Poster Presentations
| First Name | Last Name | Organization | Abstract Title | |
| Gloria | Abad | USDA APHIS PPQ S&T CPHST | ONLINE MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR TOOLS FOR PHYTOPHTHORA: MEETING THE NEEDS FOR AN INNOVATIVE RESOURCE TO AID IN THE ACCURATE IDENTIFICATION OF SPECIES IN THE GENUS | |
| Bright | Agindotan | Montana State University | SEEDBORNE FUNGI ISOLATED FROM PULSE CROP SEEDS IN MONTANA |  |
| Tricia | Allen | Cornell University | BEYOND PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM: IDENTIFYING OTHER PHYTOPHTHORA SPECIES, SEARCHING FOR P. KERNOVIAE AND EVALUATING SPECIES LEVEL TESTING METHODS | |
| Joan | Allen | University of Connecticut | UCONN DIAGNOSTIC LAB: THE NEW, UNUSUAL OR PREVIOUSLY UNENCOUNTERED | |
| Joan | Allen | University of Connecticut | NPDN FIRST DETECTORS: NEW AND UPDATED RESOURCES FOR ENHANCED PEST AND PATHOGEN DETECTION | |
| Mohammad | Arif | Kansas State University | INTERNAL CONTROL: ESSENTIAL OR OPTIONAL FOR ACCURATE AND RELIABLE DIAGNOSTICS | |
| Clarissa | Balbalian | Mississippi State University | THE NATIONAL PLANT DIAGNOSTIC NETWORK DIAGNOSTICS PROGRAM AREA COMMITTEE | |
| Ashlee | Barth | USDA-APHIS-PPQ-S&T-CPHST | SAMPLE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND PROCESSES FOR TIMELY AND ACCURATE CONFIRMATORY DIAGNOSTICS FROM THE CPHST BELTSVILLE LAB | |
| Neil | Boonham | Fera | EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF PESTS AND HARMFUL ALIEN SPECIES - INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS (EMPHASIS) | |
| Elizabeth | Bush | Virginia Tech | A PLANNED DEVIATION OF A CPHST-VALIDATED PROTOCOL ALLOWS FOR USE OF A HIGH-THROUGHPUT REAL-TIME MULTICYCLER FOR DETECTION OF PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM | |
| Grethel | Busot | Kansas State University | NUCLEIC ACID-BASED DIAGNOSTICS: DOES THE TARGET SEQUENCE MATTER? | |
| Emmanuel | Byamukama | South Dakota State University | PARTNERING WITH THE STATE SOYBEAN COMMODITY BOARD TO PROMOTE DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF SCN IN SOUTH DAKOTA | |
| Lisa | Castlebury | USDA ARS SMML | ONE NAME FOR FUNGI: EFFORTS TOWARD THE STANDARDIZATION OF THE NAMES OF PLANT PATHOGENS | |
| David | Clement | University of Maryland | MARYLAND INVASIVE TRAINING AND OUTREACH PROGRAMS | |
| Tom | Creswell | Purdue University | BEYOND ‘NATIONAL’: THE NPDN AT WORK ABROAD | |
| Sharon | Dobesh | Kansas State University | ETKNET: UPDATING THE PDIS EXERCISE MODULE | |
| Shefali | Dobhal | Kansas State University | ESSENTIALS OF MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC PROTOCOL VALIDATION TO DEVELOP RELIABLE AND ACCURATE DIAGNOSTICS | |
| Consuelo | Estevez de Jensen | University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez | THE UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO PLANT DISEASE AND INSECT CLINIC | |
| Jenny | Glass | Washington State University | PNW VEG: AN EXTENSION TEAM APPROACH TO DISEASE AND PEST DIAGNOSTICS, RESEARCH COLLABORATION, AND GROWER EDUCATION FOR THE VEGETABLE PRODUCTION INDUSTRY | |
| Natalie | Goldberg | New Mexico State University | NEW PATHOGEN AND INSECT DISCOVERIES FROM THE NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY PLANT DIAGNOSTIC CLINIC | |
