ECT supported projects in 2023

Posted on December 8, 2023

The Eva Crane Trust is currently supporting a number of bee related projects around the world. Here is an overview of the various outreach projects, publications and academic research that is currently receiving financial support from the Trust.

  • Assessing the effects of microplastics on bee health, behaviour, and cognition.
    Prof. David Baracchi, University of Florence, Italy.
     
  • Unveiling Meliponiculture: Decolonizing Maya Stingless Beekeeping in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. 
    Veronica Briseño-Castrejon, University of Calgary, Canada.
     
  • BeeSTING: a new antiviral pathway in bees?
    Dr Vincent Doublet, Uni of Ulm, Germany.
     
  • ARBEEB: Automatic Recognition of BumblebEE species and Behaviour from their buzzes
    Dr Jérémy Froidevaux, University of Stirling
     
  • Investigating the accuracy of the transfer of information in the honeybee waggle dance.
    Anna Hadjitofi, University of Edinburgh
     
  • BOOK: Bees, Science and sex in the literature of the long nineteenth century.
    Dr's Christopher Harrington & Alexis Harley, La Trobe University, Tasmania.
     
  • Ethnobiological study of the interactions between stingless bees, honey and the Amazonian people in Peru.
    Dr Rossana Paredes, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru.
     
  • Can evolved volatiles be used for non-invasive pro-active surveillance and diagnosis of Apis mellifera hive health to combat infectious diseases?
    Dr Ashley Roberts, University of Lincoln
     
  • City bees, country bees: using eDNA to monitor pollinators, flower visitors, and pollination networks in a tropical landscape (Pilot study).
    Dr. Alyssa Stewart, Mahidol University, Thailand.
     
  • The use of RFID technology to track the dispersal of red mason bees, Osmia bicornis (synonym Osmia rufa) in commercial orchards.
    Fiona Tainsh, University of Warwick.
     
  • Assessing genomic differences between a rare and common bumblebee in Western Ireland: Implications for conservation strategies.
    Lydia Bell Thompson, University College Dublin.

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