Colloquium on Plant Pests of Regulatory Significance (Presentations Slides only, for videos click here)

ALS 6921, Spring, 2009

 

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Date
Speaker
Title
1/7 Alison Neeley
USDA/APHIS/PPQ/CPHST, Raleigh, NC
The New Pest Advisory Group: Assessing Plant Pests Recently Introduced or Imminently Threatening the United States
1/14 Catherine Preston, USDAAPHIS- PPQ, Gainesville, FL Gladiolus Rust: Balancing Eradication Efforts And Grower's Needs Through Regulation
1/21 Dr. Matt Ciomperlik,
USDA/APHIS/PPQ/CPHST, Edinburg, TX
Chilli thrips, a Historical Perspective to Current Events
2/4 Dr. Daniel Fieselmann,
USDA/APHIS/PPQ/CPHST,
Raleigh, NC
Strategies for Safeguarding American Plant Resources
2/11 Wayne Dixon and Trevor
Smith, FDACS-DPI, Gainesville, FL
Texas Phoenix Palm Decline, Lethal Palm Decline or Palm Decline: Not Good News for Palms
2/18 Dr. Gary Knox, UF-IFAS
NFREC, Quincy, FL
Invasive Plant Issues and the Green Industry
2/25 Dr. Susan Halbert, FDACSDPI,
Plant Pathology, Gainesville, FL
Update on Citrus Greening
3/4 Dr. Tim Schubert, FDACSDPI,
Plant Pathology, Gainesville, FL
Recent Regulatory Failures and How We Might Do Better
3/18 Dr. Aaron Beaumont,
USDA/APHIS/PPQ/NDDTC,
Orlando, FL
Agriculture Canine Program
3/25 Todd Dutton,
USDA/APHIS/PPQ/PDC
Frederick, MD
Careers in Plant Protection and Quarantine
4/1 James Walker, USDA/APHIS/PPQ,
Gainesville, FL
Smuggling Interdiction and Trade Compliance Program
4/8 Wayne Clifton, FDACS, DPI
and Edward Cusano, USDA,
APHIS, PPQ Palmetto, FL
Florida Exotic Fruit Fly Program: Detection
Methods, and Emergency Program Delimitation Procedures
4/15 Stacia Hetrick, Osceola
County Extension, Kissimmee, FL
Demonstration Project on Hydrilla and Hygrophila in the Upper Kissimmee Chain of Lakes