2012 Program Schedule

Preliminary Schedule

Downloadable PDF with room assignments

(as of 6.26.12–subject to change)

FRIDAY, AUGUST 3
8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Leadership Opportunity – APS Leadership Institute I – Finding Your Style
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.	Workshop – Fungicide Resistance Development in North America for the 21st Century (2-day workshop, continued Saturday)
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.	APS Leadership Forum, by invitation

SATURDAY, AUGUST 4
7:45 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.	Field Trip – Ornamental Field Tour- SOLD OUT
8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Field Trip – Turfgrass Field Tour
8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Leadership Opportunity – APS Leadership Institute II – Working with Others
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.	Workshop – Fungicide Resistance Development in North America for the 21^st Century (continued from Friday)
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.	Field Trip – Pests, Protections, and Politics of the North American Cranberry
9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.	Field Trip –New England Fungal Foray- SOLD OUT
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Leadership Opportunity – APS Leadership Institute –Understanding Your Behavior Style- SOLD OUT (students and post docs only), sponsered by Monsanto
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.	APS Office of International Programs (OIP) Board Meeting
11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.	APS PRESS Board Meeting
12:00 – 6:00 p.m.	Registration
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.	Workshop – Introduction to Phylogenetic Tree-building
1:00 – 4:30 p.m.	Postharvest Discussion Meeting
1:00 – 6:00 p.m.	Workshop – Mixed Models for Analysis of Factorials in Plant Pathology
2:30 – 5:00 p.m.	APS Publications Board Meeting
3:00 – 4:30 p.m.	APS Committee Chair/Vice Chair Orientation
4:00 – 6:00 p.m.	Microbial Forensics Interest Group
4:30 – 5:30 p.m.	First Timers' Orientation
5:00 – 6:30 p.m.	PDMR Editors' Meeting
6:30 – 8:00 p.m.	Committee Meetings
	Biological Control Committee Epidemiology Committee Extension Committee Host Resistance Committee Industry Committee Mycotoxicology Committee Nematology Committee Seed Pathology Committee Soil Microbiology and Root Diseases Committee Turfgrass Pathology Committee Virology Committee
8:00 – 9:30 p.m.	Committee Meetings
	Bacteriology Committee Chemical Control Committee Crop Loss Assessment and Risk Evaluation (CARE) Committee Early Career Professionals Committee Forest Pathology Committee Genetics Committee Graduate Student Committee Molecular and Cellular Phytopathology Committee Mycology Committee Plant Pathogen and Disease Detection Committee Teaching Committee Vector-Pathogen Complexes Committee

SUNDAY, AUGUST 5
7:00 – 9:00 a.m.	APSnet Education Center Editorial Board Meeting
7:00 – 9:00 a.m.	Vegetable Seed Industry Breakfast, by invitation
7:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.	Registration
8:00 – 8:30 a.m.	Moderator Orientation
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.	APS Leadership Institute Committee Meeting
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.	APS Phytopathology Senior Editors' Meeting
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.	APS Plant Disease Senior Editors' Meeting
8:00 – 10:00 a.m.	Awards and Honors Committee Meeting, by invitation
8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.	Exhibit Set-Up
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.	Committee Meetings
	Biotechnology Committee Collections and Germplasm Committee Committee for Diversity and Equality Diagnostics Committee Diseases of Ornamental Plants Committee Emerging Diseases and Pathogens Special Committee, by invitation Integrated Plant Disease Management Committee Pathogen Resistance Committee Phyllosphere Microbiology Committee Postharvest Pathology Committee Regulatory Plant Pathology Committee Tropical Plant Pathology Committee
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.	APS Phytopathology Editorial Board Meeting
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.	APS Plant Disease Editorial Board Meeting
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	APS Opening General Session and Awards & Honors Ceremony
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.	Lunch Break (with concessions)
12:00 – 2:00 p.m.	APS Division Officers' Luncheon
12:00 – 3:00 p.m.	Poster Set-Up
12:00 – 6:00 p.m.	APS-OIP Silent Auction
12:30 – 2:30 p.m.	Office of Electronic Communication (OEC) Board Meeting
1:00 – 2:15 p.m.	Technical Sessions Chemical Control 1 Oomycete Biology Virus Management
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.	Special Sessions Do Regulatory Agencies Really Make the Rules in Crop Protection? CANCELLED Emerging Tools and Regulations Impacting the Enhancement of Disease Resistance Using Biotechnology Genetics, Genomics, and Proteomics Approaches to Elucidate Arthropod-Vector Specificity The National Clean Plant Network: Ensuring Disease-Free, Vegetatively Propagated Fruit Tree Planting Stock Resolving the Species-Population Interface in Asexual Fungi: New Tools to Address an Old Problem
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.	PMN Oversight Committee Meeting, by invitation
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.	APS Nominations Committee Meeting
2:30 – 3:30 p.m.	Plant Health Progress Editorial Board Meeting, by invitation
2:45– 3:30 p.m.	Technical Sessions Liberibacter Biology Host Resistance (ends at 4:00 p.m.) IPM 1
4:00 – 4:45 p.m.	University Alumni Socials Cornell University Iowa State University Louisiana State University Michigan State University North Carolina State University The Ohio State University Old West Trails Oregon State University The Pennsylvania State University University of Arkansas University of California-Davis University of Florida The University of Georgia University of Illinois University of Minnesota University of Wisconsin Washington State University
4:30 – 6:30 p.m.	APS PRESS Bookstore
4:30 – 6:30 p.m.	Welcome Reception with Exhibition and Posters
4:30 – 8:00 p.m.	Extended Time! Poster Viewing
6:15 – 9:30 p.m.	Industry & Extension Social – New England Cuisine by the Sea (buses depart from the Sabin Street entrance of the convention center, plan to arrive a minimum of 15 minutes prior to the time listed for boarding)
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.	Office of Education Board Meeting

