APS Potomac 2001 Meeting
Joint meeting of the Northeastern and Potomac Divisions
RADISSON HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTER, CROMWELL, CT
OCT. 17-19, 2001
- Graduate Student Research
Award
- First place: F. A. Nalim, The Pennsylvania State University
- First runner-up: M. Filion, McGill University
- Northeastern Division's Award of Merit: Steve Johnston, Rutgers University
- Northeastern Division's Distinguished Service Award: Bruce Clarke, Rutgers University, and Chris Becker, BASF.
- Memorial Fund "travel" Award (awarded in spring 2001): Prapassorn Damrongkool, West Virginia University
- Potomac Division officers for 2001-2002
- Anton Baudoin, President
- David Clement,Vice-President
- James Kotcon, Secretary-Treasurer
- Arv Grybauskas, Councilor
- Vern Damsteegt, Immediate Past President
- Northeastern Division Officers for 2001-2002
- Margery Daughtrey, President
- Suha Jabaji-Hare,Vice-President
- Gary Moorman, Secretary-Treasurer
- Barbara Christ, Councilor
- Meg McGrath, Councilor-Elect
- Bruce Clarke, Immediate Past President
- Final meeting program (pdf file, about 30k) and meeting abstracts (pdf file, about 80k)
- Next Northeastern Division meeting: October 2002, Montreal, Canada
- The Jeopardy Game was won by a team composed of Potomac and Canadian people.
- An outreach seminar on Friday morning was very well attended with over 200 people. In fact, people had to be turned away! Financial proceeds from this event, a series of talks on disease management in herbaceous perennials, will be split between the Conn Extension Service, the NED and Potomac divisions, so this outreach activity also helped reduce costs of the meeting for members. Speakers were Jim LaMondia, Ethel Dutky and David Clement, Rob Wick, Wade Elmer, Margery Daughtrey, Tim Abbeyt, and Todd Mervosh. This was an idea that Potomac initiated (with great success) at our 1999 meeting in Annapolis with a symposium on an emerging turf disease, gray leaf spot, organised by Pete Dernoeden.
Meeting Archive
Hotel: Rooms at the Radisson will only be held until Sept. 17, or until the group room block has been consumed, so reserve your room early! Hotel reservations may be made by telephone (1-800-333-3333) or by faxing the Hotel Room Reservations Form to the hotel (1-860-635-6970). Be sure to mention that you are with the Northeast/Potomac Division APS meeting. Hotel website.
Click here for meeting registration form. For registration contact:
Suha Jabaji-Hare, NED-APS Secretary-Treasurer
Plant Science Department, MacDonald Campus,
McGill University
21,111 Lakeshore Road
Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue
Quebec, CANADA, H9X, 3V9 (postage = 60 cents)
Email: share followed by @nrs.mcgill.ca
(Registration received after September 17, 2001 will be $15 extra)
Directions to the Radisson Hotel in Cromwell, CT: The hotel is located at the intersection of I-91 and Route 372 (Exit 21 of I-91). The adddress (100 Berlin Road, Cromwell, CT 06416) can be mapped at http://maps.excite.com. For flights, the most convenient airport is Bradley airport in Hartford, CT. Wade Elmer (wade.elmer followed by @po.state.ct.us) can provide shuttle information.
Information on using Powerpoint or slides at the meeting.
Letter of Invitation (pdf) from Northeast President Bruce Clarke, and invitation to Cromwell by Potomac President, Vern Damsteegt
Meeting Features:
- Symposium on Sampling Plant Pathogens
- Molecular biology paper session with Noel Keen
- Tour of Dinosaur State Park and Chestnut Blight research with Sandra Anagnostakis
- Seminar on diseases of Herbaceous Perennials
Deadline for paper titles and abstracts was September 24. Contributed papers: Titles and the name and address of authors (presenter's name in ALL CAPS) and abstracts (optional) must be received by Sept. 24, 2001. Please send an electronic copy of your abstract ASAP to Margery Daughtrey ( mld9 followed by @cornell.edu ) and mail the hard copy to Margery Daughtrey, Long Island Horticultural Research & Extension Center, 3059 Sound Ave., Riverhead NY, 11901. Oral papers only; there is no poster session this year. Abstract forms available from APS website. Each abstract must be submitted on a Division Abstract Form AND on a diskette. The original of the abstract plus a check or money order for $30.00 are required for publishing on APSNET and in Phytopathology.
PREPARATION OF YOUR PRESENTATION
Your presentation can be given on 35-mm slides or as a POWERPOINT presentation saved in version '97. If you are presenting a Powerpoint presentation, please bring your file on a 100-MB ZIP Disk (PC formatted) or CD-ROM only. Please ensure that your CD-ROM is written in a universally-acceptable format. Do not use re-writable CDs.
Downloading and slide preparation:
If you have 35 mm slides, you can load your slides into a carousel in advance and bring them to your presentation. For PowerPoint presentation: the file MUST be loaded on the hard drive of the laptop that has been assigned to your session from the day before your presentation at the Registration Table. You will not be able to make changes to your PowerPoint presentation after it has been loaded on the laptop. It is always wise to have a back-up of your PowerPoint presentation.