SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7
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12 - 7 pm Registration at Royal Palm Plaza Resort, Campinas
7 pm Opening ceremony - Welcome by the Organization of the the XVIII IOCV Conference.
Invited speaker
.......................Elliot W. Kitajima, NAP/MEPA, ESALQ/USP, Brazil
Citrus viruses and bud-transmitted bacteria in Brazil: history and perspectives
Cocktail
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8
Plenary session
Chairperson: John Da Graça
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8:45 am Invited speaker
.....................Steve Lindow, University of California, Berkeley
.....................Genomics-enabled study of the behavior of Xylella fastidiosa in host plants and insect vectors reveals new strategies for disease control
9:45 am Population structure of Xylella fastidiosa of CVC in Sao Paulo State: from a small branch to the whole State. Helvecio Della Coletta Filho, Eleonora Bliskton, Rodrigo Almeida
10:00 am A new strategy to control citrus variegated chlorosis disease. Silvio A. Lopes, Guilherme F. Frare, Michele C. Sousa, Nelson G. Fernandes, Antonio J. Ayres
10:15 am Polyetic progress of citrus chlorosis under irrigation. Fabrício Packer Gonçalves, Eduardo S. Stuchi, Silvia A. Lourenço, Lilian Amorim
10:30 am Coffee break
11:00 am Microfluidic technology to study citrus pathogens. Paulo A. Zaini, Aline Maria da Silva
11:15 am New insights about resistance to antimicrobial compounds in a systemic plant-pathogen biofilm. Ligia S. Muranaka, Marco A. Takita, Jacqueline C. Olivato, Luciano T. Kishi, Marcos A. Machado, Alessandra Alves de Souza
11:30 am Development of a model system to study Xylella fastidiosa and host interactions. Raquel Caserta, Juarez P. Tomas, Michel Vicent, Marcos A. Machado, Marco A. Takita,
Alessandra A. de Souza
11:45 am Genomics and functional genomics of citrus huanglongbing bacterium, Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus. Yong Ping Duan, C. M. Vahling, L, J. Zhou
12:00 pm Lunch
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Plenary session
Chairperson: Pedro Moreno
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1:30 pm Invited speaker
William Dawson, CREC, University of Florida
The interactions of CTV within citrus trees
2:30 pm Transmission and movement of potencial Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) cross-protection sources in four soft citrus cultivars under greenhouse conditions. S.P. van Vuuren, J.H.J. Breytenbach
2:45 pm Double infected Mexican lime reveals interactions between Citrus tristeza virus and citrus dwarfing viroid. P. Serra, S.M. Bani Hashemian, C. Fagoaga, J. Romero-Durbán, E. Bertolini, S. Ruiz-Ruiz, M.T. Gorris, L. Peña, M. Cambra, N. Duran-Vila
3:00 pm Mild isolates of Citrus tristeza virus protect Valencia sweet orange on sour orange rootstocks agains tristeza decline. Pedro Moreno, José A. Pina, Jaime Piquer, José Guerri
3:15 pm Differential suppression of Citrus tristeza virus strains by Sun Chu Sha mandarin and Swingle citrumelo. Ziming Weng, Xiagofeng Liu, Zhou Yan, Steve M. Garnsey, Cecile J. Robertson, William O. Dawson, Zhongguo Xiong
3:30 pm Coffee break
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Plenary session
Chairperson: Gerd Walter Müller
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4:00 pm Current status of Citrus tristeza virus in Central California. R.K. Yokomi, P. Metheney, E.E. Grafton-Cardwell, J. Stewart-Leslie
4:15 pm Citrus tristeza virus in Greece - a 10 years effort (2000-2010). D. Dimou, C. Varver, K. Spanou, V. Tompras, P. Koutretsis, I. Malandraki, M. Kaponi, N. Koulis
