MAIN TOPICS 

• APITHERAPY
• Promoting and integrating apitherapy into national and international health systems – Current status and regulatory issues.
• Clinical trials with well-defined apitherapeutic protocols – doses, effectiveness, side effects.
• Bee products in human health and nutrition
• Effectiveness of bee products in fighting viral diseases (Covid-19)
• BEE BIOLOGY
• Pathogen Spillover and the role of managed bees
• Conserving Apis subspecies and ecotypes
• Nutritional landscape
• Spermatozoa/embryos Cryopreservation for breeding programs
• Apis cerana, stingless bees and other Apis
• Honey bee Genomics- proteomics
• Bee breeding
• BEEKEPING ECONOMY
• Detection and Prevention of Honey Fraud
• Diversifying Income Sources for Beekeepers
• International Honey Market Trends
• Marketing, Branding, Value Chains-Commercial
• Local honey cooperatives
• The impact of COVID- 19 on beekeeping profits
• BEEKEEPING FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT
• Bees and forests
• Nature Based Beekeeping
• Building livelihoods around bees
• Linking local producers with the buying public
• Local bees, local skills and local experience
• Bees and social endeavours
• BEE HEALTH
• The role of pesticides in bee health
• Breeding for Disease /Mite Resistance
• Health of queens/ drones
• Impact of Pests, Parasites and Pathogens on Bees and their control
• Innovations for monitoring colony health/ production
• Honey bee health and nutrition
• Antibiotics and Microbial resistance
• Monitoring and mitigation measures for new Invasive species
• Climate change effects on bee health and well being
• POLLINATION AND BEE FLORA
• Pollination of crops: how to pollinate and avoid pesticides
• Apis and non-Apis pollination
• Pollinator conservation in agricultural systems
• Characterization and development of floral resources
• Pollination & Flora with Environmental change
• BEEKEEPING TECHNOLOGY AND QUALITY
• Methods to detect wax and honey fraud
• New technologies to monitor hives and diseases
• Characterization of bee products
• Quality aspects of all bee products
• Queen rearing/ mating control