Dear all,
The first joint conference of the IUFRO working parties "Vascular Wilt Diseases" and “Pine Wilt Disease” (7.02.03 and 7.02.10) will be held in Athens, Greece, on May 18-22, 2026.
The conference, "Will it wilt? From bark to xylem an invasion away" will include joint sessions touching on the main topics of both Working Parties including: Identification and taxonomy; Host-pathogen interactions; Epidemiology; Bark beetle symbiosis / vector biology; Breeding; Disease management and control; Chemical ecology; Genomes and bioinformatics; Population biology; Pathways of invasion; Risk assessment and surveillance; New methods of bio surveillance; Influence of Climate change on vascular pathogens and vectors.
Please find
attached the first meeting announcement, and also visit the
IUFRO website:
https://www.iufro.org/events/will-it-wilt-from-bark-to-xylem-an-invasion-away
More information will come soon.
Best wishes
On behalf of the local organizers and the scientific committee.
Nikoleta
Soulioti, Alberto Santini, Irene Barnes and Louis Bernier
Hyerim Han, Luís Bonifacio, Christelle Robinet, Ryoji Shinya
and Jianghua Sun
Local
organizers
Nikoleta Soulioti, Aliki Tzima