Elisa Seffin
"Understanding multiple interaction among stress factor in the hive ecosystem"
Supervisor: Prof. Francesco Nazzi
Honeybees are the most important pollinators and are essential both for the conservation of plants biodiversity and agricultural production.
In the last decades a worrying decline of honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera L.) often followed by colony losses has been observed in many countries. The loss of bee colonies is due to the interaction among a number of stress factors, including parasites and pathogens (i.e. Varroa destructors, DWV), agrochemicals, the availability and quality of food resources and environmental conditions.
The aim of this PhD project is to understand how different stress agents, both abiotic and biotic, interact with each other and affect bee health, in order to maintain or restore honey bee health and productivity and provide solutions to this impending pollinators’ crisis.
Biography and contacts
Elisa Seffin was born in 1993 in Gorizia, Italy. In 2016 she obtained the Bachelor degree in Environmental Science at the University of Udine (110/110 cum laude). Here, in 2019, she also achieved the Master degree in Agricultural Science and Technology (110/110 cum laude). In November 2019 she started a doctoral course at the PhD school of “Agriculture Science and Biotechnology” at the University of Udine, XXXV cycle. Her activity is funded through the Horizon 2020 research project “Poshbee".