Conference Information Page – Plant Pathology 2025 (#PPATH2025) and Early Careers Plant Pathology 2025 (#ECPP2025)
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Professor Matthew Dickinson, the President of the BSPP, invites you to register for Plant Pathology 2025 (#PPATH2025) and Early Careers Plant Pathology 2025 (#ECPP2025), the main annual meetings of the British Society for Plant Pathology. The meetings will be held on the Jubilee Campus of the University of Nottingham, UK, Tuesday 9th to Thursday 11th September. Accommodation is provided from Monday 8th September allowing a prompt start on Tuesday 9th September.
Tuesday 9th September will feature two events; the #ECPP2025 meeting with open sessions featuring talks from ECRs, selected from the abstracts. A parallel session, co-organised with the AAB, and led by Dr James Fortune and Professor Rumiana Ray, will focus on Applied Plant Pathology in British Agriculture. This session will feature presentations tackling current issues affecting practical crop protection in the UK.
Wednesday 10th September will feature presentations from invited speakers, offered paper sessions, the PH Gregory Prize session and posters including the J Colhoun Poster Prize.
The morning of Thursday 11th September will be split between two parallel sessions;
- Artificial Intelligence Revolution in Plant Health organised by Prof. Adam Kleczkowski
- Induced Resistance and its role in enhancing plant health within the framework of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) organised by Dr Rosa Sanchez-Lucas
The meeting will conclude around 4pm with the RKS Wood prize lecture, other presentations from invited speakers, offered papers and the announcement of prize winners.
Getting here: Nottingham is well connected to cities throughout the UK by the train network.
View the Programme 2025
Abstract Booklet 2025
Registration details
Register here for Tuesday and/or for Wednesday and Thursday. Registration with standard accommodation in single rooms on the Jubilee campus includes all meals from Monday evening to Thursday afternoon, including evening meals on Monday, Tuesday and the conference dinner on Wednesday evening, parking, and attendance at any of the sessions, the poster display and exhibitors.
Non-residential registration is available below and parking tickets are available via here. Evening meals are not included in the non-residential bookings and attendance at the Conference dinner requires a separate ticket. Double rooms are available on campus and can be booked separately here. They do not include meals and will require separate tickets for the conference dinner.
Please note our cancellation policy
· Up to and including 1 August 2025: 100% refund or you can choose to transfer the booking to someone else.
· From 2 August 2025 onwards: No refund, but you can choose to transfer the booking to someone else.
· If you need to cancel or transfer the booking, please contact meetings@bspp.org.uk
Registration is closed
Confirmed speakers for Plant Pathology 2025
We have a great line up of invited speakers:
- Paul Birch – James Hutton Institute Scotland, winner of the RKS Wood Prize 2025
- Paul Dyer (ECPP evening / cheese)
- Matt Dickinson – BSPP Presidential address
- Evans Lagudah – CSIRO, Australia. “Durable resistance to a global wheat pathosystem: ‘backbone’ and ‘muscle’ R genes scorecard”
- Leena Tripathi – International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nairobi, Kenya. “Genome Editing of banana for disease resistance”.
- Ruth Bryant – Syngenta, Switzerland; Biological fungicides – Is there potential for mainstream use on cereals?
- Ronnie de Jonge – Utrecht University The Netherlands “Dissecting mechanisms of root microbiota establishment using beneficial microbes and synthetic communities”
- Jan van Kan – Wageningen University. “How (not) to control diseases caused by Botrytis”.
- Helen Cockerton – University of Kent. “Host and tissue specific plant pathogen interactions in horticultural powdery mildews”.
- Matevz Papp-Rupar – NIAB East Malling. “Factors affecting apple microbiome and its potential role in apple canker management (Neonectria ditissima)”.
- John Doonan – Aberystwyth University – Extracting knowledge from large datasets using AI related approaches
- Srikanth Rupavatharam – ICRISAT, India – Using AI at Farmer’s level: last-mile-delivery of Plant Health Management’
