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
Latin America
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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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. …
AREA field work
Joubert Fayette and James Fulton recently returned from their field work studying plant disease etiology and management in Haiti, as part of the AREA project.
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.
Cuban scientists visit UF
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.