Professional Development Update
Essential Proficiency Course Highlight: Fundamentals of Plant Diagnostics
Allina Bennett – NPDN Professional Development Coordinator
The Communicator: Volume 6, Issue 2, February 2025
Allina Bennett – NPDN Professional Development Coordinator
The Communicator: Volume 6, Issue 2, February 2025
Clarissa Balbalian (Chair, National Data Committee)
The Communicator: Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2025
Congratulations! If you are reading this, you are probably one of just over a thousand subscribers to The Communicator. This article discusses our readership, introduces the newsletter team, and links to the most popular articles of 2024.
Carrie Lapaire Harmon, SPDN Co-Director
The Communicator: Volume 6, Issue 2, February 2025
Angela Madeiras (University of Massachusetts Amherst – NEPDN) and Tania Brenes-Arguedas (WPDN Co-Director and National Program Coordinator)
The Communicator: Volume 6, Issue 2, February 2025
NPDN Regulatory Relations Committee
The Communicator: Volume 6, Issue 2, February 2025
Stephanie Shea – Accreditation Program Manager (NEPDN)
Dear PDIS Users,
We are pleased to announce two new features in the PDIS designed to enhance your diagnostic and reporting workflows:
1. NPDN First-In-State Entry
Kassie Conner, NPDN RRC Vice Chair (Auburn University, SPDN) and Samantha Fieweger, NPDN RRC Chair (Wisconsin DATCP, NCPDN)
The Communicator: Volume 6, Issue 2, February 2025
Alicyn Smart – Executive Director, NPDN
The Communicator: Volume 6, Issue 2, February 2025
The Bartlett diagnostic lab (located at the Bartlett Tree Research Laboratory and Arboretum) is hiring three 6-month interns (approx. May-Oct) to help with all general lab tasks and batch sample processing alongside our technician team. Please share the link with anyone interested!
https://www.bartlett.com/job-opportunities-c/research-lab-nc/plant-diagnostic-lab-intern
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.