Schedule

Friday, August 8
7:30 – 9:00 a.m.	Councilors Forum
7:30 – 9:00 a.m.	Financial Advisory and Executive Committees
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.	APS Strategic Planning and Leadership Forum
5:00 – 6:00 p.m.	Committee on Committees
Friday, August 8 - Saturday, August 9
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday	Innovative Issues in Seed Pathology, #2 on registration form
6:30 a.m. Friday to 5:00 p.m. Saturday	Forest Pathology Field Trip, #3 on registration form
7:00 a.m. Friday to 3:00 p.m. Saturday	Deciduous Tree Fruit Workers Field Trip, #4 on registration form
1:00 p.m. Friday to 5:00 p.m. Saturday	Disease Assessment Workshop, #5 on registration form
Saturday, August 9
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	APS Council APS Foundation
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.	Nursery and Greenhouse Tour, #6 on registration form
9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	APS PRESS Board
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.	Office of International Programs Board Luncheon, by invitation only
12:00 – 4:00 p.m.	Leadership Workshop, #7 on registration form
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.	Scientific Programs Board
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.	Councilors Forum
1:00 – 5:00 p.m.	Postharvest Diseases Discussion Group
1:00 – 6:00 p.m.	Registration
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.	Office of International Programs Standing Committee Meetings
2:00 – 5:00 p.m.	Publications Board
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.	Section Chairs Meeting
3:00 – 5:00 p.m.	Office of International Programs Open Meeting, visitors welcome
3:00 – 7:00 p.m.	Linear Mixed Models for Analyzing Data Obtained in Designed Experiments, #8 on registration form
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.	Committee Chairs/Vice-Chairs Program Orientation and Reception
4:30 – 5:30 p.m.	First Timers Orientation, #9 on registration form
5:30 – 7:00 p.m.	APS Committee Meetings • APS PRESS: Fungicide and Nematicide Tests Editorial Board • APS PRESS: Phytopathological Classic • Awards and Honors • Bacteriology • Biochemistry, Physiology and Molecular Biology • Crop Biosecurity • Environmental Quality and Plant Health • Host Resistance • Integrated Pest Management • Mycology • Pathogen Resistance • Phyllosphere Microbiology • Plant Disease Losses • Plant Pathogen and Disease Detection • Soil Microbiology and Root Diseases • Turfgrass Pathology
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.	APS Committee Meetings • APS PRESS: Illustrations of Plant Pathogens and Diseases • APS PRESS: Standardization of Common Names for Plant Diseases • Biotechnology Impact Assessment • Collections and Germplasm • Extension • Graduate Student • Industry • Joint Committees of Women in Plant Pathology and Cultural Diversity • Placement • Private Practice • Regulatory Plant Pathology • Teaching • Youth Programs
8:30 – 10:00 p.m.	APS Committee Meetings • APS PRESS: Biological and Cultural Tests Editorial Board • Biological Control • Chemical Control • Diagnostics • Diseases of Ornamental Plants • Epidemiology • Forest Pathology • Genetics • Mycotoxicology • Nematology • Postharvest Pathology • Seed Pathology • Tropical Plant Pathology • Virology
Sunday, August 10
6:30 – 8:00 a.m.	Vegetable Extension and Research Plant Pathologists Breakfast
6:30 – 9:00 a.m.	Young Professionals Discussion Group
7:00 – 9:00 a.m.	Poster Set-Up
7:30 – 9:00 a.m.	Sustaining Associates Breakfast, by invitation only
7:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.	Registration
7:30 – 9:30 a.m.	Department Heads Breakfast, #10 on registration form Small Fruit Diseases Working Group, #11 on registration form
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.	Phytopathology Senior Editors, by invitation only Plant Disease Senior Editors, by invitation only
8:00 – 11:30 a.m.	APSnet Education Center Senior Editors, by invitation only
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.	Plant Disease Diagnosis Contest
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.	Oral and Special Session Chairs Orientation
9:00 – 9:30 a.m.	Phytopathology Editorial Board, by invitation only Plant Disease Editorial Board, by invitation only
9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.	Posters Available for Viewing
9:30 – 11:30 a.m.	Welcome and Plenary – Plant Health and Security in the Age of Genomics
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	Ornamental Virus Discussion Group
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	Plant Health Progress Editorial Board
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Division Officers Luncheon, by invitation only
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.	APS Foundation Luncheon, by invitation only APS Journals Senior Editors Luncheon, by invitation only
12:00 – 2:00 p.m.	Joint Committees of Women in Plant Pathology and Cultural Diversity Symposium/Luncheon: Plant Pathology as a Career Choice, #12 on registration form
12:30 – 5:00 p.m.	Office of Electronic Communications
1:00 – 2:45 p.m.	Oral Presentation - Diseases of Fruit and Nuts
1:30 – 3:30 p.m.	A Day with the Queen – Tour of the City of Charlotte, #23 on registration form
