NE1006 + WCC20 2003 Annual Meeting
November 16-19, 2003
U.S. Fish and Wildlife National Conservation
and Training Center
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
NE1006 + WCC20 2003 Annual Meeting
November 16-19, 2003
U.S. Fish and Wildlife National Conservation
and Training Center
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Greetings:
Please take out your calendars and note the dates for the NE1006 meeting [Eradication, Containment and/or Management of Plum Pox Disease (Sharka)] meeting which will be held in conjunction with the WCC020 (Virus and virus like diseases of fruit trees, small fruits and grapevines) meeting. The combined meeting is now officially authorized by both WCC020 and NE1006. It will be held at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife National Conservation Training Center, Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Please see their web site at http://training.fws.gov and check out the "Guest Services" tab for location maps and other information. This was the venue for last year's NE1006 meeting. We are still awaiting word from the NCTC concerning the availability of guest rooms for us on site, if none are available, we will have to use guest rooms at other hotels in the area, but we are hopeful for rooms at the NCTC.
If you know of someone who has not received the invitation to this meeting that should have, please feel free to forward this information to them.
Registration:
This year meeting registration will cost $115.00 ($70.00 for those lodging at NCTC since their room rate includes all meals at NCTC). This will include refreshments at breaks, lunches for all three days of the meeting, dinner on Monday night (Nov. 17) prior to the guest speaker presentation, and a coffee and dessert social following the guest speaker's presentation.
Registration must be paid by check and checks should be made payable to FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH -BELTSVILLE. This is the only method of payment that we can accept, a check to this organization. Please note that the registration fee is the same regardless of how many days one attends the meeting.
Lodging:
We now have the final word for lodging arrangements for the subject meeting. Unfortunately, there are only 12 rooms available on site at the NCTC on a first come, first serve basis. We are sorry that there were not more but even though we had scheduled this conference a year ago priority is given to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conference attendees and we were not able to secure more than these few rooms on site. Please make your own reservations by calling NCTC Hotel Reservations at (304) 876-7900 and mention you are reserving a room for the "NE1006/WCC020 Annual Meeting."
Below is a website of local hotels with those closest to the NCTC highlighted.
Security / Attendee List:
The security office at the entrance to the Conference Center grounds will not let you enter unless they have your name on a list provided by the organizer. If your name does not appear on the attached list, PLEASE send your intention to attend to Jackie Geigel at jgeigel@afrs.ars.usda.gov.
Reports and Presentations:
Please let us know by e-mail if you are planning to give a report other than a state report. We are looking for people interested in presenting results of their recent findings either related to NE1006 or WCC020 related research projects. The organizing committee will, based on previous meetings, also be contacting individuals, requesting oral research updates. If you have graduate students working on relevant projects this is a great opportunity for them. Please note the topical sessions for the NE1006 portion of the meeting (see meeting outline below). For reports/presentations that will be used as state reports please either e-mail a copy of the report or bring a hard copy with you and please remember to include in the written report a description of the impact of the work which is a requirement for reports.
Tentative Program:
Sunday, November 16
Since so few people will be staying at the NCTC we have decided to cancel the Sunday evening mixer. What we do suggest is that if you are in the area on Sunday evening (Nov 16) and would like to get together with other conference attendees please check out the lounge at the Clarion Hotel (see hotel website).
Monday, November 17: NE1006 - Plum Pox Virus
7:30 &endash; 8:45 a.m. Registration
8:45 &endash; 9:00 Welcome &endash; Dariusz Swietlik, Director, USDA-ARS Appalachian Fruit Research Station, Kearneysville WV
9:00 &endash; 10:00 Session 1: Determining the distribution and incidence of plum pox virus in North America. Ruth Welliver, moderator
9:00 Blake Ferguson. Canadian survey summary.
9:15 Don Albright. United States survey summary.
9:30 Nancy Richwine. Pennsylvania survey summary.
9:45 John Halbrendt. Non-Prunus surveillance and survey in Pennsylvania.
10:00 &endash; 10:15 Morning Break
10:15 &endash; 12:00 Session 2: Filling gaps in knowledge about PPV survival and spread through basic and applied research, Part 1: Hosts, Strain Characterization, and Detection. John Halbrendt, moderator
10:15 Dan Thompson. An update on PPV host range studies in Canada.
10:30 Vern Damsteegt. Potential Prunus host range of PPV-PENN isolates by aphid transmission.
10:45 Kara Maraden. Ultrastructure and immunolabelling of PPV in herbaceous and woody hosts.
11:00 D'Ann Rochon. Sequence studies of Canadian PPV isolates and development of a polyclonal antibody for detection of PPV.
11:15 Bill Schneider. Molecular analysis of plum pox populations in Pennsylvania.
11:30 Chris Wallis. Impacts of host shifting and mode of transmissions on PPV microevolution.
