Scottish Mycology and Plant Pathology Club


Welcome to the Scottish Mycology and Plant Pathology Club pages. The Scottish Mycology and Plant Pathology Club (formerly the Edinburgh Mycology and Plant Pathology Club) was formed in 1976 as an informal gathering of mycologists and plant pathologists from across Scotland and northern England to present their work and exchange ideas. It meets twice a year, normally on a Wednesday in the spring and autumn. The meetings are always lively and sociable and members value the comment and feed back they get from presenting their work. The secretary is currently Dr Fiona Burnett , Crop Science Department, SAC, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, email: f.burnett@ed.sac.ac.uk

Scottish Mycology and Plant Pathology Club, 26 November 2002, SCRI, Invergowrie, Dundee.

Local Organiser Dr Alison Lees

Programme

10.00 Coffee

Morning Session chaired by Dr Stuart Wale

10.30 Nick Read, University of Edinburgh
Organisation and dynamics of organelles in fungal hyphae

10.55 Nawsheen Taleb
Identification of potato genes involved in resistance to Phytophthora infestans

11.20 Jim Duncan, SCRI
Caution should be used when describing races in Phytophthora

11.45 Alexandra Schlenzig, SASA
Phytophthora ramorum
– the sudden oak death pathogen

12.05 John Jones, SCRI
Cloning and functional characterisation of a secreted chorismate mutase from the potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida – the role of horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of pathogenesis in nematodes

12.30 LUNCH

Afternoon Session chaired by TBA

1.30 Stuart Wale, SAC
Update on current blackleg work

1.55 Neil McRoberts, SAC
No empty niches - thoughts on integrated control of diseases and pests

2.20 David Walsh, SAC
Gene identification in the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungus Gigaspora rosea by Expressed Sequence Tag analysis

2.45 Christopher Schmidt, University of Aberdeen
Influence of soil temperature and soil matric potential on the biocontrol of Pythium damping off disease in sugar beet by antagonistic bacteria

3.10 Xiaohui Cui, SAC
Quorum Sensing Controls Biosurfactant Production in Pseudomonas fluorescens 5064

3.35 COFFEE

Programmes from previous meetings and meeting reports published in BSPP Newsletter are listed below:

Previous meeting programmes

Meeting reports:

The University of Edinburgh, 30/05/01

University of Aberdeen, 6 October 1999

Report by Billy Boddles

SASA Edinburgh, 19 May 1999
SAC Edinburgh, 30 September 1998
SAC Auchincruive, 15 April 1998

Potato Pathology - University of Edinburgh, 24 September 1997

Report by Fiona Burnett

Please let Fiona Burnett know if you or any colleagues have work that you are interested in presenting to the club in poster or paper form, from your own recent research or advisory experiences.


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