The organizing committee inviting to you for participation in the 2016 Plant and Microbe Adaptation to Cold (PMAC 16) meeting to be held from May 22 to 25, 2016 at the Motif Hotel, located in downtown Seattle, WA USA, just a few blocks from the world famous Pike Place Market and Space Needle.

This working group began in 1997 with the First International Workshop on Plant-Microbe Interactions at Low Temperature under Snow in Sapporo, Japan, and has been followed by a series of meetings held around the world and now hosting this meeting in the USA for the first time.

From the beginning, this conference has included interdisciplinary research on adaptation of plants to survival under low temperature, including prolonged snow cover, as well as plant-microbe interactions especially as they relate to snow mold diseases.

The scope of PMAC 16 will continue the tradition of interdisciplinary interaction, with the ultimate goal of information exchange to develop a better understanding of the factors influencing winter survival of plants and providing a forum for the community of scientists working on these issues.

Plenary talks will focus on what’s new with climate change since we last met in 2012, the knowledge gaps and the information we need to address the problems of winter survival and take advantage of the conditions that have become the “new normal” under a changing climate.

Date: May 22 to 25, 2016

Venue: Motif Hotel, Seattle, WA USA

Theme:
Program strive to improve global food security and agricultural sustainability, which will be impacted by climate change. Consequently, the theme of PMAC 16 will focus on how to take advantage of predicted climate change to improve agriculture for a warmer planet and increasingly unpredictable weather patterns. As this is a broad topic, Program encourage interdisciplinary participation including crop breeding, ecology, meteorology, microbiology, molecular biology, plant pathology, plant physiology, soil science and others.

Call for Abstracts: Plant and Microbe Adaptations to Cold

For Abstracts related information visit: http://cm.wsu.edu/ehome/pmac/326328/

Oral presentations for the 2016 meeting have been selected. Abstracts for poster presentations will be accepted any time before the start of the conference.

For Registration Please Visit: http://cm.wsu.edu/ehome/pmac/297384/

For Travel & Accommodations Visit: http://cm.wsu.edu/ehome/pmac/297381/

For Conference Information Contact:
WSU Conference Management
WSUConf@wsu.edu
509-335-3530
800-942-4978

For Program Information Contact:
Tim Murray
Tim.Murray@wsu.edu
509-335-7515

Source: http://cm.wsu.edu/ehome/pmac/297379/