Nematology NewsletterAn Official Publication of the Society of Nematologists

From the President

Greetings!

Our annual meeting is a time to come together to share research, renew old friendships and make new friends. Towards this end, the “Meeting of the Americas” in Montréal, Canada was a brilliant success. The Local Arrangements Committee (Mario Tenuta, Benjamin Mimee, Guy Bélair, and Éléonore Tremblay) did a won-

derful job selecting the venue, food, drinks, and the eve-ning entertainment following the banquet. Being in the heart of downtown Montréal and just a mile from Old Montréal offered numerous options for group outings, which many nematologists took advantage of. This was the first joint meeting of SON and ONTA. The two Societies meshed well together, in large part, be-cause we are all passionate about nematodes and many of us have already crossed paths at one time or another. The meeting was very well attended, with 240 partici-pants. In addition to nematologists from North, Cen-tral, and South America, we had tremendous represen-tation from Asia, Africa, and Europe as well – it felt like a smaller version of the IFNS International Nematology Congress. There seems to be a lot of support for having another joint meeting with ONTA in the future.

It was a pleasure working with ONTA on the technical program for the joint meeting. Ignacio Cid del Pra-do and Alejandro Esquivel had great suggestions for symposia and invited speakers. Another benefit from the SON/ONTA collaboration was that the ONTA leadership prompted the SON leadership to question a long-standing practice. They were concerned that pay-ing the $35 abstract fee would discourage their mem-bers from submitting abstracts (ONTA does not charge a fee). After some consideration, the SON Executive Board decided to eliminate the abstract fee for the 2016 meeting and beyond. We originally started collecting

September 2016Volume 62, Issue 3Table of ContentsFrom the President - 1- 2

SON Service Awards - 3Excellence in Teaching Award - 4

ONTA Service Awards - 4ESN Meeting Report - 5

Colonial Williamsburg - 6Cambodia Trip - 7

Meetings of Interest - 7Discussion on Transformation - 8

Fellow Named - 8Best Student Papers - 9

Open Positions - 9-10Travel Awards - 11

SIP Meeting Report - 12Awards Banquet - 13

Poster Presentations - 14John Webster Award - 15

Rodriquez-Kabana Award - 15Montreal Botanical Gardens - 16-17

1st Executive Board Mtg. - 18-21 2nd Executive Board Mtg. - 22-24

Annual Mtg. Minutes - 25-27Classic Reprint - 28-33

Nematode Resources - 33Media & Cobb Foundation - 34Free Nematode Photograph - 35

Nema Trading Cards - 36-37

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an abstract fee to offset printing costs for the journal; however, now that the Journal of Nematology is online, there is a lower cost for publishing the meeting abstracts. Moreover, $10 of that $35 was going to pay a credit card transaction fee, and the fee was creating additional work for our Business Manager. In the long run, SON is better off factoring in the cost of publishing our meeting ab-stracts into our registration fees. There were 231 submitted abstracts for the joint meeting.

As President-Elects of our respective societies, Ignacio Cid del Prado and I were charged with organizing the technical program for the joint ONTA/SON meeting. Our role was primarily as coordinators of the Program; the symposia chairs do most of the work organizing their respective sessions. In SON, sug-gestions for symposia and workshops come from our standing committees (Bio-logical Control, Ecology, Graduate Student, etc.) and sometimes from individu-als. As Program Chair, I recruited symposia chairs (often these were the people who proposed the symposium). The symposium chair or co-chairs then select-ed the specific topics and speakers they wanted to present in their session. The SON Exec. Board allocated money to the Program to bring in speakers from outside the Society. I encouraged many of our symposia chairs to recruit out-side speakers because these speakers bring new ideas and perspectives to SON, and some of them even become members after seeing what an awesome group of people we are. I am grateful to the following individuals who stepped up to organize the Plenary Session, symposia, and workshops for the joint ONTA/SON meeting: Larry Duncan, Patricia Stock, Louise-Marie Dandurand, Richard Sikora, Ignacio Cid del Prado, Rosa Manzanilla-López, Zhiqiang Cheng, Ben-jamin McInnes, Martin Wubben, Billy Crow, Janete Brito, Sergei Subbotin, and Reyes Pena-Santiago. They did a fantastic job putting together interesting and timely symposia and workshops. I also appreciate all the folks who agreed to serve as chairs for the regular session. Under their direction, all the sessions ran smoothly and mostly on time. I tried to recruit mainly young nematologists to co-chair the sessions to give them more experience and greater exposure to the other members of the Society.

It was great to see such a strong presence of students at the Montreal meeting; 62 students pre-registered and 23 students received travel awards provided by Bayer, Dow AgroSciences, the N. A. Cobb Foundation, and the ONTA Foun-dation. We had two student competitions: the Oral Paper Competition was organized by SON and the Poster Competition was organized by ONTA. There were more students entering the Oral Competition than could fit into a single

2-hour session. Therefore, the Honors and Awards Committee of SON selected the 16 top students for the competition based on the abstracts. There were 40 students entering the Poster Competition with winners in five categories. SON and ONTA are fortunate to have a large group of sharp and enthusiastic students. The Graduate Student Committee Chaired by Ben McInnis organized a workshop on “Advice on Publishing and Reviewing Papers”. We also had a Graduate Stu-dent Social for the students to network with each other. I tried to interact with as many of the students as I could during the meeting, but it was difficult given their large numbers. I talked to several students whom I had not previously met: Abolfazl Hajihassani and Itumeleng Moroenyane from Canada, Jared Jensen and Augustine Beeman from Iowa, Jamie Orr from Scotland, and Bianca Barrantes Infante from Washington.

I was both happy and proud to present Greg Tylka with Fellow of the Society. In past years SON has elected two or three Fellows of the Society; however, ac-cording to our Constitution, no more than 0.4% of the living membership can be elected as Fellows of SON in a given year (perhaps we should change this part of the Constitution?). That means that we would need at least 380 members to round up to two Fellows elected in a given year. At the time the call for nomi-nations for Fellow was sent out, there were only enough SON members to elect one Fellow. Even now, after our annual meeting when membership should be at its peak, we have only 176 members. Please remember to pay your dues, remind your fellow Nematologists to pay their dues, and recruit your colleagues to join SON. Recently, two retired members of SON (George Abawi and Andy Nyczepir) requested to be approved for Emeritus Status. As an emeritus member of SON, they will no longer pay dues but will have full access to the website, will receive the Nematology Newsletter, and can attend SON meetings at the student-regis-tration rate. If you know any retired nematologists who were members of SON prior to retiring, let them know about this membership option. Emeritus status is not automatically given, but must be requested. Also, when the SON website was hacked this most recent time, we lost our contact list for current emeritus members. If you are an emeritus member, please contact someone of the Execu-tive Board and we will add you back to the list.

Your faithful servant in the realm of nematodes,

Patricia Timper

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SON Service Awards Presented

Incoming SON President Patty Timper presents Past President Byron Adams a plaque ac-knowledging his service to the Society as President from 2015-2016.

SON President Bryon Adams recognizes Treasurer Senyu Chen for his service as Treasur-er from 2013-2016.

SON President Bryon Adams recognizes Web-editor Roxana Myers for her service to the Society as Web-Editor from 2013-2016 and promises to send her a plaque stating such.

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Excellence in Teaching Nematology Award Presented to Ed Caswell-Chen Edward Caswell-Chen won the-Teaching Excellence Award. He joined the Department of Nematol-ogy at the Univesity of California, Davis in 1989. Ed earned a bache-lors and masters degree in Botany and Plant Pathology at Michigan State and a Ph.D. at the University of California, Riverside.

Dr. Caswell-Chen is an exempla-ry teacher who loves to teach and interact with his students. He is known for his enthusiasm, dedica-tion, high-quality instruction and keen interest in helping his students understand and appreciate nematol-ogy—from the undergraduate level to the graduate level and beyond.

Over the last five years, Cas-well-Chen has taught 24 undergrad-uate courses, enrolling some 2400 students. His commitment to teaching includes five years of service as associate dean of the Graduate Program, UC Office of Graduate Studies. He is a former chair of the UC Davis Department of Nematology, and the Graduate Group in Ecolo-gy.

Caswell-Chen, who considers teaching his No. 1 priority, says the classroom is “an important forum for communication with students, and an opportunity for outreach with respect to the Agricultural Experiment Station mission, especially when lecturing to undergraduates in nematology, animal biology, and science and society courses.” His students describe his courses as informative, interesting and engaging.

His teaching evaluation forms include such student comments as “Who knew nematology could be so interesting!” and “Great teacher! Loved going to class.” Caswell-Chen said his philosophy of teaching “is that to be effective, teaching must engage students by highlight-ing the relevance of course material, and instructors must capture student attention through enthusiasm and supportive stimulation of student creativity. Interaction helps students learn how to think, ask questions, and form connections among the diverse facts they learn in their courses.”

Ed Caswell-Chen is certainly worthy of the honor that the SON has bestowed on him.

ONTA Presents Awards to Outstand-ing Members

Terry Kirkpatrick is presented with the ONTA Distinguished Service Award.

Larry Duncan recieves the ONTA Apprecia-tion Award for his service to the society.

Franco Javier Ponce wins the ONTA Recog-nition for Extraordinary Sevice to Nematol-ogy Award.

Reyes Peña Santiago is given the ONTA Speical Award.

Greg Noel is honored by ONTA with a Special Award for his contributions to nematology and his service to the society.

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Participants of the 32nd Symposium of the European Society of Nematologists, August 28 - September 1, 2016, University of Minho, Campus of Gualtar. Braga, Portugal. Where’s Waldo?

