Dear friends and colleagues, We are pleased to share the following early announcement of an upcoming IUFRO Division 7 (Forest Health) conference in Istanbul in 2016 with you. ** UPDATE: We have brought the date forward to April to avoid another planned conference. ** Please note the date and the opportunity to submit session proposals. IUFRO All-Division 7 Conference Global change and forest health - climate change, biological invasions, air pollution, forest pathology, forest entomology, and their interactions ** 25-29 April 2016 ** (please note the date change) Istanbul University Congress Center, Istanbul, TURKEY We envisage that the conference will cover all research topics that are represented within IUFRO’s Division 7 (Forest Health) and its Research Groups • Impacts of air pollution and climate change on forest ecosystems • Forest Pathology • Forest Entomology In early 2015 we will invite session proposals from Working Party coordinators and deputies or anyone involved with topics represented in Division 7 (see the list of working parties below). If you have any questions or comments about the conference plans or regarding the submission of a session proposal, please contact Yusuf Serengil (yserengil(a)yahoo.com) (chair of organising committee) and Eckehard Brockerhoff (eckehard.brockerhoff(a)scionresearch.com) (coordinator, IUFRO Division 7 – Forest Health) or any of the members of the scientific committee (below). We look forward to hearing from you. Scientific Commitee Yusuf Serengil, Turkey (yserengil(a)yahoo.com) Eckehard Brockerhoff, New Zealand (eckehard.brockerhoff(a)scionresearch.com) Andrzej Bytnerowicz, USA (abytnerowicz(a)fs.fed.us) Jolanda Roux, South Africa (Jolanda.Roux(a)up.ac.za) Andrew (Sandy) Liebhold, USA (aliebhold(a)gmail.com) IUFRO Division 7 (Forest Health) research groups and working parties: Research group: Impacts of air pollution and climate change on forest ecosystems (Andrzej Bytnerowicz) • Detection, monitoring, and evaluation • Mechanisms of action and indicator development • Atmospheric deposition, soils and nutrient cycles • Genetic aspects • Modelling and risk assessment • Social and political aspects • Multiple stressors on ecosystems • Hydroecology Research group: Forest Pathology (Jolanda Roux) • Root and butt rots • Foliage, shoot and stem diseases • Vascular wilt diseases • Phytoplasma and virus diseases of forest trees • Rusts of forest trees • Disease/environment interactions in forest decline • Diseases and insects of tropical forest trees • Phytophthora diseases on forest trees • Pine wilt disease • Parasitic flowering plants in forests Research group: Forest Entomology (Andrew (Sandy) Liebhold) • Cone and seed insects • Gall-forming insects • Diseases and insects in forest nurseries • Ecology and management of bark and wood boring ınsects • Integrated management of forest defoliating insects • Population dynamics of forest insects • Forest protection in Northeast Asia • Methodology of forest insect and disease survey • Resistance to insects • Alien invasive species and international trade • Biological control of forest insects and pathogens • Entomological research in Mediterranean forest ecosystems This e-mail and any attachments may contain information which is confidential or subject to copyright. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it. Scion does not accept responsibility for anything in this e-mail which is not provided in the course of Scion’s usual business or for any computer virus, data corruption, interference or delay arising from this e-mail.