Hello Colleagues, Please find below the announcement for the upcoming Phytophthora workshop. This workshop will be of great interest for anyone who likes to learn how to isolate and identify Phytophthora and Pythium species. Best Regards, Yilmaz Yilmaz Balci, Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of Maryland Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture 2114 Plant Sciences Building College Park, MD, 20742-4452 Phone (office-2114): 301_405 9744 Phone (lab-2180): 301_405 0314 Fax: 301_314 9308 http://www.psla.umd.edu 4th International Workshop for Phytophthora, Pythium, and Phytopythium AND International Web Symposium on Oomycetes of Regulatory Concern in International Trade We are very pleased to announce the presentation of the "4th International workshop for Phytophthora, Pythium, and Phytopythium" and the International Web Symposium "Oomycetes of Regulatory Concern in International Trade" to be held during May 21-25 2012 at University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. The primary purpose of the workshop is to provide hands-on training on morphological and molecular tools used to identify species within the genera. Participants will have the chance to examine a selected assemblage of species from each genus using type species. The innovative "Morphological and Molecular Identification Tools for Oomycetes: Phytophthora - Lucid and Tabular Keys" with important information of the described species will be presented at the event. Z. Gloria Abad at the USDA-CPHST and Yilmaz Balci at Univ. of MD are the organizers. Instructors for the workshop are: Frank Martin USDA-ARS, Salinas, CA; Michael Coffey World Oomycetes Genetics Resource Collection (WOGRC) Univ. of California; Gloria Abad and Yilmaz Balci from the USA; and Arthur de Cock CBS, Fungal Biodiversity Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Invited Speakers are: Seogchan kang Pennsylvania State University - Phytophthora Database; and Kurt Zeller at USDA-CPHST, Beltsville, MD. The International Web Symposium will be presented during the morning of Wednesday 23rd as an additional activity for the workshop. Invited Speakers are: Clive Brasier and Joan Webber at the Forest Research Agency Farnham UK; Marco Thines from Univ. of Hohenheim, Germany; Trena Burgess from The Centre for Phytophthora Science and Management, Australia; André Lévesque from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Paloma Abad from the Mediterranean Agroforestal Institute of the Polytechnic Univ. of Valencia, Spain. Registrations for the 4th International Workshop will be open until April 30 2012 at http://www.psla.umd.edu/faculty/Balci/workshop2011/index.cfm