4:30 pm Extreme genome stability of Citrus tristeza virus. Ziming Weng, Xiagofeng Liu, Siddarame Gowda, Roger A. Barthelson, David W. Galbraith, William O. Dawson, Zhongguo Xiong
4:45 pm Genetic differentiation and biology of Citrus tristeza virus population spreading in eradicative and non-eradicative areas of California. R.K. Yokomi, M. Saponari, P. Metheney, G. Vidalakis
5:00 pm Studies on citrus sudden death transmission. Pedro T. Yamamoto, Renato B. Bassanezi, Nelson Arno Wulff, Mateus A, Santos, André L. Sanches, Rodrigo S. Toloy, Nelson G. Fernandes, Antonio J. Ayres, Waldir C. Jesus Jr, Tatsuya Nagata, Francisco A. O. Tanaka, Elliot W. Kitajima, Joseph M. Bové
5:30-6:30 pm Poster
Session I (number 1 to 30)
Poster boards are provided and posters must be set up no later than 10:30 am on the first day of the conference
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9
Plenary Session
Chairperson: Moshe Bar-Joseph
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8:30 am Invited speaker
.....................Tim Gottwald, USDA-ARS/ US HRL
Epidemiology and management of citrus huanglongbing
9:30 am Local and regional disease management on huanglongbing progress. Renato B. Bassanezi, Pedro T. Yamamoto, Luiz H. Montesino, Nelson G. Fernandes, Tim R. Gottwald, Lílian Amorim, Armando Bergamin Filho
9:45 am Modelling huanglongbing (HLB) spread and eradication procedures in Brazil. Francisco F. Laranjeira, Erik R. DeSimone, Chris A. Gilligan
10:00 am Citrus huanglongbing in Cuba: Diagnostics, characterization and management. Cyrelles Collazo-Cordero, Maritza Luis-Pantoja, Raixa Llauger-Riverón, Diva do Carmo Teixeira, Sandrine Eveillard, Lochy Batista-Le Riverend, Inés Peña Bárzaga, Daylé López-Ernández, Daniel Pérez, J.R. Cueto, Joseph M. Bové
10:15 am Comparative epidemiology between ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ and ‘Candidatus Liberibacter americanus’ under screenhouse conditions. Maria Cândida G. Gasparoto, Renato B. Bassanezi, Lilian Amorim, Luiz H. Montesino, Silvia A. Lourenço, Nelson A. Wulff, Armando Bergamin Filho
10:30 am Coffe break
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Plenary session
Chairperson: Joseph M. Bové
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11:00 am Temporal progress of huanglongbing and its symptoms in two citrus areas in Cuba, Lochy Batista, Inés Peña, Maritza Luis, Cyrelis Collazo, Irina Acosta, Lester Hernández, Pedro L. Ramos, Jorge L. Leyva, Raixa Llauger, Juan C. Casín, Paulo L. Ortiz
11:15 am Inconsequential effect of nutritional treatments to control huanglongbing. T. Gottwald, M. Irey, J. Graham, B. Wood
11:30 am Epidemiological triangles of endemic, emerging and threatening vector-borne diseases of citrus in the Mediterranean region. Moshe Bar-Joseph, A. Catara
11:45 am A flexible stochastic model to test hypotheses concerning vector-transmissible citrus diseases. Erik R. DeSimone, Francisco F. Laranjeira, Franco M. Neri, Nik J. Cunniffe, Chris A. Gilligan
12:00 pm The state of california action plan for huanglongbing and its vectors: current status f the ACP detection and radication program. M.J. Luque-Williams, M. Polek
12:15 pm Survey protocols to reveal newly introduced exotic citrus pathogens: techniques to find the needle in the haystack. T. Gottwald, T. Riley, M. Irey, S. Parnell, D. Hall
12:30 pm Lunch
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Plenary session
Chairperson: João Roberto Spotti Lopes
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1:45 pm Invited speaker
......................Bryce W. Falk, University of California/ Davis