MONDAY, AUGUST 6
6:30 – 8:00 a.m.	Extension Plant Pathologists' Breakfast
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	APS Foundation Board Meeting, by invitation
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	APS Public Policy Board Meeting
7:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Registration
7:30 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.	Extended Time! Poster Viewing
8:30 – 9:45 a.m.	Technical Sessions Epidemiology (ends at 9:30 a.m.) Fungal Biology 1 New Insights Into the Disease Triangle
8:30 – 11:30 a.m.	Special Sessions 12th I. E. Melhus Graduate Student Symposium: Host Plant Resistance and Disease Management: Current Status and Future Outlook Advances in Detection Technologies: Application in Plant Pathogen and Disease Detection Exploring the Micropolis: Sampling, Identifying, and Analyzing the Diversity of Microbial Communities New Products and Services (ends at 10:30 a.m.) Unifying Concepts in Plant and Animal Vector Biology
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.	APS Associated Organizations Meeting
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.	Distilling the Message
10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.	APS PRESS Bookstore
10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.	Exhibits Open
10:15 – 11:30 a.m.	Technical Sessions Ecology and Epidemiology of Rhizosphere Pathogens Fungal Biology 2 Pathogen Diversity
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	APS-Public Policy Board Open Forum on Hot Topics
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Graduate Student & Industry Lunch
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Lunch Break (with concessions)
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Past Presidents' Lunch, by invitation
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Storkan-Hanes-McCaslin Research Foundation Luncheon, by invitaiton
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Widely Prevalent Fungi Working Group
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.	USDA-ARS Meeting (brown bag lunch)
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.	Plenary Session – Communicating Science
3:00 – 4:30 p.m.	25^th Anniversary of the APS Foundation – Foundation Booth Join the foundation for cake and beverages
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.	New Time! Technical Sessions Bacterial Biology IPM 2 Molecular Fungi and Bacteria Molecular Resistance Vectors and Vectored Pathogens Detection and Diagnosis Fungicide Resistance 1 New and Emerging Diseases 1
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.	APS Divisional Forum
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.	Diagnostics Working Group
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.	International Society Relations Meeting
4:45 – 5:45 p.m.	NPDN Town Hall Meeting
5:00 – 6:30 p.m.	Early Career Professionals' Social with Employer Networking Opportunity, preregistration required
5:00 – 6:30 p.m.	Graduate Student Social
7:00 – 10:00 p.m.	Ornamental Virus Discussion Group

