Going to Apimondia 2019 in Montreal and interested in learning more about BeeOMICs and marker assisted breeding. The BeeOMICS team submitted a large number of talks on our research. Come check them out! We will update this post with detailed info on who is presenting and when once the program is announced!
Month: May 2019
BeeOMICs research featured on CBC’s Quirks & Quarks
BeeOMICs co-lead Amro Zayed talked with CBC’s Quirks & Quarks about the value of genomics in breeding healthier honey bees.
BeeOMICS researchers decipher the genetics of social immunity in honey bees
A team composed of a large number of BeeOMICS researchers led by Dr. Amro Zayed mapped out parts of the honey bee genome that affect hygienic behaviour – a trait that allows honey bee colonies to resist the spread of pathogens and disease. Please see the official press release here from York University.
Here is a link to the article:
Brock A Harpur, M Marta Guarna, Elizabeth Huxter, Heather Higo, Kyung-Mee Moon, Shelley E Hoover, Abdullah Ibrahim, Andony P Melathopoulos, Suresh Desai, Robert W Currie, Stephen F Pernal, Leonard J Foster, Amro Zayed; Integrative Genomics Reveals the Genetics and Evolution of the Honey Bee’s Social Immune System, Genome Biology and Evolution, , evz018, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evz018
BeeOMICs researchers featured in the media
BeeOMICS team meeting 2018
Here is a little picture of a BeeOMICs team meeting during the Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists and Canadian Honey Council’s AGM, London, 2018
