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NOWS:
CONFERENCE
Schedule
Date: Monday,
June 4, 2007
Location: Hilton Hotel, Austin, TX
7:00 – 9:00
pm • Mixer and Registration
Date: Tuesday,
June 5, 2007
Location: Hilton Hotel, Austin, TX
7:00 – 8:15 am • Registration – Continental
Breakfast
8:15 – 8:30am • 2nd Nows
Overview and Meeting Logistics: Russell
Peters,
Arboricultural Services
8:30– 8:45
am • Welcome to Texas: James B. Hull,
Texas State Forester
Moderator: Gene Gehring, Urban Renewal, Inc.
8:45– 9:20
am • An Overview of Quercus: Classification
and Phylogenetics, with Comments on Differences in Wood
Anatomy: Dr. Kevin
C. Nixon, Cornell University
9:20 – 10:00
am • The Genus Ceratocystis and Where
the Oak Wilt Fungus Fits:
Dr. Thomas C. Harrington, Iowa State
University
10:00– 10:30
am • Break
10:30 – 11:00 am
• Oak Wilt Biology, Impact, and Host/Pathogen Relationships:
A Texas Perspective: Dr. David N. Appel,
Texas A&M
University
11:00 – 11:30
am • The Spread of Ceratocystis fagacearum in
Midwestern and Mid-Atlantic States: Dr. Jennifer
Juzwik, USDA Forest Service, North Central Research
Station
11:30 – 12:00 pm • Modeling oak wilt: Dr.
Marla C. Downing, USDA Forest Service, Forest
Health Technology Enterprise Team
Moderator: Russell Peters, Arboricultural Services
1:00 – 1:30 pm • Oak Wilt Research at Fort Hood
: Controlling Oak Wilt at a Landscape Scale: Dr. Thomas
A. Greene,
The Nature Conservancy of Texas
1:30 – 2:00 pm • Oak Wilt Research at Fort Hood,
Texas and the Impact of Oak Wilt on an Endangered Species:
Kim Camilli, University
of Nevada
2:00 - 2:30 pm • Beetle Trapping in Texas and Missouri
to Examine Above Ground Transmission of Oak Wilt Across a
Region: Maya Hayslet,
USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station
2:30 - 3:00 pm • Wounds as Oak Wilt Infection Courts:
Dr. Todd Watson, Texas A&M
University
3:00– 3:30 pm • Break
3:30 - 4:00 pm • A Hypovirulent Strain of the Oak Wilt
Fungus: Dr. Dennis Fulbright, Michigan
State University
4:00 - 4:30 pm • The Potential for Using Trench Inserts
for Oak Wilt Management: Dr. Dan Wilson,
USDA Forest Service, Southern Hardwoods Laboratory
4:30 – 5:00 pm • Panel Discussion
6:30 – 10:00 pm • Texas-style
Social Event
Date: Wednesday,
June 6, 2007
7:00 – 8:00 am • Continental
breakfast
8:00
am – 5:00 pm • Choice of One Field Trip
No. 1. – Urban
oak wilt impact and control activities in and around
Austin
No. 2 – Oak wilt impact
and management in rural Texas (Fort Hood)
Date: Thursday,
June 7, 2007
Location: Hilton
Hotel, Austin, TX
7:00 – 8:30 am •
Continental Breakfast
Moderator: Jim Houser, Texas Forest Service
8:30 - 9:00 am • Regional Oak Wilt Impact Reports
Oak Wilt in the Appalachians: Dr. William
L. MacDonald, West Virginia University
Oak Wilt in North Central Region: To be determined
Oak Wilt in Texas: Jim Rooni, Texas Forest Service
9:00 - 9:30 am • Injection, Infusion and Systemic
Movement in Trees: Dr.
Terry A. Tatter, University of Massachusetts
9:30 - 10:00 am • Effective Longevity of Propiconazole
in Quercus rubra: Kelly Peacock, Michigan
State University
10:30– 11:00 am
• Studies on the Potential for Developing an Oak
Wilt Resistant Live Oak. Speaker:
Dr. Mike Gray, Texas A&M University
11:00 - 11:30 am • Oak Wilt Management: A Neighborhood
Perspective: Nathanial Chapin, Travis Heights Neighborhood
Association, Austin
11:30– 12:00 noon • Panel Discussion
12:00 – 1:00
pm • Lunch
Moderator: Robert Edmonson, Texas Forest Service
1:00 – 1:30 pm • Texas
Cooperative Oak Wilt Suppression Project: Lessons
learned in the
first 20 years: Dr. Ronald
F. Billings, Texas Forest Service
1:30 – 2:00 pm • USDA Forest Service Perspective
on Oak Wilt Suppression: Dale A. Starkey,
USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection
2:00– 2:30 pm •
Other Threats to Oaks - Sudden
Oak Death: Dr.
Matteo Garbelotto, University of California
2:30 – 3:00
pm • Other Threats to Oaks - Bacterial Leaf Scorch: Dr.
Edward L. Barnard, Florida Division of Forestry
3:00 - 3:30 pm • Panel Discussion
3:30 - 3:45 pm • Wrap Up and Adjourn: Dr.
David Appel, Texas A&M University
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