3:30 – 6:00 p.m.
3:30 – 10:00 p.m. 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Office of Industry Relations (OIR) Board Meeting Extended Time! Poster Viewing Early Career Professionals Social with New Employer Networking Opportunity* Graduate Student Social*
Tuesday, August 10 7:00 – 8:30 a.m. 7:00 – 9:00 a.m. 7:00 – 9:00 a.m. 7:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 7:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. 7:30 – 9:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. 8:30 – 11:30 a.m. 8:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Sustaining Associates’ Breakfast, by invitation Department Heads’ Breakfast* Scientific Programs Board (SPB) Meeting APS Foundation Board Meeting, by invitation Registration Small Fruit Diseases Workers Discussion APS PRESS Bookstore Exhibits Open Oral Technical Sessions Special Sessions • Identifying Quantitative Resistance Using Modern Technologies—Challenges for Plant Breeding • Nature’s Molecular Biologist: Xanthomonas and TAL Effector Function, Structure, and Diversity • Plant Disease Epidemics and Food Security in Globally Changing Agricultures and Environments • Prepare for Your Future: Career Opportunities After Graduate School: Part 2—Extension • Refining Systematics (Taxonomy, Nomenclature, Phylogenetics) for Better Resolution in the Population Biology and Evolution of the Oomycetes 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Phytopathology News Advisory Committee Meeting 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Break 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Sugarcane Orange Rust Working Group 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. 2011 Meeting Program Planning Committee Oral Technical Sessions 1:00 – 3:30 p.m. 1:00 – 3:30 p.m. Special Sessions • Assuring the Safety of Fresh Produce: Issues and Strategies • Biology and Management of Rhizoctonia Diseases in Turfgrass Systems
1:30 – 4:00 p.m. 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. 5:30 – 10:00 p.m. 6:30 – 10:30 p.m.
• Creating Possibilities for Sustainable Postharvest Disease Control Through Integrated Approaches to Both Preand Postharvest Fungicide Resistance Management • Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms: Diversity, Commercial Production, and Disease Management in High-Volume Production Facilities • Resorting Forest Ecosystems Impacted by Invasive Pathogens • Schroth Faces of the Future in Virology Office of Public Relations & Outreach (OPRO) Board Meeting New Time! Flash-and-Dash Presentations with Author Time Poster Viewing Exhibit Take-Down Final Night Celebration
Wednesday, August 11 7:00 – 9:00 a.m. 7:00 – 10:00 a.m. 7:00 – 11:00 a.m. 8:00 – 10:00 a.m. 8:00 – 11:00 a.m. 8:30 – 11:30 a.m. 8:30 – 11:30 a.m.
9:00 – 11:00 a.m. 12:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Exhibitor Take-Down APS Council Meeting Registration Office of International Programs (OIP) Board Meeting APS PRESS Bookstore Oral Technical Sessions Special Sessions • Biocontrol Beyond the Bench: Large-Scale, Successful Biocontrol • Cryptic Foes: Gathering the Latest Advances on Pythium • Integrated Microbial Bioinformatics • The Sophistication of Host-Pathogen Interactions Involving Necrotrophic Fungi • Virus Fishing with Chips: Plant Virus Microarrays and Next Generation Sequencing Poster Take-Down Workshop: An Introduction to Statistics Using R (“R for Dummies”)*
*Ticket required
2010 APS Annual Meeting Exhibitors Representatives from leading industry suppliers will be at this year’s meeting to answer questions and share information on products and services. Exhibitors are listed as of April 29, 2010. Visit http://meeting.apsnet.org/exhibition/exhibitors.cfm for updates. AC Diagnostics, Inc. (ACDI) 1131 W. Cato Springs Road, Fayetteville, AR 72701; Phone: +1.479.595.0320 or +1.479.251.1960; Fax: +1.479.251.1791; Web: www. acdiainc.com. ACDI, a leading diagnostic company, provides highquality diagnostic products with affordable rates. ACDI offers ELISA reagents/kits for testing more than 300 plant pathogens and new product-immunocapture PCR kits. They also provide testing services and contract research for customer requirements. Academia Book Exhibits 3512 Willow Green Court, Oakton, VA 22124; Phone: +1.703.716.5537; Fax: +1.703.620.3676; E-mail: acadbkebs@aol.com. Academia exhibits academic books and journals in a multipublisher display.
Agdia, Inc. 30380 County Road 6, Elkhart, IN 46514; Phone: +1.574.264.2615 or 1.800.622.4342; Fax: +1.574.206.9360; E-mail: info@agdia.com; Web: www.agdia.com. Agdia is a world leader in developing and providing quality plant pathogen diagnostic assays and testing services. We remain committed to providing the best customer support possible. Please take the opportunity to meet or talk with a member of our team. As customary, Agdia will have team members available to meet and talk to you during exhibit hours, or we can arrange a meeting with you outside exhibit hours. 2010 APS Annual Meeting Exhibitors continued on page 92 Phytopathology News 91