Meetings and Conferences
The BSPP holds an annual Presidential Conference which BSPP members can attend for a reduced fee. The conference always incorporates the PH Gregory Prize which is awarded for the best presentation made by a young scientist. BSPP also supports a number of other meetings throughout the year. Suggestions of themes for these generally come from BSPP members.
This list of meetings here is by no means comprehensive. If you wish to publicise a plant pathology-related meeting, please contact the webmanager. Meetings are also announced in BSPP News and Plant Pathology: please contact the Programme Secretary Dr Steve Whisson, for further information. Abstracts of some previous meetings including BSPP Presidential meetings and the International Congress of Plant Pathology held in Edinburgh in 1998 are in the BSPP archives.
BSPP Sponsored Meetings
Other meetings
2010
12th International Conference on Plant Pathogenic Bacteria
Réunion Island, France, 07 to 11 Jun 2010
The main subject of the conference will be Emerging Diseases, with great emphasis on scientific approaches in genomics, interactions, diagnostics, population genetics, epidemiology, as well as control methods which may help us to understand how plant bacteria evolve and adapt to new environments and how we can prevent it. Some of the keynote speakers are working in areas of bacteriology not related to plant pathology, and will address questions of interest to our community.
Link to websiteBMS meeting: 9th International Mycological Congress: The Biology of Fungi
Edinburgh, UK, 01 to 06 Aug 2010
Themes: Cell biology, biochemistry and physiology,Environment, ecology and interactions, Evolution, biodiversity and systematics, Fungal pathogenesis and disease control, Genomics, genetics and molecular biology
Link to websiteEAPR Pathology Section Meeting 2010: Potato Pests and Diseases: Old Enemies, New Threats
Teagasc Crops Research Centre, Oak Park, Carlow, Ireland, 13 to 16 Sep 2010
European Association for Potato Research Pathology Section Meeting 2010. This meeting, jointly hosted by Teagasc and the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (Belfast), will be held at the Seven Oaks Hotel located close to Carlow Town centre. For further information on Carlow see www.carlowtourism.com. This three day meeting will deal with all aspects of potato pathology with a special emphasis on new threats to potato posed by changes in the behaviour of existing pests and pathogens and by new species. Invited speakers will include:
- Colin Fleming, AFBI Belfast on “Emerging nematode threats”,
- Jan van der Wolf, PRI on “New variants of Dickeya and Pectobacterium causing increasing problems with blackleg”
- Lars Christoffersen, Head of Sector (Plant Health), Food and Veterinary Office, European Commission on “The importance of phytosanitary controls for sustainable potato production”
Abstract submissions by 14th May 2010
Contact: potatoes@teagasc.ie
2013
10th International Congress of Plant Pathology (ICPP 2013)
Beijing, China, 25 to 30 Aug 2013
The theme of the Congress is “Biosecurity, Food Safety and Plant Pathology: The Role of Plant Pathology in a Globalized Economy”
Link to website