RNAi approaches for helping to control insect vectors of plant pathogens
2:45 pm Effects of soil applied and foliar-applied insecticides on Asian citrus psyllid (Diaphorina citri) feeding behavior. Rosana H. Serikawa, Daniela M. Okuma, Michael E. Rogers
3:00 pm Effect of development stage of Diaphorina citri on acqusition of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus and Ca. L. americanus. Fernanda E. do Nascimento, Helvécio Della Coletta-Filho, Arthur A. Tomaseto, Ricardo A. de Olinda, João R.S. Lopes
3:15 pm Detection of the phytoplasma associated with citrus huanglongbing symptoms in the leafhopper Scaphytopius marginelineatus. Rodrigo Neves Marques, Diva C. Teixeira, Elaine C. Martins, Ana Paula R. Leite, Pedro T. Yamamoto, André L. Sanches, João R.S. Lopes
3:30 pm Coffee break
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Plenary session
Chairperson: Georgios Vidalakis
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4:00 pm The use of alternating temperatures to produce large buds free of virus. Cecile Robertson, William O. Dawson
4:15 pm Citrus quarantine, certification, and registration programs in the USA. R.R. Krueger, R.F. Lee, J.A. Bash, G. Vidalakis
4:30 pm .... USA citrus clean plant network. G. Vidalakis, R.R. Krueger; R.F. Lee
4:45 pm Current occurrence and research status of graft-transmissible citrus diseases in P.R. China, P.R. China. Changyong Zhou; Zhongan Li
5:00 pm Direct plant tissue-print and insect squash-blot methods for large-scale detection of Candidatus Liberibacter spp. by real-time PCR with new primers. E. Bertolini, S.A. Lopes, M.P. Miranda, A. Arilla, A.J. Ayres, M.M. López, J. Bové, M. Cambra
5:30-6:30 pm Poster Session II (number 31 to 60)
Poster boards are provided and posters must be set up no later than 10:30 am on the first day of the conference
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10
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7:00 am Field Trip
6:30 pm Return to the hotel
7:00 pm Happy hour at the swimming pool area
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11
Plenary session
Chairperson: Raymond Yokomi
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8:30 am Invited speaker
.....................Colette Saillard, Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, France
.....................Spiroplasma citri-insect vector interactions
9:30 am A graft-transmitissible agent exacerbates mild incompatibility between a sweet orange scion and rough lemon rootstock. Pedro Moreno, José A. Pina, Luis Navarro, José Guerri
9:45 am Molecular characterization of viruses associated with yellow vein and vein enation disease of citrus. Siddhartha Kanrar, Mohammad Afunian, Greg Greer, Ioannis E. Tzanetakis, Georgios Vidalakis
10:00 am Evaluation of SPB-7 clone (Citrus latifolia) for resistance to lime blotch in the low lands from Costa Rica, Costa Rica. W. Villalobos, L. Moreira, L. Garita, B. Ortiz, F. Vásquez, V.H. Alfaro & R.F. Lee
10:15 am Modelling spread and control of Bahia bark scaling of citrus. Erik R. DeSimone, Francisco F. Laranjeira, Franco M. Neri, Nik J. Cunniffe, Chris A. Gilligan
10:30 am Coffee break
11:00 am Evidence for citrus tatter leaf virus seed transmisison in citrus. Justin D. Tanner, Madhurababu Kunta, John V. da Graça, Mani Skaria, Shad D. Nelson
11:15 am Transmission studies of citrus yellow vein clearing virus (CYVCV). Nüket Önelge, Serdar Satar, Medine Gök, Orhan Bozan, Muharrem Kamberoglu
11:30 am Citrus psorosis virus: insights into virus biology. Eduardo Peña, Gabriel Robles Luna, Maria Cecilia Zanek, Maria Laura Garcia
