SASPP 2021 Online Meeting

SASPP online event to celebrate the IYPH2020 hosted by the Southern African Society for Plant Pathology and the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria

Dear SASPP Colleagues Due to Covid-19 situation, our in-person biennial congress of the Southern African Society for Plant Pathology will be postponed to January 2022, but we will have an online event on 20 January 2021 to celebrate the IYPH2020, and to reconnect as a Society after this very disruptive year. The meeting will be a hybrid in-person and online event. We intend to have a few people in person at Future Africa, while accommodating the majority of members online. Apart from a keynote speaker which will be Prof Sophien Kamoun (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom), we will also have six talks from Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students on work published in 2020. During this event, we will also celebrate the launch of the special issue on plant health of SAJSci and a book on the history of Plant Pathology and the announcement of the Mildenhall Award. If you wish to attend this event, please fill in the registration from accessible via the left panel of this page. A small in-person group will be possible on the day at Future Africa Campus, the Innovation Africa, University of Pretoria. If you are considering joining us in person, please indicate this in the registration form. The program will be as follows: 10:00 Welcome on behalf of the organisers and SASPP: Prof Wijnand Swart (SASPP President) and Prof Bernard Slippers (organisers) 10:20 Keynote Speaker: Prof Sophien Kamoun: Open science in the age of pandemics 11:00 Break 11:15 Megan du Toit (Stellenbosch University): Quantitative detection of economically important Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense strains in Africa in plants, soil and water 11:30 Kira M. T. Lynn (University of Pretoria): Novel Fusarium mutualists of two Euwallacea species infesting Acacia crassicarpa in Indonesia 11:45 Patience Chatukuta (University of the Witwatersrand): A Cassava protoplast system for screening genes associated with the response to South African Cassava Mosaic Virus 12:00 Minette Havenga (University of Pretoria; Stellenbosch University): Reproductive biology of a globally important Eucalyptus foliar pathogen 12:15 Break 12:30 Jan H. Nagel (University of Pretoria): Highly transferable microsatellite markers for the genera Lasiodiplodia and Neofusicoccum 12:45 Lisa Rothmann (University of the Free State): The role of reproducible research tools in quantifying a decade-long survey of Sclerotinia disease prevalence, in South Africa 13:00 Presentation on the History of Plant Pathology in South Africa and launch of the SASPP History Book: Prof Teresa Coutinho (editor) 13:15 Presentation of the South African Journal of Science Special Issue: Prof Jane Caruthers (Editor in Chief of SAJSci) 13:30 Thanks and conclusion