| Hilda | Gomez | USDA APHIS PPQ-Citrus Health Response System | THE ROLE OF THE CHRP PATHOLOGY GROUP IN FLORIDA | |
| Eva | Grimme | Montana State University | DEVELOPMENT OF A FIELD DIAGNOSTIC KIT FOR DETECTION OF WHEAT STREAK MOSAIC VIRUS | |
| Mary Ann | Hansen | Virginia Tech | VIRGINIA AGENCIES AND STAKEHOLDERS COLLABORATE TO ADDRESS AN EMERGING DISEASE | |
| Snezana | Haymes | USDA-APHIS-PPQ-CPHST | MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS FOR MONILINIA SPECIES OF REGULATORY CONCERN | |
| Ann | Hazelrigg | University of Vermont | PROMOTING IPM THROUGH A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE UVM PLANT DIAGNOSTIC CLINIC AND THE VERMONT EXTENSION MASTER GARDENER PROGRAM | |
| Michael | Hill | CERIS - Purdue University | NPDN IT COMMITTEE: THE NPDN WOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT IT | |
| Richard | Hoenisch | National Plant Diagnostic Network | WPDN MALACOLOGY WORKSHOPS & TRAINING AND EDUCATION TRAINING AND CONNECTING IN THE WEST | |
| Fanny | Iriarte | University of Florida NFREC Quincy, FL | BACTERIAL BLIGHT/ANGULAR LEAF SPOT OF COTTON CAUSED BY XANTHOMONAS CITRI PV. MALVACEARUM IN NORTH FLORIDA | |
| Laurie | Kerzicnik | Montana State University | SPIDER DIAGNOSTICS: REDUCING FEARS AND MYTHS | |
| Mann | Ko | Hawaii Department of Agriculture | RECENTLY IDENTIFIED PLANT DISEASES IN HAWAII, THEIR IMPACTS, PATHS OF ENTRY OR ESTABLISHMENT AND CURRENT STATUSES | |
| Joseph | LaForest | Southern IPM Center, University of Georgia | A NEW BUGWOOD IMAGES | |
| Joseph | LaForest | Southern IPM Center, University of Georgia | FACILITATION OF INNOVATION THROUGH TECHNOLOGY | |
| Yonghao | Li | The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station | THE ROLE OF INQUIRY DATA IN MONITORING ECONOMICALLY IMPORTANT DISEASES – RESULTS FROM THE PDIO PLANT DISEASE INQUIRY DATABASE | |
| Zhonghua | Liu | PathSensors, Inc. | DEVELOPING CANARY ASSAYS FOR PLANT PATHOGEN DETECTION | |
| Emma | Lookabaugh | NC State University | MODEL FOR EDUCATING THE NEXT GENERATION OF PLANT DIAGNOSTICIANS | |
| Frank | Martin | USDA-ARS | A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH FOR DEVELOPMENT OF DIAGNOSTIC ASSAYS FOR PLANT PATHOGENIC OOMYCETES | |
| Frank | Martin | USDA-ARS | DEVELOPMENT OF RECOMBINASE POLYMERASE AMPLIFICATION ASSAYS TO RAPIDLY DETECT PHYTOPHTHORA SPECIES ON PLANT SAMPLES | |
| Frank | Martin | USDA-ARS | SYSTEMATIC DEVELOPMENT OF MARKERS FOR PHYTOPHTHORA SPECIES USING MITOCHONDRIAL LOCI | |
| Vessela | Mavrodieva | USDA APHIS PPQ | THE NPPLAP PROFICIENCY TESTING PROGRAM: TEN YEARS OF EXPANDING LABORATORY CAPACITY AND PROMOTING QUALITY FOR REGULATED PLANT PATHOGENS TESTING | |
| Rachel | McCarthy | Cornell University | SENTINEL PLANT NETWORK: INCREASING EARLY DETECTIONS THROUGH TRAINING AND OUTREACH | |
| Timothy | Miles | California State University | DEVELOPMENT OF MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS FOR THE INVASIVE OOMYCETE PATHOGEN PHYTOPHTHORA TENTACULATA | |
| Judit | Monis | Eurofins STA Labs | POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION (PCR) MACROARRAY FOR MULTIPLEX POTATO VIRUS AND VIROID DETECTION | |
| Nick | Morant | OptiGene | IN-FIELD DIAGNOSTICS AND PATHOGEN MANAGEMENT IN CROPS: RAPID SNP DETECTION AND ANALYSIS USING THE GENIE®III | |
| Cynthia | Music | CERIS/Purdue University | NPDN DATABASE COMMITTEE; ASSURING QUALITY AND STANDARDS IN NPDN DIAGNOSTICS DATA | |
| Jennifer | Olson | Oklahoma State University / Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service | PICTORIAL GUIDE TO ROSE ROSETTE DISEASE SYMPTOMS | |
| Jennifer | Olson | Oklahoma State University | DETECTION AND DISCRIMINATION METHODS YOU CAN USE: VIRUS CHASERS 2008-2015 | |
| Nancy | Osterbauer | Oregon Dept. of Agriculture | EMERGING DISEASES IN OREGON | |
| Jesse | Ostrander | North Dakota State University | EMERGING INSECT PEST - SPOTTED WING DROSOPHILA IN NORTH DAKOTA | |
| Melodie | Putnam | Oregon State University | GALL-ID: WEB-BASED TOOLS FOR THE RAPID IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF GALL-CAUSING PHYTOPATHOGENIC BACTERIA | |
| Melodie | Putnam | Oregon State University | CYANOBACTERIA –AN UNDERAPPRECIATED THREAT TO AGRICULTURE? | |
| Yazmin | Rivera | USDA ARS SMML & Rutgers University | TRACKING FUNGI THROUGH TIME AND SPACE: A CASE FOR VOUCHER SPECIMENS | |
| Lina | Rodriguez Salamanca | Iowa State University | EXPANDING THE IMPACT OF NPDN: DIAGNOSTIC TRAINING IN COLOMBIA | |
| Emma | Rosenthal | Cornell University | SEARCHING FOR THE OAK WILT PATHOGEN, CERATOCYSTIS FAGACEARUM, IN NEW YORK STATE | |
| Gail | Ruhl | Purdue University | A FIRST DETECTION SUCCESS STORY: CORN TAR SPOT IDENTIFIED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE UNITED STATES BY COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS OF NPDN AND USDA-APHIS FUNGAL IDENTIFICATION LABS | |
| Paul | Russell | Agdia, Inc | QUANTITATIVE UTILITY OF THE AMPLIFYRP® ISOTHERMAL PLATFORM | |
| Maryna | Serdani | Oregon State University | CURTOBACTERIUM FLACCUMFACIENS AND POINSETTIA: A CASE STUDY IN THE NEED FOR INFORMATIVE TAXONOMIC FRAMEWORKS. | |
| Barbara | Shew | North Carolina State University | PLANTS, PESTS AND PATHOGENS WEBINARS AT NC STATE UNIVERSITY | |
| Karen | Snover-Clift | Cornell University | BELTSVILLE WORKSHOPS; AN NPDN AND USDA-APHIS-PPQ-S&T COLLABORATIVE EFFORT TO STRENGTHEN NATIONAL DIAGNOSTIC READINESS | |
| Karen | Snover-Clift | Cornell University | STAR-D; THE CREATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF NPDN’S LABORATORY ACCREDITATION PROGRAM FOR PLANT DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORIES | |
| Karen | Snover-Clift | Cornell University | THE NORTHEAST PLANT DIAGNOSTIC NETWORK (NEPDN); REGIONAL HIGHLIGHTS | |
| James | Stack | Kansas State University | DEVELOPING DURABLE DNA-BASED DIAGNOSTICS: HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR SOP? | |
| Connie | Tande | South Dakota State University | PLANT DISEASE AND PEST DIAGNOSTICS: IT IS MORE THAN YOU THINK | |
| Shouhua | Wang | Nevada Department of Agriculture | BUILDING AND EVOLVING PLANT DIAGNOSTICS TO SERVE NEVADA’S AGRICULTURE AND URBAN PLANT HEALTH | |
| Meg | Williamson | Clemson University | TWO SPECIES OF PHYTOPHTHORA AND OTHER ROOT PATHOGENS ISOLATED FROM LAVENDER PLANTS FROM ELEVEN STATES IN 2015 | |
