Annual progress report - Cost 873
Annual progress report - Cost 873
Annual progress report - Cost 873
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Monitoring Progress Report – 2009<br />
COST <strong>873</strong> – Bacterial Diseases of Stone Fruits and Nuts<br />
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Planned meetings for 2010<br />
Two Training Courses to provide training in classical and molecular phytobacteriology – Xylella<br />
fastidiosa (Bari IT, October); Pseudomonas (Belgrade RS, April) are scheduled.<br />
Joint meeting with COST<strong>873</strong> and FAO/IPGRI (International Plant Genetics Resources Institute) on<br />
Prunus is scheduled for the summer 2010 in Romania.<br />
Joint international conference with COST<strong>873</strong> and the OECD Biopesticides Steering Group is<br />
scheduled for Spring in Paris. This effort was initiated by the COST<strong>873</strong> CoP.<br />
Joint international congress on Pseudomonas syringae scheduled for September in Oxford UK.<br />
A CoP meeting is planned to transfer COST<strong>873</strong> research accomplishments to stakeholders, and to<br />
elicit stakeholder needs for directing research initiatives of COST<strong>873</strong>.<br />
Several Specific Task Force small meetings are planned for various MoU tasks of COST<strong>873</strong>. STF<br />
meetings on Applied Genomics of Xanthomonas (Zürich) and Host Genomics/Genetics (Barcelona)<br />
are already arranged for February 2010.<br />
The fourth All-WG meeting and MCM is scheduled for October in Latvia. This will again focus on<br />
ESR presentations, break-out discussions to organize cooperative research, and recruitment of<br />
international know-how.<br />
II.B.d. Website<br />
The homepage www.cost<strong>873</strong>.ch was launched in February 2007 and is freely accessible and open to<br />
all interested parties. It provides information about the Action and its corresponding topics for<br />
interested researchers, technical staff and the public, and additionally serves as an international<br />
promotion outreach aspect for European-sphere research in this area. A CMS tool enable economical<br />
and timely updating of the website by the COST<strong>873</strong> Chair. A password-protected tool facilitates<br />
exchange among COST<strong>873</strong> registered participants for: 1) uploading project, publication and other<br />
information for secure access among COST<strong>873</strong> partners and the Chair, 2) targeted searching of the<br />
participant database that facilitates <strong>report</strong>ing, WG management, and search for research collaboration<br />
partners.<br />
The Home Page provides Press Releases from COST<strong>873</strong>, online registration tool and login for<br />
participants to secure areas, summary of important content such as upcoming meetings and<br />
participant profiles, NEWS releases, and provides navigation to sub-pages:<br />
„About COST<strong>873</strong>‟ summarises our mission/structure, country participation/national contacts,<br />
general opportunities available to individual participants, national <strong>report</strong>s as provided by MC<br />
members, introduction to COST in general, and information on the crops covered in COST<strong>873</strong>,<br />
with links to other pages.<br />
„Bacterial diseases‟ provides information on the pathogens covered in COST<strong>873</strong> and posts<br />
disease fact sheets in various COST<strong>873</strong> languages.<br />
„People‟ provides a portal to secure areas where detailed participant profiles can be accessed<br />
and searched to facilitate partnering in research and other activities. Contact information for MC<br />
and lead participants is provided. Job announcements related to COST<strong>873</strong> are posted here.<br />
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