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Meeting Announcement

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3rd International
Phytophthora and Pythium Workshop

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Workshop Announcement - Description - Organizers
Program - Call for Papers

Program

Format:

The workshop will span two days with oral presentations, discussions, invited talks, and posters.

Subject areas include (but are not limited to):

  • Advances in systems for identification and diagnostics
  • Morphological and molecular taxonomic methods
  • Ecology, biogeography, and epidemiology
  • Nomenclature of present taxa and putative new species
  • Systematics and phylogenetics
  • Evolution and Population genetics
  • Integrating morphological and molecular tools for a unified phylogeny and classification

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS


Clive Brasier.  How many Phytophthora species? History of Phytophthora diversity, predicting the numbers and implications for phylogeny and plant health.  Forest Research Agency, Farnham, UNITED KINGDOM.  clive.brasier@forestry.gsi.gov.uk

Michael D. Coffey.  "The World Oomycetes Genetic Resource Collection (WOGRC) formerly World Phytophthora Collection (WPC): The history, mission, goals and projections for the future".  University of California, Department of Plant Pathology, Riverside, CA, USA.  coffey@ucr.edu

David E. L. Cooke.  A clearing picture of Phytophthora evolution: from the wide-angle to the zoom lens for optimal phylogenetic focus.  Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, SCOTLAND.  david.cooke@scri.ac.uk. Web: www.scri.ac.uk

Arthur W.A.M. de Cock.  Pythium: morphological taxonomy after the molecular revision.  Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures. THE NETHERLANDS. a.decock@cbs.knaw.nl

Seogchan Kang.  Phytophthora Database: A cyber-infrastructure supporting the identification and monitoring of Phytophthora spp. Department of Plant Pathology, Pennsylvania State University.  USA.  sxk55@psu.edu

Andre Levesque.  Molecular phylogeny, barcoding and ecology of Pythium species.  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, CANADA.  levesqueca@agr.gc.ca

Hermann Voglmayr.  Reconsidering the species problem in Downy Mildews – where are we now?.  Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, AUSTRIA.  hermann.voglmayr@univie.ac.at


Last Modified: January 28, 2008