Pollinator Nutritional Research: From Collecting and Characterizing Floral Resource Provisions to the Inference of Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences

Organizer(s)

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  Rodney Richardson

  Assistant Professor
  Appalachian Laboratory
  University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
  Frostburg, Maryland
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  Anthony Vaudo

  Postdoctoral Scholar
  Department of Biology
  University of Nevada
  Reno, Nevada

View our on-demand presentations, then join us in-person for live presentations and discussion.

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:35 PM MT

  Introductory remarks
• 1:35 PM – 1:55 PM MT

  Food as medicine: Assessing the specificity, trade-offs, and mechanisms of sunflower pollen's medicinal effect in bumble bees
  

  Presenting Author: Alison E. Fowler – University of Massachusetts

  Co-Author: Jonathan Giacomini – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Rebecca E. Irwin – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Benjamin Sadd – Illinois State University

  Co-Author: Toby Bassingthwaite – Illinois Sate University

  Co-Author: Sara June Connon – USDA-APHIS

  Co-Author: Elyse Stone – Smith College

  Co-Author: Lynn S. Adler – University of Massachusetts
• 1:55 PM – 2:15 PM MT

  Clean feed for bees: Collecting and sterilizing pollen for bee diet
  

  Presenting Author: James Strange – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Amber Tripodi – USDA-APHIS

  Co-Author: Robert Ward – Utah State University
• 2:15 PM – 2:35 PM MT

  Novel approaches for quantifying pollen chemistry and insect-pollen networks over broad spatial and temporal gradients
  

  Presenting Author: Lee Dyer – University of Nevada

  Co-Author: Casey Philbin – University of Nevada

  Co-Author: Behnaz Balmaki – University of Nevada
• 2:35 PM – 2:50 PM MT

  Break
• 2:50 PM – 3:10 PM MT

  Pollen nutrition structures bee-wildflower community interactions in the Eastern Sierra
  

  Presenting Author: Anthony Domiano Vaudo – University of Nevada

  Co-Author: Anne Leonard – University of Nevada
• 3:10 PM – 3:30 PM MT

  Pollinator nutrition from a plant's-eye view: Floral reward macronutrients predict patterns of pollen movement in a co-flowering plant community
  

  Presenting Author: Jacob Francis – University of California

  Co-Author: Anne Leonard – University of Nevada
• 3:30 PM – 3:50 PM MT

  Molecular pollen analysis and its implications for pollinator nutritional research
  

  Presenting Author: Rodney T. Richardson – University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
• 3:50 PM – 4:05 PM MT

  Discussion
• 4:05 PM – 4:10 PM MT

  Closing remarks