SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
SWFDW Feb. 7 – 10 Quincy, FL
Monday, Feb 7 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Icebreaker Social & Registration in Conference Room at Hampton Inn (Guests will complete box lunch order form for Wednesday when they are issued name tag & Book at registration)
Tuesday, Feb 8
hot 6 to 8:00 am Hot Breakfast at Hampton Inn 8:00 – 8:30 am Welcome/Announcements 8000 Paper Session I (Nursery/Regeneration) 5555 8:30 – 8:50 am D. Paul Jackson, Scott A. Enebak. Pythium Reduces Survival and Diameter Growth of Cold Stored Longleaf Pine Seedlings. 8:50 – 9:10 am Michelle M. Cram. Effects of Pisolithus tinctorius Nursery Treatments on Reforestation of the South Carolina Sandhills. 9:10 – 9:30 am Marie Quicke, Tom Starkey, Scott Enebak. Effect of Alternative Soil Fumigants, Reduced Rates, and a New Application Method for the Control of Nematodes in a Forest-tree Nursery. 9:30 – 9:50 am E. L. Barnard. A Bad Rap? Charcoal Root Rot Re-visited. uuuu 9:50 – 10:30 am Break (Poster Viewing) 4444 Paper Session II (Potpourri) pppp 10:30 – 10:50 am Josh J. Bronson. USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Resistance Screening Center. 10:50:11:10 am Randy C. Ploetz, José M. Pérez-Martinez, Edward A. Evans, Jason A. Smith. Fungicidal Management of Laurel Wilt of Avocado: A Progress Report. 11:10 – 11:30 Jason A. Smith, Kerry O’Donnell, Lacey Mount, Keumchul Shin, Aaron Trulock, Kelly Peacock, Tova Spector, Jenny Cruse-Sanders, Ron Determann. A Novel Fusarium Causes a Devastating Canker Disease of Florida Torreya (Torreya taxifolia), Critically Endangered Conifer on the Brink of Extinction. 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Catered Lunch
Student Paper Session - I
1:30 – 1:50 pm Keumchul Shin, Jason A. Smtih. Effects of Raffaelea lauricola Culture Filtrates on Sympton Development in Laurel Wilt. 1:50 – 2:10 pm Marc Hughes, Jason A. Smith. The Identification and Screening of Redbay (Persea borbonia) Selections for Resistance Against Laurel Wilt. 2:10 – 2:30 pm Don Spence, Jason A. Smith, Albert Mayfield III, Jiri Huler, Randy Ploetz, Lukasz Stelinski. Assessing the Risk of Survival of the Redbay Ambrosia Beetle and Laurel Wilt Pathogen in Wood Chips. 2:30 - 2:50 pm Fredrick Beckman, Jason A. Smith. Disease Management of Laurel Wilt on Avocado: Assessing the Risk of Pruning Tool Transmission of Raffaelea lauricola.
2:50 – 3:30 pm Break (Poster Viewing)
Student Paper Session II
3:30 – 3:50 pm Justin Brown, Michelle Cram, Sarah Covert. Development of Phlebiopsis gigantea as a Biocontrol Agent for Heterobasidion Root Disease in the Southeastern U.S. 3:50 – 4:10 pm Tyler Dreaden, Jason A. Smith. Development and Evaluation of a Real-time PCR Seed Screening Method for Fusarium circinatum. 4:10 – 4:30 pm Aaron Trulock, Jason A. Smith. Disease Biology and Host Range of a Novel Fusarium sp. that Causes Canker Disease of Florida Torreya (Torreya taxifolia).
5:00 pm Dinner on your own
Wednesday, Feb 9
6:00 – 8:00 am Hot Breakfast at Hampton Inn 8:00 am Field Tour - Departs Hampton Inn at 8:00 am, returns at 5:00 pm
6:00 pm Social @ NFREC 7:00 pm Awards Banquet at NFREC
Thursday, Feb 10
6:00 – 8:00 am Hot Breakfast at Hampton Inn Dkdld;l
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dkdjdkld 8:00 – 8:20 am Steven W. Oak, Jaesoon Hwang, Steven N. Jeffers. BOB for the Sudden Oak Death Pathogen: In Vitro Assay for Early Detection of Phytophthora ramorum in Streams. 8:20 – 8:40 am Dina Neves, Olga Wójcik, Maria C. Mateus, Alfredo Cravador. Searching for Compounds Secreted by Phlomis purpurea against Phytophthora cinnamomi. 8:40 – 9:00 am J. M. Eickwort, E.L. Barnard. Evaluation of Annosum Root Disease in Partially Harvested Pine Stands. 9:00 – 9:20 am E.L. Barnard. A Forest Pathology Lesson: Model to Avoid. 9:20 – 9:40 am R. D. Menard, J. D. Ward, L.G. Eckhardt, A. Sediles. Evaluation of Mortality in Natural Stands of Pinus oocarpa in Nicaragua. 9:40 – 10:00 am Inga M. Meadows, Steven N. Jeffers. Evaluation of Algaecides to Eliminate Phytophthora spp. from Naturally-infested Streams in South Carolina.
10:00 – 10:30 am Break
10:30 – am Business Meeting & Wrap Up