Southwide Forest Disease Workshop – Agenda – January 14-16, 2014

Monday January 13, 2014 / Time / Speaker / Location
Registration & Room Assignments / 3:00 to 6:00 PM / Dining Hall
Dinner / 6:00 -7:00 PM / Dining Hall
Social / 7:00 PM - ?? / Longleaf Auditorium Porch/Foyer
Tuesday January 14, 2014
Breakfast / 7:00-7:30 AM / Dining Hall
Welcome, Introductions & History of the Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center / 8:00 -8:40 AM / Joel Martin – Director / Longleaf Auditorium
Session I – Paper Presentations / Title / Author
8:40 – 9:00 AM / Biology and host range of Bot Canker of oaks in the southeast. / Jason Smith, Sonja Mullerin, Tyler Dreaden and Adam Black
9:00 - 9:20 AM / Evaluation of defense responses in tolerant and susceptible hosts to Raffaelealauricola / Jason Smith, Marc Hughes, Ben Held and Robert Blanchette
9:20 – 9:40 AM / A multi-gene phylogenetic study of the genus Raffaelea / Tyler Dreaden and Jason Smith
9:40 – 10:00 AM / Systemic movement of Raffaelealauricolathrough the rhizomes in pondberry(Linderamelissifolia) / G. Susan Best and Stephen W. Fraedrich
Break / 10:00 -10:20 AM / Foyer
Session II – Paper Presentations / Title / Authors
10:20-10:40 AM / Subterranean termites and ophiostomatoid fungi: a secret symbiosis? / John Riggins, Nathan Little and Lori Eckhardt
10:40 – 11:00 AM / Assessment of defense capacity among 15 loblolly pine families / Mary Ann Sayer, Amritpal Singh, Lori Eckhardt and She-Jean Sung
11:00 -11:20 AM / Soil characteristics of loblolly decline sites in Alabama / Emily Carter, Nolan Hess, Art Goddard and Lori Eckhardt.
11:20 – 11:40 AM / Genetic selection of loblolly pine (Pinustaeda L.) with near infrared spectroscopy for combined root disease resistance and forest products / Brian Via, Lori Eckhardt, and GiftyAcquah
Lunch / 12:00-1:00 PM / Dining Hall
Title / Authors
Session III – Student Competition / 1:00-1:15 PM / Mycorrhizal communities in Imperata cylindrical invaded and non-invaded commercial Pinustaeda stands. / Adam Trautwig, Lori Eckhardt and Jason Hoeksema
1:15 – 1:30PM / The good and the bad: Trade-offs between disease resistance and symbionts in loblolly pine / BrigettPiculell, Jason Hoeksema and Lori Eckhardt
1:30 – 1:45 PM / Protecting American pine forests: are unknown pathogens hiding in Asia? / Craig Bateman and Jiri Hulcr
1:45 – 2:00 PM / Comparisons of avocado, swampbay and camphor as hosts of Raffaelealauricolawith a gfp-marked strain of the pathogen / A.S. Campbell, R.C. Loetz and U.K. Benny
2:00 - 2:15 PM / Determining fungal communities associated with the bark beetle Dendroctonusapproximatus in Mexico and Central America / Tessa Bauman, Lori Eckhardt, Roger Menard, WillhelumdeBeer, Alberto Sediles and Mike Wingfield
2:15 – 2:30 PM / Interaction of altered tropospheric ozone concentrations with loblolly pine decline / Jeff Chieppa, Art Chappelka and Lori Eckhardt
2:30 – 2:45 PM / Herbicide tolerance and weed control in understory species of longleaf pine ecosystems / Nick Barnwell and Scott Enebak
2:45- 3:00 PM / The development of a laurel wilt resistance screening program of redbay (Perseaborbonia) / Marc Hughs and Jason Smith
Break / 3:00-3:30
Session IV – Paper Presentations / Title / Authors
3:30-3:50 PM / The effect of the fungicide Proline on seedling nutrition / Tom Starkey and Scott Enebak
3:50 – 4:10 PM / Improved semi-selective medium for Heterobasidion irregular isolation and spore trapping / Michelle Cram
4:10 – 4:30 PM / Evaluation of MBr alternatives on loblolly pine production and seedling quality over three growing seasons at the Pine Hill nursery in Camden, Alabama. / Scott Enebak and Tom Starkey
4:30 – 4:50 / Evaluation of plastic tarps, reduced rates and low-impact application methods of soil fumigants on loblolly pine seedling production / Scott Enebak and Tom Starkey
Dinner / 6:00 – 7:00 PM / Dining Hall
Poster Session and Social / 7:30 - ??? / Screening Loblolly pine families for wood chemistry / GiftyAcquah, Brian Via, Lori Eckhardt and O Fasina.
Investigating the cause of mass-dieback of slash pine in central Florida / Adam Black, Claudia Paez and Jason Smith
Wednesday January 15, 2014 / Time / Speaker / Location
Breakfast / 7:00-7:30 AM / Dining Hall
Load Vans for Tours / 8:00 AM
Escambia Experimental Forest
Box Lunch at Escambia / 11:30-12:30 PM
Return to Dixon Center / 1:30 PM
Tour Dixon Center Sites / 2:00-4:00 PM
Dinner / 6:00 – 7:00 PM / Dining Hall
Awards Presentations / 7:30-10:00 PM / Longleaf Auditorium
Thursday January 16, 2014 / Location
Breakfast / 7:00-7:30 AM / Dining Hall
Business Meeting / 8:00-9:00 AM / Longleaf Auditorium
Adjourn – Have a safe trip home / 9:00 AM

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