Plenary Speakers
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Maria Clara Castellanos
Evolution of Flowers Under Pollinator Change
Monday, 16 October 2023
Maria Clara Castellanos is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex in the UK. Research in her group focuses on the evolution and ecology of pollination interactions. This includes studies on how changed pollination environments shape contemporary and past evolution of flowers in the wild, and how floral traits affect crop pollination. Maria Clara is also involved in collaborations focused on how wildfires affect pollination in fire-prone environments.
Maria Clara is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pollination Ecology, a non-profit journal with strong links to ICPPR. JPE publishes original research on all aspects of pollination and pollinators and is a diamond open access journal.
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Peter Bernhardt
So, You Want to Study Orchid Pollination: Maximizing Observations and Data Sets
Tuesday, 17 October 2023
Peter Bernhardt was born in Brooklyn, New York and received his PhD in Biology from the University of Melbourne, Australia. After 33 years as a professor of Biology in America Peter is now a research associate at the Missouri Botanical Garden (Saint Louis) and adjunct professor at Curtin University, Perth, WA. Pollination fieldwork has taken him to North America, El Salvador, Australia, Israel and China resulting in 106 peer reviewed papers and 23 books and book chapters. He is coeditor and a coauthor of "Darwin's Orchids; Then and Now" (U. of Chicago, 2014) with Dr. Retha Edens-Meier.
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Guy Smagghe
A Walk of 20 Years for Bumble Bee Health: From Risk Assessment of Pesticides Towards Entomovectoring for Enhanced Pollination and Biocontrol
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Guy Smagghe has a large expertise in entomology and agriculture. He is internationally recognized for his innovative research on and the training of people, from the North and South, in different aspects of insect physiology, biochemistry and (eco)toxicology with pest and beneficial insects that are important in agriculture. Specifically, he supports a more green agriculture with enhancing sustainability and biodiversity to feed a growing population of 9B people.
As a pioneer in risk assessment of pesticides towards bumblebees, he developed different assays. His interest ranges from fundamental aspects on insect growth and development to the health of bumblebees and wild bees and their pollination services. He was lead editor of the Springer book "Entomovectoring for precision biocontrol and enhanced pollination of crops".
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Katja Hogendoorn
Oligolecty in Bees: Predictable Plethora or Poisonous Pollen
Thursday, 19 October 2023
Katja Hogendoorn is a senior researcher at the University of Adelaide's School of Agriculture, Food and Wine. Her research focuses on the maintenance and enhancement of bees in the wild, and as pollinators of crops. At a more general level, she is interested in the ecology and evolution of bee diet choices, as well as foraging, mating, and nesting behaviour. Katja aims to use her understanding of bee behaviour to inform management decisions for the improvement of bee conservation, health, biodiversity, and crop pollination services.
Katja is currently involved several collaborations between Australian researchers, primary industries, and governmental organisations to improve pollination in protected cropping. She leads several bee conservation projects, chairs the IUCN-Oceania Wild Bee Specialist Group, and collaborates to improve taxonomic understanding of Australian native bees.
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