Program

• August 26 – Day 1

• 10.00

  Welcome

• 10.10

  The history of the Nordic-Baltic network – Latvia

  Gunita Bokuma

• 10.25

  Laboratory update – Norway

  Hanne Skomedal

• 10.35

  Laboratory update – Poland

  Justyna Pięcińska

• 10.45

  Laboratory update – Denmark

  TBC

• 10.55

  Laboratory update – Finland

  Johanna Santala

• 11.05

  Laboratory update – Estonia

  Jelena Bukstunovits

• 11.15 -11.30

  Coffee break

• 11.30

  Laboratory update – Latvia

  TBC

• 11.40

  Laboratory update – Lithuania

  Silvija Pupeliene

• 11.50

  Laboratory update – Sweden

  Maria Viketoft

• 12.10

  Questions and discussion

• 12.30 - 13.30

  Lunch

• Session 1: Plant health and diagnostics

• 13.30

  Norway – HTS and findings

• 13.50

  Estonia – HTS and findings

• 14.10

  Norway – Metabarcoding

• 14.30

  Discussion

• 14.45 - 15.00

  Coffee break

• 15.00 - 16.00

  Lab tour at NIBIO

• 16.00 - 17.30

  Park tour NMBU

• 18.00

  Dinner at Ås Bistro

• August 27 – Day 2

• Session 2: Preparedness and import

• 09.00

  Norway, NIBIO/NPPO – Preparedness

• 09.20

  Panel discussion: collaboration, risks and ring tests

• 10.15 - 10.30

  Coffee break

• Session 3: Emerging and important pests

• 10.30

  Norway – Phytophthora fragariae

• 10.45

  Norway – Nematodes

• 11.00

  Norway - Strawberry aphid

• 11.15

  Discussion

• 11.30 - 12.30

  Lunch

• Session 4: Detection and Diagnostics

• 12.30

  Latvia – Experience with the detection of Ralstonia solanacearum in potatoes imported from Egypt.

• 12.50

  Lithuania – Verification of real-time PCR for the Spodoptera frugiperda pest testing in the Phytosanitary Research Laboratory (Division).

• 13.10

  Lithuania – Validation challenges and the transition from the MK1C to the MK1D ONT sequencer for Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) testing: sequencing of PCR products from genomic material, including bioinformatic analysis.

• 13.30

  Discussion

• 13.45

  Conclusions and discussion

• 14.00

  Departure