Dear All, The call for abstracts for the International Congress of Plant Pathology, which is being held in Lyon, France, from 20-25 August 2023, is open. The deadline for abstract submission is February 15 and the early registration deadline is April 15. The meeting will provide an excellent opportunity for forest pathologists to gather, and to interact with plant pathologists that don't work on trees but share common research interests. There are several forest pathology sessions at the congress (https://www.icpp2023.org/call-abstracts) * 18.01 Current and emerging forest pathology issues * 18.02 Understanding emergence of pathogens in commercial and public forest ecosystems * 18.03 Forest pathogenic fungi interacting with insect pests: research fronts and perspectives * 18.04 Bioinvasion in the urban environment: pathways, early warning, mitigation measures, institutional frameworks and policy implementation * 18.05 Social and cultural dimensions of international forest health * 18.06 Advances in the use of novel monitoring programs and exotic sentinel trees to detect incipient threats posed by forest pathogens in forest ecosystems * 18.07 Botryosphaeria dieback, which culture is affected, what we know and how to fight? * 18.08 A mechanistic approach of the varietal mixture effects on plant pathogens * 18.09 CRISPR crops: plant Genome Editing Toward Disease Resistance * 18.10 MOLECULAR ASPECTS: interactions with parasitic plants * 18.11 MOLECULAR ASPECTS: plant-bacteria interactions * 18.12 MOLECULAR ASPECTS: plant-fungus interactions * 18.13 MOLECULAR ASPECTS: plant-nematode interactions * 18.14 MOLECULAR ASPECTS: plant-oomycetes interactions * 18.15 MOLECULAR ASPECTS: plant-virus interactions * 18.16 Plant pathogens interactions in multi stress conditions (abiotic and biotic stresses): viruses and other pathogens? * 18.17 Plant responses to pathogen * 18.18 Towards structure-based design of disease resistance genes * 18.19 Insights in Plant Immune Receptors Hopefully, many of you will be able to attend and participate in the congress. Best regards, Tod Tod Ramsfield, PhD Coordinator, IUFRO Division 7 - Forest Health Research Scientist Forest Pathology, Canadian Forest Service Natural Resources Canada / Government of Canada Tod.Ramsfield@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca<mailto:Tod.Ramsfield@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca> / Tel: 825-510-1303 Chercheur, Pathologie forestière, Service canadien des forêts Ressources naturelles Canada / Gouvernement du Canada Tod.Ramsfield@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca<mailto:Tod.Ramsfield@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca> / Tel : 825-510-1303