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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.