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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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Saturday

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Wednesday, August 13

7:00 – 8:30 a.m. Food Safety Interest Group
7:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Registration
8:00 – 9:30 a.m. APS-CSPP Working Group Meeting
8:00 – 10:00 a.m. Poster Take-Down
8:00 – 10:00 a.m. Office of International Programs (OIP) Board Meeting
8:00 – 11:00 a.m. APS PRESS Bookstore
8:30 – 9:45 a.m.

Technical Sessions

  • Bacterial Virulence
  • Fungal Biology
  • Unraveling the Basis of Rust Resistance
8:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Special Sessions

  • EPA's Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program and Its Relationship to Plant Protection Products
  • Frontiers in Biosynthesis and Management of Mycotoxins
  • Funding Opportunities for Cooperative International Research
  • Interconnected Lifecycles: Multitrophic Interactions Between Plants, Pathogens, and Insects
  • Potyviruses: Functional Genomics and Virus-Host Interactions
9:00 – 11:00 a.m. Office of Industry Relations (OIR) Board Meeting
9:30 – 11:30 a.m. APS 2015 Annual Meeting Program Planning Meeting
10:15 – 11:30 a.m.

Technical Sessions

  • Biological Control Mechanisms
  • Biology of Oomycetes
  • Legume Diseases
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. APS Financial Advisory Committee Meeting
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Break
12:00 – 2:00 p.m. APS Council Meeting
1:00 – 2:15 p.m.

Technical Sessions

  • Diseases of Specialty Crops
  • Epidemiology of Wheat Diseases
  • Tropical Crops
  • Virus-Host Interactions
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Special Sessions

  • Beyond Borlaug: How the Next Generation of Plant Pathologists Are Advancing the Green Revolution
  • Boxwood Blight: Collaborative Connections to an Emerging Disease
  • Myths and Realities of Biopesticides: Academic, Industry, and Grower Perspectives 
  • Revealing the Stories of the Genome Via Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS)
2:00 – 4:00 p.m. APS International Society Relations Meeting
2:45 – 4:00 p.m.

Technical Sessions

  • Fastidious Bacteria
  • Pesticide Evaluation
  • Risk Assessment
  • Virology
6:30 – 9:30 p.m. Final Night Celebration - Camp Wanna Mingle