INVITED PRESENTATIONS/CHAIR

1. Fernando, W.G.D. 2005. Mechanisms used by bacteria to control Sclerotinia in canola. US Sclerotinia Initative, January 18-20, 2005 in Minneapolis, MN. Invited presentation.

2. Fernando, W.G.D. 2004. “Job hunting after graduation: beating the odds as an international student”. Invited talk at the symposium on Reality CV : Recent Successful Job Applicants and Field Leaders Tell it Like it is About the Present and Future of Plant Pathology Careers. Phytopathology 94:S141. Publication no. P-2004-0146-SSA invited presentation.

3. Fernando, W.G.D. 2004. Keynote Speaker – at the NCREC, Minot, North Dakota, USA, Western Crop and Pest Management School’s annual 2-day workshop.  2004. “Blackleg on Canola: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”

4. Fernando, W.G.D. 2004. Invited Speaker -Manitoba Canola Growers’ Association, March 1, 2004: “New strains of Blackleg: Isolation, Identification and Characterization of Blackleg, and implications to Breeding programs”

5. Fernando, W.G.D. 2004. Invited Speaker - Canola Council of Canada, First Canola Research Network, March 9, 2004, Saskatoon, SK. “Genetics and impact of new strains of the Blackleg pathogen on the canola industry in Canada”

6. Fernando, W.G.D. 2004. Invited Speaker: Agriculture Department of the Provincial Government, Bayannao’er City, Inner Mongolia, China. October 13-14, 2004. Controlling sunflower diseases. Seminar and field inspections with participants.  Approx: 100

7. Fernando, W.G.D. 2004. Interview to CBS affiliate KXMC TV13 in Minot, North Dakota, USA on New Strains of Blackleg – February 26, 2004. with report and anchor Shaun Sipma.

8. Fernando, W.G.D. 2004. Invited Presentation at the Department of Natural Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, January 22, 2004 on “Biological Control of Sclerotinia in Canola” approx 50.

9. Fernando, W.G.D. 2003. Plant Pathology: a hot area in agriculture. Symposium at the Annual American Phytopathological Society Conference, August 2003, Charlotte, NC., USA.  (Invited presentation)

10.  Invited speaker at 3rd Canadian Fusarium Conference, Winnipeg, MB, Dec 9-12, 2003.
11. Invited speaker at the Annual Agronomists Conference, Winnipeg, MB, Dec 10-11, 2003.
12. Invited speaker at a symposium at the Annual Meeting of the American Phytopathological Society, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. August 8-13, 2003.
13. Invited speaker at the Third Canadian Workshop on Fusarium Head Blight, Winnipeg, MB, Dec. 8-12, 2003, on Current global research on fusarium epidemiology.
14.  Invited speaker at a symposium at the 11th International Rapeseed Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 6-10th, 2003 on Biological control of Sclerotinia in canola.
15. Invited speaker, at a symposium at the Annual Meeting of the American Phytopathological Society, on ‘Plant pathology as a Positive Career Choice” July 30, 2002, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
16. Invited speaker at the 2nd Canadian Workshop on Fusarium Head Blight, Ottawa, ON, November 3-5, 2001.
17. Invited to speak at the International Rapeseed Conference, Wuhan, China, April 19-23, 2001.
18.  Invited speaker at the Canadian Workshop on Fusarium Head Blight, Winnipeg, MB, November       28-30, 1999.  Presented the Canadian overview of the problem and current research to combat        the pathogen.
19. Invited speaker at the Manitoba Agronomists Conference, Dec. 12, 2002. on Fungicides of cereals: a common sense approach.
20.  Chaired an oral presentation session on epidemiology at the annual Canadian Phytopathological Society meeting, Montreal, Que. June 22-25, 2003.
21. Chair, epidemiology session at the Third Canadian Workshop on Fusarium Head Blight, Winnipeg, MB, Dec. 8-12, 2003.
22. Chaired the Fusarium symposium at the annual American Phytopathological Society/Canadian       Phytopathological Society meeting held in Montreal, Quebec, August 5-11, 1999.
23. Chaired Disease Case Study Committee for Field Scouting Workshop, Feb. 14, 15, 2000,       University of Manitoba.
 

REVIEWER

• Canadian  Journal of Botany (Canada)
• Phytopathology
• European Journal of Plant Pathology
• Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology (Canada)
• Canadian Journal of Plant Science (Canada)
• Canadian Journal of Microbiology (Canada)
• Plant Disease (USA)
• Natural Toxins (USA)
• Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science (USA)
• Soil Biology and Biochemistry (Australia)
• Plant Pathology (UK.)
• Mycological Research

• Reviewer - of a grant application to Manitoba Rural Adaptation Council (MRAC)
• Reviewer - of grant applications to Agriculture Research and Development Initiative (ARDI)
• Reviewer - of grant applications to Alberta Agriculture Research Initiative (AARI)
• Reviewer - of grant applications to ACIAR in Australia
• Reviewer – of NSERC Research Partnerships Program grant application.
 

VISITING GUEST LECTURER:

1. Department of Plant Protection, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China - May        2000
2. Department of Genetics and Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China - May     2000
3. China National Agriculture Research Institute, Beijing, China - May 2000
4. National Key Laboratory of China Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Wuhan -May 2000
5. Rapeseed Genetic and Breeding Laboratory, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan.
6. Southwest Agricultural University, Chongqing, China, April 2001.
7. Rothamsted Research Station, Harpenden, Herts, UK. – 2004
8. China Agricultural University, Beijing. This is the # 1 agricultural academic institute of higher learning in China. – 2004
9. Beijing Agricultural College, Beijing. – 2004
10. Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Huhhot, Inner Mongolia. - – 2004
11. Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei. - – 2004
12. Oilseeds Research Institute, Wuhan, Hubei. – 2004
13. Nanjing Agriculture University, Nanjing. – 2004
14. Jiangsu Agricultural Research Institute, Nanjing. – 2004
15. Hunnan Agriculture University, Changsa City, Hunnan. – 2004
16. Northwest Sci-Tech University of Agriculture and Forestry, Yangling, Shaanxi. – 2004
17. Southwest Agriculture University, Beibei, Chongqing. – 2004
18. Nanning Agricultural Research Institute, Nanning. - – 2004
19. Yunnan University,  Kunming, Yunnan. – 2004