The 32nd Symposium of the European Society of Nematologists met on the Gualtar Campus of the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, from August 28 to September 1, 2016. This symposium was an international forum that gathered researchers from around the world to share and discuss their findings regarding the broad and interdisciplinary field of Nematology. Scientific sessions topics included: Applications of EPN in agriculture; Biocontrol of plant parasitic nema-todes; Ecology and genetics of nematode communities; EPN biology & diversity; Intraspecific diversification and genetic structure of nematode populations; Nem-atodes as bio-indicator in terrestrial, fresh water and marine habitats; Nematode effectors including suppressors of host plant resistance; Nematode genomics and transcriptomics; Nematode systematics and taxonomy; and Molecular basis of nematode resistance. Nearly 350 nematologists from 48 countries attended the Symposium.

Report from the 32nd Meeting of the Eu-ropean Society of Nematologists

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Annual Meeting Society of Nematologists

Williamsburg, VirginiaAugust 13-16, 2017

The Society of Nematologists will meet in Co-lonial Williamsburg, Virginia in 2017 for our annual meeting. We are just beginning planning a great conference for Aug. 13-16 with a theme of “Revolutionary Research in Nematology”. The meeting kicks off with registration and a Welcome Reception on August 13, followed by three days of technical programs and closes on Wednesday, Aug. 16, with the SON Awards Banquet.

The Chair of the technical program committee is headed by Nancy Kokalis-Burelle (nancy.bu-relle@ars.usda.gov).

The local arrangement committee is headed by Jon Eisenback (jon@vt.edu), Paulo Vieira (pvie-ira@euvora.pt), and Chuck Johnson (spcdis@vt.edu). Checkout the website for Colonial Williams-burg and start planning your family vacation today: https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com

Download the app for your mobile device to see what Colonial Williamsburg has to offer: https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/plan/cw-explorer Come hear Thomas Jefferson’s thoughts on revolutionary ways of

thinking about nematodes.

Colonial WIlliamsburg, Virginia, where plant-parasitic nematodes reared their ugly heads and cause havoc for the growers atttempting to farm as it was done in the early history of our country.

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Meetings of Interest to Nematologists:

December 13, 2016: Advances in Nematology. A one day conference at the Linnean Society of London, Piccadilly, UK: http://www.aab.org.uk/images/nematology_cfp.pdf

April 10 – 14, 2017: The 8th International Scientific Seminar on Plant Health, for Cuban Agriculture Transition to Sustainability. Havana, Cuba (download a brochure about the meeting here: https://www.drop-box.com/s/ap3kkhvu8o8gmrr/The%208th%20International%20Scientif-ic%20Seminar%20on%20Plant%20Health.pdf?dl=0)http://www.inisav.cu

July 12-14, 2017: The 3rd World Conference on Parasitology, Chiga-goee, USA. http://parasitology.conferenceseries.com/america/ (If you are interested in participating as a collaborator, exhibitor, sponsor, speaker or delegate please contact: Nidhi Arora parasitologyconfer-enceseries@gmail.com).

August 5-9, 2017: Annual Meeting of the American Phytopathological Society, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

August 10 – 14, 2017: The 55th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nem-atologists, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.

August 13-17, 2017: 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Society for In-vertebrate Pathology, San Diego, California, USA.

September, 1-2, 2017: The 4th Internatinal Conference on Parasitolo-gy, Prague, Czeck Republic. http://parasitology.conferenceseries.com/america/ (If you are interested in participating as a collaborator, exhib-itor, sponsor, speaker or delegate please contact: Nidhi Arora parasitol-ogyconferenceseries@gmail.com).

September 9-13, 2018: Meeting of the European Society of Nematolo-gists in Ghent, Belgium.

Virginia Tech Nematologists Visit Cambodia

A concerned Cambodian farmer, Paulo Vieira, Jon Eisenback, and Khong Sophoan inspect roots of cassava for symptoms of damage caused by plant-parasitic nematodes.

Paulo Vieira presents and informal workshop on nematodes around the dinner table.

Your Nematology Newsletter co-editors traveled to Cam-bodia to survey vegetables in the north and rice in the south. We were shocked to find very few living organ-isms in the soil that contained few plant-parsitic nema-

todes. The soil was also absent of other protozoans and meta-zoans. We surmized that the overuse of insecticides were partly responsible for the sterile soil. We did find a few nematodes including some not previously reported for Cambodia.

In 2015, rice root nematode, Hirschmanniella mucronata was reported on rice in Cambodia in an excellent paper by Khun et. al. Our survey found very high populations of this nema-tode in the field, and we estimated that they were responsible for a significant loss in rice. We did not find any other important nematodes on rice, but heard from Mr. Khun that he had resently discovered Meloidogyne graminicola. We were expecting to find Ditylenchus angus-tus and Aphelenchoides sp., but did not.

We would like to see a demon-stration plot established to compare the differences between plots that are treated with an effective nematicide with one that is untreated.Cambodia does have at least one trained nematologist, but at present he has been as-signed to work on insect pests. He was recently rewarded with an option to teach a course in plant nematology at the Royal University for Agriculture. We wish him much success be-cause the need is great.

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Lack of a genetic transformation system has hindered plant-parasitic nematology for some time. Recently, Dr. Sebastian Eves-van den Akker based out of the John Innes Centre and the University of Dundee brought some of the greatest minds in the field together to discuss this problem. The 12 invited participants, from 6 different countries, covered a range of disciplines including experts in animal-nematode interactions and various plant-nematode patho-systems.

The aim of the workshop was to establish the first global initiative to develop a transformation system for plant-parasitic nematodes and coordinate efforts from groups around the world to deliver credible strategies for subsequent development.

The workshop comprised two days of stimulating and challenging discussions covering various topics. It commenced with a frank and open exchange of knowledge between all invitees, where delegates reported any previous success-es, and importantly, all previous failures. This clearly highlighted approaches that offer the most potential for further prog-ress. Following this was an introduction to recent technological advances (e.g. CRISPR/CAS9), and a strategy session. The final task of the workshop was to identify groups to tackle each strate-gy, based on expertise, equipment and patho-system.

These discussions were funded by a BBSRC international workshop grant and were held in parallel to the 32nd symposium of the European Society of Nematologists (Braga, Portugal). Following on, work has already begun in various groups around the world and, coupled with a renewed vigour within this recently formed consortium, the future looks bright for transforma-tion of plant-parasitic nematodes.

If you are interested in participating in the discussion of this research topic, please don't hesi-tate to contact Dr Sebastian Eves-van den Akker (s.evesvandenakker@dundee.ac.uk).

Sebastian Eves-van den Akker

Dr. Greg Tylka Named FellowDiscussion on Transformation of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes

Gregory L. Tylka was named Fellow of the Society of Nematologists for his outstanding con-tributions to plant nematology. Born and raised in a Greensburg, Pennsylvania, (Pittsburgh metro), Greg earned both the bachelors and masters degrees in Biology at the Calfornia University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from the University of Georgia in 1990. He joined the Depart-ment of Plant Pathology and Microbiology at Iowa State University, where he is a Professor in the department with research and extension duties focused on the bi-ology and management of plant-parasitic nematodes, especially the soybean cyst nematode, Heterodera gly-cines. His research involves the study of the SCN-resis-tant soybean varieties, seed treatment effects on nema-tode reproduction, and the interaction between insects and SCN. Greg serves as director of the Iowa Soybean Research Center at Iowa State where his laboratory is funded by the Iowa Soybean Association soybean check-off grants, the North Central Soybean Research Program, and the United Soybean Board. The Tylka lab has developed and implemented numerous educational programs aimed at educating soybean growers and agribusiness per-sonnel about the biology and management of soybean cyst nematodes. Greg has cooperated with the ISU extension agents and staff, other public agencies, commodity groups, and com-mercial seed and chemical companies. These high-quality educational materials have had a major impact on the recognition of the severe damage that the SCN causes to the soybean crop in Iowa and the surrounding states. Likewise, Greg Tylka has tackled many difficult research areas including the use of weeds as reservoir populations, dissemination of SCN by tillage, the affect of pH on SCN distribution, and the interaction of SCN with herbicides. Tylka has advanced the knowledge of SCN and has greatly contributed to their management tactics that have saved thousands of dollars for the soybean grower. Because of Greg Tylka’s contributions to the research, extension, and education of soybean cyst nematodes, he is certainly a worthy recipient to be named Fellow of the Society of Nematologists.

President Patty Timper presents Dr. Greg Tylka with his plaque naming him as Fellow of the Society of Nematologists.

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SON Best Student Paper - First Place PostDoc Position: University of Florida

A position is available in Dr. Johan Desaeger’s nematology lab at the University of Florida’s Gulf Coast Research and Education Center (GCREC) (Department of Entomology and Nematology) for a highly motivated PostDoc.

The GCREC is a state of the art research facility located in Wimauma, FL, pri-marily conducting research on vegetable, strawberry and ornamental crops. The focus of the nematology research at the GCREC is to study nematode biology and behavior in Florida soils, train and educate students and growers in the field of nematology, and improve nematode management options for Florida growers. The latter includes optimizing current nematode management practices, testing new

chemical and biological nematicides, evaluating cultural practices (eg. cover crops, rotations) as well as exploring potential genetical approaches.

The PostDoc position will focus on nematode man-agement in vegetables and strawberries. This will in-clude evaluating and optimizing current fumigation practices, evaluating cultural and genetical practices (cover crops, rotations, resistant cv’s) and testing new chemical and biological nematicides.

Field and lab work will be conducted at GCREC and/or in grower’s fields nearby. The PostDoc will be conducting both basic and applied research and will be ex-pected to publish both scientific articles as well as extension publications.

The candidate should have experience with nematode identification, lab tech-niques and conducting assays in greenhouse and field. Additional experience with plant pathology (lab techniques, coursework, etc.) and molecular techniques is preferred.

The position is open immediately and will remain open until a suitable candidate is found. The PostDoc will be advised by Dr. Johan Desaeger at GCREC in a newly constructed lab.

Requirements: PhD degree in nematology, fluency in English.The University of Florida houses one of the largest and most prestigious nematol-ogy programs in the world, with a wide range of expert faculty alongside a numer-ous and talented pool of nematology students.

Pay for the PostDoc is 47,500 US$/year and includes benefits. Contact Dr. Johan Desaeger at jad@ufl.edu for more information. University of Florida/IFAS is An Equal Opportunity Institution.

