Kim Hummer - Origin and Spread of White Pine Blister Rust

Eugene Van Arsdel - Life Cycle of White Pine Blister Rust

Det Vogler - Coevolution of Cronartium

John Muir - Assessing Potential Risks

Richard Hunt - Infectuous Episodes of Western White Pine in BC

Brian Geils - Naturalization of WPBR in New Mexico

Geral McDonald - Aeciospore geographic cross-inoculation

Session II - Moderator: Joseph Postman, USDA-ARS Plant Pathologist

Margie Luffman - Canadian Breeding Program for WPBR in Ribes

Ed Mashburn - Ribes Grower's point of view

Dale Bergdahl - Vermont Perspective

Steve McKay - Recent activity by State Legislatures

Richard Sniezko - Field Validation of Blister Rust Screening at Dorena: Early Results from 1996 Happy Camp Planting

Brian Geils/Richard Hunt - collaborative research plans

Evening Session

Poster session at OSU Alumni Center

Andrew Bower - Field Performance of Selected Full-sib Families of Western White Pine (Pinus monticola) for Resistance to White Pine Blister Rust (Cronartium ribicola) After 25 Years

Ellen Goheen - The Status of Whitebark Pine Along the Pacific Crest Trail, Umpqua National Forest

Featured Speakers:

Thursday - September 9

Session III - Moderator: Everett Hansen, OSU Plant Pathologist

Paul Zambino - Assessment of Ribes resistance

Mike Ostry - White Pine Restoration Research

Dan Barney - Ribes cultivation - Idaho perspective

Discussion in groups to develop specific recommendations

Tour NCGR facilities and Ribes collection

Friday - September 10

Tour Dorena Genetic Resource Center