1:00 – 3:15 p.m.	Special Session - Impact of Herbicide-Resistant Crops and Altered Herbicide Use on Soil Microbes and Root Disease
1:00 – 3:30 p.m.	Oral Presentation - Biological Control
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.	Special Session - New and Old Viruses: Emerging and Re-emerging Threats to U.S. Agriculture
1:00 – 4:30 p.m.	Special Session - Mechanisms of Fungal Speciation
1:00 – 4:45 p.m.	Special Session - Animal and Plant Pathogens Shared Strategies
1:00 – 4:45 p.m.	Special Session - HOT TOPIC – Detection of Plant Pathogens for Biosecurity
1:00 – 5:00 p.m.	Special Session - International Programs for Crop Protection in Developing Countries: Opportunities for Strategic Alliances
3:00 – 6:00 p.m.	APS Central APS PRESS Bookstore Exhibits
6:30 – 7:30 p.m.	Awards and Honors Ceremony
7:30 – 10:00 p.m.	Welcome Reception and University Alumni Socials Participating universities include: Cornell University Oregon State University Pennsylvania State University Potomac Division (University of Delaware, University of MAryland, VPI&SU, and West Virginia University) Rutgers University Texas A&M University University of Arizona University of Florida University of Georgia University of Kentucky University of Minnesota University of Wisconsin, Madison
Monday, August 11
6:30 – 8:00 a.m.	Extension Plant Pathologists Breakfast, #13 on registration form
7:00 – 8:00 a.m.	Graduate Student Breakfast (student registrants only), #14 on registration form
7:00 – 10:00 a.m.	Public Policy Board
7:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.	Registration
8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.	Oral Presentation - Fungi: Systematics, Evolution, Ecology, Part I
8:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.	Special Session - Comparative Genomics: Insights Into the Biology of Plant-Associated Bacteria
8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.	Special Session - Microenvironmental Effects on Gene Regulation of Pathogen Virulence in Diseases of Fruits and Vegetables
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	Special Session - Biology and Management of Turfgrass Anthracnose
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	Special Session - New Products and Services, Part I
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	Special Session - <a href="scientific_program.htm#SS_DP1">Biodiversity to Counter Bioterrorism</a>
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	Special Session - HOT TOPIC – Science and the Legal System: When Worlds Collide
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.	Oral Presentation - Viruses: Systematics, Evolution, and Ecology
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.	Posters Available for Viewing
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.	APS Central APS PRESS Bookstore Exhibits
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.	Plant Disease Diagnosis Contest
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.	Past Presidents’ Luncheon, by invitation only
12:00 – 2:00 p.m.	Poster Authors Present, Session A
1:00 – 3:30 p.m.	Special Session - Town Meeting: Ask the Plant Doctor
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.	Affiliates Meeting
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.	11th Annual deBary Bowl, Preliminary Rounds
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.	APHIS Virus Working Group
1:30 – 4:45 p.m.	Special Session - Application of Biotechnology for Disease Control in Developing Countries
1:30 – 4:45 p.m.	Special Session - New Developments in Begomovirology
2:00 – 3:45 p.m.	Special Session - Moving and Utilizing Plant and Microbial Germplasm: Navigating the New Biosecurity Regulations
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.	Oral Presentation - Fungi: Systematics, Evolution, Ecology, Part II
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.	Special Session - Non-Science Issues Unique to Private Practitioners
2:00 – 4:30 p.m.	Oral Presentation - Diseases of Cereal, Field, and Fiber Crops, and Turfgrasses
2:00 – 4:30 p.m.	Oral Presentation - Bacteria: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Systematics, Evolution, Ecology
3:00 – 5:00 p.m.	Turfgrass Pathology Working Group 11th Annual deBary Bowl, Preliminary Rounds
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.	Is Certification Necessary? Time may be running out for APS Certified Plant Pathologist Program (open Meeting)
5:00 – 6:30 p.m.	ARS Social, by invitation only
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.	Joint Committees of Women in Plant Pathology and Cultural Diversity Social, #15 on registration form University Alumni Socials
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.	11th Annual deBary Bowl, Final Rounds and Graduate Student Social (student registrants only), #19 on registration form University Alumni Socials: Cornbelt States - Iowa State University, Ohio State University, Purdue University, University of Illinois (Symphony 3/Adams Mark Hotel) Michigan State University (Symphony 4/Adams Mark Hotel) North Carolina State University (Symphony 4/Adams Mark Hotel) Old West Trails (Colorado State University, Kansas State University, North Dakota State University, Oklahoma State University, South Dakota State University, University of Nebraska, University of Wyoming) (Mecklenburg 1/Adams Mark Hotel) University of California, Davis (Mecklenburg 3/Adams Mark Hotel) University of California, Riverside (Symphony 5/Adams Mark Hotel) University of Florida (Symphony 7/Adams Mark Hotel) University of Georgia and Auburn University (Mecklenburg 2/Adams Mark Hotel) Washington State University (Symphony 2/Adams Mark Hotel)
