Scientists from Instituto de Investigaciones de Sanidad Vegetal (INISAV), a Cuban institution with responsibility for plant health research, visited UF last week to discuss current and future collaboration. There are a lot of common interests in Caribbean pest and disease risk.
Chris Buddenhagen, Robin Choudhury, and Karen Garrett presented a workshop on network analysis in R and contributed to a CGIAR RTB workshop on seed systems at Wageningen University last week. Robin and a group of RTB participants hiked to the middlepoint of the Netherlands in Lunteren (from bottom left clockwise: Kwame Ogero (CIP), Robin Choudhury (UF), Israel …
Robin Choudhury presented at the 2017 meeting of the Florida Phytopathological Society, discussing a systems analysis of laurel wilt management for avocado in Florida. For background on laurel wilt: Ploetz, R. C., Kendra, P. E., Choudhury, R. A., Rollins, J. A., Campbell, A., Garrett, K., Hughes, M., and Dreaden, T. 2017. Laurel wilt in natural …