From bonello.2 at osu.edu Tue Jan 5 20:19:59 2010 From: bonello.2 at osu.edu (Pierluigi Bonello) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 14:19:59 -0500 Subject: [IUFRO RG 7.02 FORPATH] Fwd: Research Associate position in Bonello lab Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Apologizing for possible multiple messages, I wanted to advertise an open research associate (technician) position in my lab, available immediately. The position description and all application information can be found at http://jobs.osu.edu/. Click on "View OSU Job Opportunities", then "SEARCH POSTINGS" using requisition number 348627. Application deadline: Jan. 17, 2010. Please distribute as you see fit to any and all qualified applicants. Thanks! Enrico -- Pierluigi (Enrico) Bonello, Assoc. Professor Dept. of Plant Pathology The Ohio State University 201 Kottman Hall 2021 Coffey Road Columbus, OH 43210 Tel: (614) 688-5401 Lab: (614) 688-5409 Fax: (614) 292-4455 http://plantpath.osu.edu/people-and-programs/faculty-directory/bonello-pierluigi-enrico/ Environmental Science Graduate Program (ESGP) http://esgp.osu.edu/ Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Program (PMBB) http://pmbb.osu.edu/ From richard.hamelin at ubc.ca Thu Jan 21 18:42:39 2010 From: richard.hamelin at ubc.ca (Richard Hamelin) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:42:39 -0800 Subject: [IUFRO RG 7.02 FORPATH] IUFRO RG 7.02 FORPATH The Fourth International Rusts of Forest Trees Conference Message-ID: <120EA5B4-AE1B-4142-84FC-9722AE43B84C@ubc.ca> Dear colleagues and friends, Due to several last-minute requests we are pleased to announce that the deadline for abstract submission to the The Fourth International Rusts of Forest Trees Conference has been postponed to February 5th 2010. As a consequence also the deadline for early-registration payment has been postponed to this date. In the days soon after the above deadline you'll receive the 2nd circular with all details of the meeting. Hoping to see you soon in Florence! Yours sincerely, Salvatore Moricca and Richard Hamelin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.iufro.org/pipermail/rg70200-forpath/attachments/20100121/ba939574/attachment.html From angusc at sf.nsw.gov.au Wed Jan 27 04:40:05 2010 From: angusc at sf.nsw.gov.au (Angus Carnegie) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:40:05 +1100 Subject: [IUFRO RG 7.02 FORPATH] PhD and PostDoc positions in Australia on Sirex-Ips interactions Message-ID: Please find attached flyers for a PhD scholarship AND a Post Doctoral Fellowship to work on various aspects of pest management in pine plantations in Australia. The project has three main components: (i) field survey and insect rearing work to investigate the severity of ips bark beetle damage and the extent to which it is adversely affecting the current program of nematode-based biological control of sirex wood wasp (ii) laboratory studies of the interactions between ips bark beetle, sirex wood wasp and the fungi and nematodes associated with each (iii) laboratory and field experiments on possible pest management strategies to reduce the impact of ips bark beetle. The split of components between the PhD and postdoctoral fellow will be negotiated according to the background of the preferred applicants. Both positions are open to overseas applicants. If you are interested I can forward you the grant application that was submitted to win the funds for the project, or feel free to email me with any queries. I apologise if you receive this message multiple times due to the 3 mailing lists. 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For further details see the attached Request for Proposals or http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/ In 2009, the National Ornamental Research Site was established at Dominican University of California. (For questions about NORS-DUC, contact Sibdas Ghosh at sibdas.ghosh at dominican.edu or go to www.dominican.edu/norsduc). Via this Request for Proposals, we anticipate funding roughly seven projects, including one to be conducted at this facility. For more information on Sudden Oak Death see www.suddenoakdeath.org. - Susan Susan J. Frankel Sudden Oak Death Research Program Manager USDA-Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station Mailing address: PO Box 245 Berkeley, CA 94701 Street address: 800 Buchanan Street, West Annex Building, Albany, CA 94710-0011 Phone: 510-559-6472 FAX :510-559-6440 sfrankel at fs.fed.us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For molecular / population studies on Mycosphaerella dearnessii (anamorph Lecanosticta acicola), the causal agent of brown spot needle blight of pine species (Pinus spp.), we would be interested to obtain isolates / populations of isolates of this fungus and/or pine needles infected by M. dearnessii (preferably with conidiomata and/or ascomata pesent). In the latter case the isolations would be done by the Ph.D. candidates themselves. The work will be done as part of the Ph.D. theses of Marion Kessler (marion.kessler at bfw.gv.at ) at the Institute of Forest Entomology, Forest Pathology and Forest Protection (IFFF), University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Austria (advisors: Erhard Halmschlager, Thomas Cech & Christian Stauffer) and Josef Janousek (janousek.jose at gmail.com) at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic (advisors: Libor Jankovsky & Christian Stauffer). Isolates and samples from all parts of the world would be very welcome! Of particular high interest are isolates from North, Central and South America. This is because the fungus is suspected to be native there and for comparisons of putative native versus introduced fungal populations American isolates would be essential. Brown spot is a common and important disease of Pinus palustris and other Pinus spp. in the south-east and central USA, so we hope that US colleagues will be willing to help in providing isolates/samples. But isolates/samples from other parts of the world, especially also from Asia, would be also very valuable. So far Marion and Josef have a good collection of isolates from several parts of Europe, but additional European material would also be good and can only strengthen the planned work. The EPPO diagnostic protocol for Mycosphaerella dearnessii contains a lot of useful information on diagnosing the disease and it also includes a number of excellent photographs of the symptoms: http://www.eppo.org/QUARANTINE/fungi/Mycosphaerella_dearnessii/pm7-46%281%29%20SCIRAC%20web.pdf In addition, Josef Janusek prepared a page with a few photos of symptoms of brown spot needle blight: http://picasaweb.google.cz/pepino96/BrownSpotNeedleBlightOfPines# If you are able and willing to help, please contact me. Marion Kessler and Josef Janusek will then provide you with further information (details for sampling, sending, import permit, etc.). Please do not hesitate to contact me in the case you have any further questions. Thank you very much in advance for your help! Your assistance will be invaluable and very much appreciated! With best regards, Thomas Kirisits ____________________________________________________________ Dr. Thomas Kirisits Institut f?r Forstentomologie, Forstpathologie und Forstschutz Department f?r Wald- und Bodenwissenschaften Universit?t f?r Bodenkultur (BOKU) Hasenauerstra?e 38 A-1190 Wien ?sterreich Tel.: (++43) (1) 368-24-33 Fax: (++43) (1) 368-24-33 oder (++43) (1) 368-63-52-97 e-mail: thomas.kirisits at boku.ac.at Homepage: http://ifff.boku.ac.at/ Institute of Forest Entomology, Forest Pathology and Forest Protection Department for Forest and Soil Sciences BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Hasenauerstrasse 38 A-1190 Vienna Austria Tel.: (++43) (1) 368-24-33 Fax: (++43) (1) 368-24-33 or (++43) (1) 368-63-52-97 e-mail: thomas.kirisits at boku.ac.at Homepage: http://ifff.boku.ac.at/