<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="templateContainer" style="font-variant-caps: normal; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; max-width: 600px !important; width: 600px !important;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" id="templateHeader" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: currentcolor;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td valign="top" class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px;"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; float: left; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="word-break: break-word; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 26px; line-height: 32.5px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24px;">NMBKA 2025 Winter Conference!</span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">(and Membership Drive)</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" id="templateBody" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: currentcolor;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td valign="top" class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px;"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; float: left; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="word-break: break-word; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24px;">The 2025 NMBKA Virtual Winter Conference is approaching!</span><br><br><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Important: Your 2025 Membership must be paid in order to participate</span></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://nmbeekeepers.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad273a1c86937b09e594d10af&id=c03129ccb6&e=996cb488c6" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);">https://www.nmbeekeepers.org/pricing-plans/list</a></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class="mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td valign="top" class="mcnImageBlockInner" style="padding: 9px;"><table align="left" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; float: left; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnImageContent" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;"><img align="center" alt="280cfcd7-b4a4-9991-8a9c-de376a803f5d.png" src="cid:B7E66FB9-6F08-4C54-B5B0-7236FB9D2C1D" class="mcnImage" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: currentcolor; vertical-align: bottom; max-width: 904px; padding-bottom: 0px; display: inline !important;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td valign="top" class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px;"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; float: left; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="word-break: break-word; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">This year you do not have to specifically register for the conference itself. However you do need to make sure your 2025 dues ($30) have been paid*.</span><br><br><span style="font-size: 18px;">The conference will run from 10:00 AM-4:00 PM.</span><div style="text-align: center;"><br><br><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Schedule of Presentations</strong></span><br><br><u>Time:</u> 10am – 11am<br><u>Speaker</u>: Melanie R. Kazenel, Ph.D<br><u>Title</u>: <em>The Effects of Climate Change on Bee Populations</em><br> <br> <br><u>Time:</u> 11am – 12pm<br><u>Speaker</u>: Kaira Wagoner, Ph.D<br><u>Title:</u> <em>The Biology of Honey Bee Hygiene - Selecting for Pest and Disease Resistance</em><br> <br>Time: 12:00pm – 12:10pm BREAK<br> <br><strong><u>T</u></strong><u>ime</u>: 12:10 – 1:10pm<br><u>Speaker</u>: Dr. Zachary S. Lamas<br><u>Title</u>: <em>Two convos, one goal</em> <em>(How do we breed for mite resistance while also managing the disease ecology of this complex system</em><br> <br>Time: 1:10pm – 1: 20pm BREAK<br> <br><u>Time</u>: 1:20pm – 2:20pm<br><u>Speaker</u>: William Hesbach<br><u>Title:</u> <em>Thermoregulation and Ventilation in a Bee Colony</em> <br> <br>Time: 2:20 – 2:30 pm BREAK<br> <br><u>Time</u>: 2:30pm – 3:30pm <br><u>Speaker</u>: Dr. Stephen Buchmann<br><u>Title:</u> <em>What a Bee Knows: Quite a Lot!</em><br> <br>Time: 3:30pm – 4:00pm CLOSING <br> </div><span style="font-size: 18px;">All paid NMBKA members will be getting an email with the Zoom link for the conference sometime during the week of February 3-7.<br><br>The entire conference will be recorded and available to all paid NMBKA members in the weeks following the event, so even if you are unavailable to attend on February 7, please make sure to update your membership for 2025! </span><br><br>* If you paid your NMBKA membership between September 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024, you are paid up for all of 2025.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></body></html>