National Myrtle Rust Workshop
- Implications for ex situ collections

Thursday 10 March 2011

Presentations from the National Myrtle Rust Workshop
(all presentations hyperlinked)

• Overview and situation report: Kevin Cooper (I&I NSW)
  
  
• National plan and perspectives/expectations: Mikael Hirsch (DAFF)
  
  
• Taxonomic knowledge – what is it? What does it look like? Ed Liew and Brett Summerell (RBG Sydney)
  
  
• Epidemiology and life cycles; susceptibility and host range: Louise Morin (CSIRO)
  
  
• “On the ground” aspects – impact on plantations, native forests and natural ecosystems: Angus Carnegie (I&I NSW)
  
  
• Threats – scope and scale: Doug Beckers (NSW DECCW)
  
  
• Community ecology and fitness; bioclimatic predictions: Jeremy Burdon and Peter Thrall (CSIRO)
  
  
• Common protocols: reportage, hygiene, contingency plans: Bob Makinson (RBG Sydney)