The goal of the Centre for Bee Ecology, Evolution and Conservation (BEEc)'s Speaker Series is to provide opportunities for BEEc associates and invited guests to learn from each other. We are pleased to announce that starting Fall 2024, this series will be open to the public. If you miss the live webinar, we often are able to record presentations for others to view - please see below for those recordings, or subscribe to our YouTube Channel to receive the most up-to-date notifications on new recordings!
At 11am Eastern Time, on the second or third Friday of every month, we will feature a different topic related to bees. These will be presented through the Zoom webinar platform, you will need to register individually for each webinar in the series
Future talks to come!
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Scroll down for Past Presentations, Videos of Selected Presentations
Keep scrolling down the page to see the list of past presentations and recordings (where permissions were given for public posting). Or visit our YouTube Channel to see the recordings from all our speaker series, webinars, conferences.
Past events:
2024-2025 Speaker Series Events
September 13th 2024: Teasing apart stressor interactions in honey bee workers and queens: Nothing is ever easy with Dr. Adam Dolezal.
October 11th 2024: The fascinating world of bees: from novel monitoring tools to landscape-level stressors with Dr. Laura Figueroa (Recording will not be made public until results are published).
November 8th 2024: The Calculus of Honey Bees with Dr. Matthew Betti.
December 13th 2024: Jan Dzierżon's Revolution in Honey-Bee Biology with Dr. Christopher Starr (No Recording Available)
January 10th 2025: Global change and pollinator conservation with Dr. Olivia Bernauer.
February 21st 2025: Quantitative Behavioural Analysis - lessons from 'big data' with Dr. Nadia Tsvetkov.
April 11th 2025: Agent-based modelling of social bees and its application with Dr. Matthias Becher.
2023-2024 Speaker Series Events
2022-2023 Speaker Series Events
September 16, 2022: Systems biology of complex phenotypes, with Dr. Syed Abbas Bukhari (No Recording Available)
October 21, 2022: Evolution of sociality and parental care in Ceratina bees, with Dr. Michael Mikát
November 18, 2022: Honey bee exposure to multi-stressor landscapes, with Dr. Sarah French (No Recording Available)
December 16, 2022: Metagenomics and metatranscriptomics of small carpenter bees (Ceratina calcarata), with Dr. Katherine Chau
January 13, 2023: The Evolution of Bee Brood Parasitism, with Dr. Trevor Sless
February 17, 2023: Effects of dune stabilization on bees and aculeate wasps in the southern Canadian prairies, with Dr. Tom Onuferko
March 17, 2023: The evolution of protein soup in male ejaculate, with Dr. Bahar Patlar. (Note: recording will not be made public until results discussed are published).
April 14, 2023: Solutions for Farmers and Food for Bees : From knowledge on bee nutrition to actions promoting bee conservation, with Dr. Mathilde Tissier
2021-2022 Speaker Series Events
The talks below were those where the speakers gave us permission to record and share their presentations. We thank the other speakers who shared their knowledge with us as well.
April 1, 2022: Rare Plants in Southern Ontario's Woodlands: Where Are They, What Limits Them and Who Pollinates Them?
with Dr. Jenny McCune, Assistant Professor, University of Lethbridge - view the poster
March 4, 2022: The Role of Heterogeneity in supporting Wild Bee Biodiversity in Canadian Agroecosystems
with Dr. Jess Vickruck, Research Scientist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - view the poster
Dec 3, 2021: Recommendations for Canada's First National Pollinator Strategy
with Dr. Rachel Napela, York University - view the poster
Nov 5, 2021: Bees, Math, & Collaborations
with Drs. Jane Heffernan and Amro Zayed, York University - view the poster
Oct 1, 2021: Early Insecticide Controversies and Beekeeper Advocacy in the Great Lakes Region
with Dr. Jennifer Bonnell, York University - view the poster
Summer 2021 - Beyond the Buzz: Examining Bees Through an Interdisciplinary Lens
Bees, People, Science & Others
- July 9, 2021 with Kathleen Law, Pollinator Partnership Canada, and Dr. Clement Kent, York University - view the poster
Bees, Land & Food Justice
- June 4, 2021 with Dr. Sheila Colla, York University, Adrianne Lickers Xavier, McMaster University, Dr. Sarah Rotz, York University - view the poster