07.30 - 08.30 Breakfast

08.30 - 11.00 Morning talks: State of the art, Important gaps, Innovative ideas, Future collaboration

- A lateral flow immunoassay 'Sss AgriStrip' as a tool for specific and rapid detection of Spongospora subterranea on potato tubers (Poster)
  K. Boucheck-Mechiche

The infection process: Facts and fiction
A moderated discussion with expected outcomes
- Relative importance of seed and soil inocula
- Is zoospore release of sporeballs related toa stimulus?
- What proportion of sporeballs germinate in response to a stimulus?
- How far can zoospores swim, or are they passively carried to the host?
- How soil type affects zoospore movement?
- What attracts the zoospores to the roots? Chemotaxis?
- What soil factors encourage or inhibit infection?
- Period of optimal conditions for infection?
- The development of the pathogen once inside the root hair/cortical cell
- What conditions encourage root galling?
- What is the process of tuber infection?

10.00 Coffee break

11.00 - 12.00 Conclusions and Farewell

12.15 - 13.30 Lunch


Departure of the participants