11:45 am Estimation of incidence and spatial temporal distribution of citrus stubborn disease. Raymond Yokomi, Mark Sisterson
12:00 pm Lunch
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Plenary session
Chairperson: Stephanus P. van Vuuren
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1:30 pm Invited speaker
.....................Juliana Freitas-Astúa, Embrapa Cassava and Tropical Fruits, Centro de Citricultura Sylvio Moreira, Brazil
.....................The leprosis pathosystem: interactions between host, virus and vector
2:30 pm Present situation of the citrus leprosis in Argentina and Paraguay. Sara Cáceres, Alcides Aguirre, Norma Costa, Luis Gonzales Segaña, Nelson Fariña, Juliana Freitas-Astúa, Gilberto J. Moraes, Aline D. Tassi, Elliot W. Kitajima
2:45 pm Immunofluorescence studies on the distribution of citrus leprosis virus (CiLV-C) antigen in citrus leaf lesions, Renata Faier Calegario, Elliot W. Kitajima, Renato Barbosa Salaroli, Jorge Alberto Marques Rezende, Eliane Cristina Locali-Fabris
3:00 pm Partial characterization of a virus infecting Citrus volkameriana (Ten. & Pasq.) with similarities to Citrus leprosis virus C. Michael Melzer
3:15 pm A stochastic cellular automaton model to simulate spatial patterns of citrus leprosis. Francisco F. Laranjeira, Franco M. Neri, Renato B. Bassanezi, Chris A. Gilligan
3:30 pm Coffee break
4:00 pm Business meeting of IOCV
7:30 pm Farewell dinner at Hereford´s Churrascaria. Av. Marechal Carmona, 580, Campinas.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12
Plenary session
Chairperson: Maria Laura Garcia
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9:00 am Invited speaker
......................William Dawson, CREC, University of Florida
......................The CTV vector as an alternative to protect citrus trees from HLB and other diseases
10:00 am Gene set enrichment analysis in sweet orange plants infected by Candidatus Liberibacter spp. Eliane C. Locali-Fabris, Valéria S. Mafra, Polyana K. Martins, Marcelo Ribeiro-Alves, Carolina S. Francisco, Juliana Freitas-Astúa; Luciano T. Kishi, Marcos A. Machado
10:15 am Development of an efficient genetic system for citrus tristeza virus (CTV) based on systemic infection of Nicotiana benthamiana plants. Silvia Ambrós, Susana Ruiz-Ruiz, Satyanarayana Tatineni, S. Gowda, William O. Dawson, Leandro Peña, José Guerri, Pedro Moreno
10:30 am Coffee break
11:00 am Reaction of transgenic sweet orange plants expressing with STX-IA gene to CVC and HLB. Viviani V. Marques, Thiago Z. Bagio, Vanessa H. Sugahara, Gislaine V. Souza, Luciana Grange, Luciana Meneguim, Adilson K. Kobayashi, João C. Bespalhok, Luis F. P. Pereira, Luis G. E. Vieira, Rui P. Leite Jr
11:15 am Transgenic sweet orange immune to Citrus psorosis virus. Carina A. Reyes, Agustina De Francesco, Norma Costa, Maria Ines Plata, Maria Laura Garcia
11:30 am New insights in plant response to viroid infection by differential expression analysis. Serena Rizza, José Juarez, Antonino Catara, Luis Navarro, Nuria Duran-Vila, Gema Ancillo
11:45 am Citrus leaf blotch virus: a citrus pathogen transformed in a genetic tool. María C. Vives, Jesús Agüero, José A. Pina, Luis Navarro, Pedro Moreno, José Guerri
12:00 pm Global analyses of small interfering RNAs from sour orange seedlings infected with different citrus tristeza virus genotypes. M. Saponari, A. Giampetruzzi, H. Doddapaneni, G.Loconsole, Z. Xiong, P. Saldarelli, R.K. Yokomi
12:15 pm Biological characterization of viroids isolates from northwestern Argentina. A. Figueroa Castellanos, C. Escobar Ponce de Leon, L. Foguet, and B. Stein
12:30 pm Lunch
2:00 pm Closing meeting
4:00 pm IOCV Post-conference Tour: Bus to Araraquara