Past Presidents and Conferences

Below are all our past presidents alongside the BSPP annual conference. Click on the links to read more about the conferences.

Year	President	Title of the presidents conference	Location
2022	Robert Jackson	Plant Pathology 2023	Birmingham
2022	David Collinge	Microbial lifestyles: from symbionts to pathogens	Newcastle
2021	Nicola Spence	Our plants, Our Future	Birmingham
2020	Nicola Spence	COVID19 lockdown – rescheduled
2019	Dawn Arnold	Arms race: Evolution of plant pathogens and their hosts	Bristol
2018	Murray Grant	What lies within: imaging plant-pathogen interactions	Warwick
2017	Richard Oliver	Fungal control and exploitation	Nottingham
2016	Julie Flood	Food security, biosecurity and trade – the role of plant health	Oxford
2015	Gary Foster	The impact of plant pathogens on everyday lives	Bristol
2014	Lesley Torrance	Some like it hot (abiotic stresses plus disease; climate change)	St Andrews
2013	Mike Shaw	Visions of plant disease management in 2050	Birmingham
2012	James Brown	Fitness costs and trade-offs in plant-parasite interactions	Norwich
2011	G Salmond	The impact of bioactive small molecules in plant pathology	Cambridge
2010	Sarah Gurr	no meeting
2009	Sarah Gurr	Darwin to disease: crops and their pathogens	Oxford
2008	Graham Jellis	Cereal pathosystems	QMC, London
2007	Richard Cooper	Attack and defense in plant disease	Bath
2006	Peter Mills	Sustainable disease management: the European persepctive	Imperial, London
2005	Phil Russell	Plant pathology with a purpose	Nottingham
2004	Stuart Wale	Discovery, development and delivery in plant pathology	Aberdeen
2003	John Lucas	Plant pathogen genomics: from sequence to application	Nottingham
2002	Roger Plumb	Plant pathology and global food security	Imperial, London
2001	Chris Gilliigan	no meeting
2000	John Mansfield	Plant pathogen interactions: understanding mechanisms of resistance and pathogenicity for disease control	Wye
1999	Mike Jeger	Biotic interactions in Plant Pathogen Associations	Oxford
1998	David Ingram	Detection, Isolation and Manipulation of Soil and Rhizosphere Micro-organisms	Warwick
1997	Nigel Hardwick	Global Perspectives of an Applied Science	York
1996	Peter R Scott	Unlocking the Future: Information Technology in Plant Pathology	Scott
1995	I. R. Crute
1994	C. E. Caten
1993	D. J. Doyle
1992	J. P Blakeman
1991	R. Johnson
1990	J. M. Thresh
1989	J. R. Coley-Smith
1988	J. T. Fletcher
1987	T. F. Preece
1986	Dr. B. E. J. Wheeler
1985	Prof. P. R. Day
1984	Mr. E. Lester
1983	Dr. M. S. Wolfe
1982	Prof. R. K. S. Wood

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