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BSPP Conference expenses for invited speakers

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    • Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary
    • Undergraduate Research & Exams Prizes
    • MSc/MRes Student Bursary
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Latest News

BSPP Board Member Opportunities 2027

3rd August 2026

Digital Threat Forecast: How Algorithms Reveal the Expansion Plans of Forest Pathogens

30th June 2026

Nominations for BSPP Honorary Membership 2027

3rd June 2026

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Upcoming Conferences

SAVE THE DATE: PPATH27 and ECPP27

September 7, 2027 - September 9, 2027

TBC

International SPS Symposium 2026

October 14, 2026 - October 16, 2026

Versailles, France

International Congress of Plant Pathology 2028

August 19, 2028 - August 25, 2028

Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

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As an Invited Speaker the BSPP will refund a contribution towards your economy/standard class travel to attend the conference up to a maximum of £ 900 (international outside Europe) £ 350 (within Europe) or £ 250 (UK). The costs will be reimbursed after the conference on submission of with travel receipts at, or after, the meeting.

Where accommodation is provided as part of the conference package, you will not receive any reimbursement if you choose to stay in alternative accommodation. Please note that you will be charged for additional expenses not included in the room reservation fee, such as telephone calls or laundry services.

If accommodation is not part of the conference package, the BSPP will reimburse hotel costs for bed and breakfast rates to include the night before the conference and accommodation during the conference upto £ 120/night.

You are responsible for making your own travel and hotel arrangements (where accommodation is not provided as part of the conference package). You will be reimbursed for all your travel expenses up to the allocated amount stated. The travel support is intended to include airfare and local transport. The travel support does not include: car rentals, meals, snacks, newspapers, additional hotel nights over and above what you have been offered, phone calls, movies, in-room mini bar, laundry/dry cleaning, room service at the hotel, and similar miscellaneous items. If your expenses exceed the travel support amount stated, you will receive only the maximum amount.

Please note that reimbursement is subject to you attending and presenting at the conference. The BSPP requires any reimbursed speakers to attend the poster session and conference dinner.

New Disease Report

NDR

New Disease Reports is now published by Wiley & Sons LTD. See the latest articles here

8th October 2026

Latest Publications in Plant Pathology

Increased abundance of patatins, lipoxygenase and miraculins in a thaxtomin Ahabituated potato Russet Burbank somaclone with enhanced resistance to common scab

Sugarcane mild mosaic virus: The rediscovery of an identified but unrecognized virus

Response of rice genotypes to rice rootknot nematode (Meloidogyne graminicola) infection under varying temperature regimes

Latest Publications in Molecular Plant Pathology

A Phytophthora capsici RXLR effector manipulates plant immunity by targeting RAB proteins and disturbing the protein trafficking pathway

The northern corn leaf blight resistance gene Ht1 encodes an nucleotidebinding, leucinerich repeat immune receptor

Transcriptional regulator Sar regulates the multiple secretion systems in Xanthomonas oryzae

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University Of Keele
School of Life Sciences
Keele
Staffordshire
ST5 5BG

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