From aliebhold at fs.fed.us Fri Apr 2 23:35:39 2010 From: aliebhold at fs.fed.us (Andrew Liebhold) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 17:35:39 -0400 Subject: [IUFRO RG 7.02 FORPATH] impending deadline for IUFRO Congress registration Message-ID: Dear FORPATH followers: As you may know, registration for the IUFRO World Congress in South Korea, 23-28, August is now open at http://www.iufro2010.com What you may not know is that presenting authors of all accepted Oral and Poster presentations must register for the Congress on-line before April 30th. Failure to meet this deadline will automatically mean that your presentation will be deleted from the program (and the book of abstracts). We have what I think is a really incredible assortment of symposia related to forest pathology organized for the IUFRO Congress - perhaps the best scientific program of any IUFRO Congress to date. However, it is critically important that all speakers need to complete their registration by April 30 - otherwise your slot will become empty and this will hurt the program greatly. Secondly, at the same web site, you can register for the post-congress forest health tour. I would urge all of you that are planning to attend the IUFRO Congress to participate in this post-Congress event. My experience from similar venues has been that these types of tours are a great opportunity to meet new colleagues from other countries, as well as to enjoy incredible memories with old friends. For visitors to Korea, such as myself, this tour will be a great chance to become familiar with some of the serious forest insect and disease problems in east Asia. The number of slots available for the tour are limited so I'd urge you to sign up soon while there is still space... -Sandy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Liebhold 304-285-1512 Northern Research Station 304-285-1505 FAX USDA Forest Service 724-317-8668 mobile 180 Canfield St. aliebhold at fs.fed.us Morgantown, WV26505 USA http://sandyliebhold.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.iufro.org/pipermail/rg70200-forpath/attachments/20100402/2d8d9ce8/attachment.html From frey at nancy.inra.fr Wed Apr 28 16:26:19 2010 From: frey at nancy.inra.fr (Pascal Frey) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:26:19 +0200 Subject: [IUFRO RG 7.02 FORPATH] PhD position in Population Genomics of Fungi Message-ID: <4BD8458B.8030201@nancy.inra.fr> Dear Forpathers, Below is an ad for a PhD position at INRA, Nancy, France. Best regards, Pascal Frey ------------------------------------------------------------------- ** *PhD position in Population Genomics of Fungi* I am looking for a highly motivated candidate to work on a *population genetics/genomics project* in the plant pathogenic species /Melampsora larici-populina/ (responsible for the poplar rust). The aim of the PhD is to highlight the virulence factors of this fungal plant pathogen from a population genomic approach. Candidates should have a good background in evolutionary ecology and above all population genetics. Knowledge on host parasite interactions would be appreciated. Interest (but not necessarily good skills) in molecular biology (next generation sequencing) is required. The proposed project stands at the core of the joint unit Tree-Microorganism interactions (located near Nancy, East part of France) and lies at the interface of its two major teams ?ecology and population biology of tree fungal pathogens (directed by B. Mar?ais) and ?eco-genomics? (directed by F. Martin). The junior scientist will thus benefit from the complementary skills and resources of these two teams, including advanced population genetics knowledge, large and historical population sampling on one hand and, on the other hand, great genomics tool and molecular resources, including genome sequence and transcriptomic analyses performed on this model pathogen species. The subject has been selected for application as *?Young scientist contracts?* which result from a partnership between INRA and graduate schools. These contracts have initial duration of 3 years (PhD) and can be renewed for 2 more years for a post doc project (including necessarily a period of time abroad). Young scientist contracts have *very attractive *remuneration*** **conditions*. Before obtaining his/her PhD, the doctoral student receives *2055?* (gross) per month. After obtaining his/her PhD, the remuneration is *2373?* (gross) per month. An annual bonus of *796?* is paid half-yearly. More details on young scientist contracts can be found at http://www.international.inra.fr/join_us/positions/research_training_positions/young_scientist_contracts__1 Successful candidate will be selected by an examination committee of the graduate school RP2E (Nancy). All details on how to apply can be found at (French and English version underneath). http://www.rp2e.inpl-nancy.fr/index.php?id=5 The competitive examination is open to any nationality. Dead line for application is May 15^th . Position will start in fall 2010. *Don?t hesitate to contact me for any query (halkett at nancy.inra.fr). * Below is the abstract of the subject I propose. The field of population genomics has recently emerged at the cross between traditional population genetics and the development of high-throughput techniques, with the aim to decipher the strength of selection events on genome evolutions. Although not yet widely applied to plant pathology studies, these approaches seem particularly well suited to reveal the genetic bases of the adaptive potential of fungal plant pathogens. While the rapid pace of pathogen evolution (which result from intensive selection pressure through the massive deployment of resistant genes) presents a major impediment to sustainable agriculture, it also provides interesting opportunities to better understand the evolutionary biology of host?parasite interactions. Here we want to apply the population genomic toolboxes to decipher the evolution of virulence loci in the fungus responsible for the poplar rust (/Melampsora larici-populina/). Deepening into the genome?s organisation, the project will successively try to (i) highlight genomic regions subjected to a selective sweep caused by a drastic selection event which was the overcoming of a major resistant gene, (ii) point out the genes (among these region) under positive selection, and putatively responsible for the gene for gene interaction and (iii) study the evolution, including recombination rate, of these genomic regions implied in fungal pathogenicity. This project would thus bring us fundamental knowledge on the genome evolution of pathogens, which would help designing sustainable strategies of crop protection. Fabien HALKETT INRA, Nancy-University UMR1136 "Tree - Microorganisms Interactions" F-54280 Champenoux FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)3 83 39 40 55 Fax: +33 (0)3 83 39 40 69 E-mail: halkett at nancy.inra.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.iufro.org/pipermail/rg70200-forpath/attachments/20100428/f81d4a1c/attachment.html From ywu at fs.fed.us Fri Apr 30 16:44:45 2010 From: ywu at fs.fed.us (Yun Wu) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:44:45 -0400 Subject: [IUFRO RG 7.02 FORPATH] Black Walnut Thousand Cankers Disease Workshop, Golden, Colorado, June 23rd 2010 Message-ID: FYI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yun Wu, Ph.D. Plant Pathologist Biological control of forest invasive plants USDA Forest Service-FHTET 180 Canfield St. Morgantown, WV 26505 Tel: (304) 285-1594 Fax: (304) 285-1564 Email: ywu at fs.fed.us ----- Forwarded by Yun Wu/NA/USDAFS on 04/30/2010 10:40 AM ----- "Tisserat,Ned" 04/30/2010 10:29 AM To Bruce Moltzan , Kathleen Alexander , Mike Brown , Phil Cannon , Mark Coggeshall , "Cranshaw,Whitney" , Bill Crapser , Dennis Haugen , "Rob.Lawrence at mdc.mo.gov" , Phil Marshall , Jim McKenna , Jay Pscheidt , Carl Schulze , Steve Seybold , Eric L Smith , Carla Thomas , Jerry VanSambeek , Collin Wamsley , Yun Wu , "McDonough, Marcus" cc Mary Dix , Kurt Gottschalk , Jennifer Juzwik , Manfred Mielke , Bob Rabaglia , Dale Starkey , "Scott.e.Pfister at aphis.usda.gov" Subject Would you please forward this announcement to interested parties? 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