Nathan Redding, a Ph.D. student in the Agudelo Plant Nematology Lab in the Department of Plant Pathol-ogy at Clemson University, won first place in the SON Best Student Paper competition. Redding earned his bachelors degree at Wofford College and is currently completing a Ph.D. in Plant and Envirionmental Sciences. The title of the presenta-tion that earned him honors by the SON was “Potential role of nodula-tion genes in establishment of feed-ing sites by reniform nematode.” He used a split-root technique to identify the genes that are responsi-ble for the formation of the syncy-tium in the feeding sites of reniform nematodes. Check out the three minute presentation of his thesis onYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTtuLChjCJI.

Nathan Redding is a Ph.D. stundent in the Agudelo Plant Nematology Lab at Clemson University.

Tiffany Biaocchi is a Ph.D. student in the Dillman Lab at the Univ. of CA, Riverside.

Second Place WinnerTiffany Biaocchi, a Ph.D. student in the Dillman Lab in the Department of Nematology at the Uni-versity of California, Riverside, won second place in the Best Student Paper competion in Montreal at the Joint Meeting of the SON and ONTA. The title of her presentation was, “Entomopathogenic nematode host-seeking behavior and tempo-ral attraction to naïve and infected roots.” She found that the attractiveness of infected hosts to the infective juveniles changes over time in a species-specific way that may be based on the particular foraging strategy of the nematodes. She reported that EPNs can tell the difference between naïve and infected host which become repulsive to them.

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Wanted: Associate Scientist - NematologyAbout Syngenta As global demand for food and fuel continues to rise, we are dedicated to our purpose: Bringing plant potential to life. Syngenta is one of the world’s leading companies with more than 28,000 employees in over 90 countries. We work in a collaborative and inspiring culture where personal contribution is rewarded and growth and development are at the heart of our culture. Through our world-class science, global reach and commitment to working with our customers, we help to increase crop productivity, protect the environment and improve health and quality of life.

Job Description Syngenta is seeking an experienced Associate Nematology Scientist. We are seeking candidates with a nematology background with experience in bioassays. Candidates must have a balanced combination of experience between nematology and bioassays or plant pathology and bioas-says. This role is responsible for executing bioassays (initial focus on nematodes) at a laboratory/greenhouse level following established protocols. Actively contributing to experimental design, assessment and development of innovative bioassays in nematology and beyond (eventually also insects, disease and weed control) within the “biologicals” space, as well as for activities in AI (active ingredients) discovery and production of natural products and other origins. Generate robust (and validated) data required for stage promotions, quality control and regulatory com-pliance. Generate efficacy data on novel product candidates (depending on biologicals project focus); this also includes work for commercial products. Conduct above research and develop-ment work in support of all ongoing and new emerging projects and Syngenta biologicals market products. Accountabilities

• Executes method development; implements – conducts practical routine bioassay work for all biologicals and natural products for agricultural uses• Self-driven, independent experimental research, however, in close cooperation/coordination with team leader and other team members to meet established project and company goals• Maintains laboratory notebook and other records in accordance with scientific practice and company policy• Frequently summarizes and analyzes data, peer reviews, discusses and shares with team lead-er(s) and other researchers• Support creation and delivery value-added interface activities to Technology & Engineering groups to enable enhanced product development and commercial product support.• Run new innovative bioassays according established protocols. Qualifications Experienced Required

• Minimum 2+ years of experience working with nematodes (ideally also in other biological disci-plines (e.g. disease, insect, weed control and abiotic stress management)

• Formal scientific education (min. BSc or MSc, optional PhD with no post-doctoral experi-ence) in nematology and related subjects (biology, chemistry, etc.)• Proficient in microscopy (ID of various plant parasitic nematodes, observations of speci-mens across a range of magnifications) • Training or hands-on experience in laboratory safety and basic biological and chemical handling• Good oral and written communication skills• Ability to analyze technical issues, develop and execute solution/mitigation optionsCritical Knowledge• Excellent, solid knowledge in nematology (e.g. in command (theoretical/practical) of all state-of-the-art methodologies) together with drive/motivation to develop new methods and practical application for R&D of nematicidal biologicals and natural products• Solid skills/expertise in experimental design, analysis and presentation of data from con-ceptual to routine application phases• Thorough knowledge of statistical data analysisAdditional Information: • Ability and readiness for occasional travel (national ~10%) • All applicants must be eligible to work in the US.

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Employee may contribute to inventions, trade secrets, designs, other work product, including know-how, copyrights, software, innovations, solutions and other intellectual assets. Syngenta Contact Information

If you need assistance during the application process please contact the Service Desk at na.sta_pc_team@syngenta.com.

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Winners of Student Travel Awards

ONTA Student Travel Awards included Rugiyyih Dyrdahl-Young, Bianca Barrantes, Rebeca Ruiz, Thalita Monteiro, Clemen de Oliviera, presented by Charlie Overstreet, and Valeria Orlando. DOW Travel Awards included Jamie Orr, Lisa Valencia, Jared Jensen, Kazu-

ki Sato, and Tiffany Baiocchi (Not pictured: Kevin Schuster).

Bayer Student Travel Awards included Kate Schweri, Valeria Orlando, Julia Daum, Gideon Alake, Rugiyyih Dyrdahl-Young, Sulochana Wasala, Clemen de Oliveira, Thalita Monteiro, Arsenio Ndeve, Weimin Yuan, Whitney Brandon, Axel Elling representing Bayer, and Vanessa Solis (Not pictured: Nathan Redding and Silvia Vau).

N.A. Cobb Nematology Foundation general stu-dent travel award winners were Paul Han and Mychele da Silva (Not pictured)

Cobb Foundation Entomophilic student trav-el award winner was Francesca Stubbins.

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Report from the International Congress on Invertebrate Pathology and Microbial Control and the 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate PathologyThe International Congress on Invertebrate Pathology and Microbial Control and the 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology met in Tours, Loire Val-ley, France on July 24-28. The nematology workgroup was composed of twenty mem-bers that gathered for a group photo shown below.

Members of the Nematode Working Group that attended the 49th Annual Meeting of the Society of Invertebrate Pathology in Tours, France included: Front Row (Right to Left): David Clarke, David Shapiro-Ilan, Rob Van Tol. Back/middle row (Right to Left): Jaime Ruiz-Vega, Cathryn Hartley, Nick Waterfield, Patricia Stock, Mohamed Asaiyah, Yonggyun Kim, Lerry Lacey, Julien Chuche, Silvia Libro, Dong Woon Lee, Barton Slatko, Jon Eisenback, Nona Mikaia, Albrecht Koppenhöfer, Monique Rivera, Mary Barbercheck, Raffi Aroian.

The welcoming reception was held at the Hotel de Ville de Tours right in the center of the town. It is a grand building, both inside and out.

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Photographs of the Awards Banquet

Guy Bélair, Mario Tenuat, and Bejamin Mimee reflect back on their efforts in orga-nizing the joint meeting of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Societ of Nematologists and the 48th meeting of the Organization of Nematologists of Tropical America.

Benjamin Mimee, Mario Tenuat, and Guy Bélair pay tribute to the person re-ponsible for much of the work in organizing the meeting, Éléonore Tremblay.

Members of the labs of Guy Bélair and Benjamin Mimee, most of whom volunteered to help make the annual meeting in Montreal a huge success!

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Poster Presentations

Andressa Machado talks to Jim LaMondia about her poster en-titled, “Nematode community analyses under no-till and conven-tional tillage with different crop rotations in a long-term expini-ment in south Brazil.”

Thalita Monteiro from the University of Viçosa in Brazil stands ready to discuss her findings shown in her poster presentation entitled, “Viral infection in nematophagous fungus Pochonia chlamydosporia.”

Kevin Schuster from the Univesity of New Hamp-shire looks over a poster by Chungie Li et al. enti-tled, “Study on host-seeking behavior and chemotaxis of entomppathogenic nematodes with pluronic gel.”

Daniel Dodge from Auburn University discusses his poster entitled, “The efficacy of nematicide treated soybean varieties to reduce the impact of southern root-knot nematode,” with Martin Matute from Pulaski Tech College.

Rinu Kooliyottil from the University of Idaho pres-ents his poster entitled, “Diversity and biocontrol potential of fungi isolated from the cyst nematode, Globodera pallida.”

Aida Duarte is ready to explain her poster presentation entitled, “Characterization of effector genes from Globodera pallida in resistant and susceptible potato stands.”

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John Webster Outstanding Student Award Presentation

Rodriqo Rodriquez-Kábana Best Student Poster Award Winner

The John M. Webster Outstanding Stu-dent Award, presented by the N.A. Cobb Nematology Foundation has as it pur-pose, “To recognize a graduate student who has demonstrated outstanding accomplishments in his/her thesis work as well as other skills necessary to be a well-rounded scholar.” This year the award was presented to Abolfazl Hajihas-sani to acknowleged his scholarly work. The title of his paper was “Is the stem nematode of creeping thistle, Ditylenchus weischeri, a pest of yellow pea?” It was co-authored by Mario Tenuta and R. H. Gulden. His research on the host range of the newly described Ditylenchus weisch-eri, showed that yellow pea varieties were either poor hosts or non-hosts. Likewise common bean, chickpea, lentil,spring wheat, canola and garlic were not hosts for this nematode. Unlike D. weischeri, D. dipsaci reproduced on yellow pea, common bean, chickpea, and lentil, but not on creeping thistle, wheat, or canola.

Abolfazi Hajihassani, winner of the John Web-ster Outstanding Student Presenation Award for 2016.

