of stingless bees
 
Four papers by grad students
 
Symposium VI 40 anos de abelhas africanizadas no Brasil  (40 years of
africanized bees in Brazil)
chaired by Prof. Lionel Segui Goncalves
Speakers Ademilson E.E. Soares  Swarming and Dispersal
         Lionel Segui Goncalves Opening Remarks
        Antonio Carlos Stort  Defensive Behavior
        David De Jong  Management of Africanized bees
        Alfred Dietz (from USA)  Ecology and Distribution of Africanized
Honey Bees
        Thomas Rinderer (from USA) Foraging behavior and honey production
of Africanized honey bees.
 
Invited Speaker Dr. Walter Steven Sheppard
 
Symposium VII Social Biology of the bees in the Tropics.
chaired by Dr. Wolf Engels from Germany
Wolf Engels - Opening remarks
Robin Moritz & Robert Page - Genetics and Cytogenetics of the sex locus
Robert Paxton - Sociality and Genomic Diversity
Wolfgang Wilms - Bees and their trees - a reproductive web
Dieter Wittman & Clemens Schlindwein - Flower manipulation by bees
Peter Rosenkranz - Varroatosis in the paleo and neotropics.
 
If anyone needs information about how to send papers - I can
send the information via e-mail
 
Costs for registration are: undergrad students R$20,00
                            grad students      R$30,00
                            Professionals      R$50,00
until March 4, 1996
after which prices are increased by 50%
checks made out to Evandro Camillo
 
from overseas the prices can be converted at a 1:1 rate to US$.
 
Address for further contacts:
Profa. Dra. Zila Luz Paulino Simoes
Secretaria do II Encontro Sobre Abelhas-Ribeirao Preto
FFCLRP-USP
14.049-901 Ribeirao Preto, SP
BRASIL
 
Fone (016) 633 1010 Ramal 546
Fax (016) 633 5015 (international fax 55 16 633 5015)
e-mail [log in to unmask]
 
Prepared by
David De Jong
University of Sao Paulo
Ribeirao Preto Campus
January 3, 1996