September 1996
BSPP1996: Unlocking the Future: Information Technology in Plant Pathology
President: Peter R Scott The BSPPs Presidential Meeting in December 1996 was Unlocking the Future: information Technology in Plant Pathology, the President…
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BSPP1997: Global Perspectives of an Applied Science
President: Nigel Hardwick The BSPP Presidential meeting in 1997 was entitled 'Plant Pathology - global perspectives of an applied science'…
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BSPP1998: Detection, Isolation and Manipulation of Soil and Rhizosphere Micro-organisms
President: David Ingram The 1998 BSPP Presidential conference was held at at the University of Warwick, from 15 - 17…
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BSPP1999: Biotic Interactions in Plant-pathogen Associations
President: Mike Jeger The 1999 BSPP Presidential conference was held at at Hertford College, Oxford, UK from 19 - 22…
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BSPP2000: Plant-pathogen Interactions: Understanding Mechanisms of Resistance and Pathogenicity for Disease Control
President: John Mansfield The 2000 BSPP Presidential conference was held at at Wye College (University of London), Wye, Kent, UK…
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BSPP2002: Plant Pathology and Global Food Security
President: Roger Plumb The 2002 BSPP Presidential conference Plant Pathology and Global Food Security was held at at Imperial College,…
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BSPP2003: Plant Pathogen Genomics – From Sequence To Application
President: John Lucas The BSPP Presidential meeting was held on 15-18th December, 2003 at the Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham…
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BSPP2004: Discovery, Development and Delivery in Plant Pathology
President: Stuart Wale 7th Conference of the European Foundation for Plant Pathology & BSPP Presidential Meeting 2004: Discovery, Development and Delivery…
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BSPP2005: Plant Pathology with a Purpose
President: Professor Phil Russell As part of my introduction to the theme of the 2005 presidential meeting ‘Plant Pathology with…
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BSPP2006: 25th Anniversary Celebratory Meeting
President: Peter Mills Imperial College, London 19th December 2006 To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the foundation of the British…
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BSPP2007: Attack and Defence in Plant Disease
President: Richard Cooper Secretary: Gerry Sadler This three-day international meeting was designed to provide an exciting and wide ranging view…
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BSPP2008: Cereal Pathosystems
President: Graham Jellis Queen Mary College, London, 16 to 17 Dec 2008 The Group Ooh La La The rise in…
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BSPP2009: Darwin to Disease: Crops and their Pathogens.
President: Sarah Gurr The BSPP Presidential Meeting in 2009 had a very special theme: to celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Darwin…
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BSPP2011: The Impact of Bioactive Small Molecules in Plant Pathology
President: George Salmond We have lined up an exciting list of speakers who will address the topics of how microbes…
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BSPP2012: Fitness Costs and Trade-offs in Plant-Parasite Interactions
President: Prof. James Brown Disease resistance involves trade-offs with many other aspects of a plant's phenotype and may cause reduced…
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BSPP2013: Visions of plant disease management in 2050
President: Prof. Mike Shaw It will be hotter, the weather more varied and the world more populous. Unmanaged vegetation will…
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BSPP2014 – Some Like It Hot
President: Prof. Lesley Torrance Global warming will affect disease incidence, the emergence of new strains and effectiveness of control measures.…
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BSPP2015 – The Impact of Plant Pathogens on Everyday Lives
President: Prof. Gary Foster The theme of the meeting will be centred around 'the impact of plant pathology on…
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BSPP2016: Food Security, Biosecurity and Trade: The Role of Plant Health
President: Dr Julie Flood The doubling of cereal and livestock production in the last half of the 20th century should…
Find out more »Grand Challenges in Plant Pathology Interdisciplinary Study Group
St Hugh's College, Oxford 14th to 16th September 2016 This conference directly follows the BSPP presidential conference which runs from…
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MBPP2017 – Molecular Biology of Plant Pathogens 2017
MBPP will take place at the JIC Conference Centre, Norwich, on the 18-19 March 2019, with the conference dinner at Norwich City FC restaurant
