Program

22 September

17.00-18.00: Registration and mingle

18.00-21.00: Dinner

23 September

8.00-9.00: Registration and Coffee

9.00-11.30: Forest Pathology in a changing world

• Forest Pathology in a changing world
  Professor Mike Wingfield, FABI RSA
• Functional ecology of forest disease
  Dr. Jonas Oliva, University of Lleida, Spain
• Increased networks foster increased knowledge on pine needle diseases
  Dr. Irene Barnes, FABI RSA
• Title to be announced
  Professor Rein Drenkhan, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia
  

11.30-12.30: Lunch

12.30 -15:00 Genetics and genomics in forest pathology

• New opportunities with conifer genomics
  Professor Ove Nilsson, SLU Sweden
• Population genomics of a globally introduced ectomycorrhizal fungus: Suillus luteus
  Professor Rytas Vilgalys, Duke University, USA
• The fungal individual: an evolutionary perspective
  Professor Hanna Johannesson, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Killer fungi and the viruses that help them
  Professor Tim James, University of Michigan, USA

15.00-15.30: Coffee

15.30-17.00: Evolution and ecology of fungi

• Heart rot and hollowing in beech and oak
  Professor Lynne Boddy, Cardiff University, UK
• Molecular analyses of fungal communities – from taxa to traits
  Professor Björn Lindahl, SLU Sweden

19.00: Dinner

24 September

9.00-10.30: Forest pathology in practic

• Fungal pathogens: recent advances in biological control
  Professor Jarkko Hantula, Luke, Finland
• Title to be announced
  Dr. Bo Karlsson, Skogforsk, Sweden

11.00-16.00: Excursion to two field sites.