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Delve into intricacies of network science & gain hands-on experience in R to dissect complex data, from microbiome interactions to epidemic spread patterns at the Network Analysis in Plant Pathology Research workshop at #PlanthHealth2024 events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Detai… Karen Garrett

Hoy en el Parque de la Exposición de Lima se celebró el Día Internacional de la Papa, donde se inauguraron stands incluído el del International Potato Center. Un honor haber estado allí. Vale la pena darse una vuelta ! Estarán hasta el domingo 2 de Junio.

I am thrilled to share that I will present part of my research project as a New Frontiers Scholar at the prestigious conference organized by Corteva Agriscience. Million thanks #CortevaAgriscience, #CortevaNewFrontiers, #NewFrontiersScholar for this inspiring opportunity. 🥑💻🌎

Disaster plant pathology: effects of disasters on plant health & design of management solutions New work by @Berea_Etherton Robin Choudhury 🐀 Ricardo I. Alcalá Romaric A. Mouafo-Tchinda Aaron Plex Ashish Jacobo Robledo Jorge Andrade-Piedra Kwame Ogero, PhD Israel Navarrete Open: apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/epdf/10.10…

ICTV's long-anticipated Computational Virus Taxonomy Challenge is out! Bioinformaticians are asked to classify unknown virus sequences and contribute to making Virus Taxonomy more reproducible. See: ictv-vbeg.github.io/ICTV-TaxonomyC… - please RT, tell your bioinformaticians and colleagues!

OUT NOW 📢 A global atlas of soil viruses reveals unexplored biodiversity and potential biogeochemical impacts 🌎 Jason McDermott Kirsten Hofmockel nature.com/articles/s4156…

Attending #ASV2024, the largest virology meeting ever, with about 2000 virologists! One thousand three hundred twenty-eight abstracts from 50 countries. Great start at Columbus, Ohio, and the Ohio State University #OSU.

A big update to ARCO-ERA5 landed this week -- we now have a copy of ERA5 on native vertical levels with regular 0.25° horizontal resolution. This ~6 PB dataset is freely available as part of Google's public datasets program: github.com/google-researc…

The Ohio Mushroom DNA Lab is offering free DNA barcoding for any wild collected fungus, found anywhere in the world. They need to be dried and packaged in ziplock snack sized bags, labeled with the iNaturalist observation # docs.google.com/document/d/1Kz…

SatRNAs - the 'game changers' at the virus–host plant interaction? After years of working with satellite RNAs, we wrote this synthetic and critical paper, with both historical and most recent data, as well as hypotheses and prospects for further research onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

I am co-moderating the epidemiology technical session and also presenting part of my dissertation in that session. Please attend this session on Tuesday July 30 at 10:15 am CDT. #abouttograduate #PhD #plantheath2024 #Americanphytopathologicalsociety

Check out the great work of Ashish Aaron Plex Jacobo Robledo Romaric A. Mouafo-Tchinda @Berea_Etherton at #PlantHealth2024 & there's more on disaster plant pathology here: apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PH… UF/IFAS Plant Pathology Department The Global Food Systems Institute at UF IFAS Emerging Pathogens Institute with International Potato Center IITA Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

expowo: An R package for mining global plant diversity and distribution data New in #AppsPlantSci by Zuanny, Vilela, @PeterMoonlight, Tiina Sarkinen & Cardoso bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… Wiley Plant Science @KewScience #botany #biodiversity #PlantJoy #biogeography #PlantConservation

An often-overlooked component of natural and human-driven disasters is their potential to affect plant health and thus food security at domestic and international scales. Read the news release on disaster plant pathology: bit.ly/3WC27fK

We tracked a pandemic decimating beetle colonies and used cryoEM for sequencing-free discovery of the new virus that caused it. This virus is crazy; parvoviruses aren't supposed to have such structured protein-DNA interactions. We fulfilled all 4 of Koch's postulates for etiology

Job opportunities! We are currently recruiting for the following roles: • Collections & Digitisation Assistant • Herbarium Collections Manager • Programme Coordinator • Research Assistant / Research Associate x3 Find out more and apply: tinyurl.com/ycyd92d7

⚠️ BREAKING: China reports two human new cases of H9N2 bird flu and one new case of H10N3 bird flu, according to the Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection. This is the 4th human H10N3 bird flu case ever reported.

UF/IFAS was well-represented among the top 2024 articles from The American Phytopathological Society, the world's largest organization of plant pathologists. UF authors swept the top 3 most-read articles in the journal Phytopathology, and had 2 of the 3 most-read articles in Plant Health Progress.