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BSPP2017: BMS Joint Presidential Meeting – Fungal Control and Exploitation
President: Prof. Richard Oliver Sponsored by Elsevier and CABI About the conference The meeting will be a joint venture with…
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BSPP2018 – What Lies Within: Imaging Plant Microbe Interactions
President: Prof. Murray Grant Registration is invited for the BSPP Presidential meeting to be held at Scarman House, Warwick University…
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BSPP2019: Arms race: Evolution of plant pathogens and their hosts
President: Dawn Arnold PROGRAMME: click here VENUE: Exhibition and Conference Centre, University of West England, Frenchay campus. ARRIVING BY CAR:…
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BSPP Plant Pathology Outreach Workshop 2020-2021
During the lead up to UK Plant Health Week (21st- 27th September) please join us for an online workshop to…
Find out more »BSPP WEBINAR: Biocontrol of plant disease – the use of living organisms to suppress the effects of disease
To mark UK Plant Health Week 2020, David Collinge (BSPP President Elect) presented our first live webinar on Monday 21st…
Find out more »BSL webinar – Visualising how plants and microbes function in sign language
During Plant Health Week 2020, we had the pleasure of welcoming a team from the Scottish Sensory Centre to present…
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Plant Health Summit for Future Leaders – Royal Society of Biology
The Summit will be a national virtual conversation operating in three stages between October 2020 and January 2021, culminating in…
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BSPP Plant Health Club: Science Communication for outreach activities
James Piercy will present on the theme of Science Communication for outreach activities. His first role, in 1995, was as…
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Write Now! Residential course on popular writing about plant health
Write Now! is aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers. We welcome applications from plant pathologists and others with…
Find out more »BSPP Plant Health Club: ‘Living Science’ personal careers and experiences in plant pathology
‘Living Science’ - Santa Olga Cacciola (University of Catania, Italy), Lucy Carson-Taylor (APHA), and Eric Boa (BSPP) will discuss personal…
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BSPP Plant Health Club: Publishing a paper in Plant Pathology
Prof. Matthew Dickinson – Senior Editor of Plant Pathology will talk about the process of publishing a paper - including…
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BSPP Plant Health Club: Collaborative working in Plant Pathology
Presenter: David Collinge BSPP Chair: David Collinge Co-chair: Dr Helen Rees, Researcher at SRUC Registration to close 6th Sept David…
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BSPP Plant Health Club: Entrepreneurship in Science
Speaker: Ale Maiano BSPP Chair: Trisna Tungadi Co-chair: Lauren Chappell Registration to close 3rd Oct Ale Maiano: Ale is co-founder…
Find out more »British Society for Plant Pathology LGBTQIA+ Networking Event
We would like to invite LGBTQIA+ BSPP members to join us for a virtual discussion. The focus of this event…
Find out more »November 2021
BSPP Plant Health Club: ‘Living Science’: Personal careers and experiences in plant pathology – 2
Siân Deller (Syngenta) and Adrian Fox (Fera) will discuss personal careers and experiences in plant pathology BSPP Chair: Gail Preston,…
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BSPP2021 – Our Plants, Our Future (OPOF) – Joint conference from BSPP and the EFPP
Edgbaston Conference Centre, University of Birmingham, UK. All presentations will be streamed live and VIRTUAL REGISTRATION is now available. See…
Find out more »BSPP AGM 2021
The forthcoming annual general meeting of the British Society for Plant Pathology will be held on Monday 6th December at 12.15…
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BSPP Plant Health Club: Plant Health Policy
Nicola Spence will discuss plant health policy. BSPP Chair: Gail Preston, BSPP Vice President and Chair of the EEDI committee…
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BSPP Plant Health Club: Research Fellowships
Sebastian Eves-van den Akker and Beatriz Orosa will share their experiences of applying for and securing research fellowships BSPP Chair:…
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May 2022
BSPP Plant Health Club: Biosecurity at RHS Events
Anna Platoni of the Royal Horticultural Society will share her knowledge and experiences in biosecurity at RHS events BSPP Chair:…
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BSPP2022 – Microbial lifestyles: from symbionts to pathogens
First announcement What’s it about This is the main, annual BSPP meeting, led by Professor David B Collinge, the current…
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