11:45 Discussion
12:00 &endash; 1:30 pm Lunch &endash; Registration available
Monday, November 17 p.m.: Plum Pox Virus, Continued
1:30 &endash; 3:00 Session 3: Survey and Detection: Perspective from States, Provinces, and Independent Testing Labs. Ruth Welliver, moderator
1:30 Mike Tiffany. Summary of activities performed during the 2003 USDA-APHIS National Plum Pox Virus Survey.
1:45 Simon Scott. Work in South Carolina.
2:00 Panel Reports: Kathy Kosta, CA; Jennifer Dominiak, MD; Richard Kaitany, MI; Grace O'Keefe, VA; Others?
2:30 General discussion, questions, other information
3:00 &endash; 3:15 Afternoon Break
3:15 &endash; 5:00 Session 4: Filling gaps in knowledge about PPV survival and spread through basic and applied research, Part 2. Epidemiology, Survival, and Spread. Fred Gildow, moderator
3:15 Fred Gildow. Risk of PPV transmission by peach fruit.
3:30 Thomas Lowery. Host range and transmission of the Canadian isolate of PPV.
3:45 Deena Erampalli. Detection and distribution of plum pox virus in peach.
4:00 Mary Beth Wiseman. Aphid populations in peach orchards of central Pennsylvania and vector associations with peach fruit.
4:15 Tim Gottwald. Update on PPV epidemiology.
4:30 Discussion
5:00 &endash; 6:30 Dinner
7:00 Guest Speaker
"Overview of Plum Pox Virus in Europe"
Dr. Michel Ravelonandro
Institut De Biologie Vegetale Et Moleculaire
INRA, Bordeaux, France
8:00 Coffee and Dessert Social Time
Tuesday, November 18 a.m.: Plum Pox Virus, Continued
7:30 &endash; 8:30 a.m. Registration
8:30 &endash; 8:45 Opening Announcements
8:45 &endash; 10:00 Session 5: Developing PPV management strategies: transgenic resistance, pest exclusion Ralph Scorza, moderator
8:45 Ralph Scorza. Stability of gene silencing-based PPV resistance.
9:00 Hélène Sanfaçon. Progress towards engineering resistance to the Canadian isolate of plum pox virus in model plants.
9:15 Pamela Hughes-Watson. Evaluation of methylation of the plum pox virus coat protein transgene in mature field-grown plum pox virus resistant plum trees.
9:30 Charles Divan. PPV as a select agent in the U.S.
10:00 Bill Howell. How secure is our defense infrastructure?
10:15 &endash; 10:30 Morning Break
10:30 &endash; 11:45 Session 6: Developing traditional and innovative delivery systems for information transfer to stone fruit researchers and extension personnel, fruit growers, and fruit industry representatives on current knowledge of plum pox virus. Mike Celetti, moderator
10:30 Mike Celetti. Extension programs on PPV in Ontario.
10:45 Wayne Roberts. Prunus certification in Ontario - Getting grower buy-in.
11:00 Ruth Welliver. Stone fruit certification in the U.S.: Excellence in patches.
11:15 Discussion
11:30 &endash; 1:00 End of NE1006 meeting; Change into WCC20 hats over lunch. &endash; Registration available.
Tuesday, November 18, Continued: WCC20 Program Begins
1:00 &endash; 1:15 Welcome to WCC020 &endash; Ralph Cavalieri and John Hu
1:15 - 2:30 WCC020 Reports, Part 1.
2:30-2:45 Afternoon Break
2:45-5:00 WCC020 Reports, Part 2.
Dinner is on your own
7:00 National Plant Board Stone Fruit Certification Committee Meeting
Wednesday, November 19: WCC020 Continues
7:30 &endash; 8:30 Registration
8:30 &endash; 10:00 Reports, Part 3.
10:00 &endash; 10:15 Morning Break
10:15 &endash; 12:00 WCC020 Business meeting
12:00 &endash; 1:00 Lunch
1:00 &endash; 3:00 Additional Reports and Meeting Wrap-Up.
In the area after the meeting?
The USDA-ARS Appalachian Fruit Research Station cordially invites you to tour their facility. There will be a sign-up sheet circulated during the meeting for tours on Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 19, and Thursday morning, November 20.
QUESTIONS?
For questions concerning the organization of the meeting, accommodations, etc., please contact Ralph Scorza. For questions specifically related to the NE1006 portion of the meeting, please contact Bruce McPheron at bam10@psu.edu for the WCC portion contact John Hu johnhu@hawaii.edu.
The organizing committee:
Ralph Scorza
Ruth Welliver
John Halbrendt
Fred Gildow
Michael Celetti
Bruce McPheron
John Hu
Useful Links:
WCC20 2002 Annual Meeting in Hawaii
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