Hi,
We have a PhD opportunity available: 'Foliar pathogens of pine: are there common triggers for resistance?’. We’d be grateful if you can bring this opportunity to the attention of any good students you know of who are looking for a PhD position.
The project involves a collaboration between Massey University and Scion. It will include bioinformatic analyses to find common invasion patterns in three foliar pine pathogens (2 fungal and 1 oomycete), screening for avirulence and virulence functions using both Nicotiana spp. and pine (using a screening system developed in our lab as part of a previous Massey-Scion collaborative project) and identification of potential plant immune receptors. The ultimate aim is to identify broad spectrum resistance in pine.
A flyer is attached, or prospective students can go to the findaphd link:
https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=99935
Professor Rosie Bradshaw
Institute of Fundamental Sciences
College of Sciences
Massey University
Palmerston North 4410
NEW ZEALAND
Phone (+64) 6 356 9099 ext 84735
Direct Dial (+64) 6 951 7735
FAX (+64) 6 355 7953
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Dear colleagues,
Due to the increased demand, we are happy to inform you that the abstract submission deadline for the Conference Session (Main topics: Genetics and breeding of forest trees, Forest health, Climate change and forest
ecosystems) organized within the IUFRO 2.08.04 15th International Phytotechnology Conference, 2-3 October, Novi Sad, Serbia has been extended until 12 August!
Take your chance and be part of the event by submitting your scientific contributions online at <http://www.ilfe.org/conference-registration> http://www.ilfe.org/conference-registration.
Further details can be found in the attached document or online at <http://www.ilfe.org> www.ilfe.org.
We are looking forward to welcoming you in Novi Sad!
Kind regards,
Conference organizers
Dear Members of the 7.02.00 Forpath list:
Attached please find a note by IUFRO President Mike Wingfield on the
International Congress of Plant Pathology (ICPP) organized by the
International Society of Plant Pathology (ISPP). In addition, Mike reports
on the ISPP Forest Pathology Subject Matter Committees (SMC) and the fact
that this committee is currently withough leadership.
The second report - compiled by Tod Ramsfield, Deputy Coordinator of IUFRO
Divison 7 - Forest Health and Coordinator of IUFRO Research Group 7.02.00 -
Pathology - details the Forest Pathology activities of IUFRO Research Group
7.02.00 for the ISPP Executive to facilitate the search for a new SMC
leadership.
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posted on behalf of Mike Wingfield by Brigitte Burger, IUFRO Headquarters
Dear Forpathers,
Just a quick reminder that the call for session proposals for the 2019 World Congress closes on August 1, 2018.
Anyone can submit a session proposal and there are guidelines on the WC website that outline criteria for selection.
http://www.iufro2019.com/
Please feel encouraged to contribute to the development of the programme for this meeting!
All the best, Tod Ramsfield, Julio Javier Diez Casero, and Rebecca Ganley.
Coordinators of Research Group 7.02
On behalf of the Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, you are
kindly invited to the CONFERENCE SESSION "HOW TO ADVANCE FORESTRY FOR FUTURE
GENERATIONS" organized within the 15th INTERNATIONAL PHYTOTECHNOLOGY
CONFERENCE to be held at the University of Novi Sad, Central building,
located in Novi Sad, Serbia, October 2-3, 2018.
The Conference session is dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the
foundation of the Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment
DEADLINES
Abstract submission July
15th, 2018
Notification of abstracts acceptance August 31st, 2018
Submission of full papers December
1st, 2018
Issue of Proceedings March,
2019
Further details can be found in the attached document or at
www.ilfe.org/old/IPS%202018/Second%20announcement%20Final.pdf!
From: Tanguay, Philippe (NRCan/RNCan)
Sent: May-03-18 12:56 PM
Subject: Joint IUFRO 5-needle pine and tree rusts meeting 2019: Early Alert
FYI
Everyone, please see the attached regarding our planned 2019 meeting of
5-needle pine genetics and tree rusts (with special emphasis on white pine
blister rust). This is an early announcement and request for expressions of
interest. Please distribute this announcement far and wide, particularly to:
. IUFRO Sections 2.02.15 and 7.02.05
. USFS personnel
. Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation
. High-5 consortium
. Strobusphere
I have attached both Word and PDF versions; respondents can use whichever is
most convenient. Please have them forward the completed questionnaires to
myself.
DEADLINE: MAY 30, 2018
Thank you very much!
--Ward
Ward B. Strong, Ph.D., P.Ag.
Research Entomologist
BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations
Kalamalka Forestry Centre
3401 Reservoir Rd
Vernon, BC Canada V1B 2C7
Email: <mailto:ward.strong@gov.bc.ca> ward.strong(a)gov.bc.ca
Phone: 250-260-4763
Cell: 250-309-5865
Fax: 250-542-2230
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to let you know that registration is now open for the PREPSYS conference to be held at BFW, Vienna from 1-4 October. Details are provided in the attached.
