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September 25, 2006

Volume 3, Number 8

 

 

The new First Detector Training website is now at http://cbc.at.ufl.edu/.

 

 

 

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Editor:  Carrie L. Harmon

 

Online Offerings

 

New The NPDN Training & Education site The new First Detector training site is at http://cbc.at.ufl.edu/.  Current issues with the database are producing some errors. A new error-reporting system will be in place shortly. Use of this system will help us improve the entire training experience. Please check the Training and Education Website Update below for more information.

Pest and Pathogen News

New List of Labs Provisionally Approved to Process Phytophthora ramorum Samples:   This information, and much more about the process, can be found at http://programs.cphst.org/Pram/.

NewPotato Cyst Nematode Diagnostic Information  New protocols and information can be found on the Nematodes page.

Permits

The USDA-APHIS-PPQ Permits Division would like to remind personnel at all diagnostic and research laboratories that all interstate movement of pathogens (diagnostic samples or research isolates) requires a permit to receive unknown samples ("526"). States receiving samples from clients in adjacent states must also obtain a permit, but the permit will not require a biosafety hood. To access the new E-Permit website, follow this link: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/permits/learn_epermits.shtml. For more information, contact Carrie Harmon. More permit-related documents can be found on the Form-n-Things page of the SPDN website.

NewView an SPDN slide set about eAuthentication and ePermits here.

Training Opportunities

A workshop on real-time PCR for applied plant pathologists will be held at the University of Kentucky on 23-25 Jan 2007 and again on 27 Feb – 1 Mar 2007.  Participants will execute and interpret four real-time PCR experiments, extract DNA, and run a gel.  Topics include theory of real-time PCR, experimental controls, PCR inhibition, use of PCR kits, licensing, minimizing sample contamination, and troubleshooting.  For more information, contact Paul Vincelli (pvincell@uky.edu). [Note: workshops are filling up fast; both are half-full]

21st Annual Tomato Disease Workshop:  The TDW is being held on Nov. 9-10th at the Mountain Horticultural Crops Research & Extension Center in Fletcher, NC.  Click here for more information. A call for presentations will soon be sent out.

Training and Education Website Update: Unfortunately, we have had some technical problems with the new NPDN Training Site http://cbc.at.ufl.edu/ .  We apologize for any problems you have had in entering session or participant data.  Thanks in advance for your patience and for reporting problems as they occur.

  • Notices: If you are planning to enter data into the NPDN system, please wait until the week of September 25, 2006.
  • If you have entered data during September 11-22, 2006, it is possible that errors occurred in the reporting of your data.  Please contact Amanda Hodges achodges@ufl.edu if you do not notice the data you have entered appearing in the system after September 25, 2006.
  • Please continue to report problems to Amanda Hodges.
  • We have had some suggestions to improve the user interface layout for the new NPDN Training Site.  Some of these improved features should be available by September 25, 2006.