Meetings Archives

This page provides summaries of and links to abstracts/proceedings of BSPP sponsored meetings. A list of planned meetings can be found by clicking here.

Presidential Meeting 2012: Fitness Costs and Trade-offs in Plant-Parasite Interactions

Norwich UK, 16 to 18 Dec 2012

Disease resistance involves trade-offs with many other aspects of a plant's phenotype and may cause reduced fitness in terms of growth and reproduction. Likewise, increased virulence to a host plant may lower the fitness of a parasite in other ways. The BSPP 2012 Presidential Conference will bring together leading experts on fitness costs and trade-offs involved in plant disease. It will cover the full range of the subject from molecular biology and physiology to ecology and evolution, as well as the relevance of fitness costs to disease control. Registration will be open in April.

Speakers: Didier Andrivon, Lia Arraiano, James Brown, Angus Buckling, Hans Cools, Santiago Elena, Fernando García-Arenal, Mogens Hovmøller, Ralph Hückelhoven, Jonathan Jones, Sophien Kamoun, Anna-Liisa Laine, Bruce McDonald, Tom Mitchell-Olds, Luis Mur, Paul Nicholson, Corné Pieterse, Gail Preston, Aurélien Tellier.


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BSPP Presidential Meeting 2011: The Impact of Bioactive Small Molecules in Plant Pathology

Clare College, Cambridge, UK, 15 to 16 Dec 2011

The meeting will address how microbes use small molecules in their assault on plants, how plants retaliate with their own molecular arsenal, and how bioactive molecules may be exploited in disease control. A full list of speakers is now online and the registration deadine is now 23rd November.
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Fourth International Workshop on Barley Leaf Blights (4IWBLB)

West Park, Dundee, Scotland, UK, 27 to 29 Jun 2011

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8th International Conference on Pseudomonas syringae pathovars and related pathogens

Oxford, UK, 31 Aug to 03 Sep 2010

This conference will cover a wide range of topics including: pathogenicity and virulence mechanisms, genomics and bioinformatics, evolution, taxonomy and systematics, ecology and epidemiology, plant responses, diagnostics and disease control, insights from related pathogens.
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Presidential Meeting 2009: Darwin to Disease; Crops and their pathogens

Oxford University Museum, 22 Sep 2009

Celebrating Darwin's 200th birthday, this special event was held in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Speakers included Robert Zeigler, Nick Talbot, Gero Steinberg, Ralph Panstruga, Paul Birch, Howard Atkinson, Ian Toth, Peter Dodds, Franck Takken, Jurriaan Ton and James Brown.
Abstracts and other info available

BSPP Presidential Meeting 2008: Cereal Pathosystems

Queen Mary College, London, 16 to 17 Dec 2008

Two-day joint meeting with HGCA (www.hgca.com), providing an exciting and wide-ranging view of current understanding of cereal pathosystems.
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Potato Workshop

SASA, Edinburgh, 02 Jul 2008

This was a one one-day workshop organised by the BSPP, under the auspices of the International Year of the Potato (www.potato2008.org), with sponsorship from the Potato Council (www.potato.org.uk)
Abstracts (pdf file)

Break Crops Workshop

Processors & Growers Resarch Organisation, Peterborough, 24 Jun 2008

A one-day workshop organised by the BSPP in association with HGCA and PGRO
Abstracts (pdf file)

2007: Attack and Defence in Plant Disease

University of Bath, 12th-14 September 2007
President: Dr Richard Cooper

2006: Sustainable disease management: the European perspective

KVL - The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen from 13-17 August
Joint meeting with EFPP. President: Prof. Peter Mills

2006: BSPP 25th Anniversary Meeting

Abstracts, downloads and related articles

2005: Plant Pathology with a Purpose

Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham, UK from 19-21 December
President: Prof. Phil Russell

2004: Discovery, Development and Delivery in Plant Pathology (joint EFPP 2004 meeting)

Old Aberdeen Campus, University of Aberdeen, Scotland from 5-10th September
President: Dr Stuart Wale.

2003: Plant Pathogen Genomics - From Sequence To Application

Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham, UK from 15-18 December.
President: Prof. John Lucas

2002: Plant Pathology and Global Food Security

Imperial College, London, UK from 8-10 July. 
President: Prof. Roger Plumb

2000: Plant-pathogen interactions: understanding mechanisms of resistance and pathogenicity for disease control

Wye College, 18-20 December 2000
President: Prof. John Mansfield

1999: Biotic interactions in plant-pathogen interactions

Hertford College, Oxford, 19-22 December 1999
President: Prof. Mike Jeger

1998: Detection, isolation and manipulation of soil and rhizosphere micro-organisms

University of Warwick, 15-17 December 1998
President: Dr David Ingram

1997: Plant Pathology - Global perspectives of an applied science

University of York, 15-18 December, 1997
President: Dr Nigel Hardwick

1996: Unlocking the future: Information technology in plant pathology

University of Kent, 16-19 December, 1996
President: Dr Peter R Scott

Other  Meetings

2001: The 11th International Sclerotinia Workshop 2001

Abstracts, pictures and reports.

1998: Biodiversity and Plant Pathogens and Conservation

1998: The International Congress of Plant Pathology

held in Edinburgh

1997: Abstracts of the Potato Pathology meeting

(BSPP/Scottish Plant Pathology and Mycology Club) held in Edinburgh