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Adrian Grew

Adrian Grew

I am a very passionate apiarist who has accumulated years of experience in a short time from mentors and skilled experienced apiarist. I’ve only been …
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Ben Oldroyd

Ben Oldroyd

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 …
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Bruce White

Bruce White

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 …
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Casey Cooper

Casey Cooper

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 …
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Cooper Schouten

Cooper Schouten

Dr Cooper Schouten is the project manager for the Bees for Sustainable Livelihoods Research Group at Southern Cross University.
Cooper specialises in international apicultural research and …
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Corinne Jordan

Corinne Jordan

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 …
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Danny Le Feuvre

Danny Le Feuvre

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 …
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Diana Leemon

Diana Leemon is a Principal Scientist within AgriScience Queensland (part of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries) and a member of the AgriFutures HoneyBee & …
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Dr. Doug Somerville

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 …
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Emily Remnant

Emily Remnant

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 …
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Erica Mo

Erica Po

Erica is a research assistant and recent graduate from University of Sydney where she completed her Bachelor. Having grown up in city Sydney, her first …
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Fiona Chambers

Fiona Chambers

Fiona has 30 years business experience in the production and marketing of agricultural and horticultural commodities both in Australia and overseas.
Before taking up the position …
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John Roberts

John Roberts

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 …
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Kelly Lees

Kelly Lees

Kelly is a Honey Bee Education Officer for Tocal College, NSW Department of Primary Industries based at Tocal, Paterson. She also operates a small commercial …
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Liz Frost

Liz Frost

Liz Frost is the Technical Specialist, Honey Bees for the NSW Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI). She delivers research, development and education programs and …
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Madlen Kratz

Madlen Kratz

Madlen’s interest in bees started at the beginning of her Bachelor’s degree, where she joined the Centre of Integrative Bee Research (CIBER) at the University of …
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Mal Porter

Mal Porter

Malcolm is a 3rd generation beekeeper, beginning beekeeping in 1977 and went full time with his wife Deborah in 1994, creating their company ML & …
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Michael Holmes

Michael Holmes

Michael Holmes is a research assistant in the Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution Lab at the University of Sydney. Michael received his PhD from the University …
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Nadine Chapman

Nadine Chapman

Nadine Chapman is a bee researcher at the University of Sydney. Nadine’s research is primarily industry focused. She co-leads the Plan Bee honey bee genetic …
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Nural Cokcetin

Nural Cokcetin

Research Fellow, ithree institute, University of Technology Sydney

Nural is a research scientist specialising in microbiology at the ithree institute, University of Technology Sydney. Nural’s research …
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Patsavee Utaipanon

Patsavee Utaipanon

Patsavee Utaipanon is a PhD student in the Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution Lab at the University of Sydney. Her interest in social insects began when …
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Rod Bourke

Rod Bourke

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 …
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Ros Gloag

Ros Gloag

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 …
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Sam Malfroy

Sam Malfroy

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. …
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Steve Fuller

Steve Fuller

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 …
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Théotime Colin

Théotime Colin

Théotime was trained as a beekeeper when he was in high school and has kept bees ever since. He studied biology in France before coming …
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Thomas Gillard

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 …
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