Doctoral project Brieuc Nelissen Grade

Doctoral project David Claeys Boúúaert

Doctoral project Karel Schoonvaere

Doctoral project Regis Lefebre

Doctoral project Sara Vleminckx

Identification and management of stress in honey bees caused by the environment and beekeeping practice

Innovation in selection for resilience in apiculture

Mechanisms by which honey bees <i>Apis mellifera simensis</i> in Ethiopia cope with pests and pathogens

Molecular and ecological mechanisms of resilience to pesticides in honey bees

Typology of the haemocytes of the honey bee based on surface determinants

Bridging Biodiversity and Beekeeping: Exploring the impact of the Yellow-legged hornet (Vespa velutina) in Flanders

Characterization and functions of haemocytes in honeybees

Doctoral project Dana Freshley

Socio-economics of beekeeping: Production efficiency and marketing chain analysis of beekeeping in South Western Ethiopia

Bacteriophages in the honey bee gut and their effects on health, behavior and development. (B-Phage project)

Bees in Europe and the decline of honeybee colonies

BEETOX

Best practices and innovations for a sustainable beekeeping

Characterization of the immunosuppressive effect of Nasonia vitripennis his host sarcophaga crassipalpis and potential biomedical applications

Deformed wing virus, the cause of colony collapse disorder in honeybees

Development of an original global management tool for bee health destined for the bee keepers.

Exploring marker-assisted selection in honey bees towards Varroa – and virus resistance

Genetic variants associated with honey bee resistance against Deformed wing virus and their use in CRISPR-based marker assisted selection to improve resilience of bees

Giving Beekeeping Guidance by computational-assisted Decision making

Honeybee resilience to disease and pests

Improving Bees' Resilience to Stressors by Restoring Harmony and Balance

Marker-assisted selection in honeybees, Apis mellifera, for increased Varroa resistance

Mechanisms by which honey bees in Africa (Ethiopia) cope with pathogens and pests

Multidiciplinary assessment of BELgian wild BEE decline to adapt mitigation management policy - BELBEES

Occurrence of protective alleles in honey bees from Ethiopia (Apis mellifera simensis)

Research on the link between the health of bees populations and different potentially explanatory variables in a spatially explicit way for Belgium

Research on varroa tolerance in honey bees in Belgium.

RT 17/3 BEESYN 1: Identification of the impact of chemistry on honey mortality in Belgium, taking into account the interactions of these products with other possible causes of mortality.

Sociogenomics and proteomics of altruistic behavior in the honeybee

Study of the host-pathogen interaction in breeding disease American foulbrood of the honeybee: virulence of Paenibacillus larvae and immunity of honeybee larvae.

Study of the host-pathogen interaction of the brood disease American foulbrood of the honeybee: virulence of Paenibacillus larvae and immunity of the honeybee larvae.

Study of the tsetse fly innate immunity to control the endosymbiotic bacterium Sodalis glossinidius and its impact on trypanosome transmission

The effects of Nasonia vitripennis venom: pathways and expression profiles in the host Sarcophaga crassipalpis and the human celline HEK293

The poison of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) and the earth bumblebee (Bombus terrestris): analysis and immunological significance of the proteome

Vespa Watch: Invasion monitoring of Asian hornets with hobby makers and the public

Winter loss of honeybees (apis mellifera): identification of novel and known honeybee viruses associated with weak colonies using state of the art viral metagenomics approaches

Study on transmission and virulence of honeybee viruses in bumblebees, and use of biotechnology for improving bumblebee health

Unraveling the honeybee colony mortality complex using an intensive long-term study with revolutionary diagnostic tools and exposure experiments