What is included in the participant fee?

 (x) Included the day of participation
(xx) Excursion Wednesday NOK 1000,-
(xxx) Conference dinner Thursday evening NOK 1500,-

If it is not possible to pay by card, please contact us by email: eapr2024@nibio.no

EAPR 2024 - Sustainable potato production

Advances and Applications of Potato Research

Program overview:

Scientific sessions will contain both oral and poster presentations.

The program will be organised in the following sessions.
Key notes with preliminary titles are listed and sub topics indicated:

1 Breeding robust cultivars

 Keynote: Ingo Hein, UK: Renseq: a fast-track method for development of potato pests and disease resistance markers from genome sequences

• Genetics & genetic resources
• New techniques & hybrid breeding (crispr, cis/trans mm.)
• Resistance breeding
  
  

2 Improved potato health

 Keynote: May Bente Brurberg, N: Insects as vectors of pathogens

• Viral diseases
• Bacterial diseases
• Certified seed
  
  

3 Integrated pest management  

 Keynote: Alison Lees, UK: Prevention and control of late blight

• Late blight
• Fungal diseases
• Insects
• Weeds
• Disease control strategies (IPM)
• Low risk pesticides, biostimulants, endophytes
  
  

4 Improved soil health

 Keynote: Laura Grenville-Briggs, S: Perspectives of biocontrol of soil borne pathogens and their microbiome interactions in potato

• Chemical and physical factors
• Biochar
• Nematodes
• Other soilborne organisms
• Phytobiome
  
  

5 Agronomy and tuber physiology

 Keynote: Paul Struik, NL: New insight in seed tuber physiology

• Seed physiology
• Growing technique
• Desiccation
• Irrigation
  
  

 6 Precision technology in potato cultivation

 Keynote: Corne Kempenaar, NL: Towards data-driven precision crop management of potato
 Keynote: Søren Husted, DK: Next generation of more efficient fertilizers

• Variable rate applications
• Remote sensing
• Engineering
• DSS
  
  

 7 Sustainability in a changing climate  

 Keynote: Sarah Garré, B: The impact of climatic change on potato production: a focus on water management

• Drought & heat resistance
• Potato – a sustainable crop – carbon inventory
• Production systems (Integrated, organic, regenerative)
  
  

 8 Post harvest

 Keynote: Nora Olsen, US: Preserving potato qualities in stores in a future with increasing constraints

• Storage technology
• Processing
• Tuber quality
  
  

 9 Societal perspectives of potatoes

 Keynote: Monica Parker, Kenya: Potato: the smart crop for food security

• Food waste
• Consumer trends
• Health effects
• Food security
  
  

10 Connecting research to practice

 Keynote: Borghild Glorvigen, N: Success factors for transferring knowledge from science to growers
 Keynote: Ian Toth, UK: Linking science and industry

• Experiences from different countries
• Workshop

 Excursions

• 7 different whole day excursions will be offered, all with both professional anc cultural content. Please find the full presentation of the different alternatives here. Please choose your preffered excursion when you register, including our second and third preference. The alternatives are subject to change, depening on demand.

Venue

The venue for the conference is Scandic Fornebu Hotel located in Oslo, close to the Oslo fjord. The hotel can accommodate more than 300 participants and has very nice facilities for the conference. The conference has negotiated a very good price for participants staying in this hotel. Our conference will benefit, both professionally and socially, if most of the attendants choose to stay in the same hotel. Hotel booking is part of your registration for the conference. Availability is first come, first serve, do not hesitate!

The conference dinner will be offered in the fashionable Holmenkollen Park hotell, a few km from the conference hotel. This hotel and restaurant is next to the Holmenkollen national ski arena, and has a magnificent view over the city of Oslo. The price of the conference dinner includes transport by bus from and to the conference hotel. Photo: Shyamal, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Travel

The street adress of the hotel is Martin Lingesvei 2, 1364 Fornebu

From Oslo Airport Gardermoen, travel by train to Skøyen train station, and change to bus no. 31 towards Fornebu/Snarøya for 6 stops. Getting off at IT Fornebu, the walking distance to the hotel is 398 m. Your train ticket from the airport to Skøyen is also valid on the bus, cost: 118 NOK.
If you chose a taxi from Skøyen, the price on a sunday afternoon will be aproximately 180 NOK.

Google travel directions

Student support

EAPR will financially support 10 PhD students to attend the 22nd Triennial Conference EAPR2024 in Oslo.
The support will reimburse registration fee, travel and accommodation cost. Rules and instructions on how to apply.

Application deadline is 15 December 2023.

Contact

Inquieries regarding the EAPR 2024 conference may be submitted below, or directly to eapr2024@nibio.no

General information

• Abstracts may be submitted for oral or poster presentations, in English only, by e-mail to eapr24abst@nibio.no  by 15 January 2024.
• Abstract acceptance will normally be decided about 14 days after we have received the abstract.
• Decision regarding oral or poster presentations will be notified by March 2024.
• The scientific program and abstracts will be published online on the Conference and EAPR websites, submission of the abstract constitutes the Authors' consent to such publication.
  
  

Abstract submission guidelines

Before submitting your abstract, thank you for paying attention to the following guidelines:

• Your abstract (without the title and the list of authors) must not exceed 2500 characters (including spaces)
• In order to easily prepare the proceedings, we ask you to prepare your text in Times New Roman, size 12, single spaced.
• Download the abstract template and fill inn the fields (if you intend to submit two abstracts, please make two files).
• Save the abstract template as a Word file (.doc or .docx)
• Rename the file(s) inserting your last name and the number 1 and 2 (for a second abstract) (i.e Smith1_EAPR2024_abstract.doc and Smith2_EAPR2024_abstract.doc)
• Fill out the session number (1-10) from the Program, where you suggest your abstract belongs.
• Send your abstract attached to an e-mail to: eapr24abst@nibio.no, indicate in the email if you prefer to give an oral or poster presentation.