Dear Colleagues,
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FP1002 PERMIT (Pathway Evaluation and pest Risk Management In Transport)
EU COST Training School 2013: Field and laboratory methods for detection of invasive pests and pathogens
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
1-5 July, 2013
Local Organiser:
Professor Mirza Dautbašić,
Faculty of Forestry
University of Sarajevo
Zagrebaèka 20
Phone: +387 33 61 40 03
Fax: +387 33 61 13 49
Web site: www.sumfaksa.co.ba <http://www.sumfaksa.co.ba/>
Trainers:
Professor Boris Hrašovec, Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Professor Milka Glavendekic, Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Professor Dušan Jurc, Department of Forest Protection, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Professor Hugh Evans, Forest Research, Aberystwyth, UK
Further trainers to be confirmed.
Training School objectives and outline programme
The Training School is aimed at Early Stage Researchers who have an interest in or are directly involved with detection and/or management of invasive forest pests and pathogens. One of the keys to managing the movement of pests globally is knowledge of pest biology and how the pests are associated with various pathways and, in relation to managing threats, early detection of those pests after they arrive in a new country. This Training School concentrates on how to identify symptoms and life stages of insect pests and tree pathogens in forests and woodland locations and, in support of field diagnosis, how to confirm the initial findings using laboratory diagnostic methods and tools.
The course will, therefore, involve two full days in forest locations near Sarajevo followed by up to two days laboratory diagnostic procedures and seminars on the threats to forests arising from international trade and movement of pests along pathways. Specialists in entomology and pathology will guide the training.
Support
Early Stage Researchers (i.e. up to 8 years after obtaining a higher degree) from COST Countries and near-neighbour COST Countries are eligible for support. This will cover lowest cost economy air or train fares, local travel (not taxis), actual costs of hotel accommodation (estimated to be around €50 per night) and €20 per meal. Transport to forest locations will be provided by the local organiser.
Applications
Please apply to Professor Hugh Evans, Chair of FP1002 by email (hugh.evans(a)forestry.gsi.gov.uk <mailto:hugh.evans@forestry.gsi.gov.uk> ) with a brief CV and short letter of application indicating experience and the reason for wishing to attend the Training School. Applications will be considered immediately and a response provided within 2 days to enable successful candidates to make travel arrangements. We anticipate that around 30 ESRs will attend the Training School, although this number may be adjusted if there is strong demand.
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Professor Hugh F Evans
Pennaeth Ymchwil Coedwigaeth yng Nghymru / Head of Forest Research in Wales
Forest Research in Wales
Adeilad Edward Llwyd / Edward Llwyd Building
Campws Penglais / Penglais Campus
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
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Dear Colleagues,
The EU COST Action FP1002 PERMIT (Pathway Evaluation and pest Risk Management In Transport) is organising a Training School for Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) (i.e. within 8 years of obtaining a research degree) in Field and laboratory methods for detection of invasive pests and pathogens. This is open to ESRs in COST countries or near-neighbour non-COST countries and financial support will be provided to eligible candidates. Please see the attached information and send your applications to Professor Hugh Evans, Chair of the PERMIT COST Action. The Training School can cater for around 30 participants and therefore anyone interested should apply as soon as possible and will receive a rapid response.
Apologies for the short notice, but we hope to have a successful course.
Hugh Evans
Chair of FP1002
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Professor Hugh F Evans
Pennaeth Ymchwil Coedwigaeth yng Nghymru / Head of Forest Research in Wales
Forest Research in Wales
Adeilad Edward Llwyd / Edward Llwyd Building
Campws Penglais / Penglais Campus
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 3DA
Uniongyrchol/Direct: +44(0)1970 621527
Rhif ffôn Symudol gwaith /Work mobile: +44 (0)7917000234
E-bost/E-mail: hugh.evans(a)forestry.gsi.gov.uk <mailto:hugh.evans@forestry.gsi.gov.uk>
www.forestry.gov.uk/forestresearch <http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestresearch>
www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/dyficatchment <http://www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/dyficatchment>
www.impactproject.eu <http://www.impactproject.eu/>
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Dear all,
I am forwarding a message from John Innes about an upcoming event of the IUFRO Task Force "Resources For the Future".
See below and attached. For further information please contact John Innes.
Apologies for cross-posting.
Cheers, Ecki
Eckehard Brockerhoff, PhD
Coordinator, IUFRO Division 7
Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute)
PO Box 29237
Christchurch 8540, New Zealand
E-mail: eckehard.brockerhoff(a)scionresearch.com<mailto:eckehard.brockerhoff@scionresearch.com>
From: Innes, John [mailto:john.innes@ubc.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, 29 May 2013 5:53 p.m.
