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Monday Morning plenary Session
Listed in order of presentation.
“Agriculture, Food Security and Public Health: Global
Issues – Global Solutions”
9:40 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. * Auditorium
9:45 a.m. Introduction: When agriculture fails. Ray D.
Martyn Ph.D. Professor of Plant Pathology and
APS President, Purdue University, West Lafayette,
IN, U.S.A.
10:00 a.m. PL-7. Biopharming and plant-derived
pharmaceuticals. Charles Arntzen, Ph.D. Regent’s
Professor and F.E. Nelson Presidential Chair, The
Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University,
Tempe, AZ, U.S.A.
10:35 a.m. PL-8. Plant biotechnology and agriculture: Is
there a role for public sector scientists? Roger
N. Beachy, Ph.D. President and Director, The
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis,
MO, U.S.A.
11:10 a.m. PL-9. The interface of science and policy: The
crucial roles of food and health in economic
development. Gilbert S. Omenn, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Center for Computational Medicine
and Biology and Professor of Internal Medicine,
Genetics and Public Health, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Monday Morning Special Sessions
Listed in alphabetical order by title.
A Century of Turfgrass Pathology, Then, Now, & The
Future
8:00 – 9:30 a.m. * 205 AB
Section: Disease of Plants
Organizer: Joseph Vargas, Michigan State University, East
Lansing, MI
Moderator: Henry Wetzel, Jacklin Seed, Post Falls, ID
Sponsoring Committees: Turfgrass Pathology
Financial Sponsors: Bayer Environmental Science; Syngenta
Professional Products
The symposium will provide an overview of the
accomplishments of academic contributions to turfgrass
pathology. Overview of the past, current research topics, and
generate ideas for future research as a discipline.
8:00 a.m. S-20. History of the turfgrass pathologist and
contributions from the beginning to 1980. J. M.
VARGAS Jr. (1). (1) Michigan State University,
East Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
8:30 a.m. S-21. Turfgrass pathology from 1980 to today.
B. B. CLARKE (1). (1) Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A.
9:00 a.m. S-22. What does the future hold for turfgrass
pathology? L. TREDWAY (1). (1) North Carolina
State University, Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
An Evolving Culture Collection System to Meet Modern
Research Needs
8:00 – 9:30 a.m. * 200 ABC
Section: Biology of Pathogens
Organizers: Weidong Chen, USDA-ARS, Pullman, WA,
Xianming Chen, USDA-ARS, Pullman, WA
Moderators: Weidong Chen, USDA-ARS, Pullman, WA,
Shuxian Li, USDA-ARS
Sponsoring Committees: Collections and Germplasm,
Mycology
Collections of plant pathogens have played important roles in
the advancement of plant pathology and biology in general,
and our culture collection system has evolved with changing
research needs. Despite that, the collection system of plant
pathogens in the nation as a whole is fragmented and lacks
of good organization. Now our culture collection system is
at a critical juncture. As stewards of many phytopathogen
collections are at or near retirement, the future of those culture
collections is uncertain. This symposium will examine the
history of our culture collection system, discuss potential
solutions to the current problems, and explore the prospects of
having a national plant pathogen collection system.
8:00 a.m. S-23. Cereal rust urediniospore collections,
history and future needs. A. ROELFS (1). (1)
Formerly Cereal Disease Lab, USDA-ARS, St.
Paul, MN, U.S.A.
8:30 a.m. S-24. Microbial germplasm in seed banks and
clonal repositories. F. DUGAN (1). (1) USDA-
ARS, Pullman, WA, U.S.A.
8:45 a.m. S-25. Unique features of maintaining collections
of fastidious pathogens. J. CHEN (1). (1) USDA-
ARS, Parlier, CA, U.S.A.
9:00 a.m. S-26. Prospects and pre-requirements of having
a national plant pathogen collection system. R.
BENNETT (1). (1) National Program Leader,
USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD, U.S.A.
Protein Modifications During Host/Pathogen Interactions
8:00 – 9:30 a.m. * 200 FG
Section: Molecular/Cellular Plant Microbe Interactions
Organizers: Dennis Halterman, USDA-ARS/University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; Guo-Liang Wang, Ohio
State University, Columbus, OH
Moderator: Dennis Halterman, USDA-ARS/University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Sponsoring Committees: Biochemistry, Physiology, and
Molecular Biology, and Host Resistance
This symposium will cover the role of post-translational
modifications in host/pathogen interactions. Protein
modifications such as phosphorylation, ubiquitination, and
ADP-ribosylation are now being studied intensively for their
role in proper signaling during disease resistance responses.
Recent results discussed in this growing area of research
will expose attendants to what will be an important future
scientific focus of molecular plant-microbe interactions.
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