WELCOME
You are cordially invited to participate in the meeting of the 12th International Cereal Rusts and Powdery Mildews Conference which will be held in Antalya, Turkey, five years after the last meeting held in Norwich, UK in 2004 (11th ICRPMC) which is organized on behalf of the European and Mediterranean Cereal Rust Foundation (http://www.crpmb.org). The meeting will begin on Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 and will conclude with the Gala Dinner on Friday, 16th of October.
The meeting will be held at the cross-roads between the old and the new worlds. Therefore, we are eager to have participants from all continents and countries where rusts and mildews are issues for cereal agriculture; especially now, in the brink of cloned durable resistance genes.
All topic areas relating to the biology and genetics of cereal interactions with rust and powdery mildew pathogens and pathogen epidemiology are warmly invited. Both oral and poster presentations are invited and as at the 11 th ICRPMC we would like to encourage participation of interested parties working on questions both fundamental and applied in nature. Therefore we encourage both researchers and cereal breeders to attend this meeting.
The format of the meeting will include morning and evening sessions consisting of 30 minute invited presentations and a number of short offered talks under each topic area. Session topic areas will be selected from the submitted abstracts and participants are encouraged to present. Poster sessions will also be held. Participants are encouraged to offer abstracts as oral or poster presentations, although the final decision will lie with the organizing and scientific committee.
We would encourage participation by students and younger post-doctoral researchers.
Details and procedures for the submission of abstracts and registration are already posted on our web site 12th ICRPMC-2009, Antalya (http://www.icrpmc2009.org). Please bring this notice to the attention of any of your colleagues who may be interested. We hope to see you in Antalya in October 13-16, 2009.
Mahinur S. Akkaya (Middle East Technical University, Ankara)
Chair of Scientific Committee & Local Organizer Committee
COMFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS
Beat Keller (Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland)
“Molecular basis of durable rust resistance in wheat”Ravi Singh (CIMMYT, Mexico)
“Building international cooperation: crucial to mitigate the threat from Ug99 race of stem rust and other rust pathogens”Wanquan Chen (Institute of Plant Protection Chineese Academy of Agricultural Science, China)
“Regional epidemics and management of wheat stripe rust in China”Robert F. Park (Plant Breeding Institute, The University of Sydney, Australia)
“Achieving durable rust resistance in agriculture: from gene to continent and beyond”Patrick Schweizer (Leibniz-Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Germany)
“Convergent information for genes underlying quantitative powdery-mildew resistance in barley”Pietro Spanu (Molecular Plant Pathology Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, UK)
“Sequencing the genome of Blumeria graminis”Ralph Panstruga (Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany)
“The molecular basis of broad-spectrum powdery mildew resistance ”Soledad Sacristan (Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (UPM-INIA), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
“Virulence effectors and retrotransposons in Blumeria graminis”Jerome Enjalbert (Unit de Pathologie végétale et Epidémiologie, INRA Agro-Paris-Tech, France)
“Clonality and recombination footprints in wheat yellow rust genetic structure”Mogens S. Hovmoller (Agricultural Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark)
“Rates of evolution in Puccinia striiformis”Roger Wise (Department of Plant Pathology, Iowa State University, USA)
“Regulation of innate immunity in barley-powdery mildew interactions"Tzion Fahima (Dept. Evol. Environ. Biol., University of Haifa, Israel)
“Wild emmer wheat as a source for disease resistance genes: from genetic diversity to gene cloning"
You may download the 4th Regional Yellow Rust Meeting first announcement from here.