The Organization of Nematologists of Tropical Amer-ic honored Rebeca Sandoval-Ruiz for her presen-tion in the competition for Best Student Paper. The title of her paper was, “Identificatión molecular de especies de Pratylenchus asociadas a cultivos agríco-las de Costa Rica.” She is from the Laboratorio de nematología-CIPROC, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro, Costa Rica and is advised by D. A. Hum-phreys. Rebeca’s research involved the identification of lesion nematodes in several important agricultural regons of Costa Rica on various ecomically signifi-cant agricultural crops including rice, pepper, sugar-cane, coffee, banana, lily, strawberry, leather leaf fern, onion, and potato. She performed PCR and squenced the D3 and 28s regions of ribosomal DNA that were compared with other sequences deposited in Gen-bank. Species of lesion that were identified included P. zeae, P. brachyurus, P. pseudocoffeae, P. gutierrezi, P. penetrans, P. crenatus, P. bolivianus, P. speijeri, and others.

Rebeca Sandoval-Ruiz, winner of the Rodrigo Rodriquez-Kabana Best Stu-dent Poster Award for 2016.

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What’s this? Didn’t you know that 4 out of 5 animals that are alive today are nematodes? Why, I have seen one insect specimen being comsumed by thousands of nematodes.

Sure, they are pretty, but not nearly as beautiful as the nem-atodes.

Horacio Lopez-Nicora, Paulo Vieira, Sebastian Eves-van Den Akker, and Paul Han stop for a picture.

Ingrid Monero from Chile and Franco Javier from Peru/Boliva

Mario Tenuta and President Byron Adams discuss how much fun it is to host the Annual Meeting of the Society of Nematol-ogists or something like that...

Sergei Subbotin, and Renato Inserra in the Montreal Botani-cal Gardens during the tour of the city

Photos from the Montreal Botanical Gardens

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Members of Benjamin Mimee’s lab take a break inside the refreshment tent

Michel Rivera and Andrea Westphal take a drink outside of the refreshment tent

Jim LaMondia and Chuck Johnson “catch-up”

Saad Hafez chilling out

Regina Carniero and others sit around the re-freshemnt tent chatting it up during the tour of Montreal

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Society of Nematologists Executive Board

55TH ANNUAL MEETING (2016)1ST EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING MINUTES

MEETING DATE: 7/17/16 LOCATION: Montreal, CanadaATTENDANCE: Byron Adams, Patty Timper, Nancy Kokalis-Burelle, Steve Thomas, Andrea Skantar, Koon-Hui Wang, Roxana Myers, Jon Eisenback, Paulo Vieira, Axel Elling, Senyu Chen. Guest: Mario TenutaExecutive Board will be referred to as EB in these minutes.

1. Announcements: President Byron Adams thanked members of the EB for coming and partici-pating throughout the year, and reminded everyone of the President’s reception Tuesday night.

SUBJECT DISCUSSION/INFORMATION ACTION/STRATEGY/ RESPONSIBLE PERSON2. Call to order President Byron Adams called the meeting to order at 8:13 am EST time, seconded by Timper. 3. Approval of agenda Andrea Skantar made a motion to approve Motion passed the agenda, Byron seconded. unanimously.

4. Motion to approve consent agenda None 5. Approval of Byron Adams moved and Motion passed minutes of Koon-Hui Wang seconded. unanimously. electronic EB meeting 6. Executive Board Reports (See written report attached) a. Past President: Steve Thomas b. President: Byron Adams c. President-Elect: Patricia Timper d. Vice-President: Nancy Kokalis-Burelle e. Secretary: Koon-Hui Wang f. Treasurer: Senyu Chen g. Editor-in-Chief, JON: Andrea Skantar h. Web Page Editor: Roxana Myers

7. Other Reports a. N. A. Cobb Foundation: Terry Niblack b. Archives: Jon Eisenback

8. Standing Committee Reports a. Biological Control- Louise-Marie Dandurand (Richard Sikora) b. Ecology – Zhiquing Cheng (No report) c. Education – Robin Giblin-Davis d. Entomophilic Nematology – Harit K. Bal e. Extension – Billy Crow f. Finance Advisory – Senyu Chen g. Graduate Students – Ben McInnes h. Honors and Awards – Inga Zasada i. Industry – Axel Elling j. Long Range Planning – Steve Thomas k. Meeting Site Selection – Nancy Kokalis-Burelle l. Membership – Ed McGawley m. Plant Resistance – Sally Stetina n. Regulatory – Steve Thomas o. Systematic Resources – Qing Yu

9. Affiliated Organizations a. AIBS (no report) b. IFNS – Axel Elling reported: Pierre Abad will be the Chair of the local arrange- ments committee for the 2020 International Congress of Nematologists (ICN) in Antibes, France. c. NSCA – Byron Adams reported: NSCA is in the process of collection of science items for museum. They will come up with a RFP next year.

10. Old Business• Budget 2015-2016 (Senyu Chen reported, refer to pg 8 in the 2016 SON Annual Report Binder). During 2015 (Jan –Dec 2015), the Society had income of $11K. SON budget is in good condition, but expenditure in 2016 might be high. Senyu Chen suggested that the trea-surer should be involved in the organizing committee for future meetings.

• Other business from the consent agenda: None

• Business office transition: (Steve Thomas) Business office transition from Rosewood to Steve Thomas has taken longer than expected. Rosewood shipped 103 copies of the back issues of Journal of Nematology (Issue 45) but never sent the business records or bank statements. Pat-ty Timper suggested distributing these issues during the SON meeting in New Mexico. Lisa Miller did not file the SON taxes in 2016 and is difficult to reach by phone or e-mail. Steve is figuring out how to get the transactions through QuickBooks. A suggestion was made to ask Terri Niblack to visit her in person in Laudeville which is close to Wooster, one hour from Columbus. Senyu Chen said that last year when he was checking if Bayer paid the annual fee, he noticed that she received the payment but failed to file it in QuickBooks. It is important to get the financial records. Steve Thomas volunteered to contact Terri Niblack to visit Lisa Mill-er. Roxana Myers said Lisa may have failed to record some multiple year dues payments by

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members. Byron Adams said he did download some member payment records and can retrieve that information. Steve Thomas planned to figure out how to restrict Lisa Miller’s future Quick-books access to the SON files.

• Journal transition to BioOne: (Byron Adams) By transitioning JON to BioOne, the Society can make money when someone downloads JON articles online. The concern is that not all SON members will have free access to the journal articles through online searches unless your insti-tute subscribes to BioOne, even though the University of Florida would still have the archive of the Journal. Patty Timper suggested that we can upload JON articles to the SON website and allow members login access. This could be a revenue source for the Society. Nancy Kokalis-Bu-relle said that the journal impact factor is steadily going up. Byron Adams: Larry Duncan had his secretary handle the Nematropica editing (ONTA model). Nancy: We should ask if Allen Press can reduce the current price. Patty: We can have a shorter version of the instructions to authors to facilitate better following of the instructions. It’s difficult to do the ONTA model that uses the traditional submission method. We need the submission platform. Nancy: Allen Press offered the cheapest rate at that time, we can narrow down the editing cost by asking the au-thors to tighten the formatting. Patty said we don’t have to go to BioOne now as we are still okay financially. Andrea Skantar reminded the EB of the promising outlook for the Society looking at the 6 Nematology job positions offered in the last two months. Senyu Chen said that there is a concern that developing countries will be unable to access the journal through BioOne. Byron agreed that this is an ethical issue. We can promote the society through the newsletter, website and social media. Paulo Viera said we should pay to get a good quality journal and to be more professional. Discussion was made on how to overcome the $17K expenditure for the journal editing costs. Editors should be stricter on authors to better follow the required format. We can revisit the submission fee but not too high like the $1500 required by PLOS One. Senyu Chen will send Andrea Skantar the invoices we recently paid Allen Press. Byron encouraged the board to think about various publication models to cut costs, but we don’t need to decide on BioOne now.

Miscellaneous: Roxana Myers asked if the “Discussion” tab on the webpage is useful and should be promoted? Andrea Skantar said people use Facebook for discussion. Jon said he has a col-lection of nematode species description that can be uploaded to the webpage. He can use the Virginia Tech website and link it to the SON webpage. Byron Adams and Roxana said they are working on setting up a member directory on the website.

11. New Business: a. New EB member coming on: Ed McGawley, web editor; Guiping Yan, EB liaison. Byron Adams thanked Roxana Myers and Paulo Viera for their great and excellent service to the Society. b. Business office transition: (Steve Thomas/Roxana Myers)

Stripe account and EFT fee impact on income – This year total online transactions were $108K but the processing fee of the Stripe payment provider cost the business office $3K. SON used to charge a processing and handling charge to cover the credit card fee, but that is not legal. Some members declined to pay this charge. Steve Thomas asked permission from EB board to not allow EFT fees to be charged to the business office. Byron Adams suggested a motion to “Use of EFT for payment of membership dues or meeting registration must cover the whole cost includ-ing bank transfer fees.”

Patty Timper made a motion “SON set a strict policy that the full amount of any transaction be received in U.S. dollars, and the payee will be responsible for any EFT fees.” Steve Thomas seconded. All in favor. Motion approved.

Membership list: Current number of paid 2016 SON members was 176. Need that for calculat-ing the Fellow and Honor awards.

c. Policy on soliciting SON donors in support of ancillary projects (addition to OPS man-ual). We need to designate an SON representative from the local arrangements committee to be the contact person to contact all potential supporters from the local area. Jon Eisenback sug-gested to designate the local arrangements chair, but concerned that it will be changed every year. This is also what SON has practiced so far. Patty Timper said it might be better that we appoint one person for this task over a 3-year period so that we will have a more experienced person in charge. A series of suggestions followed this discussion:“Appoint a liaison for the local arrangements committee to contact local industries”.Or “appoint a more senior liaison to the industry committee (that is not an ARS employee)”.Andrea Skantar suggested outlining an instructional procedure for the local arrangements committee.“Ask the Industry Committee chair to make a point of contact to be the person to contact the industries”. Some concern about a conflict of interest if we appoint someone from the Indus-try Committee. Axel Elling said it is not necessary for the Industry Committee chair to be the point of contact, but the point of contact should be from within the Industry committee. There are worries that the Industry Committee seems to be most unstable in terms of frequent changes of hire or representatives. Axel Elling suggested that perhaps someone from academia would be more stable. Byron Adams suggested that we have one member from the Extension committee be the point of contact and be part of the Industry Committee.