To: Eckehard Brockerhoff
Subject: Resources for the Future - IUFRO conference in Vancouver Canada
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Dear Dr. Eckehard Brockerhoff (IUFRO Division 7 Coordinator):
The IUFRO Task Force "Resources for the Future" will hold a conference this August (27-29) in Vancouver, Canada. In my capacity as Coordinator of this Task Force, I am asking if you could possibly distribute the message below to your network of Division contacts?
For your interest, I have also attached a 1-page overview about the conference and a document containing speaker biographies.
Thank-you very much for your assistance with this matter,
Dr. John Innes,
Dean, Faculty of Forestry
University of British Columbia
Message
August 27-29, Vancouver, Canada, IUFRO Task Force Conference "Resources for the Future"
You are invited to participate in a Conference, developed by the IUFRO Resources for the Future Task Force. The Conference will take place in the Forest Sciences Centre at the University of British Columbia, August 27 to 29, 2013. The conference will feature world leaders in the forest resources field, and provide them with a venue to collaborate and share ideas with academia, government, industry and NGOs - all stakeholders in the future of the world's forests. The goal is to provide a platform where speakers can share their expertise in various areas and identify potential solutions.
Four topic areas will be covered:
* Globalization and its implications for forests
* Plantations
* Bio-products and advanced building systems
* Forest ecosystem services
Early bird registration cut-off is June 15th. For more information about the conference please check website: http://iufro2013.forestry.ubc.ca/
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Dear IUFRO RG 7.02 FORPATH researchers:
Do you have studies showing how biodiversity helps to manage high-value
species or how high value timbers help to conserve biodiversity? Below is
an idea for a technical session for the IUFRO 2014 World Congress relating
high value timbers and biodiversity Any suggestions would be most welcome,
including reorientation of this potential session. Collaboration with a
unit of Division 7 on this session would be great. If you would like to
participate in the session, could you please send me a draft title for your
contribution? Please also send this on to anyone else who might be
interested. Please send any ideas by April 20, since session proposals are
due April 30.
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*How does biodiversity help to manage high-value timber species, and
vice-versa?*
*Valuable timbers, such as many Meliaceae, remain in high demand, casting a
shadow over prospects for these species and their forests. However,
management of high-value timber species may help conserve the biodiversity
of the forests they inhabit. Conversely, biodiversity may contribute to
the health of individual trees and populations of high-value species. This
session seeks to explore positive, reciprocal relationships between
biodiversity and high-value timber species. *
*We aim for a global scope, including tropical and temperate high-value
timbers. Presentations might address: biodiversity and protection of
high-value species from pests and pathogens, the role of plantations in
biodiversity conservation, biodiversity for plantation health, enrichment
planting with high value species to maintain biodiversity via intact forest
instead of land use change, high-value species and the maintenance of
intact forests, use of high value species for habitat rehabilitation and
restoration of biodiversity, AND MORE.*
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Thanks!
Sheila Ward
Deputy Coordinator
1.02.04 – Sustainable management and genetic resources in Meliaceae*
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I have a collection of single gall spore collections and axenic cultures of Endocronartium/Peridermium harknessii (western gall rust), Cronartium comandrae (comandra blister rust), and C. quercuum f. sp. banksianae (eastern gall rust) that I will not be using in the future. A brief description of the materials and publications that utilized the materials is attached. If anyone is interested in receiving any of these materials, let me know soon.
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James Walla, Ph.D.
Forest Pathologist
Plant Pathology Dept.
North Dakota State University
701-231-7069
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Dear colleague,
herewith I like to inform you about the upcoming IUFRO Pine Wilt Disease unit symposium which will be held in Braunschweig/Germany from 15th to 18th October 2013.
The symposium PWD 2013 is a joint action of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) unit 7.02.10 Pine Wilt Disease (PWD) and the group of the EU-research project REPHRAME "Development of improved methods for detection, control and eradication of pine wood nematode" in cooperation with The German Scientific Society for Plant Protection and Plant Health and the Julius Kühn-Institut, Federal Research centre for cultivated plants.
Since the last IUFRO Symposium in Nanjing/China in 2009, several expert groups in the whole world - among other things - worked intensively on the following topics:
· Impact on the international trade as well as economic consequences in the infested areas including corresponding modeling of outbreak scenarios and pathways,
· Pathway analysis and modeling/predicting of pine wilt expression across eco-climatic zones taking account of latency ,
· Biology of Bursaphelenchus xylophilus and other Bursaphelenchus species including their interaction with bacteria and fungi and their impact on host trees,
· Diagnostic methods aimed to a fast and reliable determination of PWN in pure culture and in plant tissue as well as in laboratory and under field conditions,
· Examinations on the tree physiology and resistance characteristics of host trees,
· PWN and vector association, vector dispersal capacity and strategies for vector control,
· Behavior and population dynamics in infested trees,
· Non-vector transmission and treatment options for wood and wood products,
· Management strategies for PWD.
