Australasian Plant Pathology Society Conference 2025 — ASN Events

Australasian Plant Pathology Society Conference 2025 — ASN Events

Sunday 25 May	Monday 26 May	Tuesday 27 May	Wednesday 28 May
	08:30 - 08:45 Opening Address and Welcome to Country	08:30 - 09:15 Daniel McAlpine Lecture - Dr Nerida Donovan	08:30 - 09:00 Final Poster Viewing
	08:45 - 09:30 Presidential Address
			09:00 - 10:00 Keynote 6 - Tracking Ireland’s Potato Killer, Phytophthora infestans, Using Historical Mycological Herbarium and Archival Collections
		09:15 - 10:00 Keynote 3 - Scientific reference collections – critical in underpinning Australia’s biosecurity
	09:30 - 10:00 Morning Tea
	10:00 - 11:00 Keynote 1 - Innovative use of collections: A few case studies in Pucciniales	10:00 - 10:30 Morning Tea	10:00 - 10:30 Morning Tea
		10:30 - 11:30 Keynote 4 - Fungal collections assist in rapid identification of unusual samples to support biosecurity	10:30 - 12:00 Concurrent Session - Biosecurity - Response and Surveillance Concurrent Session - Disease Management - Practices Concurrent Session - Disease Management - Novel approaches 2 Concurrent Session - Interactions - Pathogenicity 3
	11:00 - 11:30 Poster Speed Pitch
	11:30 - 13:00 Concurrent Session - Biosecurity - Detection Concurrent Session - Interactions - Pathogenicity 1 Concurrent Session - Disease Management - Fungicide and Fungicide Resistance	11:30 - 13:00 Concurrent Session - Big Data - Monitoring and Climate Concurrent Session - Interactions - Disease Complex Concurrent Session - Interactions - Microbiome Concurrent Session - Biosecurity - Global Perspective
			12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
			12:15 - 13:30 Student Networking Lunch
	13:00 - 14:00 Lunch and Posters	13:00 - 14:00 Lunch and Posters
			13:30 - 14:30 Keynote 7 - Systems biology initiatives for fungal plant pathogens: Comparative genomics and bioinformatics platform of the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae
	14:00 - 15:00 Keynote 2 - Culture Collections	14:00 - 15:00 Keynote 5 - How can an open data research infrastructure support data driven biosecurity initiatives
			14:30 - 15:30 Concurrent Session - Support and Engagement Concurrent Session - Emerging problems 2 Concurrent Session - Disease Management - Plant resistance 2 Concurrent Session - Disease Management - Integrated Disease Management
	15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Tea	15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Tea
	15:30 - 17:00 Concurrent Session - Emerging Problems 1 Concurrent Session - Disease Management - Biocontrol & Environment Concurrent Session - Biosecurity - Diagnostics Concurrent Session - Disease Management - Plant resistance 1	15:30 - 17:00 Concurrent Session - Novel approaches 1 Concurrent Session - Diversity Concurrent Session - Interactions - Pathogenicity 2 Concurrent Session - Biosecurity - Collections	15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon Tea
			16:00 - 16:30 Closing