The Basics: Climate Change

10.15 Start of the symposium ‘Pests and Climate Change’ 10.15 – 11.00 opening address Gerrit Hiemstra (WeerOnline): ‘Basics of climate change’ 11.00 – 11.30 keynote Erno Bouma (Plant Protection Service): ‘Weather and climate change in relation to crop protection’ 11.30 – 12.00 keynote Bart Fraaije (Rothamsted Research): ‘Re-constructing evolution of fungicide resistance and disease dynamics of cereal pathogens from crop archives’ 12.00 – 12.30 keynote Pavel Kabat (Wageningen UR, Earth System Science and Climate Change Group) 12.30 – 13.30 Lunch 13.30 – 1 .00 keynote Lindsey Norgrove (CABI Europe): ‘New challenges to crop pest management in traditional Central African agroecosystems under a changing climate’ 1 .00 – 1 .20 Yvonne Gooijer (CLM): ‘Climate change: opportunity or difficulty for farmers?’ 1 .20 – 1 . 0 Alexander van Oudenhoven (Wageningen UR, Environmental Systems Analysis Group): Climate change exacerbates the oak processionary caterpillar problem in The Netherlands 1 . 0 – 15.00 Aad Termorshuizen (Blgg): Climate change and bioinvasiveness of plant pathogens: comparing pathogens from wild and cultivated hosts in the past and the present 15.00 – 15.30 Coffee 15.30 – 15.50 Jan van der Wolf (Wageningen UR, PRI): Why is Dickeya spp. (syn. Erwinia chrysanthemi) taking over? – The ecology of a blackleg pathogen 15.50 – 16.10 Leen Moraal (Wageningen UR, Alterra): Impact of climate change on insect pests of trees 16.10 – 16.30 Cees Waalwijk (Wageningen UR, PRI): Are changes in the composition of the Fusarium Head Blight complex caused by climate change? 16.30 – 16.50 extra presentation 16.50 – 17.45 Closing reception -