Contents & Courses

The program of ISSPDE 2024 included the following topics:

1. Introduction to plant disease epidemiology - Serge Savary

2. Pathogen detection, disease measurements and sampling - Paul Esker

3. Methodology of plant disease  epidemiological research - Serge Savary

4. Temporal disease progress - Laetitia Willocquet

5. Introduction to epidemiology and R/ Tools (R-focused) for plant disease epidemiology – Paul Esker

6. An example of epidemiological reasoning – grape downy mildew - Federica Bove

7. Pathogen dispersal, disease spread, and spatial patterns of epidemics - Laetitia Willocquet

8. Use of weather data for agrometeorology and prediction of plant disease epidemics – Manjari Singh

9. Yield losses assessment and modelling: pathogens and other biological yield-reducing agents - Serge Savary

10. Epidemiology and Host plant resistance- Laetitia Willocquet

11. Incorporating disease management in models and epidemiological studies - Vittorio Rossi

12. Climate change, 2023/24 El Niño, and their consequences - Sonam Sah

13. Decision making for disease management – Neil McRoberts

14. The Global Plant Health Assessment - Serge Savary, Paul Esker, Laetitia Willocquet


Additional evening seminars were offered:

Scientific writing - Serge Savary

Additional R tools - PAul Esker


The PDFs of several courses given at the University of Pretoria are available below. PDFs of the previous Summer Schools held in 2015, and 2023, can also be downloaded from this website, on the webpage of ISPP2015, and ISPP2023 respectively.