Announcement of the 2013 International EPG Workshop（石憲宗理事提供）

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Dear colleagues,

I am writing to announce and provide details on the upcoming 2013 International EPG Workshop, to be taught this July on the campus of California State University, Fresno. You are receiving this mass-email because you published a paper in the last 4 years using Electrical Penetration Graph (EPG) monitoring of insect feeding, you attended the Hemipteran-Plant Interactions Symposium in 2011, you attended an earlier one of my EPG Workshops (2005, 2009, and 2010), or you have expressed an interest in attending the 2013 Workshop. To reduce pressure on your inbox, this will be the only mass-mailing sent. Hereafter, only those who indicate interest will receive any further emails.

Attached, please find a flyer for the 2013 EPG Workshop, the registration form, and two brochures with further information. These brochures provide: 1) Details on costs, registration methods, and all other logistical information for the Workshop, and 2) a list of reasons why even experienced/advanced EPG users should attend this year’s Workshop (e.g. learn how to use the all-new, near-automatic statistical analysis programs for the Sarria aphid parameters).

Early-bird registration (the cheapest) is due by May 15^th.

The workshop will have a website (www.fresnostate.edu/cge/epg.html) that is currently under construction but will be available no later than mid-February. Please check it frequently for updated information.

For the first time, this Workshop will have some Industry sponsorship, allowing us to offer scholarships to offset fees or travel expenses. Funding has not been finalized, so future mailings (to parties who express interest NOW) and information on the web will provide details. The deadline for scholarship applications will be April 15^th.

Enrollment will be limited to 36 participants, accepted in order of completed registration forms. To receive future emails, please reply to this message immediately, to get your name on the distribution list for interested researchers.

I look forward to welcoming you to the 2013 EPG Workshop in July!

Best wishes,

Elaine

Elaine A. Backus, Ph.D.
Research Entomologist
USDA Agricultural Research Service
San Joaquin Valley Agric. Sci. Ctr.
9611 So. Riverbend Ave.
Parlier, CA 93648
phone: 559-596-2925
fax: 559-596-2921
elaine.backus@ars.usda.gov

參考資料：

EPG Workshop brochure for advanced researchers

EPG Workshop brochure on details

EPG Workshop flyer + reg form