Topic 1: Viral Diseases of Honey Bees
Dr Marley Iredale

Topic 2: Chalkbrood - Research from the Beaverlodge Research Farm (part of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
Dr Elizabeth Walsh

Speaker Bios:
Dr. Marley Iredale is a veterinary pathologist working on expanding her knowledge of honey bees and their pathogens. She received her bachelor’s degree in Wildlife Ecology and veterinary degree from Washington State University. She completed a one-year medical internship at a private veterinary hospital in New York before her residency in Anatomic Pathology at the University of Florida, where she fell in love with honey bees. As part of the Entomology department, her Ph.D. work aims to mitigate some of the challenges currently facing honey bees and apiarists.

Dr. Liz Walsh is a newly hired Research Scientist with the USDA-ARS laboratory in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She recently completed her postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Steve Pernal, of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, at the Beaverlodge Research Farm in Alberta. Liz's postdoc was spent exploring the links between honey bee health challenges and honey bee biomarkers as a part of the national BeeCSI project, but she also did work with AFB and chalkbrood exploring stock variation, asymptomatic vs. symptomatic infections, and more. This was all very different than her dissertation work, which was done at Texas A&M University with Dr. Juliana Rangel where Liz explored the impact of miticide exposure in immature queens. Liz is pleased to be well into her "teenage" years as a beekeeper, since she began keeping bees as a young high school student in her home state of Wisconsin, and is proud to serve the beekeeping industry through research initiatives.

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