The aim of the symposium is to bundle the actual research progress and the management of the pine wood nematode and its vector beetles and to enhance the scientific exchange and thus to present the research results to a broad interested group of scientists, disease managers and decision makers. You are invited to submit papers for oral presentations as well as for posters covering all aspects around Pine Wood Nematode and Pine Wilt Disease.
All information including registration is available at: http://dpg.phytomedizin.org/de/pwdc2013/.
The deadline for abstract submission is 30. June 2013. Early bird fee payment is until 31 July 2013.
The organization committee would be grateful if you could share this email with people you think could be interested to participate. Thank you!
I hope to see you in Braunschweig!
With best regards
for the local organizing board
Thomas Schroeder
Dr. Thomas Schroeder
Julius Kühn-Institut, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants
Institute for National and International Plant Health
Messeweg 11-12
D-38104 Braunschweig
Germany
Tel.: +49 531 299 3381
Fax: +49 531 299 3007
Email: thomas.schroeder(a)jki.bund.de
URL: http://pflanzengesundheit.jki.bund.dehttp://www.jki.bund.de
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Paul Zambino, Ph.D.
Plant Pathologist, Forest Health Protection
USDA Forest Service, Region 1
Coeur d'Alene Field Office
3815 North Shreiber Way
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83815
Ph: (208)765-7493 FAX:(208)765-7307
Email: pzambino(a)fs.fed.us<mailto:pzambino@fs.fed.us>
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From: Bennett, Dayle D -FS
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 7:48 AM
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Subject: R1/4 Plant Pathologist outreach - revised notice dates
This enclosed outreach notice for two Forest Service - Forest Health Protection plant pathologist positions in Idaho has been revised to show an issuance date of March 15 and a reply due date of April 5. Please distribute this revised notice to you staff, cooperators, students and any others who may be interested in one or both of these opportunities.
Dayle D. Bennett
USDA Forest Service
Forest Health Protection
1249 S. Vinnell Way, Suite 200
Boise, ID 83703
Phone: (208) 373-4227 FAX: (208) 373-4232
Email: ddbennett(a)fs.fed.us<mailto:ddbennett@fs.fed.us>
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Registration URL:
http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=ubvoh9lab&oeidk=a07e6x…
This year, the Northeast Forest Health Workshop is being held jointly with
the spring meeting for the New England Society of American Foresters on
Wednesday through Friday, May 15-17, at the Sunday River Resort near
Bethel, Maine . The full conference is entitled, "What's in Your Woods?"
The program will start with a joint session from 1 pm to 3 pm, and then
we’ll have our own indoor session from 3:30 to 5 pm. People who have agreed
to give talks at this time include Nicholas Brazee (wood-inhabiting fungi),
Don Davis (fungal biocontrol of tree-of-heaven), Dale Bergdahl (butternut
health), Shawn Kenaley (fungal pathogens of hardwood plantations), and a
group presentation on ash health and the Emerald Ash Borer. After dinner
on our own, we can return for station reports from 7 to 9 pm.
On Thursday, an all-day field trip is planned. In the morning, Isabel Munck
(USFS, Durham) and William Ostrofsky (Maine Forest Service) will host a
tour of white pine needle damage/defoliation and Sirococcus shoot blight of
eastern hemlock and red pine.
In the afternoon, Bill Livingston (UMaine), Kara Lorion (UMaine), Colleen
Teerling (Maine Forest Service), and Nate Siegert (USFS, Durham) will host
a tour involving ash dieback/decline and monitoring for the emerald ash
borer, including hands-on demonstrations for girdling EAB trap trees.
We are also talking with the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance to have
representatives attend the meeting, and they would discuss the use of ash
from their perspective and the need to conserve healthy brown ash (=black
ash) with basket-quality wood.
Thursday evening will have a bar-b-q that's included in the registration
cost.
Friday morning will include another field trip. We'll travel on our own
from Sunday River Resort to Wolfe's Neck State Park on the coast near
Freeport, Maine. Alison Kanoti (Maine Forest Service) has arranged a tour
in the region to view a winter moth infestation, a browntail moth
infestation site where a BTM virus has been released, and a hemlock woolly
adelgid infestation where predatory beetles have been released. The tour
will end around noon after which LL Bean and factory outlets await you.
Early-bird registration cost is $99 including field trip transportation and
all meals on Thursday and breakfast & box lunch on Friday. After March 15,
registration increases to $120. Student registration is $70. Registration
rates go up after April 15.
