New photos of farm inoculation

are available to view through Picasa as a slide show on my photography blog.

Plants inoculated in the mist chamber

P. citricola
P. citrophthora

P. syringae

P. cinnamomi

P. nicotianae

googly eyes

I posted a little video at the bottom of this page, just for fun. It is a sketch from Saturday Night Live. The site that hosts the video streams an advert before the video begins. It's pretty funny I think.

beautiful drip spread lesions

Here are some new photos from today in the mist chamber, the Phytophthoras are doing nicely in there where it is all wet.

Current Activities

I'm helping to compile data from a study looking at a potential new species of Phytophthora, and conducting kochs postulates on several isolates in collaboration with another lab. I'm also pulling together the data from my poster to put into a paper written by a post doc in our lab to try to get that published too. I'm running a mist chamber inoculation concurrently with my field work to compare findings at 2 different temperatures under very moist conditions. I will also be repeating a detache leaf inoculation using P. ramorum as I obtained rather strange results last time.

that's all for now

APS meeting

Here I am at the American Phytopathological Society Meeting in Portland OR earlier this week. I presented this poster on the pathogenic fitness of the clonal lineages of Phytophthora ramorum.