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ACCOUNT NAME (Print name exactly as it appears on credit card) ANNUAL REVIEWS a nonprofit scientific publisher Signature Exp. Date www.annualreviews.org 2 Table of Contents Advertisers Index Sessions at a Glance ..............................................................2 Agdia Inc. ........................................................................Cover IV General Information ............................................................ 5 Annual Reviews Inc. ......................................................... Cover II Québec City Convention Centre Floor Plans ....................... 8 Bayer CropScience ............................................................Cover III Program Highlights ............................................................11 BIOREBA AG ............................................................................11 Joint Meeting Daily Schedule (Friday - Saturday) ...............12 California Seed & Plant Lab ..........................................................4 Saturday Highlights .................................................... 14 Oxford University Press .............................................................. 10 Joint Meeting Daily Schedule (Sunday) ..............................16 Technical Sessions .......................................................17 Symposia ..................................................................... 21 Joint Meeting Planning Committee Networking Events ......................................................24 These leaders are recognized and acknowledged for their time Joint Meeting Daily Schedule (Monday) ............................ 26 and expertise in the development of the program: Morning Technical Sessions......................................... 27 Afternoon Technical Sessions ...................................... 32 APS Annual Meeting Program Committee Chair Morning Symposia ......................................................37 Jan Leach Afternoon Symposia ....................................................40 Networking Events ......................................................43 APS Annual Meeting Program Committee Vice-Chair Ray Martyn Joint Meeting Daily Schedule (Tuesday) .............................44 Morning Technical Sessions......................................... 46 APS Scientifi c Programs Board Director Afternoon Technical Sessions ...................................... 51 Erin Rosskopf Morning Symposia ......................................................56 Afternoon Symposia ....................................................59 APS Section Chairs Networking Events ......................................................62 Scott Adkins Joint Meeting Daily Schedule (Wednesday) ........................63 Michael J. Boehm Technical Sessions .......................................................64 Richard Bostock Symposia ..................................................................... 66 Carolee Bull 2006 APS Foundation Student Travel Awards .................... 71 Albert K. Culbreath Dilantha Fernando – Workshop Chair APS Posters ........................................................................ 72 John Lundquist CPS Posters ......................................................................104 MSA Posters .....................................................................111 MSA Program Chair APS Elected/Appointed Offi cers, and Representatives ............ 117 Tom Bruns CPS • SCP Elected/Appointed Offi cers, and Representatives ...................................................................120 CPS Local Arrangements Chair MSA 2005-2006 Offi cial Roster .............................................. 121 Richard Bélanger APS • CPS • MSA Exhibit Floor Plan...................................... 124 CPS Abstracts Editor Exhibitors .................................................................................. 125 Ken Conn APS Author Index .....................................................................128 CPS Author Index .................................................................... 137 CPS Program MSA Author Index ................................................................... 138 Jim Menzies – Program Chair Anthony Hopkin Russell Tweddell 1 2 SESSIONS AT A GLANCE Epidemiology/ Molecular/ Mycological Biology of Plant Diseases of Ecology/ Cellular Plant Disease Professionalism/ Society of Pathogens Plants Environmental Plant-Microbe Management Service/Outreach America Biology Interactions Culture Collections in Cacao Diseases: Epidemiology/Ecology/ Fungi – Genetics/ Integrated Pest Navigating Funding Ascomycete the Genomics Age Important Threats to Environmental Biology I Molecular Biology/Cell Management Agencies and Updates Systematics I 1:15 – 5:00 p.m.; Room 304AB Chocolate Production 1:30 – 5:15 p.m.; Room 202 Biology I 1:30 – 5:15 p.m.; Room 301AB from the Public Policy 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.; Room 208AB Sunday Worldwide 1:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Board Functional Genomics 1:30 – 4:45 p.m.; Room 206B Room 205AB 1:30 – 4:30 p.m.; Room 204B Fungal Movement: Meets Bacterial Diseases, Contemporary Part III: Xanthomonas The Role of Fungi in Sci- Experimental Analysis and Xylella Genomics ence and Human Affairs 1:30 – 5:10 p.m.; Room 302AB 1:30 – 4:45 p.m.; Room 205C 1:30 – 5:00 p.m.; Room 303AB Basidiomycete Fungal Endophytes: Systematics Diversity and Function in 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.; Room 208AB Forest Ecosystems 1:30 – 5:00 p.m.; Room 206A Viruses – Systematics/ Diseases – Cereals, Field, Epidemiology/Ecology/ The Role of Type III New Products and Syllabi: What Are Presidential Address Evolution/Ecology and Fiber Crops Environmental Biology II Effectors in Bacterial Services Needed in Them and 8:30– 9:30 a.m.; Room 303AB 8:00 – 11:15 a.m. 8:00 – 11:30 a.m. 8:00 – 11:30 a.m.; Room 206B Virulence 8:00 – 11:15 a.m.; Room 206A How Can I Improve Monday Room 301B Room 301B 7:45 – 11:30 a.m.; Room 302AB Mine Fungal Ecology– Population Biology of Host Resistance 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Mycorrhizae Bacteria – Systematics/ Diseases – Turf Grasses Oomycetes 6th I.E. Melhus Graduate 8:00 – 11:45 a.m.; Room 205AB Room 304AB 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.; Room 208AB Evolution/Ecology 8:00 – 9:30 a.m.; Room 208AB 8:00 – 11:30 a.m. Student Symposium 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.; Room 301B Room 202 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.; Room 206B Urban Forestry Health Fungal Systematics I Disease Detection and Management 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.; Room 207 Biology and Epidemiolo- Diagnostics Water and Disease Man- Fungi – Genetics/ 8:00 – 11:45 a.m.; Room 204AB gy of Seed Transmission 1:00 – 4:45 p.m.; Room 303AB agement in Nursery and Molecular Biology/Cell Diversity of Zoosporic 1:00 – 4:30 p.m.; Room 304AB Greenhouse Production Biology II Biological Control Fungi Diseases – Fruits and Nuts 8:00 – 11:30 a.m.; Room 301A 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.; Room 301B 1:00 – 4:45 p.m.; Room 205AB 1:00 – 4:30 p.m.; Room 204AB 1:00 – 4:30 p.m. ; Room 206A The Effects of Climate Diverse Strategies for Fungal Ecology – Forest Pathology Change on Tree Diseases Managing Mycotoxins Endophytes and 1:00 – 4:30 p.m.; Room 202 1:00 – 4:30 p.m.; Room 302AB 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.; Room 205C Saprobes 3:00