Webinar: How to complete the NEW PPCDL Workshop-Registration Request Form.

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The PPCDL Workshop Planning Team has asked us to create a new method for registering the workshop participants. The NPDN Professional Development Committee members have been helping create and review this new process and form. Join us for a webinar with the NPDN’s PPCDL Workshop Coordinator, Karen Snover-Clift.

2025 GPDN Webinar Series Speaker Signup and Suggestion Form

Please complete this form if you are interested in signing up as a speaker or have a suggestion for a speaker/topic for the 2025 GPDN Webinar Series. If you would like to sign up as a speaker AND suggest another speaker OR a different topic, please use one form for each.

Speakers will be allocated a one-hour time slot to give their presentation and engage with audience questions. The webinar will be held on Wednesdays at 11:00 am EST from the end of January into early spring. 

Deadline for submissions: Friday, December 13, 2024

Final speaker determination will be made in January 2025. Communications will follow.

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First NPDN Core Accredited Lab!

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On behalf of the Accreditation Committee, I am excited to announce the first NPDN Core Accredited Lab: Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development! The lab became accredited on October 01, 2024.

Congratulations to Elizabeth Dorman and Dr. Stefanie Rhodes for this significant accomplishment!

USAJOBS Job Announcement - Molecular Biologist

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We have 2 Molecular Biologist (Virologist-Plant Pathologist) positions opened in our lab at GS12 with promotional potential GS13. Please, forward to scientists that might be interested. The posting closes on Thu, Oct 3rd but if the cap of 100 applicants is not reached will remain opened until 100 applications are received.
Read more about Molecular Biologist at https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/810274900

Thank you!


Vessela Mavrodieva, PhD
Assistant Laboratory Director
Plant Pathogen Confirmatory Diagnostics Laboratory (PPCDL)

Begomoviruses in Cucurbits: What You Should Know

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We are excited to announce the next Emerging Viruses in Cucurbits Working Group (EVCWG) webinar/discussion opportunity, “Begomoviruses in Cucurbits: What You Should Know” 

When: October 3, 2024, from 12:00 – 1:30 PM Central Time

We hope you will be able to join us! This event is free to attend, but registration is required.

Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9hHH8cFvR0mO-GnxuNIiUw

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