Guest Lectures in: |o Biology 101- Career Explorations|o Hort 102- Hands On Horticulture. |o Plpa 241/301- Plant Disease and Disease Management. |o Plpa 411-Plant Disease Diagnosis. |o Plpa 601 Introduction to Oomycetes. |o Plpa 707- Phytobacteriology. |o Hort 300-Interior Plants. |o Hort 476-Practical Problem-Skills in Hortculture. |o Plpa 610- Oomycete Biology and Pathology, Guest Lecture.

My extension teaching programs are geared toward audiences that include Master Gardeners, Extension Educators, other green industry members, and students. They focus on basic plant pathology, plant disease diagnostics, and the operation of the NEPDN. I am responsible for overseeing the diagnosis of plant diseases on a wide range of host plants such as woody ornamentals, herbaceous plants, fruits, vegetables, turfgrasses, and field crops, as well as conducting large scale surveys searching for harmful, introduced pathogens of high concern and those pathogens that are capable of causing significant damage to agricultural or natural environments and may be intentionally or unintentionally introduced.||My NEPDN duties include maintaining a regional center capable of supporting the diagnostic needs of 12 northeastern states. I represents all NPDN member diagnosticians on the National NPDN operations committee. As chairman of the diagnostics subcommittee, I provide leadership in the creation of Standard Operating Procedures, coordination of highly sophisticated, identification procedure training events, and maintaining active communications of significant events. As chairman of the national database subcommittee, I provide leadership in the creation of Upload Guidelines for those submitting diagnostic identifications to the National Repository at Purdue University and in reviewing the host and pathogen EPA pest codes for appropriate content and accuracy.