Wednesday, 27th September Science Protecting Plant Health 2017
President's Breakfast
7:00AM - 9:00AM
Wednesday, 27th September
Concord Boardroom
Registrations Open
8:00AM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 27th September
Plaza Auditorium Registration
APPS President's Address
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Wednesday, 27th September
Plaza Auditorium
Chair: Eileen Scott
Morning Tea
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Wednesday, 27th September
Plaza Auditorium Foyer / Exhibition
Molecular Plant-Pathogen Interactions
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Wednesday, 27th September
Plaza Auditorium
Chairs: Elizabeth Aitken & Jonathan Anderson
- Genome editing for Plant Defence - Peter M Waterhouse
- Hunting down specific triggers of resistance to the apple scab fungus - Kim M Plummer
- Teasing apart the differences between Asian and European pear scab disease to reveal the molecular mechanisms of host-specificity and non-host resistance. - Shakira Johnson
- Deciphering the molecular mechanisms of Lr34-mediated disease resistance in wheat - Dharmendra Singh
- Identification of candidate genes involved in resistance to Austropuccinia psidii (myrtle rust) in Syzygium luehmannnii (Riberry) - Peri A Tobias
Epidemiology
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Wednesday, 27th September
Meeting Room P6 & P7
Chairs: Rosalie Daniel & Murray Sharman
- Objective measures for assessment of powdery mildew on grape berries - Eileen S Scott
- Investigations on the spore dispersal patterns of eutypa and botryosphaeria dieback pathogens in Australian vineyards - Sandra Savocchia
- Increased carbon-dioxide affects crown rot incidence, severity and pathogen colonisation in wheat reducing potential grain yield. - Paul Melloy
- Distribution and epidemiology of viruses infecting garlic in Australia - Julia E Cremer
- Cucumber green mottle mosaic virus and honey bee pollinators - Mary Finlay-Doney
Diagnostics
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Wednesday, 27th September
Meeting Room P8
Chairs: Jenny Davidson & Roberto Barrero
- Implementing Australia’s National Plant Biosecurity Diagnostic Strategy - Barbara H Hall
- Molecular identification of trapped insects: Metabarcoding for improved monitoring and surveillance of insect pests - Mark Blacket
- The application of generic amplicon next generation sequencing to determine Ilarvirus species diversity in Prunus. - Wycliff M Kinoti
- SPOREID – INNOVATIVE DISEASE MONITORING AND DIAGNOSTICS FOR IMPROVED EFFICIENCY OF CROP PRODUCTION - Agata Kaczmarek
- Development of quantitative PCR assays to detect and quantify inoculum of grapevine trunk disease pathogens from environmental samples - Regina Baaijens
Pest Ecology
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Wednesday, 27th September
Meeting Room P9
Chairs: Pauline Wyatt & Hazel Parry
- Palmageddon: The ongoing invasion problem with palm killing weevils - Mark S Hoddle
- Phylogeny, Ecology and Amplicon Sequencing of the New Zealand Psylloidea (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha) reveals interesting insect-plant-bacteria interactions. - Francesco Martoni
- The importance of yeasts in the ecology and control of the Queensland fruit fly - Alexander M Piper
- Whole mitochondrial genome sequencing reveals diversity of Bactericera cockerelli (tomato potato psyllid) in New Zealand - Rebekah A Frampton
- The effect of groundcovers on survival of Banana rust thrips Chaetanaphothrips signipennis (Bagnall) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). - Donna M Chambers
Biosecurity Policy
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Wednesday, 27th September
Meeting Room P10
Chairs: David Dall & Lois Ransom
- Enhancing the Australian plant biosecurity system amidst rapid global change - Sally Troy
- Eradicating Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle from Hawaii: Do the benefits outweigh the costs? - David C Cook
- The Impact of Global Regulations under the Montreal Protocol on Soilborne Disease Control, Biosecurity and the Climate - Ian Porter
- A new approach for conducting pest risk analyses – the Group Pest Risk Analysis. - Brian Garms
- Plant Post Entry Quarantine in New Zealand – working with industry to develop new regulations - Richard Lardner
Student Lunch
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Wednesday, 27th September
Meeting Room P11
Chair: Elizabeth Aitken
