We are pleased to welcome you to Saint Denis, Ile de la Réunion, France for the 12^th International Conference on Plant Pathogenic Bacteria.

Four years after a wonderful meeting in Edinburgh, welcome to La Réunion. The conference will be held in the city of St Denis, at the northern tip of this spectacular island. La Réunion is a French island in the heart of the Indian Ocean, between Madagascar (700 km) and Mauritius (300 km). La Réunion has a tropical climate, offering great biological diversity and, as a result of different historical settlements, also has a diverse human population. It is also a European territory with all the modern infrastructures and commodities for professional activities and tourism.

The organizing and scientific committees are currently very active trying to make this conference a scientific and a social success. Special emphasis will be placed on emerging diseases, especially the amazing development of biotechnology and massive data flux from genomics as contributions to provide new clues to old problems: evolutionary history, genomic rearrangements and speciation. We have also decided to invite speakers working in areas of bacteriology not related to plant pathology, who will be talking about topics of interest to our community.

We have worked hard to keep the registration fee and other attendance costs as low as possible to allow as many people as possible to attend the conference. Our conference facilities are limited to 300 attendees so we recommend that you register as soon as possible. Also please note that you will have to reserve accommodation through the selected bureau (or wholly independently).

On behalf of the International Society of Plant Pathology and our local organizing committee, we look forward to seeing you at ICPPB 2010!

 icppb2010@cirad.fr