Dear FORENT and FORPATH list moderators, can you please send this info through your member lists? Regards, Guillermo Dear colleagues, After many requests of extending the deadline for abstract submission for the 2011 IUFRO Forest Health Joint Meeting to be held at Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, the organizing committee has decided to extend deadlines till next 20th July. Please visit our webpage http://www.iufrouruguay2011.org for registration, abstract submission and all news about this upcoming event. We are glad to announce that we have confirmed the participation of the following speakers during plenary sessions: Prof. Juan Corley from the Insect Ecology Group of the National Institute for Agricultural Technology (INTA), Bariloche, Argentina, Prof. Treena Burgess from CRC for Forestry, Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch University, Australia, Prof. Carlos Wilcken from Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas, Campus of Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil, Prof. Bernard Slippers from the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, South Africa. Do not miss this opportunity to participate in this International Meeting taking place in South America for the first time. Please do not hesitate to contact me, would you need more information (guillermoiufro2011(a)gmail.com) and looking forward to see you all in November in Colonia del Sacramento, Guillermo Pérez -- Dr. Guillermo Perez Executive coordinator http://www.iufrouruguay2011.org guillermoiufro2011(a)gmail.com gperez(a)inia.org.uy (00598) 95084223 (00598) 43728663