Romaric Mouafo Tchinda joins lab
We’re excited to welcome Romaric, who’ll start work at UF next week. He’ll work on avocado diseases and on seed health for vegetatively-propagated crops.
Berea Etherton and Aaron Plex Sulá present at APS Caribbean Division meeting
Congrats to Berea Etherton and Aaron Plex Sulá for great presentations at the joint APS Caribbean Division and ESA Southeastern Branch meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico! Berea presented about community management of avocado laurel wilt in Florida Plex presented about geographic & trade analysis for surveillance strategies in potato and tomato
Twitter account for the lab
The lab has a twitter account at @Garrett_Lab Now lab events are often posted there
Public demands more accordion playing
Thanks, Thiago and Pete! Photos courtesy of S. Larkin and R. Alcalá-Briseño
Kelsey Andersen presents her work at UF IFAS African research meeting
Kelsey Andersen presents about her work with sweetpotato seed networks in Uganda at a UF IFAS meeting for research in Africa Andersen, K. F., C. E. Buddenhagen, P. Rachkara, R. Gibson, S. Kalule, D. Phillips, and K. A. Garrett. 2018. Modeling epidemics in seed systems to guide management strategies: The case of sweetpotato in Northern Uganda. bioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/107359. Photo courtesy S. …
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UF IFAS Global International Achievement Award
Thanks to IFAS Global for the International Achievement Award! And thanks to the great people in our lab and to our collaborators, who make the work possible (and fun)! Photo courtesy of R. Poudel
James Fulton presents about his work at the IFAS Global awards program
James Fulton was invited to present about his work at UF, including work with the USAID AREA project in Haiti. Photo courtesy of R. Poudel
CGIAR RTB Pest Risk Assessment meeting with Fera in UK
CGIAR RTB Pest Risk Assessment meeting with Fera scientists Julian Smith and colleagues in the UK, with Kelsey Andersen and Karen Garrett from our lab. Discussing the next steps for these projects and related work: Xing*, Y., J. Hernandez Nopsa*, J. Andrade-Piedra, F. Beed, G. Blomme, M. Carvajal Yepes, D. Coyne, G. Forbes, J. Kreuze, J. Kroschel, …
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Presenting workshop on R and networks in R in Nairobi
Workshop on R and network analysis in R, presented by Kelsey Andersen and Karen Garrett on the CGIAR ILRI campus in Nairobi, April 4. Great opportunity to meet with new colleagues and learn about their projects.
CGIAR RTB seed systems meeting in Nairobi
CGIAR Roots, Tubers and Bananas meeting on seed systems in Nairobi in March. Kelsey Andersen, Joubert Fayette, James Fulton, and Karen Garrett participate. Good meeting to make progress with the next steps for implementing models such as these: Buddenhagen*, C. E., J. F. Hernandez Nopsa*, K. F. Andersen, J. Andrade-Piedra, G. A. Forbes, P. Kromann, S. Thomas-Sharma, P. Useche, and K. A. Garrett. 2017. …