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Lunch
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Wednesday, 27th September
Plaza Auditorium Foyer / Exhibition
Plenary 4
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Wednesday, 27th September
Plaza Auditorium
Chair: Rieks van Klinken
Poster Viewing Session - Wednesday 27th September
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Wednesday, 27th September
P6-11 Foyer
APPS AGM
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Wednesday, 27th September
Meeting Room P8
Afternoon Tea
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 27th September
Plaza Auditorium Foyer / Exhibition
Soil Health
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 27th September
Plaza Auditorium
Chairs: Jennifer Cobon & Nicole Seymour
- Interaction networks shed light on the ecology and coevolution of soil microbiomes - Linda Kinkel
- Determining the effect of strawberry production cycle and mulch type on plant health, fruit yield, and root pathogens - Pervaiz A. Abbasi
- Suppression of potato bacterial wilt with non-aerated compost tea and factors which influence efficacy - Wossen Mengesha
- Transcriptionally active wheat rhizosphere microbiomes in fields suppressive and non-suppressive for Rhizoctonia solani AG 8 - Helen L Hayden
- Engineering banana cropping systems to suppress soil borne diseases - Anthony B Pattison
Diagnostics
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 27th September
Meeting Room P6 & P7
Chairs: Grant Smith & Linda Zheng
- From genomics to diagnostic development, the citrus canker story - Toni A Chapman
- A novel Candidatus Liberibacter species associated with Ctenarytaina fuchsiae, the New Zealand native fuchsia psyllid - Grant Smith
- Characterisation of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter brunswickensis’ identified in the Australian eggplant psyllid - Jacqueline M Morris
- Discrimination between viable and dead Xanthomonas fragariae on strawberry host tissue by PCR - Tracey M Immanuel
- Diagnosing ‘dieback’: A protocol for determining the cause of endophyte-associated mortality in plants - Tracey V Steinrucken
Agrochemicals and Biopesticides
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 27th September
Meeting Room P8
Chairs: Victor Galea & Elizabeth Dann
- Live cell imaging of pathogenic fungi reveals novel fungicide mode of action - Gero Steinberg
- THE CYTB GENE STRUCTURE AND RESISTANCE TO QoI FUNGICIDES IN THE GRAPE BLACK ROT PATHOGEN, GUIGNARDIA BIDWELLII, AND RELATED SPECIES - Kalman Z Vaczy
- Effects of copper used for control plant pathogenic bacteria: the case of Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae (Psa) - Joel L Vanneste
- Copper tolerance in Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato from tomatoes in Queensland, Australia - Karina Griffin
- Biological control of Botrytis cinerea in grapes - Dean Metcalf
Facilitating Trade
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 27th September
Meeting Room P9
Chairs: Jutta Tuerck & Peter Whittle
- Impact of fruit flies on international market access and what the scientific community can do to help - Craig Hull
- Knowing what you have: the benefits and challenges of maintaining national plant pest lists - Rieks D van Klinken
- Postharvest market access treatments for horticultural commodities: Developing pre-approved and standardised quarantine treatments for fruit flies - Lisa E Jamieson
- Low-dose methyl bromide fumigation as a quarantine treatment against Queensland fruit fly to improve exports of Australian capsicums - Pauline M Wyatt
- Cost-benefit analysis of a risk profiling tool to optimise biosecurity inspections for the Asian gypsy moth - Paul Mwebaze
Forest Pathology and Entomology
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 27th September
Meeting Room P10
Chairs: Geoffrey Pegg & Helen Nahrung
- The risks and costs of exotic pests to Australia’s forest industry, conservation forests and amenity trees - Angus J Carnegie
- Myrtle rust – impact on native Myrtaceae and associated plant communities - Geoffrey S Pegg
- Susceptibility of threatened Myrtaceae species in Australia - Laura Fernandez Winzer
- Mapping and Trapping - Protecting Queensland’s Pine Resource. - Manon W Griffiths
- Cyclaneusma minus morphotypes and their distribution in Pinus radiata forests in New Zealand - Rebecca L McDougal
Conference Dinner
7:00PM - 11:00PM
Wednesday, 27th September
Offsite - Brisbane City Hall