David De Jong Ph.D. (Cornell University) is a geneticist and entomologist. He has been a faculty member of the Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine in the University of São Paulo since 1988, where he teaches genetics, evolution and scientific writing in the Genetics Department. He has also given scientific writing courses in various universities, throughout Brazil. Dr. De Jong’s principal areas of research are honey bee pathology, behavior, nutrition and genetics. He is an international consultant in apiculture, having participated in projects for FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), IDB (Interamerican Devolopment Bank) and various other organizations in the majority of the countries in Central and South America, as well as South Korea, and has given talks and courses as an invited speaker in more than 20 countries. Dr. De Jong was associate editor of the Brazilian Journal of Genetics (renamed Genetics and Molecular Biology) from 1988 to 2001 and associate editor of Genetics and Molecular Research from 2002 to 2015. He is the author of over 100 refereed papers and has also authored several books and book chapters. He is known and consulted as a specialist on (honey bee) colony collapse disorder (CCD), Africanized honey bees, and honey bee pathology, especially because his research on the parasitic mite, Varroa destructor, the principal agent causing bee mortality worldwide.