Geoff Williams - profile information

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Dr. Geoff Williams is an Associate Professor at Auburn University (USA), where he directs the university’s Bee Center. Geoff received an undergraduate degree in animal biology at the University of Alberta (Canada), and then studied Nosema ceranae biology and management for his Ph.D. at Dalhousie University (Canada). He then jumped across the Atlantic to work on honey bee pesticide-parasite interactions and tropilaelaps mites at the University of Bern (Switzerland) and Chiang Mai University (Thailand) for six years as a research scientist. Geoff joined Auburn in late 2016; his work is mainly focused on varroa and tropilaelaps biology and management. He is currently an Executive Committee member of the global honey bee association COLOSS, an apiculture subject editor for the Journal of Economic Entomology, and coordinator of the U.S. Beekeeping Survey. His efforts have been recognized by several groups, including the American and Canadian associations of professional apiculturalists, as well as the Apiary Inspectors of America.