Network

Newsletter

October 21, 2004

Volume 1, Number 8

Third Annual Regional Meeting! November 4-5 in Atlanta, GA. 

Early registration and room rates have expired , but there are still a few spaces open.  

Meeting information can be found at http://spdn.ifas.ufl.edu/spdn_meetings.html

Online registration is available at https://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/basic/spdn/reg.html.

Southern Plant Diagnostic Network

1453 Fifield Hall

Gainesville, FL 32611

Phone:

(352) 392-3631 ext 254

Fax:

(352) 392-6532

E-mail:

clharmon@ufl.edu

We’re on the Web!

http://spdn.ifas.ufl.edu/

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Online Offerings

^NEWFirst Detector page:  One-stop-shopping for our Network’s First Detectors is available at http://spdn.ifas.ufl.edu/First_Detectors.htm.  You can find access to the most recent pest news, find people within our Network, find a diagnostic laboratory in your state, and more!

^NEWTrain-the-trainer manual now available:  The NPDN Training and Education Sub-Committee has written a comprehansive manual to help you conduct Network training.  You can find it on the Educational Materials page, or link directly to the PDF at http://spdn.ifas.ufl.edu/NPDN_Training_Manual_10-04.pdf.  

Networking and archiving state newsletters:  Let's make use of our regional expertise!  We would like to link to your state's agricultural newsletters, especially those with pest information, in order to create one-stop-shopping for pest information and to archive those documents for preservation and future use.

Entomology workshop, SPDN: The SPDN will host an intensive Homoptera workshop http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/homoptera for general diagnosticians and extension specialists at the University of Florida in Gainesville, December 9-11, 2004.  For more information, contact Amanda Hodges achodges@ifas.ufl.edu

^NEWTospovirus Conference, University of Georgia:  Dec 2, 2004.  The objective of this conference is to bring together all disciplines that deal with diseases caused by Tospoviruses and their thrips vectors.  Seating is limited, so please pre-register by November 18^th.  For pre-registration and additional information contact: Natalia Martinez at (229) 386-7230 or nmartinez@tifton.uga.edu.

^NEWNematode Identification Short Course, Clemson University:  Dec 4-11, 2004.  This course has been presented annually for more than 25 years, and has received many favorable comments.  There are a few seats remaining for this year's course.  For more information, please visit http://pppweb.clemson.edu/Nematode.htm

The October edition of the Southern Region Integrated Pest Management Center Newsletter “Southern Exposure” is now available for viewing on the web at: http://www.sripmc.org/newsalerts/newsletter/October04.pdf.  One of our partners in protecting agriculture in the South, the SRIPMC produces this newsletter and many other useful publications.

First Detector and First Detector Educator testing:

The tests are available on the education modules page. Scantrons are available and can be shipped to you on request. We can even do the grading and enter the registry information for you!  Contact Amanda Hodges at (352) 392-1901 xt 122 or ACHodges@ifas.ufl.edu