Photo: The three winners of the contest stand in a line on large checkboard board tiles indoors. Each of them holds a bottle of wine and a paper award. The wall behind them has a marble facade reminiscent of an unfurled classical column's base up to railing height. A framed landscape hangs on the plaster above.

Graduate student Marcelo Bustamante receives Second Place for Best Poster at 12th International Workshop on Grapevine Trunk Diseases

  • by Peter Payne

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. Torres, George Zhuang, and Akif Eskalen, as a collaboration between researchers of the Eskalen lab (UC Davis) and UC Cooperative Extension farm advisors.

More information regarding the International Council of Grapevine Trunk Diseases can be found at their website: https://ucanr.edu/sites/ICGTD/