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
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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. …
MSU symposium on global change
Michigan State University presented a symposium on Global Change and Agroecosystems and a Colloquium on Sustainable Food Systems in Developing Countries, and Karen Garrett was pleased to participate.
Five new papers in Phytopathology focus issue on epidemiology
Phytopathology published a focus issue on epidemiology, that includes the following five papers that we have worked on: 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. Epidemic network analysis for mitigation of invasive pathogens in seed systems: Potato in Ecuador. Phytopathology 107:1209-1218. [open access link] Choudhury, …
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Visit with Corpoica in Colombia
It was great to meet with John Hernandez Nopsa (former gator) and his colleagues in Corpoica at Tibaitatá in Colombia, as part of a meeting with UF IFAS Global and UF Center for Latin American Studies to explore opportunities for collaboration.
APS meeting 2017 in San Antonio
Congrats to Ricardo Alcala Briseño, Kelsey Andersen, Chris Buddenhagen, Robin Choudhury, and James Fulton for excellent presentations at the 2017 national meeting of the American Phytopathological Society! Congrats to Ravin Poudel for being selected to present in the I. E. Melhus Graduate Student Symposium! In the photo, Ravin’s presentation includes a discussion of this paper: Poudel, …
Borlaug Summer Institute
Congrats to James Fulton for being selected to participate in the Borlaug Summer Institute on Global Food Security!