Proposals Requested for 2012 OIP Global Experience Program The APS Office of International Programs (OIP) is requesting proposals for the “OIP Global Experience,” a program aimed at helping APS plant pathologists work with scientists and extension personnel in developing countries in training and outreach efforts. As agriculture worldwide is affected by globalization, it becomes increasingly important to foster and sustain plant-pathological research and extension on a global scale. The program is open to all APS members to conduct short courses, workshops, or training programs in collaboration with a cooperating institution in a developing country. Teams of a senior and junior plant pathologist are encouraged. Development of training/extension materials for the workshop will also be supported by this program. Up to $3,000 will be available to successful applicants to support travel and training material costs. Host institutions are expected to provide in-kind contributions or matching funds. Proposals are requested for programs to be administered in 2012. Proposals should be received on or before December 1, 2011. Questions should be directed to Talo Pastor-Corrales, USDA ARS, SBGI Lab, Bldg 006, Room 118, BARC West, 10300 Baltimore Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705; phone: +1.301.504.6600; fax: +1.301.504.5728; e-mail: talo.pastor-corrales@ars.usda.gov.
People Collaboration From July 24 to July 27, Paul Vincelli, University of Kentucky, visited the International Center for the Improvement of Maize and Wheat (CIMMYT) in Texcoco, Mexico, to offer a workshop entitled “Plant pathogen detection using real-time PCR.” The course was directed to an audience of 12 technicians working in Mexican official and private diagnostic laboratories. The focus of the course was updating and enhancing knowledge of the use of the real-time PCR techniques to detect quarantine pathogens. The course was very well received and successful and it will be repeated in January 2012.
Read more about the Global Experience Program, download an application, and read about past awardees’ experiences on APSnet at www.apsnet.org/members/outreach/oip/Pages/ GlobalExperience.aspx.
An Update on the OIP Library Assistance Program From August 2010 to July 2011, the Office of International Programs (OIP) Library Assistance Program provided 385 books, compendia, and bulletins; 90 volumes (1,072 issues) of Plant Disease; and 31 volumes (372 issues) of Phytopathology to 11 institutes in Azerbaijan, Georgia, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Turkey, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. The publications were donated by APS, James Percich (Minnesota), Chris Becker (New York), Randy Rowe (Ohio), Chester Mirocha (Minnesota), and Mohammad Babadoost (Illinois). The total fee for shipping the publications was $7,816.09, which was provided by APS ($2,962.49), West Bengal State University of India ($3,137), Courtney Gallup from Iowa ($250), Nick Vandervort from Wisconsin ($260.40), David Thomas from Illinois ($256.20), Christopher Becker from New York ($500), Alem Peter from Georgia ($250), and Myrna Sevilla from Florida ($200). Since 2003, the Library Assistance Program has provided more than 1,200 books, compendia, and bulletins; 2,016 volumes of journals; and other educational materials to 98 universities and research/extension centers in 61 developing countries. Currently, the following publications are available for shipping to the libraries of educational, research, and extension institutes in developing countries: a full set of Phytopathology; Air Pollution, People, and Plants; Apple Scab: Biology, Epidemiology, and Management; Barley Yellow Dwarf: 40 Years of Progress; Compendium of Onion and Garlic Diseases; Compendium of Peanut Diseases; Compendium of Rose Diseases; Crown Gall: Advances in Understanding Interkingdom Gene Transfer; Essential Plant Pathology; Host Wall Interactions by Parasitic Fungi; Insect Pests of Small Grains; Leptographium Species: Tree Pathogens, Insect Associates, …; Managing Diseases in Greenhouse Crops; Molecular Aspects of Pathogenicity and Resistance: Requirement for Signal Transduction; Multilingual Compendium of Plant Diseases; Nutrient Deficiencies and Toxicities in Crop Plants; Peanut Health Management; Plant Diseases: Their Biology and Social Impact; Plant-Microbe Interactions, Vol. 5; Plant-Microbe Interactions, Vol. 6; Potato Health Management; Soybean Diseases: A Reference Source for Seed Technologists; Taxonomy and Pathology of Cylindrocladium (Calonectria) and Allied Genera; The Nature of Wilt Diseases of Plants; Tropical Plant Diseases, Second Edition; Turfgrass Patch Diseases Caused by Ectotrophic Root-Infecting Fungi; Ultrastructure of the Root-Soil Interface; and Wheat Health Management. For more information, contact Babadoost (Babadoost@illinois.edu) at the University of Illinois. n
Paul Vincelli (center) with colleagues during his trip to CIMMYT.
Student Degree Chan Maketon completed the requirements for an M.S. degree in plant pathology from Washington State University under the supervision of Pat Okubara. His supervisory committee included Scot Hulbert, Chan Maketon Brenda Schroeder, and Linda Thomashow. Maketon’s dissertation research was on the early induction of wheat root defense gene homologues in two wheat cultivars by wild type and mutant biocontrol strains of Pseudomonas fluorescens. Maketon hails from Thailand, graduated from John W. North High School in Riverside, CA, and earned a B.S. degree in plant science at the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 2008, where he discovered an interest in research as an undergraduate in the laboratories of Elizabeth Arnold and Patricia Stock. People continued on page 158
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