The Department of Plant Pathology at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, is pleased to announce the “First International Workshop for the Morphological and Molecular Identification of the Straminipiles: Phytophthora and Pythium”, 23–27 July 2004, organized by the Plant Pathogen Identification Laboratory. For information on the workshop, contact Gloria Abad, email: gloria_abad(at)ncsu.edu or visit the website: http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/plantpath/PPIL/Index.html