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Preliminary Daily Schedule

Full program schedule with meeting rooms now available. Click here to access. Schedule is preliminary and subject to change. Meetings take place at the Minneapolis Convention Center and Hilton Hotel.
 
(Subject to change)

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Monday, August 11

6:30 – 8:00 a.m. Extension Plant Pathologists’ Breakfast
7:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. APS Public Policy Board (PPB) Meeting
7:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Registration
7:30 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. Poster Viewing
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.

Technical Sessions

  • Fungicide Efficacyo
  • Interactions of Fungal Pathogens with Canola
  • Pathogen Dispersal
8:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Special Sessions

  • 14th I. E. Melhus Graduate Student Symposium
  • A Systems Approach for Microbe Management:From Food Safety to Plant Health
  • An Expanding Virome of Cultivated Plants:Home-Grown or Imported?
  • Innovative Approaches to Control Difficult Bacterial Pathogens
  • The Complicated Lifestyles of Dothideomycete Fungi: Understanding Novel Mechanisms of Pathogenicity
9:00 – 11:00 a.m. APS Associated Organizations Meeting
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. APS PRESS Bookstore
10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Exhibits Open
10:15 – 11:30 a.m.

Technical Sessions

  • Chemical Control
  • Fungal-Host Interactions
  • Potato Diseases
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. APS Graduate Student & Industry Lunch
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Break
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. APS Past Presidents’ Lunch, by invitation
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Storkan-Hanes-McCaslin Research Foundation Luncheon, by invitation
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Widely Prevalent Plant-Pathogenic Fungi List Working Group
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. USDA-ARS Meeting (Brown Bag Lunch)
1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Plenary Session: Plant Health Connections - Soil Health, Plant Health, Food Safety, Human Health
3:30 – 4:00 p.m.

NEW! Poster Huddle Time

  • Huddle #1 – How to (not?) Manage Fungicide Resistance, the QoI Example
  • Huddle #2 – How Should Pathogen Detection Assays be Validated?
  • Huddle #3 – What Are the Important Concepts in Cultural Control of Bacterial Pathogens?
  • Huddle #4 – How has New Knowledge about Microbiomes Changed Your View of Plant Disease?
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. APS Divisional Forum
3:30 – 6:00 p.m..

Poster Viewing with Authors
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. NEW! Poster Huddle Time
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Posters 1 - 328 (even numbers)
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Posters 329 - 652 (even numbers)

4:30 – 6:00 p.m. CADRE Meeting for APS Professional Development Resource
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Early Career Professionals’ Social with Employer Networking Opportunity
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Graduate Student Social
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Journals Senior Editors Reception, by invitation
6:30 – 9:30 p.m. Industry & Extension Social - Join us on the historic Nicollet Island, the only inhabited island on the Mississippi River for an evening of food and fun.