WG meeting 2013 in Belvaux, Luxembourg
This meeting was held 8th - 10th October 2013 at the Centre de Recherche Public, Gabriel Lippmann, Esch/Belvaux, Luxembourg. This meeting was extremely well organized locally by Michael Eickermann and colleagues. Thank you very much for your hard work -a great job done!
In total 55 participants from 14 countries and 27 different institutions attended for the meeting. Participants originated from Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Altogether
43 papers (28 oral & 15 posters) were presented during the three days of our meeting. The nice and friendly atmosphere stimulated intense scientific exchange. Altogether we consider this as a very successful meeting.
For the first time awards for the 'best poster' and 'best young scientist presentations' were given. These awards were donated by the Center de la Recherche Publique, Gabriel Lippmann, which we gratefully acknowledge. "The Best Entomology Poster Award" was given to Henrike Hennies and Bernd Ulber, who presented work on screening for resistance to cabbage root fly. The "Best Pathology Poster Award" was adjudicated Xavier Pinochet and co-workers who presented their study on the durability of Rlm7 stem canker resistance. Alicja Gronowska, Helle Mathiasen, Riina Kaasik, Ivan Juran and Daniel Lopisso received the "Young Scientist Best Presentation Awards" .
From left to right: Joanna Kazmarek (in place of Alicija Gronowska, who unfortunately had to undergo surgery at the time of the meeting - our best wishes for recovery!), Helle Mathiasen, Riina Kaasik, Ivan Juran, Michael Eickermann (local organizer) and Daniel Lopisso.
Our conference dinner at the Wine Cellar "Bernard-Massard" at Grevenmacher was preceded by a guided tour of the winery where we learned how the wine is made using the 'traditional method'. We have never seen so many bottles (4 million bottles are leaving the cellars annually!!!), high volume tanks and stainless steel at a single location. It was extremely fascinating!
Old and new fashion to rotate bottles .
After a small wine tasting session we had a very delicious sushi-style conference dinner within the winery. A wonderful social event! Many thanks again to Michael who selected this amazing place and to the people from Bernard-Massard, who are responsible for this remarkable event which we will fondly remember!
During the meeting the Convenor successor to Birger Koopmann was elected. There were two candidates standing for election: Prof. Malgorzata Jedryczka (IGR-PAS, Poznan, Poland) was elected. She accepted the vote and is now in the primary Convenor of the Working Group for the next five years (Sam remains the co-convenor). Gosia, we are sure you will do a great job and we wish you all the best for this duty!
Finally, we successfully laid plans for organizing the next Working Group meeting. Eve Veromann agreed to take responsibility for the local organization at the University of Life Sciences in Tartu, Estonia. Thank you very much Eve! We are sure this is a fascinating venue and we will have a very interesting meeting. We like to invite all of you - and your colleagues working in this area - to participate in this meeting. Due the 14th International GCRIC Rapeseed Congress, which will be held in Canada 2015, we decided to switch the date of the meeting to October 2016, which in consequence modulates the biannual character of our meetings. However ....
... we hope to see you all in Tartu!
