During the week of 18 May, a group of FABI researchers met in Athens to attend and participate in a joint meeting of two IUFRO Division 7 Working Parties (Vascular Wilt Diseases and Pine Wilt). The meeting was hosted by the Institute of Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems (IMFE) and had the intriguing title “Will it Wilt”, for the first time incorporating two IUFRO WP’s that have not met together previously. The FABI group include Prof. Irene Barnes (one of the organisers of the meeting), Prof. Mike and Prof. Brenda Wingfield as well as Dr Wilma Nel and Dr Kira Lynn (now working for the April Group in Indonesia), who all made presentations relating to research being undertaken in FABI. The meeting included approximately 70 scientists working on pine wilt caused by the pine wood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus and/or vascular wilt diseases mainly caused by species of fungi in the Ceratocystidaceae and Ophiostomatales. A field visit to inspect the devastation of Platanus orientalis caused by Ceratocytis plataniwas held on the first day of the meeting. This was followed by three days of lectures in Athens.  In presenting concluding remarks at the end of the meeting, Prof. Mike Wingfield, who served a five-year term as IUFRO president (2014-2019), commented on the very high quality of the work presented and complemented the organizers (especially Nikoleta Soulioti) on an exceptionally well planned and executed event. He emphasized treating two very different groups of tree wilt diseases in a single congress had provided fascinating new ideas and insights at the intersections between them.