Please note that the venue can accommodate a maximum of 90 participants and, since we already have a strong list of keynote speakers, the number of spaces for general paper submission and attendance is limited to about 50. Please register as soon as possible to ensure your place at the conference!
With best wishes and hoping to welcome you to Vienna in October.
Hugh Evans, Mariella Marzano and Gernot Hoch
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Fellow of Forest Research
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Forest Research
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Dear Forent and Forpath subscribers,
Please see the attachment and the message below regarding a professorship in Forest Entomology and Forest Protection at Freiburg University.
Cheers,
Ecki Brockerhoff
Dear all,
We have now advertised a professorship in Forest Entomology and Forest Protection at Freiburg University. I would greatly appreciate, if you could disseminate this in your networks and if possible also encourage promising candidates to apply. I would be happy to provide people with more background to the position, the faculty etc. Do you have an Email List for the IUFRO Division that could be used to forward the position announcement to the forest entomology community?
Kind regards
Jürgen
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bauhus
Professur für Waldbau
Institut für Forstwissenschaften
Fakultät für Umwelt und Natürliche Ressourcen
Universität Freiburg
Tennenbacherstr. 4
79106 Freiburg
Tel. 0761 203 3678
http://www.waldbau.uni-freiburg.de/
Email: juergen.bauhus(a)waldbau.uni-freiburg.de<mailto:juergen.bauhus@waldbau.uni-freiburg.de>
Neues Buch: http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783662545515
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Dear colleagues,
Registration and abstract submission are now open for International Conference on Sentinel Plantings that will take place on 9-12 October 2018 in Sursee, Switzerland. Sentinel plantings are a tool for the detection, identification and risk assessment of pests and diseases before arrival in a new country, potentially allowing better prevention and management of alien pest and disease introductions. The most recent methodological and regulatory developments and results from sentinel planting studies will be presented during the conference.
More details are available on a dedicated website: https://www.ibles.pl/en/web/cost/final-action-meeting Please note the following important dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 May 2018.
Deadline for registration: 15 June 2018.
The programme will include :
* Keynote lectures by international experts:
ü Dr Mark McNeill (AgResearch, New Zealand)
ü Prof Yuri Baranchikov (V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the RASc, Krasnoyarsk, Russia)
ü Dr Therese Pluess (Swiss Federal Office for the Environment, Bern)
ü Dr Andrei Orlinski (EPPO, Paris)
ü Dr Chris Malumphy (Fera, United Kingdom)
* Presentations of the outputs of COST Action Global Warning
* Scientific sessions - posters and oral presentations
The meeting is co-organised by COST Action Global Warning (www.ibles.pl/cost<http://www.ibles.pl/cost>), Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI), the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organisation (EPPO), CABI Switzerland and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL.
We look forward to your submissions for presentations and to your participation.
For the organising committee, René Eschen.
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Dear Forpathers
I'm writing to say that Peter Gadgil passed away over the weekend. I know many of you won't know Peter but there are some of you who do. Until very recently Peter was working at Scion in a mentoring role as well as fulfilling his lifetime passion of describing new fungi. As late as last week he expressed a desire to return to work as soon as his mobility improved. Sadly that will not happen, but his legacy will continue.
Peter started here in 1964, when he was recruited to work on dothistroma needle blight, a new disease of Pinus radiata in New Zealand. His fundamental work in the 1960s on the infection process of the pathogen and its epidemiology was critical to the development of a successful control programme that is still in use today. Recent research using advanced molecular techniques that weren't available in the 1960s have demonstrated Peter's findings in his 1967 publication "Infection of Pinus radiata needles by Dothistroma pini" were correct. In the 1970s Peter and his wife Ruth published two papers on the interaction of mycorrhiza and other soil organisms that is still described today as the "Gadgil effect". In 2005, Peter published a book describing over 700 fungi associated with woody plants in New Zealand. This book was hailed as the first comprehensive reference book ever produced on fungi that live in New Zealand's forests.
Peter, as Research Leader of the Forest Health Group, was a pioneer of the transition from a purely Government funded research programme to one funded by industry and Government. Peter was the main driver behind the development of the New Zealand forest grower funded surveillance and diagnostic services, and the Forest Health Research Collaborative which was a precursor to the Biosecurity Technical Steering Team we have now.
Peter was never afraid to voice his opinion, often in a forthright manner, but those who worked closely with him understood this and developed strategies to work around that. We were also never left in any doubt about what his view on a specific matter was! For all that, Peter helped me and many others develop in their careers through his helpful advice and mentorship and he will always be regarded as one of New Zealand's eminent forest pathologists.
Lindsay Bulman
Lindsay Bulman
Science Leader Forest Protection
Acting General Manager Forest Science
Scion
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