Future Conferences
2008
07/09 May 2008, Hermosillo, Mexico
Workshop on citrus huanglongbing ('Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticum') and the Asian citrus psyllid (Diaphorina citri)
Main topics: Biology, Status of the disease worldwide, Diagnostics, Control measures against the disease and its vector (chemical, biological), Surveillance and phytosanitary measures, Economic impact.
Contact: M.T. Pedro Luis Robles García, Dirección de Protección Fitosanitaria, Dirección General de Sanidad Vegetal, Mexico, City, E-mail: cpn@senasica.sagarpa.gob.mx
02-04 June 2008, Mérida, Spain
EPPO/Council of Europe Workshop “How to manage invasive alien plants? The case studies of Eichhornia crassipes and Eichhornia azurea”
Main topics: biology of Eichhornia spp., pathways of entry, potential of establishment and spread, impacts, management measures, communication.
Contact: EPPO, 1 rue Le Nôtre, 75016 Paris, France. E-mail: hq@eppo.fr. Website.
23-26 June 2008, Vancouver, Canada
5th International Weed Science Congress
Contact: AJ Fischer, IWSS, Weed Science, Plant Science Department, University of California, Davis CA 95616, USA. E-mail: AJFischer@ucdavis.edu.
13-18 July 2008, Brisbane, Australia
5th International Congress of Nematology
Contact: M Hodda, CSIRO Entomology, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. E-mail: Mike.Hodda@csiro.au. Website.
21-25 July 2008, Montpellier, France
Symposium of European Association of Acarologists
Contact: S. Kreiter, Organizing Committee, UMR 1062 CBGP, Montpellier SupAgro, 34060 Montpellier Cedex 1, France. E-mail: euraac2008@supagro.inra.fr. Website.
26-31 July 2008, Minneapolis, USA
American Phytopathological Society Annual Meeting
Contact: APS, 3340 Pilot Knob road, St Paul, MN 55121-2097, USA.
E-mail: PTrenda@scisoc.org. Website.
24-29 August 2008, Torino, Italy
9th International Congress of Plant Pathology - ICPP 2008
Contact: Prof. Maria Ludovica Gullino, University of Turin, via L. da Vinci, 44, 10095 Grugliasco, Italy. E-mail: icpp2008.unito.it. Website.
20-24 October 2008, Brussels, Belgium
EU Commission. Directorate General for Trade. Seminar on phytosanitary issues: 'Enhancing market access to EU for horticultural products from emerging markets'.
The seminar aims to increase participants’ understanding of European phytosanitary legislation and its implementation at the national level in member states. Participants of the seminar will be administrators involved in phytosanitary policies and legislation development or senior staff from phytosanitary inspectorates, plant health diagnostic centres, etc.
Contact: E-mail: suzana@advanceconsulting.nl. Website.
08-10 October 2008, Bucharest Romania
Xth International Symposium - Hazards of Pesticides to Bees
Main topics: Test and risk assessment development, Regulatory issues (including revision of EPPO risk assessment scheme and test guidelines),
Test methodology,
Alternative control methods,
Honey bee poisoning incidents and monitoring schemes,
Synergism – Varroa and varroacides – Bumblebees and other bee species.
Contact: Dr Pieter A. Oomen,
Plant Protection Service,
P.O.Box 91026700 HC
Wageningen, Netherlands,
Tel: +31 317 496462 - Fax: +31 317 421701 -
Email: p.a.oomen@minlnv.nl and
Dr Helen Thompson, CSL, York, United Kingdom. E-mail: h.thompson@csl.gov.uk.
20-24 October 2008, Almeria, Spain
3rd European Whitefly Symposium
Main topics: Faunistics, systematics & ecology, Whitefly transmitted viruses & epidemiology, Whitefly natural enemies, Whitefly control and integrated pest management.
Contact: Dr. Dirk Janssen; E-mail: ews3info@mail.ews.org- Website.