The 2016 conference will be held during the American Beekeeping  
Federation convention in Jacksonville, Florida in early January.  More  
details about the schedule and a list of presentations (in page 6) can  
be found at the webpage for the American Association of Professional  
Apiculturists.

http://aapa.cyberbee.net/events/

This conference has been held annually since the mid-1980s.   
Attendance, number of papers, topics, presenters have fluctuated  
widely depending on the times, venues, funding for research.  Notable  
this year is the number of student presenters: 13.  John Harbo and Joe  
Moffett organized the first conference with the idea that sharing  
early or preliminary results and exchanging information informally was  
valuable to the US honey bee research community.  The first one was  
held in Baton Rouge October 6 and 7, 1986.  There were 24  
presentations (or at least abstracts recorded) with six student  
presentations (Danka, Delaplane, Jimenez, Krell, Spivak and Villa).   
Ed Southwick, founder of this list, attended and added a moment of  
levity and humor.  There was a problem with the advance cable signal  
for the Kodak carrousel projector when Ed started his talk "Colonial  
synergism of rhythms in honey bees".  Someone, John Harbo perhaps,  
jumped to advance the slides with the button on the projector itself.   
Ed Southwick remarked something like: "Oh, I see how it works: I push  
this button, which sends a small electrical signal down the cable,  
giving John a shock, and that prompts him to advance the slide".

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