TUESDAY, AUGUST 7
7:00 – 8:30 a.m.	APS Sustaining Associates' Breakfast, by invitation
7:00 – 9:00 a.m.	Annual Meeting Board Meeting
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	Department Heads' Breakfast and Meeting
7:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.	Registration
7:30 – 9:00 a.m.	Small Fruit Diseases Workers Discussion
7:30 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.	Extended Time! Poster Viewing
8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.	Workshop – Reaching Out: Sharing Innovative Approaches for Identification and Control of Turfgrass Diseases
8:30 – 9:45a.m.	Technical Sessions Bacterial Etiology and Ecology Biological Control Liberibacter and Psyllid Biology New and Emerging Diseases 2
8:30 – 11:30 a.m.	Special Sessions Issues and Opportunities in Regulatory Sciences at EPA It's a Mixed Up World: Hybridization and Horizontal Gene Transfer in Plant Pathogens and Endophytes Potato virus Y—An Old Virus and a New Problem in Potato Thousand Cankers Disease: A Threat to Eastern Black Walnut Throughout Its Native Range and Beyond
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.	APS PRESS Bookstore
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.	Exhibits Open
10:15 – 11:30 a.m.	Technical Sessions Biological Control, IPM, and Sanitation Chemical Control 2 Diseases of Ornamentals Molecular Bacteria
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Lunch Break (with concessions)
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Phytopathology News Advisory Committee Meeting
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.	Orange Rust Sugarcane Meeting (brown bag lunch)
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.	APHIS Widely Prevalent Virus Committee Meeting, by invitation
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.	APHIS Widely Prevalent Bacteria Committee Meeting, by invitation
1:00 – 5:00 p.m.	New Extended Time! Poster Viewing with Authors 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Posters 1 – 319 (even numbered posters authors present) 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Posters 1 – 319 (odd numbered posters authors present 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Posters 320 – 633 (even numbered posters authors present) 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Posters 320 – 633 (odd numbered posters authors present)
1:30 – 4:00 p.m.	APS Office of Public Relations & Outreach (OPRO) Board Meeting
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.	Presidential Meeting of Plant Pathology Organizations, by invitation
5:30 – 8:30 p.m.	Leadership Opportunity and Social – Committee for Diversity and Equality presents "Kaleidoscope: Unity in Diversity"

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8
7:00 – 8:30 a.m.	Food Safety Interest Group
7:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Registration
8:00– 10:00 a.m.	Exhibit Take-Down
8:00– 10:00 a.m.	Poster Take-Down
8:00 – 9:30 a.m.	APS-CSPP Working Group Meeting
8:00 – 10:00 a.m.	APS Office of International Programs Board Meeting
8:00 – 11:00 a.m.	APS PRESS Bookstore
8:30 – 9:45 a.m.	Technical Sessions Fungicide Resistance 2 Molecular Fungi and Oomycetes Gene Expression Viral Biology 1
8:30 – 11:30 a.m.	Special Sessions Bioenergy Crops and Disease Grafting as an Alternative to Soil Fumigation for Disease Management in Vegetable Production International Perspective on Fusarium Head Blight "Left of Boom!" Information: Form, Content, and Use in Epidemic Prediction New Insights into the Virulence Mechanism of Plant-Pathogenic Bacteria
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.	APS Office of Industry Relations (OIR) Board Meeting
9:30 – 11:30 a.m.	2013 Program Planning Meeting
10:15 – 11:30 a.m.	Technical Sessions Molecular Fungi (ends at 11:15 a.m.) Plant Defense Response, Climate Change & Abiotic Viral Biology 2
10:30a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	APS Financial Advisory Committee Meeting
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Lunch Break (with concessions)
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Northeast Division Business Meeting/Awards Ceremony
12:00 – 2:00 p.m.	APS Council Meeting
1:00 – 2:15 p.m.	Technical Sessions IPM 3 Virus Diseases
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.	Special Sessions Everything a Scientist Should Know About Politics, Funding, and Public Opinion Fungicides to Promote Plant Physiological Benefits in Crops Pathogen Effectors and Host Targets Practice and Management of Microbial and Plant Germplasm Collections Right of the Boom: Deciding to Act, React, or Let Go in a Fluid Data Environment Schroth Faces of the Future—New Frontiers in Plant Bacteriology
2:45 – 4:00 p.m.	Technical Sessions Diseases of Biofuel Crops and Postharvest Pathology Molecular Virology
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.	Journals Senior Editors Reception, by invitation
6:30 – 9:30 p.m.	New Day! Final Night Celebration