The Western Disease Conference is designed to bring together plant disease professionals to promote the science of plants and plant related problems.

The informal approach of these meetings encourages brief presentations with interactive and lively discourse. Presentation topics include, but are not limited to:

• Diagnostic reports (e.g., new problems, annual reports, diseases difficult to diagnose)
• Research trials
• New developments in crop pathology
• Chemical registrations/efficacy trials
• Biological control associated with organic production, extension activities and resources (can bring copies of new crop bulletins, website addresses, and other resources), etc.

Meeting Schedule:

January 12-13, 2011; Downtown Portland Hilton, Portland, OR