Ben began keeping bees when he was 9 years old. Ben started his career as a quantitative geneticist, working on practical problems of bee breeding during his PhD at the University of Sydney and then at the Victorian Department of Agriculture. He worked on population genetics of Africanized bees in …
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Bruce began in bees while at primary school. He worked at the NSW Department of Agriculture for 43 years as an apiary officer. Bruce has served on the RIRDC Honey Bee Research and Development Advisory Committee and the New South Wales Apiarist Association, had an active role in the Australian …
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Casey Cooper is a second-generation beekeeper situated in Tingha, northern NSW. Casey is big on biosecurity, breeds queens, and offers artificial insemination and pollination services. 
Casey has served on the NSW Apiarists Association. He was a finalist for NSW Farmer of the Year in 2016, the award focuses on farmers who …
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Corinne’s journey with honeybees commenced as founder of The Bee Lady Apiaries in 2008. She quickly realised that her passion was Queen Breeding and since 2013 her goal has been to improve Australia’s Golden Italian honey bees so all Australian Beekeepers can enjoy the benefits of working with productive, healthy …
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Danny is the managing director of Australian Bee Services. His previous experience includes irrigation consultancy, breeding GM canola, broadacre agronomy, research, development and extension. He has extensive experience in managing high profile research projects.
Danny is currently the Chair of the Apiaries Alliance SA, executive on the South Australian Apiarists Association, …
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Diana Leemon is a Principal Scientist within AgriScience Queensland (part of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries) and a member of the AgriFutures HoneyBee & Pollination Industry Advisory panel. Her research over the last twenty years has centered around the investigation of non chemical controls for livestock pests, primarily those …
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Dr. Doug Somerville is NSW DPI Technical Specialist, Honey Bees and Chair of the AgriFutures Honey Bee and Pollination Research Panel. Doug provides specialist technical advice and leadership through developing and promoting the adoption of innovative technological developments in this area. He is the main point of contact between the …
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Emily Remnant is a lecturer and researcher from the University of Sydney. Emily’s area of expertise is insect genetics and genomics and her work aims to understand how insects respond to stress in their environment, such as pathogens and chemical insecticides. Her current research focuses on honey bees, their viruses, …
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Dr John Roberts works on pests and diseases of honey bees.
John joined CSIRO at Black Mountain ACT as a postdoctoral fellow in 2010, and is now a research scientist leading the bee pathology research area with projects focused on improving the biosecurity and health of Australia’s managed and wild honey …
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Liz Frost is acting Technical Specialist, Honey Bees in the NSW DPI Intensive Livestock Industries team. She delivers research, development and education programs and contributes to policy development to improve the productivity, profitability and sustainability of the NSW Beekeeping Industry.
Liz is currently developing a Queen Bee Breeding Program at NSW …
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Malcolm is a 3rd generation beekeeper, beginning beekeeping in 1977 and went full time with his wife Deborah in 1994, creating their company ML & DJ Porter Honey and Pollination Services.
Malcolm has served four years on the NSW Apiarists’ Association executive committee, eight years assisting in the organisation of …
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Nadine Chapman is a bee researcher at the University of Sydney. Nadine’s research is primarily industry focused. Recent projects include determining if queens produced in early spring and autumn have mated with enough males, developing a trap to aid in queen replacement and creating a genetic test to prevent Africanized …
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Rod Bourke hails from a commercial beekeeping family with 4000 hives in Tasmania. In addition to working for many years in the family business, Rod has also been a prawn, coral, giant clam and seahorse farmer.
Rod is currently the Bee Biosecurity Officer for NSW, promoting awareness of the National Bee …
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Ros Gloag is a lecturer in evolutionary biology at the School of Life and Environmental Sciences, the University of Sydney. She researches the behaviour and genetics of birds and bees. Ros has performed studies of the population size of the invasive Asian bee Apis cerana in far-north Queensland, and how …
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Coming from a commercial beekeeping family, Sam worked at Plant Health Australia (2011-2016) where he established and managed many national honey bee and pollination programs. For this work, Sam received the AHBIC Award of Excellence in 2016 for service to the honey bee industry.
From 2016-2018 Sam worked at the …
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Steve has been in the industry for over 20 years working with his brother Wayne and is currently involved in mentoring trainees as part of the DPI Certificate 3 in Beekeeping program. Bee Services is a family run business based in northern NSW with its main focus on producing certified …
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Thomas Gillard is a veterinarian and PhD student researching honey bee reproduction and pathology at the University of Sydney.
Thomas seeks to optimise the artificial insemination techniques used in honey bee breeding and research with an aim to providing evidence based recommendations to improve consistency in advanced reproductive practices. He is …
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