Sneak Peek of the Program Highlights for Plant Health 2019
An incredible program is coming together for 2019, check out these highlights featuring 18 special sessions, 9 workshops and 4 field trips!
Special Sessions
- Beneficial Microbes: From Isolation to Product Registration and the Regulatory Process
- Bottling Breakthroughs: How Industry Creates Plant Health Products from Scientific Innovation
- Current Trends and Directions in CRISPR/Cas9 Technology for Filamentous Fungi and Oomycetes
- Genomics and Phenomics to Characterize Host Resistance
- Host-Pathogen Interactions at the Plant Surface
- Impact of Environmental Changes on Nematode Communities and Soil Health
- Impacts of Agricultural Fungicides on Clinical Anti-Fungal Resistance
- Light, Leaves, and Pathogens - Spectroscopy for Plant Disease Detection
- Mycotoxin Mayhem: Insect Pests in The Mix
- New Products & Services
- Pathogen Adaptation to the Plant Vascular System
- Pathogens, Endophytes and Saprophytes: The Fine Line between Ecological Niches within the Botryosphaeriaceae
- Plant Pathologists of the Future: Showcasing Graduate Student Presentation Winners from APS Division Meetings
- Propagate Plants, not Pests and Pathogens
- Replicability in Plant Pathology: Do We Have a Problem?
- STEM Mentoring Fuels the Next Generation of Scientists
- The Promise and Limitations of SDHI fungicides
- Validation of High Throughput Sequencing: from Virus Detection to Plant Certification
Workshops
- Bioinformatics Basics: Teaching Bioinformatics to Undergraduates and Novices
- Effector Visualization: Teaching & Research Tools for Studying Pathogen Effectors During Infection
- Get Your Research Project Organized, Shareable, and Reproducible Using R and Other Open Source Tools
- Intro to R for Plant Pathologists
- Mixed Models for Data Analysis in Plant Pathology
- Modeling Tools and Techniques Using R
- Next Generation Leadership Essentials: Developing Effective Leadership Skills for All Levels
- Pitch 120: Honing Scientific Communication Skills for a Broader Audience
- Rapid and Simple Plant Health Diagnostics using LAMP Isothermal Amplification (sponsored and hosted by OptiGene Limited)
- The Plant Root System: Gateway to Plant-Beneficial Rhizosphere Microbiome Interactions
Field Trips
- Arboriculture and Commercial Turfgrass Management in the "Forest City"
- Discovering Ohio's Ornamental Heritage: From Research, To Farm, To Table
- Existing and Emerging Forest Health Challenges in the Great Lakes Region
- A Midwestern Fungal and Plant Pathology Foray
