2024 12th ANNUAL PHILADELPHIA POISON IVY CONFERENCE Itinerary
Tuesday, March 19 2024 Presentations at Please Touch Museum
Memorial Hall
4231 Avenue of the Republic Philadelphia, PA 19131
8:30 am – 9:00 am: Registration
9:00 am – 9:30 am : Opening remarks
9:30 am – 10:15 am : “Climbing Poison Ivy Seed from Flower to Bird Eating Ripe Seed– A Practical Almanac” Presented by Umar Mycka
10:15 am – 10:30 am: Break
10:30 am – 12:00 pm: Dr. John Jelesko report on research findings
Fear and loathing in “poison ivy land”: CO2-associated increased clinical Toxicodendron dermatitis incidence and COVID made it worse..
Teaching an old dog new tricks: Developing a western poison oak whole genome sequence.
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: Lunch break
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm: Museum tour of 1876 Centennial World’s Fair
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Dr. John Jelesko presents on current research into poison ivy plants
Itching to understand urushi in Japan
More old dog tricks: Pursuit of a Japanese poison ivy whole genome sequence
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm: Break
3:45 pm – 4:45 pm: Discussion/presentation by conference participants about poison ivy plants growing around the country and around the world
4:45 pm – 5:00 pm: Conference wrap up and closing remarks
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Participants will gather at restaurant for dinner
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 Poison Ivy Sumac Field Study
1 Holiday Blvd Mount Laurel, NJ 08054
9:30 am: Participants to meet in parking lot of Holiday Village Community Service Center
10:00 am – 1:00 pm: View young poison sumac plants growing in proximity to human habitation
1:30 pm: Conclusion/wrap-up of conference
I find that one of the joys of being a poison ivy removal contractor company is that we have clients all over our tri-state area and get a chance to visit many interesting sites. One such site in Haddonfield NJ is a marl pit, now on the edges of a residential neighborhood where the first dinosaur bones were found and identified by William Parker Foulke in 1858 for western science. We will visit the site where ,” Hady” the Hadrosaurus Foulki was discovered.