Title: "Characterization of a brood pheromone in the Honeybee"

Date: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2002

Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Place: 244 Natural Science Building (North end of Farmlane)

Refreshments will be served 15 min prior to the seminar.

I am pleased to announce that Dr. Le Conte will be visiting my Lab July 2 to 5. He is a pioneer in honey bee brood pheromone and has published in prestigious journals such as Science and Nature. He also has two patents on the use of brood pheromone. Please come to the seminar if possible. Please email me if you are interested to meet with him during his stay here.

Selected recent publications of Dr. Yves Le Conte:

LE CONTE Y., ARNOLD G., TROUILLER J., MASSON C., CHAPPE B. and OURISSON G., 1989 - Attraction of the Parasitic Mite Varroa to the Drone Larvae of Honey Bees by Simple Aliphatic Esters. Science, 245, 638-639.

LE CONTE Y., ARNOLD G., TROUILLER J., MASSON C., 1990 - Identification of a Brood Pheromone in Honeybees. Naturwissenschaften, 77, 334-336.

TROUILLER J., ARNOLD G., LE CONTE Y., MASSON C., CHAPPE B., 1991 - Temporal Pheromonal and Kairomonal Secretion in the Brood of Honeybees. Naturwissenschaften, 78, 368-370.

TROUILLER J., ARNOLD G., CHAPPE B., LE CONTE Y., MASSON C., 1992 - Semiochemical Basis of Infestation of Honeybee Brood by Varroa jacobsoni. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 18 (11) 2041-2053.

LE CONTE Y., SRENG L., TROUILLER J., 1994 - The recognition of larvae by worker honeybees. Naturwissenschaften, 81, 462-465..

ROBINSON G.E., HEUSER L.M., LE CONTE Y., LENQUETTE F., HOLLINGWORTH R.M., 1999 - Neurochemical aid to nestmate recognition in honeybees, Nature, 399, 534-535.

LE CONTE Y., MOHAMMEDI A., ROBINSON G., 2001 - Primer effects of a brood pheromone on worker honeybee behavioral development, Proceedings of the Royal Society, London. B 268, 163-168.

BRILLET C., ROBINSON G., R. BUES, LE CONTE Y., 2002 - Racial differences in division of labor in colonies of the honey bee (Apis mellifera). Ethology, 108, 115-126.