An enriching discussion on honey bee health research took place at the symposium “From the Bench to the Field: Emerging Technologies to Advance Honey Bee Health” part of the Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting in Portland, OR. The symposium was co-organized by Dr. Nicklisch, Dr. Fine, and Dr. Ricigliano; and hosted presentations from:
- Elena Gratton ( University of Illinois) – What can forensic methods tell us? Using non-lethal pathogen screens to identify bee pathogens.
- Professor Reed Johnson (The Ohio State University) – Are honey bee detoxicative cytochrome P450 genes different from other bees?
- Angela Encerrado (University of California, Davis) – Mapping the invisible: How advanced AMS technology reveals chemical communication and contamination pathways in bee colonies.
- Allyson Martin Ewert (Louisiana State University) – Honey bee stock mediates the gut microbiome response to diet.
No winners, no losers, just fun.
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Eli received the Comparative Lung Biology and Medicine Training Grant (T32) from the National Institutes of Health. His proposal on “Mechanisms of Biodistribution and Toxicity of Inhaled Pollutant-Absorbed Nanoplastics (PANs)” was funded to conduct research in collaboration with the 
