Dear colleague, in a few days the deadline for submitting abstracts for the upcoming IUFRO PWD symposium will end. So I like to remind all of you who have interesting research results in the framework of pine wood nematode, pine wilt disease and the related vectors and are willing to participate at the meeting to sent their abstract using the conference tool on the symposium website http://dpg.phytomedizin.org/de/pwdc2013/. The topics which will be covered by the symposium are: . Pine Wood Nemtode (PWN) Biology, Population dynamics, Epidemiology, Modeling · PWN in international trade, pathways and impacts · Systematic and diagnostics · PWN interactions with bacteria and fungi · Insect Vector · Pine Wilt Disease management and contingency planning Choose the "registration" button and you will be linked to the conference tool. Currently we have still enough possibilities for presentations, so I like to inform you that we postponed the deadline for one week to give you the opportunity to submit your papers calmly. So the final deadline will be 7th of July. All the other deadlines will stay as they are. For the first round of abstracts you may only submit a very brief summary of your intended presentation. This will be the basis for the review by the scientific committee. At the end of July you will be informed about the acceptance of your presentation and we will also provide guidance for the abstracts intended to be published as conference proceedings. Additional information are available on the homepage: http://dpg.phytomedizin.org/de/pwdc2013/the-conference/instructions-to-the-…. In the meantime the conference homepage was updated and several additions were made. So there were made special arrangements with two hotels and we reserved 70 rooms: http://dpg.phytomedizin.org/de/pwdc2013/venue/accomodation/. The keyword for the room reservation and special price is "IUFRO". I like to advise you to choose one of the two hotels because the bus transfer to the conference room will only depart from those hotels. To give the local organizers more time for their work I like to ask you to resister timely, not only because the early bird fee payment is only valid until 31 July 2013. In the framework of paying the conference fee I like to request participants from non European Union countries to pay the registration fee by credit card to avoid additional bank charges which have to be paid by the participant. Thank you for your cooperation. The organization committee would be grateful if you could share this email with people you think could be interested to participate and especially to those whom you sent the first call. Thank you! I hope to see you in Braunschweig! With best regards for the local organizing board Thomas Schroeder P.S.: As I combined several email lists it might be the case that you got my email repeatedly. Sorry for any inconvenience which is caused by that! . 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@jki.bund.de<mailto:thomas.schroeder@jki.bund.de> URL: http://pflanzengesundheit.jki.bund.de http://www.jki.bund.de