Hotel rooms will be $79 per night at a nearby inn or $94 per night at the
Summit Resort which has the meeting rooms. To make reservations contact the
Reservation Department directly: (800) 207-2365. Please request the NESAF
room rate for the "NESAF 93 Annual Meeting 2013"
The group rates are available until April 15, 2013.
More program information is on NESAF web site: http://nesaf.org/
Registration is done on line at:
http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=ubvoh9lab&oeidk=a07e6x…
Be sure to select Tour 6 and Friday Tour 3.
Let me know if you have any questions, and I hope to see you in May!
Bill
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Dr. William H. Livingston
Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs
School of Forest Resources
University of Maine
5755 Nutting Hall, rm 201b
Orono, ME 04469-5755
USA
ph: 207-581-2990
fx: 207-581-2875
Email: WilliamL(a)maine.edu
Web: http://www.forest.umaine.edu/
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Dr. William H. Livingston
Associate Director of Undergraduate
Programs School of Forest Resources
University of Maine
5755 Nutting Hall, rm 201b
Orono, ME 04469-5755
USA
ph: 207-581-2990
fx: 207-581-2875
Email: WilliamL(a)maine.edu
Web: http://www.forest.umaine.edu/
On behalf of the organizers, Imperial College London, Forest Research UK, the Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) and other partners,
we invite you to electronic conference:
"Pathways Into Policy: International knowledge exchange on biosecurity governance and implications for tree pest introductions and spread"
which will run until 13th March 2013.
The e-conference focuses on the knowledge gaps and research priorities and will be organized around three themes:
Theme 1: Defining key pathways and assessing their significance
Theme 2: Comparing approaches to pathway management and tree pest and disease prevention
Theme 3: Exploring underlying justifications for pathway management and tree pest and disease outbreak prevention
We invite you to submit a contribution (no more than 300 - 500 words (approximately one page)). All major contributors will appear as co-authors on the report to Living with Environmental Change program (LWEC). Informal comments are also welcome.
To subscribe to the e-conference, please go to http://pathwaysintopolicy.forumotion.co.uk.
In case of any difficulties subscribing, please contact Emily Porth, emilyfp(a)gmail.com.
This project is funded by Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) Tree Health and Biosecurity Initiative, please go to http://www.lwec.org.uk/ for further details.
We do hope you can join us.
Sincerely,
Mariella Marzano, Norman Dandy and Emily Porth - Forest Research, UK
Clive Potter and Helen Bayliss -Imperial College London
Emily Porth, Project Researcher, Social and Economic Research Group, Forest Research
Susan Frankel, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station
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Dear colleagues and friends,
We would like to inform you about the upcoming “5th Phytophthora, Pythium and related genera workshop” that will take place in Beijing, China on 24-25 August 2013, immediately prior to the International Congress of Plant Pathology (ICPP; 25-30 August, 2013).
This is a two-day pre-congress workshop that will provide an additional platform to bring together scientists working on Oomycetes. The objective of the first day is to introduce the methodology for studying Oomycetes, in particular, Phytophthora and Pythium species (from isolation to characterization using morphological and molecular tools). The second day will cover contemporary research topics presented by invited and contributed speakers (see webpage for range of topics). During the evening there will be a poster session where all participants can present their work (these posters can be the same that will be presented during the ICPP)
Abstract Submission: Workshop deadline (to be considered for oral presentation) is April 1st 2013 and for the ICPP 28 February 2013.
For abstract submission, registration and detailed information on the workshop, please visit the congress website: http://www.icppbj2013.org/file/workshop/5thInternationalWorkshop.asp
If you are interested in contributing to the sessions (oral papers and posters), please inform the session organizers while submitting your abstracts online using the ICPP web page. Final selections for oral presentations will be made after registration has been completed.
Sessions for the second day are:
Session 1 Genomics and Oomycetes. Opportunities in comparative genomics.
Session 2 Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Oomycetes
Session 3: Emerging diseases, new technologies and management of Oomycete diseases in agricultural and natural settings
Session 4 Population biology, gene flow and hybridization.
The members of scientific committee are Drs. Yilmaz Balci (ybalci(a)umd.edu<mailto:ybalci@umd.edu>); David Cooke (david.cooke(a)hutton.ac.uk) Frank Martin (Frank.Martin(a)ARS.USDA.GOV) and Zhao Wenxia (zhaowenxia(a)caf.ac.cn<mailto:zhaowenxia@caf.ac.cn>) for all local arrangements.
Yilmaz Balci
Assistant Professor
University of Maryland
Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
2114 Plant Sciences
College Park, MD
phone: 301 405 9744
email: ybalci(a)umd.edu
