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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Kæru kollegar. Ég vona að þessi póstur rati til ykkar sem flestra, en þið megið gjarnan áframsenda á þau sem þið teljið að kunni að hafa áhuga.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Eftir fjögur ár, 2019, verður „10th International Conference on Pseudomonas syringae and Related Plant Pathogens“ haldin á Akureyri. Þó enn sé rúmur tími til stefnu, þá langar mig til að spyrja ykkur hvort einhver
 ykkar séu tilbúin til að koma að skipulagningu ráðstefnunnar, þ.e. að taka sæti í Local Organizing Committee ásamt mér, Rob Jackson og Auði Sigurbjörnsdóttur? Ég á ekki von á að nefndarsetunni fylgi ýkja mikið umstang, en þarna er þó tækifæri fyrir þau ykkar
 sem vinna að rannsóknum þessu tengt að koma hugðarefnum ykkar að. International Scientific Committee verður undir forsæti Cindy Morris og verður trúlega skipuð mörgum þeim sömu og fyrir síðustu ráðstefnu sem nú er nýlokið. Sjá hér:
<a href="http://psyringae2015.es/">http://psyringae2015.es/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Líkt og yfirskriftin gefur tilefni til að ætla, þá hefur aðalfókus þessarar ráðstefnuseríu verið á plöntusýkilinn Pseudomonas syringae, en fókusinn hefur þó verið víkkaður allnokkuð og kemur til tals að breyta
 titlinum. Meðal þess sem rætt var á nýafstaðinni 9ndu ráðstefnu voru:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">Skriðhreyfingar með og án svipu og hlutverk þeirra í virulence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">Type III effectors og hlutverk þeirra í virulence
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">Dreifni og vistfræði P. syringae og annarra plöntusýkla í náttúrunni<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">Ice nucleation af völdum P. syringae og hlutverk þess í skýjamyndun og regni<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">Comparative genomics innan tegunda og á milli þeirra<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">Tegundahugtakið og hvað í því felst<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">Auk P. syringae var töluvert rætt um Acidovorax, Xanthomonas, Ralstonia, o.fl.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Mér væri ljúft að senda þeim abstract-bókina sem vilja.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Bestu kveðjur,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#A50021;mso-fareast-language:IS">Oddur Vilhelmsson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#A50021;mso-fareast-language:IS">Professor of biotechnology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#A50021;mso-fareast-language:IS">Department of Natural Resource Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#A50021;mso-fareast-language:IS"><a href="http://www.unak.is/"><span style="color:#A50021">University of Akureyri</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#A50021;mso-fareast-language:IS">Borgir vid Nordurslod, room 226<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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