Keynote 1
The role of plant pathology in food safety and food security
Peter Scott - p.scott@cabi.org
Nieck Van Der Graaff - niek.vandergraaff@fao.org

Keynote 2
Host-pathogen interactions and molecular plant pathology
Pierre De Wit - pierre.dewit@wur.nl
John Mansfield - j.mansfield@imperial.ac.uk

Keynote 3
Diseases of Mediterranean crops and forests
Marie-Laure Desprez-Loustau - loustau@bordeaux.inra.fr
Eleftherios C. Tjamos - cptp2tze@aua.gr

Keynote 4
Recent developments in disease management
Ilan Chet - chet@agri.huji.ac.il
Ulrich Gisi - ulrich.gisi@syngenta.com

Keynote 5
Knowledge and technology transfer for plant pathology
Nigel Hardwick - nigel.hardwick@csl.gov.uk - Nv.hardwick@btinternet.com
Jan E. Leach - jan.leach@colostate.edu

Concurrent Session and Session Organizers
Airborne plant diseases
Philippe Nicot - nicot@avignon.inra.fr
Levente Kiss - lkiss@nki.hu

Bioremediation
Jim Lynch - jim.lynch@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
Gary E. Harman - gary.harman@cornell.edu - geh3@cornell.edu

Biosecurity and quarantine
Ian Smith - smith@eppo.fr
Shuifang Zhu - zhushf@sina.com - zhushf@netchina.com.cn

Climate change and plant diseases
Sukumar Chakraborty - sukumar.chakraborty@csiro.au
John F. Farrar - School of Biological SciencesUniversity of Wales - Bangor
LL57 2UW UK - j.f.farrar@bangor.ac.uk

Competitive research topics
Ann Lichens-Park - apark@csrees.usda.gov
Marco P. Nuti - mpnuti@agr.unipi.it

Concepts in biological control of plant pathogens
Peter Luth - peterlueth@prophyta.com
Tang Wenhua - wenhuatang@sina.com - wenhuatang@sohu.com
Richard Bèlangér - richard.belanger@plg.ulaval.ca

Concepts in chemical control
Hideo Ishii - hideo@niaes.affrc.go
Klaus Stenzel - klaus.stenzel@bayercropscience.com
Derek Hollomon - D.W.Hollomon@bristol.ac.uk
Maarten A. De Waard - maarten.dewaard@wur.nl

Crop biosecurity
Jacqueline Fletcher - jaf2394@okstate.edu
Maria Lodovica Gullino - marialodovica.gullino@unito.it

Diseases of Mediterranean crops
Khaled M. Makkouk - k.makkouk@cgiar.org
Rafael Jimenez-Diaz - ag1jidir@uco.es

Diseases of ornamentals
John Hammonds - hammondj@ba.ars.usda.gov
Leszek Orlikowski - lorlikow@insad.isk.skierniewice.pl - lorlikow@insad.pl

Diseases of soilless crops
Walter Wohanka - wohanka@fa-gm.de
Michael Stanghellini - michael.stanghellini@ucr.edu

Disease management in organic farming
Ariena Van Bruggen - ariena.vanbruggen@wur.nl
Zhu Youyoung - yppl@public.km.yn.cn

Disease models, epidemiology
Robert Seem - rcs4@cornell.edu

Fastidious bacteria
Joseph Bovè - jbove@bordeaux.inra.fr
Alexander Purcell - purcell@nature.berkeley.edu

Functional genomics of plant pathogenic bacteria
James R. Alfano - Jalfano2@unl.edu
Matthias S. Ullrich - m.ullrich@iu-bremen.de

Genomics and proteomics
Corby Kistler - hckist@umn.edu
Nicholas Talbot - N.J.Talbot@exeter.ac.uk

Global seed health: concerns and solutions
Angelo Porta Puglia - porta@euroweb.net.mt
Denis McGee - dmcgee@uastate.edu

Host-pathogen interactions
Felice Cervone - cervone@axrma.uniroma1.it
Brian Staskawicz - stask@nature.berkeley.edu

