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.
General
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
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.
Haitian agricultural research and development
James Fulton recently returned from Haiti, where he is developing plans for his work as part of the USAID-funded UF/IFAS project, Support to Agricultural Research and Development (SARD).
Garrett Lab blog
Welcome to this website! In the near future, we will have updates about the lab here.