Alessandra

Co-Chair of the COLOSS BEESCHOLARS TASK FORCE

From November 2024- ongoing

Main responsibilities: management of educational resources, international collaborations acquisition, training activities development to support young generation of honey bee researchers.

Member of the Italian National Honey Observatory Working Group “Honey Quality, Evolution, Impacts and Appeal”

From November 2024- ongoing

Main responsibilities: address dynamics concerning honey quality, with focus on climate change, possible impacts and activities for honey appeal enhancing.

International Co-Coordinator of the COLOSS Nutri Task Force- Working Group 3- Global Honey Bee Nutri Survey Project

From November 2022- ongoing

Main responsibilities: international coordination of the project activities related to the Nutri Survey implementation, updating, editing, dissemination among local beekeepers, database management, results analysis supervision. Organization of in-person and online workshops for the dissemination of current results and national and international parallel projects for the creation of synergies between researchers of the COLOSS Nutri TF group

Technical Collaboration in the UNAAPI- UNIONE NAZIONALE ASSOCIAZIONI APICOLTORI ITALIANI National Beekeepers’ Association Union (Italian Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry- MASAF accredited) CRT Beekeeping, Environment and Nutritional Issues – UNAAPI

From June 2018- ongoing

Main responsibilities: technical assistance and project management on honey bee nutrition and biomonitoring researches

Technical Collaboration- ALPA Associazione Laziale Produttori Apistici- Italian regional beekeeper association

From 2016- ongoing

Main responsibilities: technical assistance, honey bee pathologies and nutrition teaching. Project management on resource acquisition, funding, administration

Consultant for universities, companies, organizations, and non-profits in resource acquisition, funding and administration.

From 2016- ongoing

Main responsibilities: Project management in technical assistance and training in apiculture.

Technical Collaboration with the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana, DIA/ACC/UO Beekeeping UNIT- Italian Public Health Control Institution- Honey Bee Pathologies

From July 2007- January 2016

Main responsibilities: Diagnosis of bee pathologies. Morphometric analyses for the identification of Apis mellifera subspecies. Implementation of clinical trials in apiaries for the evaluation of the acaricidal efficacy of low environmental impact and non-low environmental impact products. Implementation of clinical trials in apiaries for the evaluation of the efficacy against Nosema spp. microsporidia of low environmental impact and non-low environmental impact products. Training to stakeholders in the beekeeping sector through teaching in courses/seminars/training days organized by IZSLT or other Entities, beekeeping associations, international working groups, etc.