M. Marta Guarna, Ph. D.

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Chercheuse scientifique

La recherche concernant la santé des abeilles domestiques et la pollinisation avec des colonies migratrices de la Colombie-Britannique et de l’Alberta. La fertilité des reines d’abeilles domestiques, le microbiome intestinal et les maladies infectieuses. Les abeilles en tant que bioindicateurs de l’environnement.

Recherche et / ou projets en cours

-      Le microbiome et les outils «omiques» pour évaluer la santé des abeilles domestiques. AAC avec la collaboration de Génome Canada.

-      Le séquençage par SNG des abeilles et du pollen pour la bio-surveillance des agents pathogènes agricoles et des espèces envahissantes. AAC avec la collaboration de l’ACIA.

-      La pollinisation des bleuetiers et la santé des abeilles. Financé par les intervenants.

-      La santé et la fertilité des reines d’abeilles domestiques. La production de reines d’abeilles domestiques au Canada.

Activités professionnelles / intérêts

- Présidente, Comité de recherche, Association canadienne des professionnels de l’apiculture (ACPA)

- Supervision et mentorat d’un chercheur postdoctoral, d’un assistant de recherche et d’étudiants

Prix et études

 

- Ph. D., Université de New York, Département de biologie

- Biochimie, Université de Buenos Aires, Faculté de pharmacie et de biochimie

Principales publications

  1. Thygesen R, Foster L, Moravcova R, Pernal SF, Guarna MM, Hoover S, Currie R, Zayed A, Giovenazzo P, Pepinelli M, Conflitti IM (2023) The blueberries and the bees: assessing honey bee health stressors using proteomics. 48th International Apimondia Congress, p. 41, 4-8 Sep 2024, Santiago, Chile.
    https://apimondia2023.com/docs/abstract-book.pdf

    2023 - Consulter les détails de la publication

  2. Cunningham MM, Deckers T, Ho J, Wizenberg SB, Lansing L, Tran L, Zorz J, Pepinelli M, French S, Conflitti IM, Ortega Polo R, Hoover S, Currie R, Pernal SF, Giovenazzo P, Zayed A, Foster LJ, Jabbari H, Guarna MM (2023) Sub-lethal pesticide exposure in field trials may alter microbial composition of the honey bee gut microbiome. 48th International Apimondia Congress, p. 222, 4-8 Sep 2024, Santiago, Chile. (Poster) https://apimondia2023.com/docs/abstract-book.pdf

    2023 - Consulter les détails de la publication

  3. Guarna MM, Cunningham MM, Tran L, Ortega Polo R, Pernal SF, Griffiths JS, Murcia-Morales M, Fernández-Alba AR, Bilodeau GJ, Rott ME (2023) Bee-mediated monitoring of pesticides, pathogens, and emerging threats. 48th International Apimondia Congress, p. 49, 4-8 Sep 2024, Santiago, Chile.
    https://apimondia2023.com/docs/abstract-book.pdf

    2023 - Consulter les détails de la publication

  4. Moravcova R, Moon K-M, Stacey GR, Rogalski JC, Yuan X, Pernal SF, Guarna MM, Hoover S, Conflitti IM, Zayed A, Currie R, Giovenazzo P, Pepinelli M, Foster LJ (2023) Proteomics screening for honey bee health. 48th International Apimondia Congress, p. 51, 4-8 Sep 2024, Santiago, Chile.
    https://apimondia2023.com/docs/abstract-book.pdf

    2023 - Consulter les détails de la publication

  5. Griffiths JS, Guarna MM, Pernal SF, Rott ME (2023) Metagenomics monitoring of plant viruses in Canadian agricultural fruit production systems through honey bee pollination. Tri-Society meeting of the Canadian Phytopathological Society, the Canadian Society of Agronomy (CSA) and the Canadian Society for Horticultural Science, p. 52, 17 – 21 June 2023, Ottawa, ON. https://phytopath.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Tri-Society-Conference-program-book.pdf

    2023 - Consulter les détails de la publication

  6. Hewapathirana CM, Bilodeau GJ, Rott ME, Guarna MM, Pernal SF, Griffiths JS (2023) High throughput sequencing (HTS) of bees and pollen for bio-surveillance of agricultural and pathogens. Tri-Society meeting of the Canadian Phytopathological Society, the Canadian Society of Agronomy (CSA) and the Canadian Society for Horticultural Science, p. 42, 17 – 21 June 2023, Ottawa, ON. https://phytopath.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Tri-Society-Conference-program-book.pdf

    2023 - Consulter les détails de la publication

  7. Moravcova R, Moon K-M, Stacey GR, Rogalski JC, Yuan X, Pernal SF, Guarna MM, Hoover S, Conflitti IM, Zayed A, Currie R, Giovenazzo P, Pepinelli M, Foster LJ (2023) Proteomics and honey bee health. 71st ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, 4-8 June, 2023, Houston, TX. (Poster)

    2023 - Consulter les détails de la publication

  8. Liu, X.; Floate, K.D.; Gorzelak, M.A.; Holman, D.B.; Hrycauk, S.; Kubota, H.; Lupwayi, N.; Neilson, J.A.D.; Ortega Polo, R.; Petri, R.M.; Tran, L.; Wang, H.; Wilches, D.; Yang, X.; Zorz, J.; Guarna, M.M. Prairie Agroecosystems: Interconnected Microbiomes of Livestock, Soil and Insects. Agriculture 2023, 13, 326. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13020326

