About ICPVE

The International Committee for Plant Virus Epidemiology (ICPVE) is a subject committee of the International Society for Plant Pathology (ISPP). The ISPP was founded in 1968 in the United Kingdom, for worldwide development of plant pathology. The ISPP sponsors International Congress of Plant Pathology, and International Meetings of its Subject Committees.

ICPVE, was started as an initiative of Prof. Mike Thresh (NRI, University of Greenwich, UK) at the Third ISPP Congress held in Munich, Germany in 1978, when he was one of the UK representatives on the ISPP Council. This led to the first Plant Virus Epidemiology Symposium at Oxford, UK in 1981 with financial support from the Association of Applied Biologists and the Federation of British Plant Pathologists (now the British Society of Plant Pathology). Since formation, the ICPVE has conducted twelve International Symposia in different parts of the world.

List of IPVE Symposia Series:

1. UK, Oxford, 28 - 31 July 1981

2. Australia, Corowa, 25 - 27 August 1983

3. USA, Orlando, 6 - 8 August 1986

4. France, Montpellier, 1 - 5 September 1989

5. Italy, Valenzano (Bari), 27-31 July 1992

6. Israel, Jerusalem, 23 - 28 April 1995

7. Spain, Aguadulce (Almeria), 11 - 16 April 1999

8. Germany, Ascherleben, 12 - 17 May 2002

9. Peru, Lima (CIP), 4 - 7 April 2005

10. India, Hyderabad (ICRISAT), 15 - 19 October 2007

11. USA, Ithaca (Cornell University), 20 - 24 June 2010

12. Tanzania, Arusha (IITA), 28 January – 1 February 2013

13. Avignon, France (INRA), 6-10 June, 2016