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tuesday Morning Special Sessions
Listed in alphabetical order by title.
Building International Bridges in a Flat World
9:00 – 11:30 a.m. * 200 DE
Section: Professionalism/Service/Outreach
Organizer: Lee Calvert, CIAT, CALI, Colombia
Moderator: Ronald H. Brlansky, Univ. of Florida- Citrus
Research and Education Center, Lake Alfred, FL
Sponsoring Committees: Tropical Plant Pathology, Graduate
Student, and Virology
Globalization and information technologies are making the
world flatter. Speakers from around the world will present
advanced research and discuss how education, technology, and
international collaboration are impacting plant pathology in
their region. Some of the challenges and opportunities will
be discussed. Looking forward, the speakers will present their
vision of how building international bridges will contribute to
greener and more productive agricultural systems.
9:00 a.m. S-52. Adapting to a flat world. L. CALVERT (1).
(1) CIAT, Cali, Colombia
9:30 a.m. S-53. Plant pathology in Latin America; Building
bridges throughout the world. O. A. MORENO-
VALENZUELA (1), and M. Juanqui-Valencia
(1). (1) UBBMP-CICY, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
10:00 a.m. S-54. Plant pathology in a changing world. Y.-L.
PENG (1), and L. Guo (2). (1) President Chinese
Society for Plant Pathology, Prof. Department of
Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University,
Beijing, China; (2) Feng Feng, the National
Science Foundation of China, Beijing, China
10:30 a.m. S-55. Biosciences research and capacity building
in east and central Africa. S. KELEMU (1). (1)
Research Director, BecA-ILRI Platform, Intl
Livestock Research Inst, Nairobi, Kenya
11:00 a.m. S-56. Building bridges for international
agricultural research: Reflections on experiences
past, present, and future. R. J. NELSON (1). (1)
Program Director, The McKnight Foundation
Collaborative Crop Research Program and
Associate Professor, Plant Pathology & Plant-
Microbe Biology and Plant Breeding & Genetics,
Cornell University, U.S.A.
Fungal Genomics Enters the Post-Genome Era
9:00 – 11:30 a.m. * 205 AB
Section: Molecular/Cellular Plant Microbe Interactions
Organizers: Thomas Mitchell, Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH; Christopher Lawrence, Virginia
Bioinformatics Institute/Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Moderator: Thomas Mitchell, Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH
Sponsoring Committees: Mycology
Well over 50 fungal genomes have been sequenced and
annotated to date, including those of many plant-pathogenic
fungi. Because of this plethora of genome sequence
information across many fungal taxa, we are now in a position
to not only more fully address and investigate pathogenicity
mechanisms in fungi using functional approaches but also to
look at pathogenicity from an evolutionary perspective. We
are proposing a symposium that highlights the most recent
developments/advances in the fungal genomics field related
to advances in dissection of pathogenicity. We plan to invite
internationally acclaimed speakers in this exiting area of
molecular plant pathology to discuss the current status of their
respective projects. One particular area of interest is the use of
new sequencing platforms and technologies for these projects
and the advantages and disadvantages associated with each
approach, including bioinformatics-related issues. Lastly, one
other area of interest is the use of high-throughput functional
approaches coupled with genome sequence information for
identification of pathogenicity determinants in fungi.
9:00 a.m. S-57. A Killer Sequence: Genomics of the
Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogen Sclerotinia
sclerotiorum. M. DICKMAN (1), C. Cuomo
(1), L. Kohn (1), J. Rollins (1). (1) Institute for
Plant Genomics and Biotechnology, Texas A&M
University, College Station, TX, U.S.A.
9:30 a.m. S-58. Alternaria Functional Genomics. C.
LAWRENCE (1). (1) Virginia Bioinformatics
Institute/Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, U.S.A.
10:00 a.m. S-59. The genome of Blumeria graminis: a systems
approach to the biology of powdery mildews. P.
SPANU (1). (1) Department of Life Sciences,
Imperial College London, London, UK
10:30 a.m. S-60. Oomycete Genomics. B. M. TYLER (1).
(1). Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA, U.S.A.
11:00 a.m. S-61. Magnaporthe oryzae genomics. R. DEAN
(1). (1) North Carolina State University, Raleigh,
NC, U.S.A.
8 th Melhus Graduate Student Symposium: Forty-Five Years
After Van Der Plank, New Visions for the Future of Plant
Disease Epidemiology
9:00 – 11:45 a.m. * 205 CD
Section: Epidemiology/Ecology/Environmental Biology
Organizers: Forrest W. Nutter Jr., Iowa State University,
Ames, IA, Sarah Pethybridge, University of Tasmania, Burnie,
Tasmania, Australia
Moderator: Forrest W. Nutter Jr., Iowa State University,
Ames, IA
Sponsoring Committees: Epidemiology
In 2008, the Melhus Graduate Student Symposium will be
hosted by the Epidemiology Committee. With the Centennial
Celebration, it is also the 45th anniversary of the publishing of
Van Der Plank’s seminal book, Plant Diseases: Epidemic and
Control. This symposium will link the historical significance of
that publication with the future of plant disease epidemiology,
as presented by graduate student members.
9:00 a.m. Introduction to the 8th I.E. Melhus Graduate
Student Symposium. F. W. NUTTER, Jr., Iowa
State University, Ames, IA, U.S.A.
9:15 a.m. S-62. The Role of the APS Foundation in
Recognizing Future Leaders of the Society. A.
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