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Excellent talk by Hunter Collins discussing fungicide evaluations for post harvest management of sweetpotato black rot and residue levels at the 2024 National Sweetpotato Collaborators Group Meeting! NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology

Great talk about #sweetpotato Southern blight management and fungicide residues by Jack Mascarenhas at the 2024 National Sweetpotato Collaborators Group Annual Meeting! NC State Veggie Pathology N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative

Congrats to Jack Mascarenhas for successfully defending his MSc in Plant Pathology! Jack worked on #sweetpotato disease management and will literally move to greener pastures for a PhD in turf grass pathology with Jim Kerns

Great talk by Jack Mascarenhas about #sweetpotato southern blight and fungicide residues to kick off the student competition at the 101st APS Southern Division Meeting! NC State Veggie Pathology N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology

Great talk by Jack Mascarenhas to start off 2024 APS SouthernDivision Graduate Student Research Competition! NC State Veggie Pathology NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology #SDAPS2024

SD-APS meeting in Columbia SC. #departmentheadfun making new connections and presenting our science. Doesn’t get better than this! #PlantPathology

If you are curious how #sweetpotato packing lines work, or can be improved, come see my poster at the APS Southern Division Meeting! NC State Veggie Pathology N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology

These guys changed our program forever

Three lessons from Nobel laureate David MacMillan’s commencement address to #NCState24: ▸ Learn from others, but always follow your own path. ▸ Failure is just another word for experience. ▸ Laugh every day; you don’t always have to take yourself too seriously.

It was graduation weekend! Huge congrats to Jack Mascarenhas for finishing his MSc degree in plant pathology. Jack has been in my lab for 6 years, first as an undergraduate, then as a graduate student. He did great things and will be dearly missed 🐺 NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative

Huge congrats to Hunter Collins for being awarded the Pride of the WolfPack Award! Hunter has been key in responding to several NC State Extension veggie disease emergencies in NC during his time with us and we are very proud of him 🐺 N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology NC State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences The American Phytopathological Society

Today was Jack Mascarenhas’s last day in the lab, he has been with us for 6 years (for his undergrad, then Masters), and we loved having him in the team. We will miss him dearly and wish him the best of luck as he starts his PhD journey! N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology Jim Kerns

This past Friday was my last day working with Lina Quesada and the NC State Veggie Pathology While it wasn’t easy saying goodbye to such an amazing group of people, I’ll always be grateful for the memories and experiences that I’ll carry with me for the rest of my life. Thank you all 🍠

Today was my (NC State Veggie Pathology) last committee meeting as Chair of APS Postharvest Pathology Committee, it was a wonderful year with a great group of people learning about rots, looking forward to continuing our community! the committee is in great hands with the incoming leaders The American Phytopathological Society

Today we celebrated Mary Lorscheider! She has been with us throughout the Cucurbit Coordinated Agricultural Project project and has done a superb job as our digital communicator. Mary will be leaving us in a few weeks as the project ends and we will dearly miss her 🤗 NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative

One of my favorite things to do at #PlantHealth2024: lab lunch! Hunter Collins Kelly J. Avila Camilo Parada 🦋 @cahuparo.bsky.socia Alejandro K. Llanos Jack Mascarenhas Mariana Prieto Torres Carlos Morales Sarah Cochran-Murray Timothy Miles

Stop by poster 131 today at 4pm to talk about my work on developing a RPA assay to detect Phytophthora capsici in on-farm water systems! NC State Veggie Pathology N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative #PlantHealth2024

Stop by poster 457 today at 4:45pm to talk about my work on sweet potato 🍠 and vectors! NC State Veggie Pathology N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative #PlantHealth2024

Better grasses mean better golf, but how do improved grasses get developed, grown, and eventually planted on golf courses? It’s a fascinating journey from farm to fairway!

Absolutely love this video!! Its incredible how much work goes into turfgrass breeding. NCSU Turf Pathology Susana Milla-Lewis Daniel Freund