Thus it is suggested that we add a duty for the Extension and Industry committees to work together to solicit support for annual meetings and sustaining members: i.e. Local Arrange-ments Committee should contact the Extension and Industry Committee chairs prior to the local arrangements meeting.

Byron Adams made a motion to accept the addition of duties for the Extension and Industry Committees to work together to solicit support for annual meetings and sustaining mem-bers. Patty Timper so moved, Axel Elling seconded. All in favor. Motion passed.

Steve Thomas moved that the Local Arrangements Chair consult with the Chair of the In-dustry and Extension Committees regarding donation solicitations for the annual meeting. Axel Elling seconded. Patty Timper added that it was very good to have industrial support for the social events (e.g. food for the Graduate Student Social this year). All in favor, mo-tion passed.

Break at 10:00, resume at 10:12 am.

d. Status of needed web page tools:• Ability for committees to add content: Roxana Myers said the Committee page is set up to add in content for each committee by web editor. Need to train the new web editor how to add

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content to the webpages. • Ability to manage membership records and directory: Right now the Web Editor is answering inquiries related to membership records and meeting registration records. Roxana Myers is in the process of creating a procedures manual to allow the business office to have the access direct-ly. • Ono Web Design, the web developer, wants to charge more for individual leveraging web tools to ease the burden on the business office in general. • Discussion on what we can add to the webpage to make the business office more efficient: 1) Need to have the membership list and list of meeting participants easily downloaded; 2) Patty Timper asked if we can have a back up to prepare for future hacking. Roxana Myers said we are in a good position now and can do webpage backups; 3) Steve Thomas said the ability to download webpage info would help to transfer the infor-mation into Quickbooks. Senyu Chen said you can also download Stripe Gateway for the same purpose, but we need to figure out how to transfer it into Excel; 4) Would be good to add a new e-mail notification of new members to Newsletter editors (Jon Eisenback, Paolo Viera) and Secretary (Koon-Hui Wang) to update listserv; 5) We can add a web editor job to update listserv; 6) Ask Brent Sipes if we can make a listserv message to say if you want to change your e-mail or unsubscribe from SON Listserv please notify Koon-Hui Wang; 7) Byron Adams recommended that we task the web editor to be responsible for updating the listserv. • Roxana Myers: Most recent update on SON membership: 176 members. Byron Adams said that the old website allowed us to track members that did not pay due and notify them electronically. We used to have 700 members. Roxana said there were lots of non-members registered for the meeting this year. Byron Adams is forwarding the old list to Roxana, Steve and Newsletter edi-tors to reach out to the expired members. Some e-mail questions come into SON e-mail can be forwarded to business office or Newsletter editors. • Andrea Skantar asked to add a Twitter feed to the webpage. Roxana said she’d already informed the web developer.

e. Issues from OPS manual• Modify ops manuals (“Students may enter, but they cannot receive a first place award more than one time per degree”). Nancy Kokalis-Burelle said that it would be discouraging for stu-dents to only be allowed to win one time in the Student Presentation Competition. Patty suggest-ed striking this statement from the ops manual. Patty Timper moved that we strike the limitation on one first place award per student for student competition. Steve Thomas seconded, all in favor, motion passed. • Do we want to limit the student oral competition to one session? Comment from Steve Thom-as: “With discontinuation of the student poster competition, should there still be limits on the number of participants?” Patty Timper said we can modify this statement to be an option only. Action needed: Adams suggested assignment for Patty Timper to reword this in ops manual. • Need student committee to write a mission statement. Action needed: Axel Elling will pass the task to the Student Committee. • Change the ops manual (pg 53): Student fees are usually 50% (change from 50-60%) of the regular members’ meeting registration fees. We have consent from EB to make this change in ops manual.• Senyu Chen said we should check on how to deal with people that ask for a registration refund if they can’t attend the meeting. Pg 53 in Ops manual said this is up to the Local Arrangements

Committee to decide how much to refund if they cancel with short notice. Last year, Byron Adams responded to a member that asked for a refund to extend their registration to the following year. Senyu Chen said this is a good approach if there are only a few cancellations. If there are too many cancellations, we should make a statement in ops manual to set the rule clear. Mario Tenuta said at least a 3-week notice is needed to cancel hotel room reservations without a charge. We can use this as a guideline for the length of time to cancel the meeting registration fees. The tour is not an issue but food and drink is. Not getting Visa approval for travel is usually the reason someone cancels their registration.

Add a statement in ops manual under Local Arrangements Committee (LAC) section: “Who-ever wants to cancel their registration should notify the LAC of the cancellation one month prior to the meeting to receive a 75% refund, after that registration is not refundable, but they can apply their registration fees to next year’s meeting”.

• Pg 53: Change “Friends of Society” to “Sustaining Members”.

f. Wording on membership committee description on the webpage needs clarification. Sug-gest assigning the membership committee to rewrite and clarify. Action needed: Axel will notify Membership Committee.

Old business:

g. Inclusion of branding and logo usage statement in OPS manual. Andrea Skantar said to register SON logo as a trademark cost about $200. We need to de-scribe the logo in words and images (color, worms). There is no need for a lawyer to file a trade mark. Steve Thomas can work with Andrea. Steve Thomas moved that “The SON logo be officially trademarked”. Byron seconded. All in favor. Motion passed.

h. Resolution of numerous issues in regards to Industry participation.

We need better recognition for industries that contribute at different levels. Patty Timper sug-gested that we ask Mario Tenuta to write up a recommendation in this regard for Ops manual. Byron Adams said we also need the sustaining members to be involved. Axel Elling suggest-ed that sustaining members (contribute $500) will get a logo on the SON website, and it isn’t necessary to provide a discount for their meeting registration fee. Mario provided recognition to all the companies that contributed sponsorship to the meeting on the registration website. In addition, he also listed out which company sponsored which event. This should be written in the ops manual under LAC to remember to give recognition to each sponsor. We should ask Mario to write down his experiences and guidance for future LACs. For example, how to make a display for the sponsorship.

Change the Ops manual pg 53: Delete “small, med, and large” and change it to $500 for sus-taining members (flat rate). They will get a logo of the same size, the date must be updated. This should be renewable each year (no multiple year subscriptions) between November and January of each calendar year. The membership will last from Jan 3 to Dec 31 of each year. The chair of the Industry Committee should notify the sponsor contact to notify us of any changes to their contact information. Business office will key in the Sustaining Member list online. A customized letter will be sent by the website to ease the reminder for sustaining member dues.

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Break at 12: 15 pm, resume: 1:24 pm

(Summary of h):• Develop/clarify1. Done earlier2. Discussion made, not necessary to provide discounts or perks for their participation at annual meetings.3. Ask Mario Tenuta to provide some input.4. Define clear benefits of donation: (ask Mario to write a draft and have the Industry Committee filter it).

i. Disposition of Zazzle et al., initiative with Cobb Foundation

Andreas Skantar said some images were already uploaded to SON Zazzle account, only adver-tised on Twitter once, not much advertisement yet. Now it is set at a 5% profit for SON but this can be changed. The donation will be transferred from Zazzle to Cobb Foundation. We need to have proof that SON is a non-profit organization, a point person to send the check to, and an e-mail of the Cobb contact to be listed. Zazzle won’t send the check until we reach a threshold amount. Axel Elling: Some members from Cobb have concerns on the legitimacy of Zazzle’s sales. We can add the old t-shirt designs to Zazzle. Cobb Board would like to know more about the designs that will go into Zazzle before they are sold. Paulo Viera said that we can encourage people to donate their designs but just make sure that their credits be included. Jon Eisenback said if the pictures from NemaPix are used, instead of just crediting NemaPix, we should give credit to the original individual. More review should be done on originality before it is uploaded online. We will wait for Cobb Foundation to provide feedback on this.

Discussion on how we need to make sure SON’s and Cobb Foundation’s financial decisions are separate. Having a shared website between Cobb and SON might be a gray area. Steve Thomas quoted a tax attorney’s advice: SON cannot be perceived in any way as maintaining the Cobb Foundation.

i. Budget 2016-2017:

Senyu Chen will report more at the 2nd EB meeting. This year, most income is from membership dues, meeting income is very unpredictable. He predicted that this year we might have $42K defi-cit. Annual meeting site selection should consider our budget. Some reminders about our learn-ing experience from the Lansing’s meeting: we should avoid having a meeting tour to cut costs. However, this year we had to follow the ONTA tradition to include a meeting tour.

k. Business: Steve Thomas said there is no cost for the Business office this year, but things might change later. Until we get the website automation down, we are not sure what the cost will be. Some discussion about journal expenses being too high and how to be more sustainable. Adams said that this is something SON contributes to the society through publication of the journal. We addressed this earlier (10 d), we will figure out if the charges from Allen Press can be reduced (submission fee, tighten up formatting). Would Allen Press allow us to do page charges or submission fees? Will they charge SON for processing this payment? How would Allen Press know which manuscript is

a non-member submission?

Byron Adams asked Andrea Skantar to explore the possibility of charging a submission fee for manuscript submissions and report to EB during next e-meeting.

l. Appropriate promotion of benefits for emeritus membership

We need to let Emeritus members know about their benefits. Action: Besides putting it in the Newsletter, we can add a drop down button for emeritus status meeting registration on the website (Emeritus members would pay student rates). Should also include this information on the membership renewal form that Emeritus members pay the student rate for meeting registration. Add this to the ops manual.

Modification Ops manual Pg 63: Abstracts of members who are unable to present their paper/poster in the meeting will not be published in JON unless they have a good reason for not being able to attend. Future notices for Call for Abstracts should include this reminder.

n. Mechanisms to assist new officers with example files. We can create google drive files to share this information.

Discussion that some of committee members are not correct (Industry and Ecology commit-tees). There is a standard committee report form in the ops manual.

