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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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Tuesday, August 12

7:00 – 8:15 a.m. CPS Incoming Board Meeting
7:00 – 8:30 a.m. APS Sustaining Associates’ Breakfast, by invitation
7:00 – 9:00 a.m. APS Annual Meeting Board Meeting
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Academic Unit Leaders Forum Breakfast and Meeting (formerly Department Heads’ Breakfast)
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. APS Foundation Board Meeting, by invitation
7:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Registration
7:30 – 9:00 a.m. Small Fruit Diseases Workers Discussion
7:30 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. Poster Viewing
8:30 – 9:45 a.m.

Technical Sessions

  • Disease Resistance in Monocots
  • Integrated Management of Disease – 1
  • Mechanisms of Host Resistance and Susceptibility
  • Vector-Pathogen Interactions
8:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Special Sessions

  • Destructive Tree Diseases Associated with Ambrosia Bark Beetles: Black Swan Events in Tree Pathology
  • Food Security: Role of Plant Pathology
  • New Products & Services
  • Understanding Phytobiomes to Improve Agricultural Productivity
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

  • Disease Resistance in Dicots
  • Fungal Virulence and Genomics Room
  • Integrated Management of Disease – 2
  • Population Biology and Genetics
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Break
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Phytopathology News Advisory Committee Meeting
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. APHIS Widely Prevalent Bacteria Committee Meeting, by invitation
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Orange Rust Sugarcane Meeting (brown bag lunch)
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Plenary Session: Your Best Frenemy: Science, the Media and Making Your Point
2:15 – 3:15 p.m. NEW! Idea Cafes
2:15 – 3:15 p.m. NEW! Phyto Views - RNAi
2:15 – 3:30 p.m.

Technical Sessions

  • Bacteria-Host Interactions
  • Fungicide Resistance
  • Management of Nematodes
  • Molecular and Microbial Ecology
  • Plant Pathologists of the Future: Showcasing the Top Graduate Students from APS Division Meetings
  • Resistance Screening and Marker Development
  • Vegetable Diseases
2:30 – 4:00 p.m. Office of Education (OE) Board Meeting
2:30 – 4:00 p.m. Office of Public Relations & Outreach (OPRO) Board
3:30 – 4:00 p.m.

NEW! Poster Huddle Time

  • Huddle #5 – What Was the Most Important Discovery About Phytophthora this Year?
  • Huddle #6 – Can Citrus Greening be Controlled?
  • Huddle #7 – What Is Needed for Successful Mycotoxin Control?
  • Huddle #8 – What Types of Remote Sensors Would Improve Crop Loss Assessments?
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 (odd numbers)
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Posters 329 - 652 (odd numbers)

3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Presidential Meeting of Plant Pathology Organizations, by invitation
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Diagnostics Working Group
6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Exhibit Take-Down
6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Committee for Diversity and Equality presents “Is your Mind Set?—Working with Cross Cultural Differences
6:30 - 8:00 p.m. Heterobasidion Root Disease Meeting
8:00 - 10:00 p.m. Wheat-Mite-Virus Project