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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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Sunday, August 10

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. – 6:00 p.m. Registration
8:00 – 8:30 a.m. Moderator Orientation
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. APS 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
Biological Control Committee
Collections and Germplasm Committee
Early Career Professionals Committee
Epidemiology Committee
Extension Committee
Host Resistance Committee
Industry Committee
Mycotoxicology Committee
Regulatory Plant Pathology Committee
Seed Pathology Committee
Turfgrass Pathology Committee
Virology Committee
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. APS Leadership Institute Committee Meeting
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. APS Phytopathology Editorial Board Meeting
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. APS Plant Disease Editorial Board Meeting
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CPS 85th Annual General Meeting and Awards Presentation
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. APS Opening General Session and Awards & Honors Ceremony
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Break
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. APS/APHIS Widely Prevalent Virus Committee Meeting, by invitation
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
1:00 – 2:15 p.m. NEW! PhytoViews–Regulating Pathogens for Research: Too Much of a Good Thing?
1:00 – 2:15 p.m.

Technical Sessions

  • Fungal Toxins
  • Integrated Management of Vegetable Diseases
  • Phytobacteriology
  • Resistance to Tree Pathogens
1:00 – 3:00 p.m. NPDN Town Hall Meeting
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Special Sessions

  • Banned: Turfgrass Disease Control in the Age of Restrictive Pesticide Legislation 
  • Extension Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
  • Schroth Faces of the Future: Virology
  • What's App? Using Apps and Technology in Integrated
  • Plant Disease Management Programming
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 – 4:00 p.m.

Technical Sessions

  • Disease Management in Field Crops
  • Fruit and Nut Crop Diseases
  • Tree Diseases
4:00 – 6:00 p.m. APS PRESS Bookstore
4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Welcome Reception - Exhibition, Posters and Alumni Gatherings

  • Cornell University
  • Louisiana State University
  • Michigan State University
  • North Carolina State University
  • The Ohio State University
  • Oklahoma State University
  • Oregon State University
  • Penn State University
  • University of Arkansas
  • University of California, Davis
  • University of Florida
  • University of Illinois
4:00 – 8:00 p.m. Extended Time! Poster Viewing
7:00 – 10:00 p.m. Ornamental Virus Discussion Group
8:00 – 9:00 p.m. HLB Multiagency Coordination (MAC) - Information and Planning Session
8:00 – 9:30 p.m. National Plant Disease Recovery System (NPDRS) Meeting