Welcome!

The 20th Biennial International Plant Resistance to Insects Workshop will be held at the University Hotel, Minneapolis, MN. The meeting will begin at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 1, 2012 with registration, followed by a welcome mixer at 7:00 p.m. The workshop will conclude at noon on Wednesday, April 4, 2012.

The IPRI Workshop will be held as a joint meeting with Western Extension/Education Research Activity-066 (WERA-066): Integrated Management of Russian Wheat Aphid and other Cereal Arthropod Pests. A special WERA-066 session will be held on Wednesday afternoon.

Tentative Symposia

Creating a Dialog About Plant Resistance: Academia, Government and Industry
New Tools for Understanding Mechanisms of Plant Resistance and Insect Virulence
Student Competition- Talks on Plant Resistance Research

Tentative Speakers
Michelle Cilia – USDA
Georg Jander – Boyce Thompson
Valerie Williamson –UC Davis
Nora Lapitan – Colorado State
Steven Xu –USDA
Michael Bereman – University Washington
John King - Canadian Forest Service
Aaron Gassmann – Iowa State
Bill Hutchison - University of Minnesota
Ken Ostlie – University of Minnesota
Andy Michel - The Ohio State University
Bruce Hibbard – USDA
Private industry representatives

Breakout Sessions
On Monday and Tuesday afternoons, we will have two ‘breakout’ sessions. Meeting participants will propose topics for these small group discussions and the groups will meet for as long as they find things to talk about.

Topics for discussion might concern specific techniques (e.g. RNAi, developing markers for resistance genes) or larger questions (e.g. how best to achieve durable plant resistance?). BRING IDEAS FOR THESE SESSIONS TO THE MEETING!