2024 NPDN National Meeting
sup{ vertical-align: super; font-size: 75%; }
The Communicator: Volume 5, Issue 7, July 2024
sup{ vertical-align: super; font-size: 75%; }

The Communicator: Volume 5, Issue 7, July 2024
Mike Hill (NPDN IT Director, CERIS-Purdue University)
The Communicator: Volume 5, Issue 7, July 2024
Allina Bennett (NPDN Professional Development Coordinator, University of Florida – SPDN)
The Communicator: Volume 5, Issue 7, July 2024
By Felicia Millett (NPDN Proficiency Committee Chair, Connecticut Ag. Exp. Stn. - NEPDN) and Allina Bennett (NPDN Professional Development Coordinator, University of Florida - SPDN)
The Communicator: Volume 5, Issue 7, July 2024
By Chandler Day and Megan Kennelly* (Kansas State University – GPDN)
*GPDN Co-Director
The Communicator: Volume 5, Issue 7, July 2024
By Carrie Harmon (SPDN Co-Director, University of Florida – SPDN)
The Communicator: Volume 5, Issue 7, July 2024
We invite applications to fill a full-time position with responsibilities as a plant disease diagnostician and as manager of the Arkansas Plant Health Clinic. The Plant Health Clinic is supported by the Cooperative Extension Service and provides services to Arkansas farmers, homeowners and industry who have plant diseases or other plant health issues.
In case you missed the communication from APHIS (sent to APHIS Stakeholder Registry on 6.27.2024):
Dear APHIS permittees,
This message is for permittees who hold a permit issued in ePermits. APHIS will decommission ePermits in 2024.
Please join us on September 9 - 13, 2023 in Santa Fe,New Mexico for the 69th Western International Forest Disease Work Conference (WIFDWC)! You can also visit www.wifdwc.org for more information.
Registration
Register online by August 9th at:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/westerninternationalforestdiseaseworkconferencewifdwc
Want to help determine how much funding goes to diagnostic projects? USDA-APHIS is soliciting reviewers for the PPA 7721 suggestions.

NPDN supports plant health and biosecurity in U.S. agricultural and natural ecosystems by providing expert diagnostic capacity, communication, coordination, and quality pest and disease diagnostic information.