Byron Adams shared the business meeting agenda with EB to solicit changes needed.

12. Adjournment Axel moved, Andrea seconded to a motion to adjourn the meeting. The motion passed unanimously and the meeting was adjourned at 3:13 pm EST.

Respectfully submitted by Koon Hui Wang.

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Society of Nematologists Executive Board

55TH ANNUAL MEETING (2016)

2ND EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING MINUTES

MEETING DATE: 7/22/16 LOCATION: Montreal, CanadaATTENDANCE: Byron Adams, Patty Timper, Steve Thomas, Senyu Chen, Andrea Skantar, William (Billy) Crow, Koon-Hui Wang, Roxana Myers, Jon Eisenback, Paulo Vieira, Axel Elling. (Executive Board will be referred to as EB in this minutes).

SUBJECT DISCUSSION / INFORMATION ACTION / STRATEGY / RESPONSIBLE PERSON1. Call to order President Timper called the meeting to order at 8:05 EST time, so moved by Axel2. Approval of agenda Andrea Skantar made a motion to approve the agenda, Byron seconded. Motion passed unanimously3. EB Liaison reports from standing committees:Paulo Vieira:a. Plant Resistance to Nematodes: They plan to conduct a workshop during the meeting in Vir-ginia on “Host plant resistance in crops and cover crops”. A similar workshop was well received at the Michigan meeting. A symposium will also be planned on tolerance and resistance using Heterodera schachtii as a model. Most speakers will be from Germany.

b. Entomopathogenic Nematodes: They will organize a symposium on meta-analysis of EPN, and hopefully generate a review paper from the symposium. Harit Bal is the chair.

c. Regulatory: Janet Brito is the chair and Russ Bullock is the incoming chair. They plan to orga-nize a symposium on “Seed transmission of plant-parasitic nematodes”.

d. Extension: Travis Tavaski is the chair, Joe Noling is the chair elect. They want to collaborate with the Industry Committee to chair a session. No topic yet but they want to reach out to the graduate student committee to organize a workshop in 2018 regarding how to conduct applied research, and starting a new job. They want to coordinate with the web editor to create a webpage in SON on extension for people to contact and ask questions about special information.

e. Long Range Planning: No report.

Byron Adams reported on behalf of Nathan Schroeder (reported for Eric Ragsdale)f. Biological Control: Tesfa Mengistu will be the new vice chair. The committee plans to host a student symposium in 2018. They would like to hold a student-organized and student-led symposia for SON 2017. This will be organized partly by Ruhiyyih Dyrdahl-Young. The specif-ics will be decided later. They request funding for 1-2 students presenters.

g. Systematic resources: Tesfa Mengistu will be the new chair. Danny Humphreys-Pereira will be the vice-chair. They plan to host a symposium for SON in 2017, no details decided yet. Another activity planned is to conduct an orphan collection (different from the live culture collection the Regulatory Committee is trying to collect).

h. Membership Committee: No report.

i. Honor and Award: No report.

Axel Elling: j. Ecology: Zhiqiang Cheng is the chair. Need a roster from the committee. The committee is not sure what to do in 2017 yet. May want to host one workshop and a symposium.

k. Education: Tom Powers is the new chair. Ann MacGuidwin is the new vice chair. The com-mittee likes to recruit new members. Only 3 members so far. They plan to organize a workshop on using photoshop to make a deck of nematology cards and organize a quiz competition by reinstating the Cobb Bowl Competition. Half of the questions will come from the first deck of card sold this year by Jon Eisenback. The cards will be published in upcoming newsletters. They also want to make a list of courses taught in Nematology available for everyone through SON newsletters or website.

l. Graduate Student: New chair is Christeena Sevy from Idaho. Vice Chair is Itumeleng Mo-roenyane. Outstanding graduate students in the committee, large group and very active. Not sure what they want to do for 2017 meeting yet. One proposal is to join with Biological Con-trol Committee. They really like the social network, this year organized by ONTA. They want to do it on their own through WhatsApp Tag to coordinate roommates for meetings. They want to get together with faculty. They want to request money to set up a student social for 2017 meeting. Billy Crow, Charley Opperman, Benjamin Mimee, and Roland Perry came to their social this year. They want to have workshop on mock interviews from the academics as well as industry. They feel that they are isolated in the meeting. The PIs talked among them-selves, and the students were left alone. Billy suggested that each faculty adopt a student (not of his/her own). Other ideas: Graduate student/faculty “speed dating” at the reception. Patty Timper liked the matching idea.

m. Industry: Axel Elling is still the chair, Vice Chair is Katerina Riga. All previous members are gone but new members have been recruited. All the companies are very happy with how things are being organized during the meeting in Montreal. They hope to have more indus-try and money support in Williamsburg, VA. Patty Timper said we can get more money into workshops and symposia. Most of them like the joint symposium with the Extension Commit-tee to present new products. Their challenge is a total turnover of their committee members.

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n. Finance committee: Senyu Chen - Most issues had been reported in the Business Meeting. They discussed about the necessity to increase membership fees and the need of annual meeting profit. Local Arrangement Committee should work with the treasurer. Although some believed that the registration fee should just be expended for the meeting, the board from the last few years had decided that we need to use meeting profits to cover the cost of other SON operations. We should let the industries know that their donations will go to social, symposium or other op-erations of SON. Timper noted that although the hotel rooms for the meetings are free, the food that we order costs a lot. Axel Elling asked if we need to ask the industry members to sponsor the meeting expenses. Eisenbeck also reminded that the invited speakers can also cost a lot, and this expense comes from the program cost, not from registration. However, the more invited speakers in a meeting, the better the quality of the meeting. Ralf Sommer from Germany (part of the C. el-egans group) attended the meeting and wants to organize a session in a future SON meeting. The C. elegans group said that they want to reach out to the Nematology group. The board is excited about potential collaboration, and recommended that this be on a plenary session. Patty Timper suggested that the Cobb Foundation can organize plenary sessions in the future and invite speak-ers. This can promote publicity for the Cobb Foundation as well.

Senyu Chen: We need an official letter from President Timper to Kathy Lawrence as new SON treasurer for official business. Currently the SON bank account is still Inga Zasada’s name. So Timper’s letter to Kathy can help with the transition.

4. New EB Member: Guiping Yan (could not be here) will be incoming the EB member to replace Paulo Vieira. Timper reminded that we need to keep looking for new people to be involved in EB.

5. Old Business:

Zazzle Fundraising for Cobb Foundation: Andrea Skantar – We are in the process of selling SON merchandize online through Zazzle.com. This is an online store similar to Amazon Smile. Cobb Foundation had a discussion and reached an agreement that Cobb Foundation would like to have total control over what images will go online, avoid copy right issues, and only upload images that are more appealing to the society. Andrea or Ed McGawley will send the images to Cobb for approval before uploading. Money raised will go to Cobb Foundation. Andrea needs the EIN from Cobb Foundation. Koon-Hui Wang should send the higher resolution images from previous Cobb T-Shirts s to Andrea. Andrea said we can do away with CafePress (another online store) for now, as their quality is not good on certain items.

Andrea reminded that we should get permission to use the images for this merchandise. Espe-cially when using someone’s photographs we need to ask permission on the images created before putting it online. Jon Eisenback suggested that every product should have a source of the product. For now our store is called NemaStore, with the SON Logo, so the store is under SON.

6. New Business:

SON 2016-2017 Budget:Senyu Chen: SON has a $150K investment in a CD now, some others in mutual funds. If we are not expecting to expend too much of our saving on activities now, we should put more into long-term CDs. Inga Zasada talked to a financial advisor who thought our current investments are too

conservative. If we would take more risk, we could have higher income. Patty Timper said we had discussed this before. It is good to be conservative. We made some profit this year. However, the financial committee can look into investment options. Senyu Chen suggested we should include Inga Zasada in the exploration of financial investment options, and come back to report at the online EB meeting. Since the society is not doing well in generating in-come, Byron Adams agreed that we should think forward to develop a portfolio with a more aggressive risk fund. Timper said we move forward to include Inga Zasada in the investment exploration.

For the last two years, SON had $100K in the account. Senyu Chen predicted that this year we might have a $20-30K loss. Last year we only cut a $10K check to Hadish Melakeberhan (Local Arrangement Chair). This year we wrote the check one month before the meeting ($90K). However, there are lots of registration fees paid at the meeting. Senyu Chen said that if the budget for meeting is stable, then we can have better idea for investment. He recom-mended that SON should keep the money in the checking account until it’s more stable next year.

Last year, LAC managed the meeting finances using the university account, this year the LAC managed the money using a personal account, to avoid the overhead charge from the university. Byron Adams asked if we should think about having a SON credit card. Senyu Chen said we do have a credit card and it was offered to the LAC. Patty Timper suggested that we put a statement in ops manual: Local arrangement chair may access the SON credit card for local arrangement activities by consulting with the SON treasurer. Senyu Chen add-ed that we are already functioning in this way. Mario Tenuta is aware of the SON credit card but due to the currency exchange charges is avoiding using it. It would be easy for LAC that hosts domestic meetings to use SON credit card in the future. Jon Eisenback said the credit card would be good for paying security deposits.

Action: Byron Adams will ask for the sponsor list and write thank you letters to the sponsors.

Senyu Chen asked if we should make it official for the treasurer to be involved in local ar-rangement planning. Patty Timper said previously she asked University of Georgia for advice on the budget for the Savanah Meeting. She agreed to have a continuity of financial guidance for local arrangement.

Billy Crow moved that the Local Arrangement Committee should work with the treasurer in making local arrangement plans. Byron Adams seconded. No vote was called. No motion put forward. Patty Timper, as president, made it so. Bottom line: Be mindful of keeping the cost low while ensuring we make money from the annual meetings. However, this is stated in the Ops manual (in the budget category). This year LAC received $500 X 15 from sponsors.

