National Plant Diagnostic Network 4th National Meeting Presentations
Advancing Diagnostics to Meet Plant Health Needs
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| TIME | Wednesday, March 9, 2016 |
| 7:00am-5:30pm | Registration Open |
| 7:00am-8:00am | Morning Refreshments |
| 8:00am-8:15am | Welcome Carrie Harmon, NPDN Meeting Co-Chair (Listen to Presentation) |
| 8:15am-9:30am | Plenary Session Advancing Diagnostics to Meet Plant Health Needs: NPDN Partnerships, Part I Moderator: Ray Hammerschmidt, NPDN Executive Director & NCPDN Director, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI |
| 8:15am | Sonny Ramaswamy, Director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture Plant Health: A Priority for National and Global Food Security (Listen to Presentation) |
| 8:45am | Osama El Lissy, Deputy Administrator, APHIS-PPQ Safeguarding Plant Health While Protecting Global Trade (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| 9:30am-10:30am | Refreshment and Networking Break |
| 10:30am-12noon | Plenary Session Advancing Diagnostics to Meet Plant Health Needs: NPDN Partnerships, Part II Moderator: Ray Hammerschmidt, NPDN Executive Director & NCPDN Director, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI |
| 10:30am | Ray Hammerschmidt, NPDN Executive Director & NCPDN Director, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI NPDN’s Positive Impacts on Diagnostics and Extension Programming (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| 11:00am | Joe Bischoff, Cornerstone Government Affairs, Washington, DC NPDN’s Rapid and Accurate Diagnostics in Support of Plant Production (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| 11:30am | James Stack, GPDN Director, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS NextGen NPDN: A National Network with Global Impact (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| 12noon-1:30pm | Lunch on own |
| 1:30pm-3:00pm | Advancing Diagnostics For Emerging Pathogens and Pests Affected by Global Trade and Climate Change, Part 1 Moderator: Mary Ann Hansen, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA |
| 1:30pm | 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 |
| Fuzzy Borers: Boring insects that vector fungal pathogens | |
| 2:00pm | Richard Bostock, WPDN Director, University of California, Davis, CA Thousand Cankers Disease (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| 2:20pm | Steven Seybold, USDA Forest Service, Davis, CA Tales of Two Hardwood Borers: Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer and Goldspotted Oak Borer (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| 2:40pm | Jason Smith, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Holy Guacamole: Insights into the Emerging Laurel Wilt Pandemic (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| 3:00pm-3:45pm | Refreshment and Networking Break |
| 3:45pm-5:30pm | Advancing Diagnostics For Emerging Pathogens and Pests Affected by Gloabal Trade and Climate Change, Part II Moderator: Mary Ann Hansen, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA |
| 3:45pm | Judith K. Brown, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Spreading the Heat: Insect Transmitted Pandemic-Associated Pathogens Concurrent with Changing Climate |
| 4:05pm | Jacob Barney, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA Seedy Business: Bioenergy as a New Source of Weeds (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| Wiggle Room: Emerging Nematodes | |
| 4:25pm | Don Dickson, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Newer Species of Root-Knot Nematodes (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| 4:45pm | Fred Warner, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Importance of Nematodes on Turfgrasses and Landscape Plants (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| 5:05pm | Ann Vidaver, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE A Multipurpose Pathogen: Rathayibacter toxicus: The Plant, Animal and Human Health Threat Nexus (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| 5:30pm | Dinner on own |
| 5:45pm-7:15pm | A Conversation on Diagnostic Confidence Levels and Reporting (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| TIME | Thursday, March 10, 2016 |
| 7:00am-5:30pm | Registration Open |
| 7:00am-8:00am | Morning Refreshments |
| 8:30am-10:00am | NPDN’s Role in Advancing Diagnostics: Increasing Capacity for Increased Food Security and Economic Stability, Part I Moderator: Raghuwinder Singh, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA |
| 8:30am | KEYNOTE Stephen Dibley Program Manager for Training and Biosecurity Preparedness, Plant Health Australia Australia’s National Plant Biosecurity Diagnostic Strategy (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| 9:00am | Tom Creswell, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN & Carrie Harmon, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL International Diagnostic Capacity Built on NPDN Capacity (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| 9:30am | Sue Tolin, Virgina Tech, Blacksburg, VA IPM Innovation Lab (CRSP) Diagnostics Training and Establishment in Developing Countries (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| 10:00am-10:45am | Refreshment and Networking Break |
| 10:45am-12noon | NPDN’s Role in Advancing Diagnostics: Increasing Capacity for Increased Food Security and Economic Stability, Part II Moderator: Lauren Kerzicnik, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT |
| 10:45am | 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 (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| The Role of NPDN in Diagnostic Capacity during Domestic Outbreaks | |
| 11:10am | Deb McCullough, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Combining Forces to Detect Invasive Forest Pests (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| 11:30am | Nancy Osterbauer, Oregon Department of Agriculture, Salem, OR (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) & Norm Dart, Virginia Department of Agriculture, Richmond, VA Phytophthora ramorum |
| 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 Moderator: Judith K. Brown, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
| 1:30pm | William Schneider, USDA ARS, Fort Detrick, MD EDNA Methodology E-probe Diagnostic Nucleic Acid Analysis (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| 1:50pm | Les Szabo, Cereal Disease Lab, USDA ARS, St. Paul, MN Tracking Ug99 and Other Races of Wheat Stem Rust Using SNP Technologies (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| 2:10pm | Chris Smart, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Multiplex for Tomato Diseases (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| 2:30pm | Paul F. Russell, Agdia, Inc., Elkhart, IN (Watch Presentation) (View PDF), Charla Hollingsworth, USDA APHIS CPHST, Raleigh, NC (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) & Frank Martin, USDA ARS, Salinas, CA Isothermal Analysis (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| 3:00pm-3:45pm | Refreshment and Networking Break |
| 3:45pm-5:30pm | Advancing Diagnostics using Novel Methods to Improve Prevention, Detection, and Diagnosis for Food Security and Trade, Part II Moderator: Judith K. Brown, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
| 3:45pm | Megan Romberg, National Mycologist, USDA APHIS, Beltsville, MD The Impacts of Changes Due to Systematics on Fungal Identification (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| 4:15pm | Ray Gill, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, CA Morpho-Molecular Taxonomy Tools for Insects |
| 4:45pm | Jon Eisenback, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA Scanning EM and Morphological-Molecular Techniques (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| 5:05pm | Mary Burrows, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT Diagnostics in the Information Age (Watch Presentation) (View PDF) |
| 7:00pm-9:00pm | Awards Dinner |
