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Marcelo Bustamante, a graduate student in Eskalen Lab, received Second Place for Best Poster in the students competition category at the 12th International Workshop on Grapevine Trunk Diseases in Mikulov, Czech Republic.  The title of the poster was "Investigating the role of Fusarium spp. on young vine decline in California", by the authors Marcelo I. Bustamante, Karina Elfar, Molly Arreguin, Rhonda J. Smith, Larry J. Bettiga, Tian Tian, Gabriel A.

Please see this opportunity in the Plant Pathology Department for Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension: https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF05013 . Please apply completely by August 31, 2022 for full consideration.

Congratulations to Gitta Coaker in receiving the 2022 Noel T. Keen Award for Research Excellence in Molecular Plant Pathology from the American Phytopathological Society​. The award is given biennially (beginning in 2020) in recognition of outstanding contributions to regulatory plant pathology, crop security, and trade enhancement efforts by APS members. 

UC Davis plant geneticist Pam Ronald has been named the recipient of the 2022 International Wolf Prize in Agriculture, given by the Jerusalem-based Wolf Foundation in recognition of her “pioneering work on disease resistance and environmental stress tolerance in rice.”

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Deborah Golino, FPS Director, to Retire in July 2021

After 27 years of service, Foundation Plant Services’ (FPS) Director and Cooperative Extension Specialist, Dr. Deborah Golino will retire on July 1, 2021. Since 1994, Dr. Golino has been the Director of FPS, a self-supporting service unit in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at University of California, Davis. FPS is dedicated to the distribution of disease-tested, true-to-identity plant materials with programs for grapes, strawberries, fruit trees, nut trees, sweet potatoes, and roses.

We thank you, Jovita, for your many years of dedicated service to our department.  You joined us in 2002 during a challenging time, and came in and transformed our laboratory services into a modern and efficient facility.  All of us in the research labs rely upon and greatly appreciate your outstanding service. You brighten our day with your positive spirit and cheerful greeting. We will miss you, but wish you all the best in your retirement. All our best~ Rick

An Open Door

Bryce is retiring!

Dr. Tiffany Lowe-Power opened her lab at UC Davis in 2019. This October, she presented about her lab's collaborative research to understand the mechanism of tomato wilt disease. The seminar is broadly accessible to the general public as well as plant pathologists, plant biologists, and microbiologists (click to go to YouTube to see seminar).

Award Recognizes Exceptional Lifetime Achievement in Agriculture (click for more information)