Senyu Chen suggested that we should try a one year of journal subscription fee for non-members. APS is operating this way. Billy Crow agreed that this would showcase the benefits of being a member. Patty Timper said we should discuss this more during the online EB meeting to have more EB members involved. We can make a list of bullet points on what are the benefits of membership on the webpage. Bryan Adams reminded that some of the benefits of joining SON is to participate in the social media. We also want to see Ed Mc-

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Gawley’s Membership Committee report. Patty said we will start the online EB meeting in a few months.

SCN conference:

Senyu Chen reported: Greg Tylka brought to the attention of EB the opportunity for SON to participate in the upcoming Soybean Cyst Nematode (SCN) Conference organized by American Phytopathology Society (APS) to be held at Coral Gables, FL on Dec 13-15, 2016. This conference is initiated and put together by APS. Should SON be a sponsor this meeting? APS will not pro-vide any financial support as this is not part of the Annual meeting of APS. Last SCN conference took place in 2008.

Break 9:40 to 9:51 am

Should EB have control over the webpage: Byron Adams will e-mail newly appointed web editor, Ed McGawley, about the need for a professional image of SON on our webpage. Patty Timper said that if the education committee wants to have a subpage or folder (with humor images) that would be alright. EB reached a common agreement that we will have Roxana Myers (current Web editor) make guidelines on how to maintain the SON website.

(Continue discussion on SCN Conference)

Senyu Chen: Can we asked the Industry Committee or the Extension Committee to support SCN Conference organized by APS in December 2016. Greg Tylka is involved and asked if SON can publish the abstracts from this SCN Conference. Patty Timper said we should ask an abstract fee ($50/abstract). If SON sponsors the conference, then SON will provide $2000-$3000 and we will post the SON logo. There is a registration fee for the conference. Axel Elling asked that we should get more information from SCN conference organizers, and ask them to contact Extension or Industry Committees of SON as well.

Patty Timper asked that we make a motion about whether we want to accept the publication of abstracts from SCN Conference in JON. Billy Crow moved to accept the publication of abstracts from SCN Conference in JON for $50 per abstract. Byron Adams seconded. Discussion on whether they want a long abstract in proceeding style much like the 2008 SCN Conference’s pro-ceeding style or the short abstract format. If it is a long version, we can publish it in a special is-sue, with each abstract 3-4 pages long for invited speakers. Alternatively, we charge $50 for short abstract, but higher cost for the special issue. It is then suggested that we put this off until the EB online meeting. The Editorial Board will decide how much to charge, or let the SCN conference organizers negotiate with SON Editorial Board. All in favor, motion moved.

Discussion on “How much does SON want to sponsor the SCN Conference.” Senyu Chen said the organizer of SCN Conference will invite the speakers. We need the SCN Conference organizer to send a formal proposal to SON President (Patty Timper) with more detailed information. The EB will then decide online. Billy Crow will update Andrea Skantar on this issue. It is not SON’s responsibility to request sponsorship from the industries for SCN Conference as this conference is initiated by Monsanto and Syngenta.

Newsletter: Jon Eisenback and Paulo Vieira will rotate to attend EB meeting.

Adjournment Jon Eisenback moved, Axel Elling seconded, to a motion to adjourn the meet-ing. The motion passed unanimously and the meeting was adjourned at 10:21 am EST. Motion passed unanimously.

Respectfully submitted by Koon Hui Wang.

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SOCIETY OF NEMATOLOGISTS 55TH ANNUAL MEETING (2016)

BUSSSINESS MEETING MINUTES

MEETING DATE: 7/21/16 LOCATION: Montreal, CanadaExecutive Board will be referred to as EB in this minutes.

SUBJECT DISCUSSION / INFORMATION ACTION / STRATEGY /RESPONSIBLE PERSON

1. Call to order President Adams called the meeting to order at 3:31 pm EST time 2. Appointment of Parliamentarian Jon Eisenback 3. Approval of agenda A motion to approve the agenda was The motion passed. made by Billy Crow, Ernest Bernard seconded, all in favor. 4. Approval of minutes A motion to approve minutes from the 54th Annual Meeting held in Lansing, MI was made by Patricia Timper, Andrea Skantar seconded, all in favor. The motion passed. 5. Passing of Members: President Adams acknowledged the passing of several members in the past year. In addition, he dedicated the meeting to two founding members George Fassuliotis and Bill Mountain. A moment of silence was observed for George Fassuliotis, Bill Mountain and Raymond Rebois.

6. Executive Board Reports: Written reports will be published on the SON website. a) President – Byron Adams: We eliminated our old business office that lasted for 4-5 years. We like to thank Steve Thomas for agreeing to take over the interim office for a year or so. He will provide his experience to run the business office for future officers. b) President-Elect – Patricia Timper: There are a total of 255 abstracts received for this meeting. Thanks ONTA and all the symposium organizers in helping to put the program togeth-er. c) Vice-President – Nancy Kokalis-Burelle: Recruitment for 2018 meeting locations was made. Steve Thomas had proposed a potential location. For more details, look for the written report to be posted online. d) Past-President – Steve Thomas: nothing to add. e) Secretary – Koon-Hui Wang: nothing to add. f) Treasurer – Senyu Chen: Last year total income was $151K; amount spent was $139K, with a net income of slightly over $11K. The main sources of income were the membership dues ($23K) and the annual meeting profit ($21K, which is a great income). Our Wells Fargo invest-ment yielded $5,868 in 2015. Our major expense is publication of the Journal ($11,675). The business office expenses were $24,688. Our last year finances were in good condition, but we need to think about how to pay the journal expense.

g)Editor-in-Chief – Andrea Skantar: The Journal is currently on schedule. Journal Im-pact Factor = 1.333. There were lots of manuscript rejections due to failure to follow the jour-nal format. Editorial board will be revising the journal format. If you would like to provide input, please contact Andrea Skantar. We are considering adding DOI links to manuscripts accepted for publication and possibly adding a new category on Genome Sequencing to the journal. Please volunteer to be journal editor and respond to the revision request.

7. Web Page Editor – Roxana Myers: The new SON webpage is more secure and easier to add new content. We aim to make it easier for SON Business office to operate.

8. Other Reports: Written reports will be published on the SON website. a) N. A. Cobb Foundation – Terry Niblack, President: nothing to add. b) Archivist – Jon Eisenback: Nothing to add. Please send anything that needs to be ar-chived in the SON Museum to Jon Eisenback. Howard Ferris asked how to access the archive. Eisenback: Iowa State Library and 103 Hall in Virginia Tech are two locations of SON Muse-um. Currently there is not much in the collection. If interested, please contact Jon Eisenback and Greg Tylka. Tylka said just let him know he can take you to the 4th floor of the library in Iowa State University. c) American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) – Pete Masler: Available on the poster session during this meeting. The theme since July 2015 is activism and advocacy. International Federation of Nematology Societies (IFNS) – Larry Duncan: The 2020 Interna-tional Congress of Nematologists (ICN) will take place in Antibes, France. The Local Arrange-ments chair is Pierre Abad. Duncan showed a video on Sophia-Antipolis. The meeting will be on May 3-8, 2020. This is about the most centrally located place throughout the world. Hotel costs 37-100 EURO per night including breakfast. Registration will be 450 EURO. IFNS is working on getting subsidies for 100 students traveling to the meeting from developing coun-tries. Byron Adams thanks Duncan for his hard work in selecting the meeting site despite the fact that SON original proposal for ICN in Cuba didn’t go through. d) National Scientific Collections Alliance (NSCA) -- Byron Adams: NCSA has ceased collecting biological items until a new funding source is found.

9. Standing Committee Reports: Written reports will be published on the SON website. a) Biological Control of Nematodes – Louise-Marie Dandurand (no additional report) b) Ecology – Zhiqiang Cheng (no report, not present) c) Education – Robin Giblin-Davis – Tom Powers is the chair, Ann McGuidwin is the new vice chair. Jon Eisenback has decks of card for sale at the meeting. A printable version is available in the latest issue of the SON Newsletter. The committee is planning on hosting a Cobb Bowl jeopardy game during the 2017 meeting. The questions for the jeopardy game will be derived from information on the cards. Next year the committee will solicit new card designs from SON members. They also discussed uploading educational materials to SON website. Please see more details on the committee written report. The 2016 workshop taught members how to build a $10 microscope. Presently they have a newer version that costs only $4 / microscope. d) Entomophilic Nematology – Harit-Bal (not present). e) Extension – Billy Crow: The committee plans to organize a symposium. They also want to put together an Extension page in the SON website with a list of specialists by crop. Crow will be looking for members that are willing to be listed. f) Finance Advisory – Senyu Chen: Please refer to details in the written report. The