Induced resistance
Brigitte M. Mani - brigitte.mauch@unine.ch
H. N. Verma - vermalko@yahoo.co.uk

Innovative disease control strategies
Mark Mazzola - mazzola@tfrl.ars.usda.gov

Knowledge transfer for plant pathology
Julia Brunt - j.brunt@cabi.org
Terry Stuart - t.stewart@massey.ac.nz

Management of forest diseases
John Gibbs - gibbs@keme.co.uk
Mike Wingfield - mike.wingfield@fabi.up.ac.za

Microbial endophytes
Johannes Hallman - j.hallmann@bba.de
Barbara Schulz - b.schulz@tu-bs.de

Molecular diagnostics for plant pathology
Norman Schaad - norman.schaad@ars.usda.gov
Peter P. Bonants - peter.bonants@wur.nl
André Levesque - levesqueca@agr.gc.ca

Mycotoxins
Antonio Logrieco - antonio.logrieco@ispa.cnr.it
Anne E. Desjardins - DESJARAE@ncaur.usda.gov

Natural compounds and disease control
Annie Osbourne - annie.osbourn@sainsbury-laboratory.ac.uk
N. K. Dubey - nkdubey2@rediffmail.com

Nematology and plant diseases
Nicola Greco - n.greco@ba.ipp.cnr.it
Larry Duncan - lwdn@crec.ifas.ufl.edu

Novel disease control plant breeding
Hans Van Den Heuvel - hans.vandenheuvel@deruiterseeds.com
William Dolezal - william.dolezal@pioneer.com

Novel resistance strategies in the post-genomic era
Richard Michelmore - rwmichelmore@ucdavis.edu
Ko Shimamoto - simamoto@bs.naist.jp

Plant pathogens and microbial interactions in soil
Linda Thomashow - thomasho@mail.wsu.edu
Jozef Vanderleyden - jozef.vanderleyden@agr.kuleuven.ac.be

Plant pathology in industrialized and developing countries
U. S. Singh - ussingh3@rediffmail.com - Umesh146@yahoo.com
Anne K. Vidaver - Avidaver1@unl.edu

Plant virus epidemiology
Larry V. Madden - madden.1@osu.edu
Hervé Lecoq - Herve.Lecoq@avignon.inra.fr

Post-harvest pathology
Dow Prusky - dovprusk@agri.gov.il
Lise Korsten - lkorsten@fabi.up.ac.za
Paloma Melgarejo - melgar@inia.es

Precision agriculture and plant pathology
Erich Christian Oerke - ec-oerke@uni-bonn.de

Scientific publications
Christopher Mundt - mundtc@science.oregonstate.edu
Gary Foster - gary.foster@bristol.ac.uk

Soilborne plant diseases and their control
George Lazarovits - lazarovitsg@agr.gc.ca
David Weller - wellerd@mail.wsu.edu

Soil disinfestation
Abraham Gamliel - agamliel@agri.gov.il
Ian J. Porter - ian.j.porter@dpi.vic.gov.au

Taxonomy of plant pathogens
Pedro W. Crous - crous@cbs.knaw.nl
Claude M. Fauquet - iltab@danforthcenter.org - cmf@danforthcenter.org

Teaching plant pathology
Henri Maraite - bccm-mucl@mbla.ucl.ac.be
Darin Eastburn - eastburn@uiuc.edu

Transgenic plants
Neal van Alfen - nkvanalfen@ucdavis.edu
Wojciech Kaniewski - wojciech.k.kaniewski@monsanto.com

Tropical plant pathology
Nancy Castilla - n.castilla@cgiar.org
Mark Holderness - m.holderness@cabi.org

Urban plant pathology
Georg Backhous - H.Backhaus@bba.de
Gary Watson - gwatson@mortonarb.org

Vascular plant pathogens
Mohamed Besri - m.besri@iav.ac.ma
Jaacov Katan - katan@agri.huji.ac.il

Wall-less, phloem-limited bacterial plant pathogens
Robert E. Davis - davisr@ba.ars.usda.gov
Giuseppe Firrao - firrao@uniud.it

What future for plant pathology?
Richard Falloon - FalloonR@crop.cri.nz