Stoney Creek Hotel 3060 S Kinney Coulee Road, Onalaska, WI (La Crosse area)
Book your room for the WI Honey Producers Association Convention HERE or call 608-781-3060
- PLEASE NOTE: The WHPA Room Block rate ends on September 30. When booking, use the group code 1124HONEY
2024 WHPA Fall Convention Paper registration form
WHPA Online Convention Registration HERE
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Liz Walsh
“Dr. Liz Walsh is a Research Scientist with the USDA-ARS laboratory in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Steve Pernal, of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, at the Beaverlodge Research Farm in Alberta. Liz’s postdoc was spent exploring the links between honey bee health challenges and honey bee biomarkers as a part of the national BeeCSI project, but she also did work with AFB and chalkbrood exploring stock variation, asymptomatic vs. symptomatic infections, and more. This was all very different than her dissertation work, which was done at Texas A&M University with Dr. Juliana Rangel where Liz explored the impact of miticide exposure in immature queens.
Liz is pleased to be well into her “teenage” years as a beekeeper, since she began keeping bees as a young high school student in her home state of Wisconsin, and is proud to serve the beekeeping industry through research initiatives. Liz is currently working on various projects which include examining: aggression in various honey bee stocks, drone reproductive health and biology, queen reproductive health after stressor exposure, and honey bee variation in responses to pathogens (particularly chalkbrood and Nosema).”
