The
seminar is arranged by Nordic Association of Agricultural Scientists in cooperation with
International Workshop on Plant-Microbe Interactions at Low Temperatures under Snow and
International Committee on Global Climate and Plant Environmental Stress. This is
NJF-seminar number 311.
This seminar is not only on interaction of plants and
microbes. The idea is to collect scientists interested in adaptation and survival of
plants, and scientists working on low temperature microbes. Besides discussing plants and
microbes seperatly, the interaction of organisms living near or under snow and ice in the
north and the impact of climate change on those will be evaluated. The scientific program
will be divided into four sessions:
1) Microbes
2) Plants
3) Climate change
4) Interactions (microbes – plants –
environment).
A fifth session may
be added to the program where international research programs will be discussed and
perhaps multinational projects formed.
Seminar language is
english. There are expected 70-100 participants from many countries.
Paper or poster presentation
If you are
interested in presenting a poster or paper in this meeting
(20 minutes), or if you need further information, please contact chairman Bjarni E.
Gudleifsson (see address in Newsletter head), as soon as possible. Some papers are already
on the seminar list. Please confirm your interest even if you have already proposed a
title.
Registration
The seminar is
planned to May 19-21st in year 2000. This time of year is chosen so the
participants may have the opportunity to see winter
damages in situ. The program includes a half day
trip to the Myvatn-area. Tours may be arranged for spouces during the meeting.
Registration fee DKK
2.250 (DKK 1.500 for NJF members) to be paid to NJF, Conto nr. 1199-542-4917 in BG Banken,
Giroströget 1, DK-0800 Höje Taastrup (please include your name and number of seminar
(311) with your payment). Registration before March 10th .
Tickets, hotel reservation and post seminar tour
Location: Fosshótel
KEA, Akureyri .
Preliminary prices
of hotel (one night including breakfast):
| Double room: |
IKK 7.900/person |
| Single room: |
IKK 9.500/person |
| Preliminary air ticket
prices (subject to changes): |
|
| Copenhagen - Akureyri -
Copenhagen: |
IKK 45.000 |
| New York - Akureyri - New
York: |
IKK 60.000 |
| Tokyo - Akureyri - Tokyo
(via London): |
IKK 210.000 |
| Two day guided
post-seminar tour is planned May 22-23 through western part of the country, including
Thingvellir (the old parlament site). Tour ends in Reykjavík May 23. |
| Preliminary price (including
two nights on hotel): |
IKK
25.000 |
For hotel
reservations (including other possibilities than Fosshotel KEA), reservation on
post-seminar tour, tour for spouces and air tickets please contact Nonni Travel,
Brekkugata 5, PO Box 336, IS-602 Akureyri, Iceland, Telephone: +354-461-1841. Telefax:
+354-461-1843. E-mail: nonni@nonnitravel.is
The organizing committee is
composed of:
Bjarni E. Gudleifsson, Agricultural Research Institute,
Modruvellir, Iceland (chairman)
Anne Marte Tronsmo,
Norwegian Crops Research Institute, Ås, Norway
Denis Gaudet, Research Station Lethbridge, Canada
Eva Lindvall, Svalöf
Weibull AB, Röbäksdalen, Sweden
Kurt Hjortsholm, Sejet
Plant Breeding, Horsens, Denmark
Norio Iriki,
Hokkaido, Hokkaido National Agricultural Experimental Station, Japan
Seppo Pulli, Department
of Biology, University of Turku, Finland
Tamotsu Hoshino, Hokkaido National Industrial
Research Institute, Japan
Tim Murray, Washington State University, USA
Further information:
Bjarni E. Gudleifsson (see address in Newsletter head).