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committee is trying to balance the financial conditions of SON. The journal generates no income. We talked about increasing membership fees last year and this year but it was not accepted. A manuscript submission fee was being discussed. Phil Roberts strongly suggested the society charge a moderate fee for publication. Some journals charge $1500 for open access publication, being completely free is irrational. Byron Adams said that EB had extensively discussed the open access charge, but had ethical issue concerns. It will not be easily accessible for developing coun-tries. If we can subsidize journal publication cost by something else, EB see that as an alternative. EB is looking for ways to reduce publication costs. We also tried to see if we can generate income from other source. Hadish Melakaberhan raised the idea of the open access journal model again. Tom Powers said it is about $800-900 for a 40-page (Word document page) publication. Ernest Bernard supported to go with the open access model. Saad Hafez asked if we can use the meeting registration fees to cover the journal costs. Senyu Chen explained that this year we increased the registration fee by $25 and dropped the abstract fee to reduce the business office workload and also address the concerns of ONTA about students not being able to pay abstract fees. Hafez said a few years ago the registration fee went into SON operation expenses. Senyu Chen reemphasized the need of engaging the SON treasurer in future local arrangements for meetings to decide on the cost and expenses. It is the attempt of the society to make money from the meeting registra-tion to support its operation. Mario Tenuta said that he disagreed to use meeting registration fees to cover the society costs, and that we should use membership fee to cover society’s operational costs. We have some Sustaining Members from Industry to cover some of these costs instead of using meeting registration fees to pay for Journal of Nematology. Byron Adams said that all the contributions from Sustaining Members are going into SON operations. Hadish Melakaberhan again said that we should charge publication fee. Adams said we are charging non-member publi-cation fees in JON. Larry Duncan mentioned that for ONTA, they hire their secretary to prepare PDF for publication. That helps them reduce journal publication costs to $3,000 per year. Nancy Kokalis-Burelle explained that part of the cost to publish JON goes to PeerTracks, not just print-ing in PDF. g) Graduate Student – Benjamin McInnes –Not present. Byron Adams said the Graduate Student Committee is a very active group. h) Honors and Awards – Inga Zasada – A total of 45 students participated in this year’s student competition. The committee distributed 10 Bayer, 6 Dow, and 3 Cobb Foundation Stu-dent Travel Awards. Additionally, the committee evaluated 25 abstracts and narrowed the field to 16 for the Student Oral Competition. Among the SON Fellow, Syngenta, and Teaching of Excel-lence awards, only one nomination was received last year. Zasada encouraged members to nomi-nate individuals for various awards in SON. i)Industry – Axel Elling – The committee is trying to get more Industry members. He thanked Mario Tenuta for getting many local supporters. They plan on working with Graduate Student Committee in 2017 to develop a career development session; and will collaborate with the Extension Committee next year. j) Long Range Planning – Steve Thomas -- Financial sustainability and membership num-bers are two issues the committee is focused on. Membership is at a point that can only nominate 0.7 of a fellow. Steve reminded the emeritus members to renew their membership for free. This would increase SON membership. We have 176 members now, down from last year. Byron Ad-ams said that this could be due to the rebuilding of the website. Hope to see an increase in mem-bership next year as more would attend the meeting. Billy Crow asked “What are some plans to recruit members or reach out to a wider audience?” The committee is working on this. k)Meeting Site Selection – Nancy Kokalis-Burelle: 2017 SON meeting will take place in Williamsburg, VA. The Local Arrangements Committee is chaired by Jon Eisenback. She also

solicited interest in hosting the 2018 Annual Meeting. Steve Thomas had agreed to make a presentation to host the 2018 meeting in Albuquerque, NM. l) Membership – Ed McGawley: Last two year no one showed up to the Membership Committee meeting, probably due to overlapping in meeting schedules. We need to have more members to participate in this committee. Byron Adams said that we have a list of past membership that didn’t register this year and can contact these members. Billy Crow raised the issue that sometimes the website showed a different record of membership payment than his own record. Byron Adams said that the new website does have an issue with the ability to track multiple-year membership payments. Ernest Bernard suggested that we adopt “Every member get a member campaign” promoted by Don Schmitt few years ago by recruiting members from outside of nematology. There are more people interested in nematology out-side of our society. Our faculty should encourage students working in their labs to become SON members. Hadish Melakaberhan added that SON has a lot of interest in Ecology. We can recruit other Ecologists to be members of the Society. John Webster agreed that we want scientists from other disciplines to join SON. m) Plant Resistance – Salliana Stetina/Andrea Westphal: The committee will organize a workshop on “Nematology 101: Nematode Resistance and its Use” and a symposium on “Tolerance and Resistance against Nematodes”. n) Regulatory – Steve Thomas: This year the committee successfully presented a workshop organized by Janet Brito. They plan on organizing a symposium on “Plant diseases transmitted by nematodes” next year. The committee also wants to review the list of Widely Distributed Nematode by States. If you are asked to provide a list, please respond for your state. Russ Bullock added that PPQ is asked to compile a list of root-knot and cyst nematode collections to collaborate with the European Scientists. PPQ office will be in touch with rep-resentative Nematologists in the country. o) Systematic Resources – Qing Yu: The committee is working on compiling an Or-phanage Collection inventory, and planning another Nematode Systematic symposium for next year.

10. Old Business a) 56th Annual SON meeting - Jon Eisenback: The 56th Annual SON meeting will be held on Aug 13-17, 2017, right after the ONTA and APS meetings. The Wednesday tour is optional and we will have a banquet on Thursday. The weather at that time will be very hot. Jon presented a power point and video on things to visit and see in Williamsburg, and antici-pated that this will be a very memorable meeting for SON! b) Reinstatement of NNL: Jon Eisenback said that NNL is published quarterly on-line now and is not limited to black and white pictures, with no page limit. He encouraged all members to submit materials to NNL. Roland Perry asked us to make an announcement about the 2017 SON meeting in the European Society of Nematologists’ newsletter, and to recruit SON members from the European Society of Nematologists. c) New web page: (reported earlier).

11. Recognition of Support for 55th Annual Meeting: Byron Adams asked all attendees from Industry to stand up and they received a round of applause from SON members. He thanked Mario Tenuta for arranging a successful meeting, and thanked the Canadian industry spon-sors as well as:a. Bayer Crop Science b. Dow AgroScience

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c. Syngenta d. Marrone e. The Nathan A. Cobb Nematology Foundationf. Canadian Industry Sponsors:• Alberta Pulse• Saskatchewan Pulse Growers• Western Grains Research Foundation• Syngenta Canada• La Coop Federee• Pulse Soybean Growers• Grain Farmers of Ontario• Bayer: Science for Better Life|Canada• McCain• NorthStar Genetics

12. New Meeting Site proposed for 2018: Steve Thomas made a pledge to propose a meeting for 2018 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Potential dates are July 8-11, or July 21-25, 2018. He is look-ing into the option between the MSU-type meetings that includes meals at a slightly higher regis-tration fee or keeping the registration fee low. Byron Adams suggested that we not bundle it if the meeting site has easy access to food outside of the meeting location. Timper said that sometimes by signing up for a food plan with the hotel, you can cut costs on hotel room prices or conference room prices. Joe Noling said that you can prearrange for expedited lunches. Roland Perry: Fund-ing is available for registration but not for meals, so bundling or including meals is attractive to students. Steve Thomas said that we will form a committee to plan this. The Hyatt Regency might be the location of this meeting. Weed Science Society just hosted a meeting at the Hyatt with $350 registration fee. Reasonable price, one at old town (South Western venue hotel, plenty opportuni-ties to outdoor activities, potential host a reception at the botanical garden or aquarium which is well known for jelly fish exhibition, Biopark, desert, tourist friendly), next to down town. Look at July 13, 2016 e-mail from Steve through SON listserv for more detail.

No other proposals were received for new meeting site.

Motion: James Kotcon moved to accept the bid by Steve Thomas to host the 2018 SON meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, seconded by Axel Eilling. All in favor, motion passed unanimously.

Byron Adams reminded the members that in the 2015 meeting, we agreed that the SON meeting is a revenue generating event for the society. 13. Recognition of Service to SON: a. Secretary – Senyu Chen: Byron Adams applauded Senyu Chen for helping the society to tran-sition from having an external business office to not having one. This is a great contribution to SON. b. Web Editor – Roxana Myers: Adams thanked Roxana Myers profusely for helping SON to re-build the SON website. Roxana Myers thanked Ed McGawley for willingly taking over. c. Local Arrangements Committee Chair – Mario Tenuta: Adams thanked Mario for arranging a successful meeting. Mario thanked Benjamin Mimee for running the local arrangements and all the students and technicians that help on different events during the meeting.d. Journal of Nematology Editors whose 3-year term ended in 31 December 2015 were greatly

appreciated and recognized for their efforts —• Andreas Westphal• Inga Zasada• Sally Stetina• Abigail Walter• Jyotsna Sharma• Billy Crow14. Installation of Officersa. Treasurer – Kathy Lawrence: not presenceb. Vice-President – Billy Crow c. President-Elect – Nancy Kokalis-Burelled. President – Patricia Timper

First order of business, Patty Timper presented a plaque to thank Byron Adams for his excel-lent service.

15. Adjournment - Jon Eisenback so moved, James Kotcon seconded to a motion to adjourn the meeting. The meeting was adjourned at 5:03 pm EST. The motion passed unanimously.

Respectfully submitted by Koon Hui Wang.

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Officers

Society of NematologistsPresident: Patty TimperPresident Elect: Nancy Kokalis-BurelleVice President: Billy CrowPast-President: Byron AdamsSecretary: Koon-Hui WangTreasurer: Kathy LawrenceExecutive Members: Axel Elling, Eric Ragsdale, and Guiping YanEditor-In-Chief: Andrea SkantarWebsite Editor: Roxana MyersNewsletter Editors: Jon Eisenback, Paulo Vieira

N. A. Cobb Nematology Foundation

Chair: Richard F. DavisVice Chair: Nathan E. SchroederSecretary: Janete BritoTreasurer: Axel ElllingMembers: Patricia Timper, Byron Adams, Senyu Chen, Koon-Hui Wang

We wish to express our gratitude to the following companies who support our society and contribute to its continued growth:

Dear Nematology Newsletter Readers and SON members: Since students are the future of our discipline, please consider supporting the Nathan A. Cobb Nematology Foundation: http://www.crec.ifas.ufl.edu/societies/nacobb/projects.shtml. The foun-dation’s primary purpose is to raise money to provide travel for students to scientific meetings. Please make a generous contribution to the Foundation with your tax-deductible contribution when you renew your SON membership at http://www.nematologists.org/products/.

The SON website is up and running and available for you to renew your membership dues for 2016. It is not too early to renew your dues for 2017! If you are not a member please consider join-ing our society online and pay your dues as soon as possible.

You can now generate donations to the Nathan A. Cobb Nematology Foundation every time you make a purchase through Amazon.com. It won’t cost you anything! Amazon has created the AmazonSmile Foundation to support 501(c)3 organizations, and, when you shop at AmazonSmile, they will donate 0.5% of the purchase price to the Nathan A. Cobb Nematology Foundation. Please bookmark the link http://smile.amazon.com/ (select Nathan A. Cobb Nematology Foundation) and support the future of nematology every time you shop at Amazon. Jon Eisenback and Paulo Vieira, Editors — Nematology Newsletter

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