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It's that time in of the year again 🍅🍉🥒🫑 Glad to have hard working interns, students, post-docs and biological scientists to help set up, care & harvest our trials as we seek alternatives to restricted use pesticides for managment of plant-parasitic nematodes! #UFNematodes

It takes time to reach good things in life ✨️ Grad school provides a lot of time to prepare for the next step but it can be challenging and frustrating at times. Despite the ups and downs I am glad to be a scientist & even more happy to help feed the world! #LaborOmniaVincit

Dr. Desaeger recently visited Chile 🇨🇱 to help with an ongoing situation with the foliar nematode Aphelenchoides fragariae which is threatening national strawberry production. 🍓 Read all about it here ⬇️ elmauleinforma.cl/con-gran-exito… #UFNematodes

UF Vegetable & Fruit Nematology Our lab makes a showcase to growers the importance of plant-parasitic nematode management in hops at the hops field day at @UFGCREC.

The University of Florida Nematolgists had a strategic planning retreat in St. Petersburg FL with the new Dept. Chair Andrew Short. Great things to come!

Our new intern is happy to see rkn damage in the jute field. UF Vegetable & Fruit Nematology FINDMe

Our latest publication is available online. In this study, we evaluated the performance of five nematicides via different drip tape configurations. Check the link UF Vegetable & Fruit Nematology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ps…

More shots of a Meloidogyne enterolobii female and her egg mass, this time collected from infected roots of transgenic tomato plants! 🍅 #UFNematodes

Not perfect but the cleanest species specific run thus far so gonna take it as a win 💪🏽stay tuned for some cool work with Meloidogyne enterolobii coming out soon! 🗺 #UFNematodes #LaborOmniaVincit

Family portrait of an adult female, a juvenile and several eggs of Meloidogyne enterolobii 📸 #UFNematodes

Our student, Laura Mayorga, presents her Master thesis on the biocontrol of RKN in Florida. UF Vegetable & Fruit Nematology

2400 strawberry plants were planted. Thanks to our staff and students for their hard work in the field. UF Vegetable & Fruit Nematology

Very long and productive week! 💪🏼 Just finished my last meeting of the day with @EAPZamorano to plan our second round of field trials in Honduras for Spring 2024! 🚜 #UFNematodes #LaborOmniaVincit

Our lab UF Vegetable & Fruit Nematology had an opportunity to do hands-on training for a group of Caribbean researchers about nematode extraction techniques and discussed plant-parasitic nematode management practices in vegetable production.

Honored to have been selected by the Gulf Coast Student and Postdoc Association from UF Gulf Coast REC for this month's researcher spotlight. 🙏🏽 Full link to interview here: sites.google.com/view/ufgcpsa/h… #LaborOmniaVincit

Purple nutsedge's roots were loaded with root-knot nematodes. UF Vegetable & Fruit Nematology

Currently in Honduras 🇭🇳 working along @EAPZamorano and local watermelon growers to find better alternatives for the management of plant-parasitic nematodes! It's been rewarding to do part of my PhD thesis work in my home country and alma mater! #UFNematodes #LaborOmniaVincit

Presentation today (Feb. 19) at 1:30 PM ET on our collaborative project in Honduras alongside Zamorano University and local watermelon growers 🇭🇳 ⬇️ ufl.zoom.us/j/96077161211?… #LaborOmniaVincit

Sting nematodes feeding on strawberry roots cause "stubby root" symptoms—roots become shortened, with rapid, distorted shoot growth that often clings to soil particles. #UFNematodes

As the vegetable season kicks off, we say goodbye to Joel, our intern from @EAPZamorano, as he returns to finish his BSc in Agronomy. We also welcomed Alex, our newest postdoc, who earned his PhD at UF a few years ago and has returned after spending some time back home in Greece!