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Want to get the most out of your photo communications for ag-related problems? Join me for the MSU Extension Field Crops Virtual Breakfast on Aug 8th @ 7am Not only will u learn about📸, ✔️ out ⛈️ trends & gain 1 RUP/CCA credit, u can help me celebrate my 🎂🎉 canr.msu.edu/news/field-cro…

Hot off the press, learn more about the recent change in leadership at MSU Plant & Pest Diagnostics! MSU Extension MSU AgBioResearch MSU-PSM Department MSU canr.msu.edu/news/msu-plant…

Molecular Diagnostician, Laura Miles, just turned 50! 🎉Ok, not 50 years old...but she is celebrating turning out >50 PCR reactions SETS for July....more than she has ever done before in a month...so her colleagues decorated her office 🥳👏 #stillveryyoung #sobusy MSU-PSM Department

We are excited to recruit a PhD/MSc student to work on the bacterial plant pathogen P. syringae and its interactions with plasmids and phage. My group utilizes genomics, molecular bacteriology, protein biochemistry and fieldwork to study bacterial evolution 🧫🌱 Please share! 🤩

Diagnostic samples come in all sorts of packages…but bugs in a bottle? That’s a new one for us! 🪳 🍼😱

Hot off the press...Oak Wilt testing can now be done with leaves instead of branch segments, which makes testing more accessible to individual residents. Learn more in this article from our very own Laura Miles! canr.msu.edu/news/new-resea…

👏 We’re proud to announce that Laura Miles & Jan Byrne were awarded the National Plant Diagnostic Network Outstanding Service Award!! Congratulations, we can’t wait to display your plaque in the lab 😀

🕷️It's Friday the 13th & what could be more frightful than a spider ID? This one = a black widow brought in on plant material from a southern state...but did you know we have northern black widows in lower Michigan? Read more here: canr.msu.edu/resources/nort… (Photo by Sarah Hughson)

It's Taco Tuesday & that is exactly what shape of these pocket galls (aka gall midges Macrodiplosis majalis) remind us of on oak. Check out more info at the link 🌮 gallformers.org/gall/1204 (Photos by Sarah Hughson)

When we said MSU-PSM Department was searching for a new chair this was not what we had in mind 🤣 Here we see a new type of diagnostic sample w/ evidence of wood boring insects….but if you’d like to be our new boss, check out careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/5206… MSU Extension MSU AgBioResearch

Happy Halloween from your favorite diagnosticians! 🎃👻🧙‍♀️🧛‍♂️🍭🦇

We’ve moved…come find us on Instagram at @msudiagnostics …same fun diagnostic antics, new location