North Central Soybean Research Program

Sudden Death Syndrome Fall Meeting
November 17-18, 2011
Crowne Plaza St. Paul Riverfront Hotel, St. Paul, MN

 

SDS is now one of the top four yield-robbing diseases in soybean and spreading fast. Photo credit: Dean Malvick.

Register now for the 2011 annual SDS Fall Meeting. The meeting will be held at Crowne Plaza St. Paul Riverfront Hotel starting at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 17 and concluding at noon on Friday, November 18. Thursday morning is held open to allow time for other program/project meetings that you might want to organize on your own.

 

Registration

Registration is free, but advance registration is required. To register, please email the following information to Crystal Floyd, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, at

First and last name
State
Occupation
Work phone number, address, and mobile phone number

The Crowne Plaza Riverfront Hotel in St. Paul is the site of this years meeting.

Accomodations

To make a room reservation, please call or contact the Crowne Plaza St. Paul Riverfront Hotel, 11 East Kellogg Blvd, St Paul, MN at .

When you make your reservation, be sure to inform the hotel that you are affiliated with the Annual NCSRP Soybean SDS Fall Meeting - there has been a block of rooms reserved under " Iowa Soybean Association".

 

Agenda (may be revised)

(Click here for agenda in pdf format)

Thursday, November 17

12 Noon	Lunch
12:30 PM	Welcome, Introductions and Overview – USB Director and NCSRP (David Wright)
12:45	SDS Status and State Reports (led by Dean Malvick, University of Minnesota)
1:15	The SDS pathogen - what have we learned? Suggestions: variability and aggressiveness, biotech studies, detection, sequence analysis studies; toxin studies. (led by Madan Bhattacharyya, Iowa State University)
2:00	Increasing success with field trials (led by Jason Bond, Southern Illinois University and Roger Bowen, University of Illinois/USDA-ARS)
2:30	Afternoon Break
2:45	How soil organisms may impact SDS (led by Ahmad Fakhoury, Southern Illinois University)
3:15	Genetics update (led by Brian Diers, University of Illinois)
4:00	SIU SDS patent discussion (led by UM Technology representative)
4:30	Comments - NCSRP, USB, and state checkoff representatives
5:00	Social Hour
6:00	Dinner
Networking and project meetings on Thursday evening
Friday, November 18
7:00 AM	Continental Breakfast
8:00	Morning announcements
8:15	Glyphosate and SDS (led by X. B. Yang, Iowa State University)
8:45	SDS Management and Extension (led by Daren Mueller, Iowa State University)
9:15	USB SDS research update (led by Silvia Cianzio, Iowa State University) Iowa State University, Southern Illinois University, and the University of Arkansas
9:45 -11:30	Group Discussions and Future Research Planning
10:00	Morning Break
11:45	Comments NCSRP and USB Representatives Meeting Summary/Location and coordinators for 2012 meeting
12:15	Meeting Concludes

Hope to see you there! Please contact at
with questions about the meeting.

 

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