The APS Virology Committee

The Virology Committee of the American Phytopathological Society meets annually during the Annual Meeting of the Society. Here is what they will talk about.

Agenda for the APS Virology Committee Meeting

APS Virology Committee Meeting
July 29, 2006
5:30 pm- 7:00 pm
Quebec City, Quebec

Current Committee Chair: Alexander Karasev (alexander.karasev@uidaho.edu)
Immediate Past Chair: Scott Adkins (sadkins@ushrl.ars.usda.gov)
Current Vice-Chair: Rosemarie Hammond (hammondr@ba.ars.usda.gov)

Committee Members

Appointed

Serves until

Roy French	04	07
Rosemarie Hammond	04	07
Steve Hanson	04	07
Andrea Harness	04	07
Ali Idris	04	07
Dominique Robertson	04	07
William Schneider	04	07
Anthony Cole	05	08
Francisco Assis Filho	05	08
Lev Nemchinov	05	08
Nancy Robertson	05	08
Hanumantha Pappu	05	08
Rayapati Naidu	05	08
Kai-shu Ling	05	08
Marie Langham	05	08
Ruth Welliver	05	08
Gurgopal Roy	05	08
Dennis Lewandowski	05	08
Ulrich Melcher	05	08
Robert Lartey	05	08
Mary Burrows	05	08
Jorge A. Abad	05	08

Acknowledgement of members rotating off service:

Committee Members	Appointed	Serves until
Jeffery Bradshaw	03	06
Saskia Hogenhout	03	06
Scott Adkins	01	06

Old Business

Discussion and approval of the minutes from 20045 meeting held in Austin, TX.

New Business

1. What’s happened since Austin: changes in membership policy – Alex Karasev

2. I.E. Melhus graduate student symposium – Rose Hammond

3. Special sessions occurring at the Austin meeting - please support with your attendance!

Monday afternoon, July 31st at 1:30 pm-4:30 pm, Room 301A at the convention center. “New Regulatory Challenges: Rapid Changes in Taxonomy of Plant Pathogens”. Organizers: A.V. Karasev and S. Adkins
Wednesday morning, August 2nd at 8:30 am -12:00 noon, Room 301A at the convention center. “Viruses as Minimalist Pathogens: Multiplicity of Protein Functions in Pathogenesis”. Organizers: R.W. Hammond and D. Rochon

Support for Virology Committee Sessions in 2006

APS $2,500
APHIS Virus Working Group $2,000
Noble Foundation $1,500

4. Ideas for virology special sessions at the 2007 meeting in San Diego, CA, July 28-August 1

a. The following ideas were mentioned at the 2005 committee meeting or were carried over from previous years:
- 1. Microarrays and new methodologies for virus detection/rapid diagnostics
- 2. Plant virus genomics
- 3. Viral protein structure and function
- 4. Virion structure
- 5. Synergistic interactions
- 6. Gene silencing
- 7. Host resistance against virus infection
b. Dominique Robertson suggested and agreed to look into the possibility of a special session on symptomatology and virus-host interactions in plants for the next meeting in San Diego, in 2007.
c. New ideas from the floor?

5. Nomination and election of Vice-Chair to serve immediately following Austin meeting (Chair after Quebec meeting in August 2007)

6. Nomination of new committee members

7. Virology Committee Web Page - Thanks to Ulrich Melcher for continuing to maintain this website! The address is: http://viraps.okstate.edu/fVirAPSMain.html

8. Virology Student Travel Award - Congratulations to Sushma Jossey, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Charles Hagen, University of California, Davis

9. Status of Virus Collections at ATCC - Gail Wisler

10. Plant Disease Network – Gail Wisler

11. Committee recommendation on sequencing to APS Microbial Genomic Sequencing White Paper - Scott Gould

12. Other business?