Tuesday, August 12
7:00 – 9:00 a.m.	APS Business Meeting and Breakfast
7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.	Registration
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.	Special Session - Teachers of Excellence
9:00 – 11:30 a.m.	Oral Presentation - Epidemiology
9:00 – 11:30 a.m.	Oral Presentation - Viruses: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	Oral Presentation - Host-Parasite Relations: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	Special Session - Oak Disease Threats Worldwide
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	Special Session - Risks and Impacts of Emerging Mycotoxin Problems in Agricultural Products
9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.	Special Session - Integrated Management of Tospoviruses and Their Thrips Vectors
9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.	Special Session - HOT TOPIC – The National Plant Pest and Disease Diagnostics Network (NP2D2N): A Federal-State Partnership for Homeland Security
9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.	Special Session - Nature and Application of Biocontrol Microbes I: Bacillus spp.
9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.	Posters Available for Viewing
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	Plant Disease Diagnosis Contest, answers displayed
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.	Art About Town, #25 on registration form
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.	Exhibits
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.	APS Central APS PRESS Bookstore
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.	Phytopathology News Advisory Board
12:00 – 2:00 p.m.	Poster Authors Present, Session B
1:00 – 5:00 p.m.	Diagnostics Working Group
1:30 – 3:30 p.m.	Office of Public Affairs and Education Meeting
1:30 – 3:45 p.m.	Special Session - World Trade in Wood - A Pathway for Movement of Exotic Pathogens
1:30 – 5:00 p.m.	Special Session - 4th I.E. Melhus Graduate Student Symposium, “Novel Approaches to Minimizing the Global Impact of Toxigenic Fungi”
1:30 – 5:15 p.m.	Special Session - Soybean Rust: Too Close for Comfort
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.	Oral Presentation - Chemical Control
2:00 – 4:30 p.m.	Special Session - Application of Ecological, Molecular, and Epidemiological Models for Risk Assessment of Biotechnology Products
2:00 – 5:00 p.m.	Special Session - The APS Public Policy Board: Activities, Strategies, and Perspectives
2:00 – 5:00 p.m.	Special Session - New Technologies, New Challenges in Managing Diseases of Greenhouse Crops
3:30 – 5:30 p.m.	2004 Annual Meeting Program Planning Committee
3:30 – 7:30 p.m.	Bartlett Tree Research Lab Tour, #17 on registration form
5:00 – 10:00 p.m.	Industry-Extension Social, #18 on registration form
Wednesday, August 13
7:00 – 10:00 a.m.	APS Foundation
7:30 – 10:30 a.m.	Office of International Programs Board Breakfast
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	Registration
8:00 – 10:00 a.m.	Oral Presentation - Fungi: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology
8:00 – 11:00 a.m.	Special Session - Case Studies of Durable Resistance
8:00 – 11:00 a.m.	Special Session - Telling Society About Plant Diseases
8:00 – 11:45 a.m.	Special Session - Fungicide Mode of Action and Deployment for Resistance Management, Part I
8:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.	Special Session - Techniques for Studying the Ecology of Phyllosphere Microorganisms
8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	APS Council
8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.	APS PRESS Bookstore
8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.	Posters available for viewing
8:30 – 11:40 a.m.	Special Session - HOT TOPIC – New Functional Genomics Approaches to Plant Pathology Research
10:00 – 11:45 a.m.	Oral Presentation - Forest Pathology
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.	APHIS Prevalent Bacteria Commitee Meeting
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.	New Council Orientation
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.	Oral Presentation - Diseases of Vegetables
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.	Oral Presentation - Integrated Pest Management and Environmental Quality
1:00 – 3:15 p.m.	Oral Presentation - Host Resistance
1:00 – 3:15 p.m.	Special Session - Role of Teaching Assistants in Higher Education
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.	Special Session -Understanding Population Genetics and Its Implications in Plant Disease Epidemiology
1:00 – 4:30 p.m.	Special Session -Fungicide Mode of Action and Deployment for Resistance Management, Part II
1:00 – 4:30 p.m.	Special Session -Virus Evolution
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.	Authors Take Down posters

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