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Cucurbit Calendar, 2005

MAY 3, 2005
56th International Symposium on Crop Protection
Gent, Belgium
Contact: K De Jonghe, Department of Crop Protection, University of Gent, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
  phone: +32 (9) 264 6 022
  fax: +32 (9) 264 6 238
  e-mail: Kris.DeJonghe@rug.ac.be

MAY 20–22, 2005
3rd Annual Gourd Artists Gathering
Cherokee, North Carolina
Contact: Leah Comerford
web: http://www.gourdgathering.net/

MAY 30–JUNE 1, 2005
International Seed Federation Congress
Santiago, Chile
Contact: Chemin du Reposoir 7, 1260 Nyon, Switzerland
  phone: +41 (22) 365 4420
  fax: +41 (22) 365 4421
  e-mail: isf@worldseed.org
web: http://www.worldseed.org/

JUNE 15–19, 2005
Plant Canada 2005
Canada
Contact: Mike Deyholos
  e-mail: deyholos@ualberta.ca

JULY 16–20, 2005
Plant Biology 2005
Seattle, Washington
Contact: American Society of Plant Biologists, 15501 Monona Drive, Rockville, MD 20855-2768
  phone: 301-251-0560
  fax: 301-279-2996
  e-mail: info@aspb.org
web: http://www.aspb.org/meetings/pb-2005/index.cfm

JULY 18–23, 2005
27th International Botanical Congress
Vienna, Austria
Contact: Dr Josef Greimler, Secretary General, XVII IBC 2005, Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, A-1030 Vienna, Austria
  e-mail: office@ibc2005.ac.at
web: http://www.ibc2005.ac.at

JULY 30–AUGUST 4, 2005
Annual Meeting of the American Phytopathological Society
Austin, Texas
Contact: American Phytopathological Society, 3340 Pilot Knob Road, St. Paul, MN 55121-2097
  fax: 651-454-0766
  e-mail: aps@scisoc.org
  or
Kathy Aro
  phone: 651-454-7250
  e-mail: karo@scisoc.org
web: http://www.apsnet.org/

SEPTEMBER 12–16, 2005
3rd International Symposium on Cucurbits

Townsville, North QLD, Australia
Contact: Joanna Embry, Growcom, PO Box Bundaberg Old 4670, Australia.
  phone: (61)741532555
  fax: (61)741531322
  e-mail: jembry@growcom.au

SEPTEMBER 14–17, 2005
First International Conference on Crop Wild Relative Conservation and Use

Agrigento, Sicily, Italy
Contact: Organising Secretariat
  IPGRI
  Via dei Tre Denari, 472/a
  00057 Maccarese (Fiumicino)
  Rome, Italy
phone: ++39 06 6118229
fax: ++39 06 61979661
e-mail: organising.secretariat@pgrforum.org
web: www.pgrforum.org/conference.htm

OCTOBER 3, 2005
Les Cucurbitades
Marchiennes, France
web: http://www.ot-marchiennes.fr/groupes/
Contact: Jean-Jacques Boulmont, Président of Tourism Office of Marchiennes
e-mail: jj.boulmont@cegetel.net

OCTOBER 15–16, 2005
10th Annual Texas Gourd Society Show & Sell
Palmer Events Center, Austin, Texas
Contact: Lee DeKeyser
call toll free: 866-801-2429
e-mail: flintrock@ev1.net
web: http://www.texasgourdsociety.org/TGS2005show.html

Cucurbit Calendar, 2006

MAY 29–31, 2006
International Seed Federation Congress
Santiago, Chile
Contact: International Seed Federation Congress, Chemin du Reposoir 7, 1260 Nyon, Switzerland
  phone: +41 (22) 365 4420
  fax: +41 (22) 365 4421
  e-mail: isf@worldseed.org
web: http://www.worldseed.org/

AUGUST 13–19, 2006
27th International Horticultural Congress
Seoul, Korea
web: http://horticulture.or.kr/ihc2006/default.htm

SEPTEMBER 17–21, 2006
Cucurbitaceae 2006
Grove Park Inn Resort and Spa in Asheville, North Carolina, USA
Contact: Dr. Gerald Holmes, Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7616
  phone: 919-515-9779
  e-mail: gerald_holmes@ncsu.edu
web: http://www.ncsu.edu/cucurbit2006

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