Preliminary Schedule​​​​​

Preliminary Schedule-At-A-Glance

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Sunday, July 17

  
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration Open
8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. BOD Meeting
9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Speaker Ready Room Open
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Special Sessions (pre-registration required):

  • Huanglongbing (citrus greening): insect, bacterial, and host interactions (Gitta Coaker)
  • Rice and Pathogen Interactions (Guoliang Wang)
  • Bioinformatics Training Workshop I (Dan Mclean and Adelaide Rhodes)
  • Spotlight on Rust Fungi—Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Disease and Resistance (Peter van Esse and Gusui Wu) Sponsored by DuPont Pioneer
12:00 – 3:00 p.m. Poster set up by authors
12:00 – 3:00 p.m. Exhibitor setup
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Travel Awardee Meeting
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Special Sessions (pre-registration required):

  • Recent advances Agrobacterium biology (Kiran Mysore) (Sponsored by the Noble Foundation)
  • Molecular Dissection of Wheat Diseases (Peter Solomon)
  • Bioinformatics Training Workshop II (Dan Mclean and Adelaide Rhodes)
1:30 – 3:00 p.m. MPMI Editorial Board Meeting
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Opening Ceremony and Keynote Award
4:30 – 5:00 p.m. Coffee Break
5:00 – 6:40 p.m.

Plenary Session 1

  • Jeff Dangl, University North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Uta Paskowski, University Cambridge, UK
  • Sally Miller, Ohio State University, U.S.A.
  • Giles Oldroyd, John Innes Centre, UK
7:00 – 9:30 p.m. Opening Reception