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EAPR Triennial Conference

eapr2011 EAPR2011:  The 18th Triennial Conference of the European Association for Potato Research is scheduled to take place in Oulu, Finland July 24th – 29th 2011. We are pleased to inform you that the 18th Triennial Conference of the EAPR will be organized in Finland, in the charming city of Oulu. The conference venue is Oulu City Theatre.

The overall schedule of the conference will be as follows:

  • Sunday,July 24th: Registration, Get-together, Party
  • Monday, July 25th: Scientific program
  • Tuesday, July 26th: Scientific program
  • Wednesday, July 27th: Excursions
  • Thursday, July 28th: Scientific program, Conference dinner
  • Friday, July 29th: Scientific program

Check out the EAPR2011 Conference web page: http://www.eapr2011.com

Further information:

Chairman of the organizing committee:

Academy Professor Jari Valkonen

Department of Applied Biology

PO Box 27 (Latokartanonkaari 7)

FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland

Phone: +358 9 1915 8387

Mobile: +358 40 7432 479

Fax: +358 9 1915 8727

e-mail: jari.valkonen@helsinki.fi

MEETINGS OF SECTIONS OF EAPR

  • 2010 tri-annual conference organised by EAPR-Eucarpia sections Breeding and Varietal Assessment. The conference will be held in Wageningen, The Netherlands on 27–30 June 2010. The theme of the conference will be: Potato Breeding after completion of the DNA Sequence of the Potato Genome We aim for an audience ranging from practical breeders to potato genome scientists and will offer ample opportunity for PhD students to present their research projects and offer a highly reduced fee. Please find attached the first circular, the tentative program and a registration form. Please check the websites www.eapr.net and/or www.eucarpia.org for future updates on the program. Early registration will close on March 15, 2010. Submit your tentative title for an Oral or Poster presentation a.s.a.p. before or with your registration. The connection Amsterdam Airport (schiphol) to the conference (Lawickse Allee 9, Wageningen) takes 1hr 40″ (see http://www.9292ov.nl )

    Herman van Eck EAPR Section Breeding and Varietal assessment – Herman.vanEck@wur.nl and Dan Milbourne EUCARPIA Section Potatoes

    Look for more detials here: http://www.eapr.net/sections/breeding-and-varietal-assessment/

  • 14th Meeting of the Virology Section: Norway will host the next meeting, July 4-9, 2010. See http://www.eapr.net/sections/virology/ for more details or check out http://www.bioforsk.no/eapr2010
  • 2010 EAPR Pathology Section meeting: Carlow, Ireland, September 13-16, 2010. This three day meeting will deal with all aspects of potato pathology with a special emphasis on new threats to potato posed by changes in the behaviour of existing pests and pathogens and by new species. Deadlines: 2ndAnnouncement 29th January 2010 and Abstract submissions 14thMay 2010. See http://www.eapr.net/sections/pathology/ for more details.
  • Potato AgroPhysiology 2010, 20-24 September 2010 Nevsehir, Turkey. The 1st triennial meeting of Agronomy & Physiology Section of the European Association for Potato Research (EAPR). It is our great pleasure to invite you to the international symposium on agronomy and physiology of potato crop, which will be held in Nevsehir, Turkey from 20 to 24 September 2010. The symposium will also host the first triennial meeting of Agronomy & Physiology Section of the EAPR after joining two sections. See www.eapr-agrophysiology.org for more details.
  • Triennial Conference 2011 in Oulu, Finland. Website will be announced in due course, meanwhile feel free to check out the EAPR meetings page at http://www.eapr.net/meetings/ or look at our newsfeed http://www.eapr.net/news for more details. Section-specific meeting details can be found in the webpage of the respective EAPR Sections.

EAPR Section Meetings

For further details on meetings of EAPR Sections check out the respective Section pages at http://www.eapr.net/sections/

Previous Triennial Conferences

XVII Triennial Conference of the EAPR: July 6-10, 2008; Brasov (Romania): http://www.eapr2008-brasov.com/ In the International Year of Potato (2008), this conference was organised to be an interactive forum where scientists and potato experts can meet and share their thoughts and identify solutions for “a potato in a changing world”.