BSPP & BMS Joint Presidential Meeting 2017 - Fungal Control and Exploitation

Nottingham,UnitedKingdom    Sep. 11, 2017-Sep. 13, 2017

Nottingham,UnitedKingdom

Sep. 11, 2017-Sep. 13, 2017

Venue:

University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus

Organizer:

the British Society for Plant Pathology (BSPP) & the British Mycological Society (BMS)

Email:

secretary@bspp.org.uk

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The annual meeting will be a joint venture with the British Mycological Society (BMS), so there will be additional interest from the parallel BMS sessions, as well as several joint plenaries. The BSPP sessions will focus on the control of diseases using genetics (including GM and RNAi), pesticides and biocontrol. The BMS sessions will focus on control of human fungal pathogens, as well as exploitation of fungi, for example in biotechnology. They have assembled a first-class programme of invited speakers for the meeting, with confirmed BMS and BSPP speakers so far including:
  • Scott Baker (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
  • Axel Brakhage (Jena)
  • Al Brown (Aberdeen)
  • Mike Bromley (Manchester)
  • Ronald De Vries (Utrecht)
  • Alan Gange (Royal Holloway)
  • Lise Nistrup Jorgensen (Aarhus)
  • Karl-Heinz Kogel (Giessen)
  • Mark Lynas (Author and Environmentalist)
  • Vera Meyer (Berlin)
  • Bruce McDonald (ETHZ Switzerland)
  • Richard Michelmore (UC Davis)
  • Richard Oliver (Curtin)
  • Neil Paveley (ADAS)
  • Nick Read (Manchester)
  • Natalia Requena (Karlsruhe)
  • Sander Schouten (Wageningen)
  • Eckhard Thines (Mainz)
  • Frank van den Bosch (Rothamsted)
  • Vivianne Vleeshouwers (Wageningen)

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