Organization: MDA Division of Plant Industries, Plant Pest Control Program
Full-time (40h/week) regulatory lab position focused on diagnosing diseases and pests on samples collected from nurseries and greenhouses as well as export certification for field crops. Good opportunity for recent or soon-to-be Masters/Doctoral grads as well as Bachelors grads with relevant work experience.
USDA-ARS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Systematics and Taxonomy of Fungal Plant Pathogens
Organization: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Clarissa Balbalian (Chair, National Data Committee)
The Communicator: Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2025
Sara May, The Pennsylvania State University – NEPDN, Swarnalatha Moparthi, North Carolina State University – SPDN, and Samantha Fieweger, Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection - NCPDN
The Communicator: Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2025
Zach Schumm, Iowa State University – NCPDN – NPDN O&E Committee Chair and Jenny Glass, Washington State University – WPDN - O&E Committee Vice Chair
The Communicator: Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2025
The Communicator: Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2025
This month's Accreditation Corner will briefly clarify the difference between a document repository and document revisions (and version control), since several questions have come up recently.
Chelsea Harbach, Iowa State University – NCPDN
The Communicator: Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2025
The Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences at Michigan State University i
USDA APHIS PPQ’s Plant Pathogen Diagnostics Certification Program (PPDCP) is onboarding new labs for program participation.
Onboarding typically includes an introductory meeting, submitting records that demonstrate your lab’s established quality and biosafety systems, a virtual walkthrough, a “pretest” consisting of small sample sets, and finally, proficiency testing to certify the lab’s diagnosticians.
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.