Sam & Birger
Participants of the meeting
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| No. | Name | Institution |
| 1 | Birger Koopmann | Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany |
| 2 | Malgorzata Jedryczka | Institute of Plant Genetics Polish Academy of Science, Poznan, Poland |
| 3 | Michael Eickermann | Centre de la Recherche Public, Gabriel Lippmann, Belvaux, Luxembourg |
| 4 | Sam Cook | Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom |
| 5 | Anne Marie Cortesero | Université de Rennes 1, UMR1349 IGEPP, Rennes, France |
| 6 | Lene Sigsgaard | University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Agriculture and Ecology, Zoology Group, Frederiksberg, Denmark |
| 7 | Caroline Kaiser | Aarhus University, Department of Agroecology, Slagelse, Denmark |
| 8 | Xavier Pinochet | CETIOM, Thiverval-Grignon, France |
| 9 | Veronika Řičařová | Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic |
| 10 | Jana Poslusna | Agritec Plant Research Ltd., Šumperk, Czech Republic |
| 11 | Pavel Ryšánek | Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic |
| 12 | Thomas Wood | National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| 13 | Friederike Enzenberg | Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany |
| 14 | Helle Mathiasen | University of Copenhagen, Faculty of lIfe Sciences, Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences, Frederiksberg, Denmark |
| 15 | Henrike Hennies | Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany |
| 16 | Claudia Daniel | Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Entomology, Frick, Switzerland |
| 17 | Heike Schäfer-Kösterke | Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany |
| 18 | Laura Riggi | Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden |
| 19 | Pavel Tóth | Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic |
| 20 | Marek Seidenglanz | Agritec Plant Research Ltd., Šumperk, Czech Republic |
| 21 | Eva Plachká | OSEVA Research and Development Ltd, Opava, Czech Republic |
| 22 | Michèle Mangen | Chambre d’Agriculture , Luxembourg |
| 23 | Deborah Kaiser | Forschungsanstalt Agroscope, Reckenholz-Tänikon ART, Zürich, Switzerland |
| 24 | Lars Egelund Olsen | The Knowledge Centre for Agriculture, Dept. of Organic Farming, Aarhus, Denmark |
| 25 | Nazanin Zamani-Noor | Julius Kühn Institute, Braunschweig, Germany |
| 26 | Joanna Kaczmarek | Institute of Plant Genetics PAS, Poznan, Poland |
| 27 | Meike Brandes | Julius Kühn Institute, Braunschweig, Germany |
| 28 | Magdalena Siebold | Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany |
| 29 | Eva Hrudova | Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic |
| 30 | Jana Mazáková | Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic |
| 31 | Eve Veromann | Estonian University of Life Sciences, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Department of Plant Protection, Tartu, Estonia |
| 32 | Gabriella Kovács | Estonian University of Life Sciences, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Department of Plant Protection, Tartu, Estonia |
| 33 | Riina Kaasik | Estonian University of Life Sciences, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Department of Plant Protection, Tartu, Estonia |
| 34 | Jacques Engel | Adminisration des Services techniques de l`Agriculture, Luxembourg |
| 35 | Tjeerd Snoeren | Nickerson-Zwaan b.v. / Limagrain, AA Made, The Netherlands |
| 36 | Jean-Pierre Jansen | Crop Protection and Ecotoxicology Unit, Life Sciences Department, Walloon Agricultural Research Centre, Gembloux, Belgium |
| 37 | Ivan Juran | University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Zoology, Zagreb, Croatia |
| 38 | Alexander Döring | Deutsche Saatveredelung AG (DSV), Lippstadt, Germany |
| 39 | Bernd Ulber | Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany |
| 40 | Mark Winter | Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany |
| 41 | Maxime Hervé | INRA, UMR1349 IGEPP, Le Rheu, France |
| 42 | Jon West | Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom |
| 43 | Céline Robert | CETIOM, Thiverval-Grignon, France |
| 44 | Daniel Lopisso | Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany |
| 45 | Günter Leis | Limagrain Verneuil Holding Ferme de l´Etang, Verneuil l´Etang, France |
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| 46 | Marco Beyer | Centre de la Recherche Public, Gabriel Lippmann, Belvaux, Luxembourg |
| 47 | Daniel Molitor | Centre de la Recherche Public, Gabriel Lippmann, Belvaux, Luxembourg |
| 48 | Simone Dohms | Julius Kühn Institute, Braunschweig, Germany |
| 49 | Neal Evans | Weather INovations Consulting LP, Stewkley, UK |
| 50 | Uchechukwu Colins Eze | Institute of Crop Management, Ibadan, Nigeria |
| 51 | Alicia Gronowska | Institute of Plant Genetics Polish Academy of Science, Poznan, Poland |
| 52 | Lucien Hoffmann | Centre de la Recherche Public, Gabriel Lippmann, Belvaux, Luxembourg |
| 53 | Khuswant Singh | Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic |
| 54 | Helge Stahlmann | Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany |
| 55 | Marc Weyland | Adminisration des Services tehniques de l`Agriculture, Luxembourg |
