2015 Program
Date | Time | Event/Session | Session Leaders/Authors |
Tuesday December 8, 2015 | 4:00 - 6:00 pm | Executive meeting Registration | |
6:00 - 8:00 pm | Reception | ||
Wednesday December 9, 2015 | 8:00 – 8:35 am | Opening Remarks (Alex Csinos) Welcome Remarks (Christine Waddill) History of the Keys (Lara Lee Hickman) | |
8:35 – 9:20 am | Keynote speaker: Michael E. Matheron Phytophthora, the Plant Destroyer: Past, Present, and Future | ||
9:20 – 12:30 pm | Biology/Epidemiology | Pingsheng Ji & Kenny Seebold | |
9:20 – 9:40 am | Testing fundamental ecological concepts with a Pythium-Prunus pathosystem | Kurt Reinhart, Matthew Rinella & Keith Clay | |
9:40 – 10:00 am | Metalaxyl resistance and Pythium damping-off of chickpea in the US Pacific Northwest | Weidong Chen, Stephen Guy, Rebecca McGee, Timothy Paulitz, Lyndon Porter, Kurtis Schroeder, and George Vandemark | |
10:00 – 10:30 am | Break | ||
10:30 – 10:50 am | Biology and management of Phytophthora blight on vegetables | Tianli Qu, Alexander Csinos, & Pingsheng Ji | |
10:50 – 11:10 am | Efficacy of a Trichoderma asperellum strain against soilborne Phytophthora ramorum, P. capsici, P. cinnamomi, and P. tentaculata | Tim Widmer | |
11:10 – 11:30 am | Unraveling the interaction between pea root and the soilborne oomycete Aphanomyces euteiches: Toward the characterization of biocontrol agents | Yohana Laloum, Isabelle Trinsoutrot-Gattin, Maïté Vicre-Gibouin, Anne moussart, Azeddine Driouich, Marie-Laure Follet-Gueye, Karine Laval, & Christophe Gangneux | |
11:30 – 11:50 am | Revisit the notion of Phytophthora species as water molds | Chuan Hong | |
11:50 – 12:10 pm | Use of a quantitative assay to assess inoculum of Phytophthora ramorum from infected roots treated with three biocontrol agents | Nina Shishkoff | |
12:10 – 12:30 pm | Effects of chemical and non-chemical products on pink rot of potato | J. J. Hao, H. H. Jiang, X. Y. Zhang, X. Zhang, N. Marangoni | |
12:30 – 2:00 pm | Lunch | ||
2:00 – 3:30 pm | Genetics/Taxonomy/Pathogen Diversity | Lina Quesada-Ocampo | |
2:00 – 2:15 pm | CRISPR/Cas9, a powerful new tool for genetic studies of oomycete pathogens | Y. Fang, & B. M. Tyler | |
2:15 – 2:30 pm | Development of microsatellites from whole-transcriptome sequences in Phytophthora capsici for population studies | C. H. Parada-Rojas & L. M. Quesada-Ocampo | |
2:30 – 2:45 pm | Sequencing the genome of the downy mildew plant pathogen Plasmopara obducens: progress and utility | M. J. Bowman, J. Chow, L. M. Cano, E. Góngora-Castillo, L. M. Quesada-Ocampo, & K. L. Childs | |
2:45 – 3:00 pm | Genetic dynamics of an experimental overwintering biparental population in the context of a field infestation of Phytophthora capsici | M. O. Carlson, M. A. Gore, & C. D. Smart | |
3:00 – 3:15 pm | Effectoromics as a tool for better management of soybean root/stem rot | K. Fedkenheuer, M. Fedkenheuer, C. Davis, H. Wise, L. Waller, R. G. Anderson, B. M. Tyler, A. E. Robertson, M. A. Saghai Maroof, & J. M. McDowell | |
3:15 – 3:30 pm | Questions | ||
3:30 – 4:00 pm | Break | ||
4:00 – 5:30 pm | Host Resistance | Shaker Kousik | |
4:00 – 4:15 pm | Transcriptomic profiling of Cucurbita species to characterize the age-related resistance against Phytophthora capsici | Safa Alzohairy & Mary Hausbeck | |
4:15 – 4:30 pm | Adaptation by Phytophthora nicotianae to partial resistance in tobacco | K. L. McCorkle, R. S., Lewis, & H. D. Shew | |
4:30 – 4:45 pm | Effector triggered susceptibility: alpha-plurivorin of Phytophthora plurivora manipulates defence responses of European beech seedlings | Wolfgang Osswald & Ronaldo J.D. Dalio | |
4:45 – 5:00 pm | Evaluation of bell pepper (Capsicum annuum L) cultivars and breeding lines for resistance to the crown-rot phase of Phytophthora blight (Phytophthora capsici) in New Jersey | W. L. Kline & C. A. Wyenandt | |
5:00 – 5:15 pm | Reaction of Phytophthora fruit rot resistant germplasm lines to a broad range of Phytophthora capsici isolates from across United States of America | C. S. Kousik (Shaker) & J. L. Ikerd | |
5:15 – 5:30 pm | Questions | ||
5:30 – 6:30 pm | Industry Update | Pablo Navia Gine | |
Thursday December 10, 2015 | 8:00 – 9:30 am | Chemical Control | Paul Kuhn & Andy Wyenandt |
8:00 – 8:20 am | Using directed fungicide applications to manage Phytophthora fruit rot of processing squash | Charles Krasnow & Mary Hausbeck | |
8:20 – 8:40 am | Fungicide rotation schemes for managing Phytophthora fruit rot of watermelon across Southeastern United States (NC, SC, GA) | Chandrasekar Kousik (Shaker), Pingsheng Ji & Lina Quesada-Ocampo | |
8:40 – 9:00 am | Comparing fluopicolide and oxathiapiprolin with mefenoxam to manage Phytophthora nicotianae on tobacco in 2011-2015 | C.S. Johnson | |
9:00 – 9:20 am | Efficacy of oxathiapiprolin against black shank of tobacco in field studies in North Carolina | R. J. Bittner & A. L. Mila | |
9:20 – 9:30 am | Questions | ||
9:30 – 10:00 am | Break | ||
10:00 – 11:10 am | Integrated Disease Management | Michael Matheron | |
10:00 – 10:20 am | Fluorescent Pseudomonas spp. and cyclic lipopeptide diversity in the cocoyam rhizosphere and their relation with soil suppressiveness against the cocoyam root rot disease | F. E. Olorunleke, N. Geudens, O. F. Olorunleke, O.O. Omoboye, A. Adiobo, D. Sinnaeve, J. C. Martins & M. Höfte | |
10:20 – 10:40 am | Silver nanoparticles: a new tool for controlling Phytophthora spp. | Mohammad Ali, Bosung Kim, Kevin Belfield, David Norman, Mary Brennan & Gul Shad Ali | |
10:40 – 11:00 am | Evaluation of host resistance and fungicide applications in integrated management of Phytophthora blight of pepper | Charles Krasnow & Mary Hausbeck | |
11:00 – 11:10 am | Questions | ||
11:10 – 12:00 pm | Planning meeting |