ISSPDE2015 contents&courses
The objective of this International Summer School on Plant Disease Epidemiology is to offer the participants an overview of plant disease epidemiology, as a field of research as well as of practical means of disease management. The instructors have taught short courses, full-fledge curricula, and other courses in several countries.
PDFs of the courses and seminars are available at the bottom of this page
The program included the following topics:
1. Importance of plant diseases and of botanical epidemiology - Serge Savary and US Singh
2. Pathogen detection, disease measurements and sampling - Paul Esker and Odile Carisse
3. Methodology of epidemiological research: from hypothesis, to experiment, to analysis, and new hypotheses - Serge Savary
4. Temporal disease progress - Laetitia Willocquet, Serge Savary and Neil McRoberts
5. Spatial disease distribution and spread - Laetitia Willocquet, Neil McRoberts and Odile Carisse
6. Yield losses assessment and modelling - Serge Savary and Laetitia Willocquet
7. Host plant resistances, their epidemiological effects, and epidemiological phenotyping - Laetitia Willocquet and Anil Kotasthane
8. Biological control of plant diseases – epidemiological approaches - Odile Carisse, Tito Caffi, Anil Kotasthane and Serge Savary
9. Decision making and disease management - Odile Carisse, Tito Caffi and Vittorio Rossi
10. Forecasters and decision making in disease management - Neil McRoberts, Tito Caffi and Vittorio Rossi
11. Quantifying uncertainty in the outcomes of plant disease epidemics leading to crop losses and economic losses - Neil McRoberts
Forum:
12. Trends and new questions in plant disease epidemiology
Seminars:
Plant Health and Food Security
S. Savary
Use of Molecular Biology Tools in Epidemiological Research and for Disease Management
O. Carisse
Science as an Interface Between Policies and People
N. McRoberts