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| Tentative Agenda National Plant Diagnostic Network 4th National Meeting |
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| Advancing Diagnostics to Meet Plant Health Needs | |
| TUESDAY | Tuesday, March 8, 2016 |
| 9:00am-12noon | Regional Meetings |
| 12noon-1:00pm | Lunch on own |
| 1:00pm-5:00pm | STARD Document Workshop |
| 4:00pm-7:00pm | Registration Open |
| 4:00pm-5:30pm | Exhibit and Poster Setup |
| 5:30pm-7:00pm | Welcome Social in Poster/Exhibit Room |
| 7:00pm | Dinner on own |
| WEDNESDAY | Wednesday, March 9, 2016 |
| 7:00am-8:00am | Morning Refreshments and Networking in Poster/Exhibit Room |
| 8:00am-8:15am | Welcome Carrie Harmon, NPDN 2016 National Meeting Co-Chair |
| 8:15am-9:30am | Plenary Session Advancing Diagnostics to Meet Plant Health Needs: NPDN Partnerships, Part I |
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Sonny Ramaswamy, Director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture Plant Health: A Priority for National and Global Food Security Osama El Lissy, Deputy Administrator, APHIS-PPQ Safeguarding Plant Health While Protecting Global Trade |
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| 9:30am-10:30am | Refreshment and Networking Break in Poster/Exhibit Room |
| 10:30am-12noon | Plenary Session Advancing Diagnostics to Meet Plant Health Needs: NPDN Partnerships, Part II |
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Ray Hammerschmidt, NPDN Executive Director & NCPDN Director, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI |
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| 12noon-1:30pm | Lunch on own |
| 1:30pm-3:00pm | Advancing Diagnostics For Emerging Pathogens and Pests Affected by Gloabal Trade and Climate Change, Part I |
| Robert Davis, Research Leader, USDA-ARS-PSI-MPPL, Beltsville, MD The Lack of Walls: Grapevine Yellows, Palm Yellows and Other Phytoplasmas, and the Helical Spiroplasmas |
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| Fuzzy Borers: Boring insects that vector fungal pathogens | |
| Richard Bostock, WPDN Director, University of California, Davis, CA Thousand Cankers Disease |
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| Steve Seybold, US Forest Service, Davis, CA Tales of Two Hardwood Borers: Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer and Goldspotted Oak Borer |
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| Jason Smith, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Holy Guacamole: Insights into the Emerging Laurel Wilt Pandemic |
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| 3:00pm-3:45pm | Refreshment and Networking Break in Poster/Exhibit Room |
| 3:45pm-5:30pm | Advancing Diagnostics For Emerging Pathogens and Pests Affected by Gloabal Trade and Climate Change, Part II |
| Judith K. Brown, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Spreading the Heat: Insect Transmitted Pandemic-Associated Pathogens Concurrent with Changing Climate |
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| Jacob Barney, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA Seedy Business: Bioenergy as a New Source of Weeds |
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| Wiggle Room: Emerging Nematodes | |
| Don Dickson, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Newer Species of Root-Knot Nematodes |
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| Fred Warner, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Importance of Nematodes on Turfgrasses and Landscape Plants |
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| Ann Vidaver, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE A Multipurpose Pathogen: Rathayibacter toxicus: The Plant, Animal and Human Health Threat Nexus |
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| 5:30pm | Dinner on own |
| THURSDAY | Thursday, March 10, 2016 |
| 7:00am-8:30am | Morning Refreshments and Networking Break in Poster/Exhibit Room |
| 8:30am-10:00am | NPDN’s Role in Advancing Diagnostics: Increasing Capacity for Increased Food Security and Economic Stability, Part I |
| KEYNOTE: Stephen Dibley Program Manager for Training and Biosecurity Preparedness, Plant Health Australia Australia’s National Plant Biosecurity Diagnostic Strategy |
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| Tom Creswell, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN & Carrie Harmon, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL International Diagnostic Capacity Built on NPDN Capacity |
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| Sue Tolin, Virgina Tech, Blacksburg, VA IPM Innovation Lab (CRSP) Diagnostics Training and Establishment in Developing Countries |
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| 10:00am-10:45am | Refreshment and Networking Break in Poster/Exhibit Room |
| 10:45am-12noon | NPDN’s Role in Advancing Diagnostics: Increasing Capacity for Increased Food Security and Economic Stability, Part II |
| Weimin Ye, North Carolina Department of Ag. and Consumer Services, Nematode Assay Lab, Raleigh, NC How to Get Your Lab Involved in Testing for Export or Import |
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| The Role of NPDN in Diagnostic Capacity during Domestic Outbreaks | |
| Deb McCullough, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Combining Forces to Detect Invasive Forest Pests |
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| Nancy Osterbauer, Oregon Department of Agriculture, Salem, OR & Norm Dart, Virginia Department of Agriculture, Richmond, VA Phytophthora ramorum |
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| 12noon-1:30pm | Lunch on own |
| 1:30pm-3:00pm | Advancing Diagnostics using Novel Methods to Improve Prevention, Detection, and Diagnosis for Food Security and Trade, Part I |
| William Schneider, USDA ARS, Fort Detrick, MD EDNA Methodology E-probe Diagnostic Nucleic Acid Analysis |
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| Les Szabo, Cereal Disease Lab, USDA ARS, St. Paul, MN Tracking Ug99 and Other Races of Wheat Stem Rust Using SNP Technologies |
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| Chris Smart, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Multiplex for Tomato Diseases |
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| Paul F. Russell, Agdia, Inc., Elkhart, IN, Charla Hollingsworth, USDA APHIS CPHST, Raleigh, NC & Frank Martin, USDA ARS, Salinas, CA Isothermal Analysis |
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| 3:00pm-3:45pm | Refreshment and Networking Break in Poster/Exhibit Room |
| 3:45pm-5:30pm | Advancing Diagnostics using Novel Methods to Improve Prevention, Detection, and Diagnosis for Food Security and Trade, Part II |
| Megan Romberg, National Mycologist, USDA APHIS, Beltsville, MD The Impacts of Changes Due to Systematics on Fungal Identification |
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| Ray Gill, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, CA Morpho-Molecular Taxonomy Tools for Insects |
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| Jon Eisenback, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA Scanning EM and Morphological-Molecular Techniques |
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| Mary Burrows, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT Diagnostics in the Information Age |
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| 7:00pm-9:00pm | Awards Banquet |
| FRIDAY | Friday, March 11, 2016 |
| 7:00am-8:00am | Morning Refreshments |
| 8:00am-5:00pm | Field Tours |
| SATURDAY | Saturday, March 12, 2016 |
| 7:00am-8:00am | Morning Refreshments |
| 8:00am-5:00pm | Workshops |
| 5:00pm | Conference Concludes |
