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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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.
CIAT scientists and colleagues organized a meeting on a global surveillance system for crop disease in beautiful Bellagio, and Karen Garrett was pleased to participate.
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.
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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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.
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, …
Robin Choudhury and Karen Garrett met with the Gaiser Lab (Florida International University) at Archbold Biological Station, to discuss diatom ecology and ecological networks.
Congratulations to Ravin Poudel, selected as a participant in the recent Symposium of the Society of Young Network Scientists!
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 …