Potato Wart Disease Workshop

Welcome and workshop aims

Bringing together phytopathologists, breeders and policy makers

Day Time Activity TalksWednesday 26 June

8:30 - 10:00 Welcome with coffee and registration

10:00 - 11:00 Opening of the workshop 10:00 Welcome to the Dutch National Plant Protection Organization (Mieke Reyniers, Head NRC, NPPO-NL)10:15 Welcome and aims of the workshop (Bart van de Vossenberg, lead molecular biologist NRC, NPPO-NL)10:30 Introduction to EPPO and Euphresco (Nico Horn, Director-General EPPO)

11:00 - 12:00 Session 1: Disease occurrence and management

11:00 Lidia Dimitrova, Bulgarian Food Safety Agency, Bulgaria

11:30 Gerard van Leeuwen, Dutch National Plant Protection Organization, the Netherlands12:00 - 13:00 Lunch13:00 - 14:00 Session 1: Disease occurrence and

management13:00 Hale Gunacti, Biological Control Research Institue, Turkey

13:30 Marga van Gent-Pelzer, Wageningen University & Research14:00 - 16:00 Session 2: Understanding the pathogen 14:00 Syed Munerul Hoque, National Plant Quarantine Authority, Bangladesh

14:30 Theo van der Lee, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands15:00 Bart van de Vossenberg, Dutch National Plant Protection Organization & Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands15:30 Hai Nguyen, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada

16:00 - 18:00 Poster presentations and drinks See abstract booklet for presentersThursday 27 June 8:30 - 9:00 Welcome with coffee

9:00 - 11:00 Session 3: Host resistance and Breeding 9:00 Jaroslaw Przetakiewicz, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute, Poland9.30 Charlotte Prodhomme, Wageningen University and Research10:00 Jarosław Plich, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute, Poland10.30 Dennis Reckwell, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

11:00 - 12:30 Parallel sessions Workshop/Tour NPPO In subgroups: see registration sheet12:30 – 13:30 Lunch13:30 - 16:00 Parallel sessions Workshop/Tour NPPO In subgroups: see registration sheet16:00 - 17:00 Presentation outcome discussion per group Plenary19:00 Conference diner (optional)

Friday 28 June 8:30 - 9:15 welcome with coffee9:15 - 10:00 Keynote Lecture Prof. Dr Ir Francine Govers, Professor of Phytopathology, Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands10:00 - 10:30 Project pitches Participants with interesting potato wart projects are invited to give a short description (~5-10 min)10:30 - 11:30 Discussion on shared statement Plenary11:30 - 12:00 Closing of the meeting12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

Parallel sessions: workshop and tour of the NPPO facilities

Subgroup 11:00 – 12:30 13:30 – 14:45 14:45 – 16:00

Group 1 Tour Workshop A Workshop B

Group 2 Workshop A Tour Workshop B

Group 3 Workshop A Workshop B Tour

Group 4 Tour Workshop A Workshop B

Group 5 Workshop A Tour Workshop B

Group 6 Workshop A Workshop B Tour

• Workshop participants are assigned to subgroups (see registration)

• Each group has two workshop sessions and a tour

• The tour starts outside the meeting room

The workshop consists of two parts

• Workshop part A (~1 hour)

• Discuss the questions provided

• Three main topics: 1. occurrence and management, 2. pathogen biology and 3. host resistance

• Any other relevant topics

• Workshop part B (~1 hour)

• Write down outcomes of the discussion using the provided PowerPoint template

• Assign a presenter who will present (4 slides, 10 min. max) the outcomes of the discussion

Project pitches: Friday 28 June

• Possibility to inform the participants of interesting ongoing or new projects

• Seek collaboration

• 5-10 minutes

• No need for a PowerPoint presentation

Optional conference dinner

• Eetcafé H41, Heerenstraat 41, Wageningen

• Costs €40

• Three courses: soup (V), main dish, grand dessert (V)

• Main dish options: Combination of Venison and Kangaroo fillet; Fillet of Salmon; Quiche (V)

• Assemble at Wageningen Bus station, stadsbrink at 18:30

Shared statement

• Outcomes of the workshop discussions are combined and presented on Friday

• Preparation of a shared statement on future research needs

• Ideally a global roadmap with milestones can be derived from the workshop

• Publication in EPPO bulletin when suitable

... and remember

• Meet new people

• Strengthen you professional network

• Seek collaborations

• Have fun!