    2023 - Consulter les détails de la publication

  9. Wood S.C., Masood F., Thebeau J., Cloet A., Kozii I.V., Brown B., Zabrodski M.W., Biganski S., Obshta O., Koziy R.V., Klein C.D., Ngeleka M., Foster L., Guarna M.M., Simko E., Ruzzini A. (2022) Identification of genetic determinants of antimicrobial resistance and virulence in Canadian isolates of Melissococcus plutonius, HiveLights. Winter 2022, 35(1): 19

    2023 - Consulter les détails de la publication

  10. Jose MS, Masood F, Thebeau J, Biganski S, Raza FM, Kozii I, Zabrodski M, Guarna MM, Simko E, Wood S. (2022). Characterization of Melissococcus plutonius persistence in adult worker honeybees. Entomological Society of America, Joint Annual Meeting, November 13 – 16, 2022, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

    2022 - Consulter les détails de la publication

  11. Raičević J , Cunningham M, Griffiths JS, Wu L, Pernal, SF, Deckers T, Tran L, Ortega Polo, Zorz J, Clarke K, Newman T, Lansing L, Rott ME, Bilodeau GJ, Bishop C, Jabbari H, Guarna MM (2022) Honey bees as biomonitors of plant pathogens, pesticides, and antimicrobial resistance. EurBee 9 – 9th European Congress of Apidology Proceedings, p. 352, 20-22 September 2022, Belgrade, Serbia. (Poster) https://zenodo.org/record/7239012#.Y4BgMnbMKUk

    2022 - Consulter les détails de la publication

  12. Bixby M, Polinsky M, Foster LJ, Guarna MM (2022) Exploring The Gap in Blueberry Pollination: Honey Bee Colony Shortage and Limited Pollination. Hivelights Fall 2022: Vol 35 #4 p22-23.
    https://honeycouncil.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Hivelights-Fall-2022.pdf

    2022 - Consulter les détails de la publication

  13. Pernal SF, Borba R, Hoover SE, Currie RW, Guarna MM, Giovenazzo P, Zayed A, Foster LJ (2022) Analysis of pathogens associated with winter colony losses in Canada. 47th International Apimondia Congress, pp. 42-43, 24-28 Aug 2022, Istanbul, Turkey.
    https://www.apimondia.org/uploads/7/6/4/3/76436993/47th_apimondia_congres_abstract_book_compressed.pdf

    2022 - Consulter les détails de la publication

  14. MacInnis C, Guarna MM, Luong LT, Pernal SF (2022) Three’s a crowd: How honey bees respond to infection with Lotmaria passim and Nosema ceranae. 2022 American Bee Research Conference, 13-14 Jan 2022. (Virtual Meeting) Bee Culture (in press).

    2022 - Consulter les détails de la publication

  15. Bixby M, Payne A, Polinsky M, Guarna MM, Rangel J. (2022) The Impacts of Covid-19 on Beekeeping Operations in Canada and the United States. American Bee Journal February 2022 Vol. 162 No. 2

    2022 - Consulter les détails de la publication

  16. Vishwakarma S, Mesina L, Lam K, Ryabov M, Lansing L, Chen G, Guarna MM, Ortega Polo R. BeeBiome.info: a portal for increasing the accessibility of bee microbiome data. North America Bee Research Conference – virtual; Jan 13 – 14, 2022.

    2022 - Consulter les détails de la publication

  17. Cunningham MM, Tran L, McKee CG, Ortega-Polo R, Newman T, Lansing L, Griffiths JS, Bilodeau GJ, Rott M, Guarna MM. Bee-based environmental biomonitoring of pesticides, pollutants, and pathogens. North America Bee Research Conference. Virtual, Jan 13-14, 2022

    2022 - Consulter les détails de la publication

  18. Gladish DW, Rott ME, Guarna MM, Pernal SF, Griffiths JF, Bilodeau GJ (2022) Evaluation of plant-pollinator ecosystem health and rapid detection of plant and bee pathogens by high-throughput sequencing of European honey bee (Apis mellifera). Tri-Society Virtual Conference: Canadian Phytopathological Society, Canadian Society for Horticultural Science, Canadian Society of Agronomy, 2021, 5-9 July 2021 Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology (in press)
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epub/10.1080/07060661.2021.2009254?needAccess=true

    2022 - Consulter les détails de la publication

  19. Cunningham MM, Tran L, McKee C, Ortega Polo R, Newman T, Lansing L, Griffiths JS, Bilodeau GJ, Rott M, Guarna MM (2022) Les abeilles domestiques comme bioindicateurs des contaminants environnementaux, des agents pathogènes et du changement climatique. Ecological Indicators Vol 134, Jan,108457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108457

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  20. Bixby, M.E.F., Polinsky, M., Scarlett, R., Higo, H., Common, J., Hoover, S.E., Foster, L.J., Zayed, A., Cunningham, M., Guarna, M.M. (2021). Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadian Beekeeping: Survey Results and a Profitability Analysis. Journal of Economic Entomology, [online] 114(6), 2245-2254. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jee/toab180

    2021 - Consulter les détails de la publication

Installation de recherche

6000, sentiers C et E
Lacombe, AB T4L 1W1
Canada

Affiliations

- Professeure associée, Département de biochimie et de biologie moléculaire, Université de la Colombie‑Britannique

- Membre de la BCHPA (BC Honey Producers Association), de l’ESA (Entomology Society of America) et de l’ACPA (Association canadienne des professionnels de l’apiculture)

Langue

Anglais

Autres langues

spanish