Plant Pathology 2023

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Professor Rob Jackson invites you to register for Plant Pathology 2023, the main annual meeting of the BSPP – The British Society for Plant Pathology. The meeting will be held at Edgbaston Park Hotel & Conference Centre Wednesday 6^th to Friday 8^th September.

The meeting will feature open sessions based on submitted abstracts as well as sessions organised by Rob Jackson, the RKS Wood Prize, PH Gregory Prize and J Colhoun Poster Prize. The meeting is being jointly organised with Association of Applied Biologists (aab.org.uk) and will feature additional sessions on ‘Climate Change-induced patterns of plant pests and pathogens’.

Provisional Programme is now available (PDF): DOWNLOAD HERE

Confirmed speakers and provisional titles

• Charlotte Nellist (NIAB, UK)
  
• Dan Bebber (University of Exeter)‘Climate Change-induced patterns of plant pests and pathogens’
• David Guttman (University of Toronto, Canada) ‘Uncovering virulence landscapes and host immunodiversity using effector pangenomes’
• Debbie Hemming (Met Office, UK) ‘Improving climate data and modelling to inform plant biosecurity’
• Hailing Jin (University of California, US) ‘Cross-kingdom RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens’
• Jon West and Kevin King(Rothamsted Research) ‘The pros and cons of different surveillance and monitoring approaches’
• Jos Raaijmakers (Unviversity of Leiden, Netherlands)‘Rewilding plant microbiomes for disease control’
• Mark Banfield (The John Innes Centre, UK) ‘TBC’
• Paul Rainey (Max-Planck-Gessllschaft, Germany)‘Manipulation of bacterial metabolism by mobile genetic elements and consequences for pathogenicity’
• Richard Hamelin (University of British Columbia, Canada) ‘TBC’
• Rosa Lozano-Duran (University of Tubingen, Germany) ‘How to use six genes to conquer a plant: learning from geminiviruses’
• Wenbo Ma (The Sainsbury Lab, UK) ‘TBC’