Dear NPDN Members, Partners and Colleagues,

Please note…

Combined Meeting of the 69th Annual Conference on Soilborne Plant Pathogens (formerly Soil Fungus Conference) and the APS Pacific Division Meeting

March 26-28, 2024
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR

In 2024, the Conference on Soilborne Plant Pathogens will meet with the APS Pacific Division at Oregon State University, Corvallis March 26-28, 2024.

We are pleased to announce registration is now open for the 2024 PPCDL-Advanced Diagnostic Workshops hosted by the Scientists of the Plant Pathogen Confirmatory Diagnostics Laboratory (PPCDL) in Laurel, Maryland.  The workshop planning team has developed a schedule that offers a wide variety of topics and delivery methods…seven topics in all…and both in-person and virtual workshops. Four of the seven topics are NEW in 2024.

Save-the-Date

The 2024 NPDN National Meeting will be held in Maine in September 2024 (details to come).

The NPDN National Meeting provides professional development and networking opportunities to NPDN members and the broader diagnostic community. In preparation for the 2024 NPDN National Meeting, we are now looking for volunteers from each region to join the different planning sub-committees. Help us make this event a big success, and ensure that the meeting program and activities suit the needs of the network.

BBIG Boxwood Seminar Series: Battling Boxwood Blight

August 23, 2023, 1:00 p.m.

BEAN IMPROVEMENT COOPERATIVE (BIC) AND NORTH AMERICAN PULSE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION (NAPIA) BIANNUAL MEETING HOSTED BY CLEMSON UNIVERSITY.

The NAPIA & BIC joint meeting will be in Greenville, SC 5-9 November, 2023. 

The BIC & NAPIA Biennial Meeting is an opportunity for members and colleagues from around the world and from many diverse disciplines to interact and exchange information on bean and pulse improvement.

All are invited to join the BIC-NAPIA meeting!

The BIC & NAPIA meeting aims to:

Karen Snover-Clift and Barb Riker, Cornell University, NEPDN  
Dr. Megan Romberg, Dr. John McKemy, USDA-APHIS, National Mycologists   
Dr. Karen Rane, University of Maryland, NEPDN

We are pleased to announce a new professional development workshop coming this spring! The Morphological Fungal Identification Techniques Workshop, or MFIT Workshop for short, will be available to NPDN members, partners, and colleagues around the time of the PPCDL Workshops.

From: Rebecca Melanson (rebecca.melanson@msstate.edu) and Bill Wintermantel (bill.wintermantel@usda.gov) 
EVCWG Co-Chairs

Please join us on June 5 - 9, 2023 in Rohnert Park (Sonoma County), CA for the 68th Western International Forest Disease Work Conference (WIFDWC)! The following email includes previously shared information in addition to the newly updated registration website and highlighted reminders about deadlines (the first deadline is April 6th for the hotel)! As always, you can also visit www.wifdwc.org for more information.

Registration 

Register online by April 17th at: