[IUFRO RG 7.03 FORENT] Joint IUFRO meeting "Foliage, shoot and stem diseases of forest trees" and "Diseases and insects in forest nurseries" ---- 2nd letter (abstract submission and registration)

Dear Colleagues, We would like to remind you about the incoming Joint IUFRO 7.02.02 "Foliage, shoot and stem diseases of forest trees" and 7.03.04 "Diseases and insects in forest nurseries" Working Party Meetings that will be held in Uppsala, Sweden on the 7 - 12th June 2015 (enclosed iCal reminder for Outlook users). In this letter we provide some information on the abstract submission, conference fees and registration. More information can be found in the webpage of the meeting, which will be continuously updated during these months: http://www.slu.se/iufro2015 Scientific communications: We welcome communications in both poster and oral presentation formats. Please send us an abstract of your communication max. 250 words. Please find enclosed word document for style guidelines. Send them to jonas.oliva@slu.se<mailto:jonas.oliva@slu.se> , before 1st March 2015. Decision on oral or poster presentation will be given the 15th April 2015. Deadline for abstract submission: 1st March 2015 (enclosed iCal reminder for Outlook users) Decision: 15st April 2015 We will have a special issue in the open-source journal Forests (IF=1.139). Everybody attending the conference is welcome to submit their communication/s to the Special issue as a full-paper. Note that manuscripts will undergo full peer reviewing process. Deadline for submission 30th July 2015. The scientific committee will select 10 communications to be published in Forests free-of-charge. Please let us know when you submit your abstract whether you would be interested in publishing those results in Forests. More info: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/diseases_nurseries Conference fee Conference fee will be of 3500 SEK (Swedish Krona) for regular attendees, but students will have a reduced price of 2000 SEK. Conference fee will include lunches. Note that dinners, breakfasts or lodging, are not included into the conference fee . It is important to note the conference organisers will not take care of booking/organising lodging. Most hotels in Uppsala are easily found and booked in Internet. Registration Registration will be open next week. Deadline is 15th of May 2015 (enclosed iCal reminder for Outlook users) Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions: IUFRO "Foliage, shoot and stem diseases of forest trees" Jonàs Oliva: jonas.oliva@slu.se<mailto:jonas.oliva@slu.se> Jan Stenlid: jan.stenlid@slu.se<mailto:jan.stenlid@slu.se> IUFRO "Diseases and insects in forest nurseries" Audrius Menkis: audrius.menkis@slu.se<mailto:rimvys.vasaitis@slu.se> Hope to see you soon in Uppsala! Jonàs, Jan and Audrius -------------------------------------------------------------- Jonàs Oliva, Ph. D. Assistant Professor - Forskarassistent Dept. Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, SLU Box 7026 75007 Uppsala, Sweden telefon: 018-671602 fax +46 18 673599 jonas.oliva@slu.se<mailto:jonas.oliva@slu.se>