Come and listen to Dr. Sakalidis speak on oak wilt in chestnut on Saturday March 25. For more information on this meeting please click on this link.
A new MSU Extension news article highlighting a new wilt disease found on chestnut and its link to the oak wilt pathogen Bretziella fagacearum.
We are excited to welcome Corium Hipakka who will be joining our lab as an undergraduate research assistant in the new year!
Congratulations to Rebecca Harkness and Karan Chahal for passing their comprehensive exams, they are now both officially PhD Candidates! Fantastic achievement, and many more to come.
Two research associate (post doc) positions and one Master’s position available to start in 2023.
Interested?
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Or feel free to reach out to Dr. Sakalidis directly.
Finishing off a busy summer, Dr. Sakalidis recently spoke to Christmas tree growers at the Mid-west and Michigan Christmas Tree growers meeting on pathogen detection, spruce decline and biocontrol issues. Dr. Sakalidis will be speaking at the Seedling Growers meeting on September the 11th and will provide updates on the research that is on-going in the Forest Pathology lab at MSU.
Check out our new extension news article on Oak wilt.
On March 8th come and have a listen to a day of talks on “Addressing Threats to Michigan’s Forest Health”, some of the talks will include Dr. Sakalidis and member’s of her lab speaking on oak wilt, spruce decline, thousand cankers disease of walnut and white pine health issues.
We are looking for conifer growers in Michigan to fill in our survey on fungal and oomycete diseases that affect their plants. Your input will be used to drive our research focus, and ensure that new detection tools, disease management strategies, educational materials, and programming target the most at-risk tree species and serious pathogens. Please check out our survey page to get more information and a link to the survey itself!
Dr. Sakalidis has had a busy couple of months, recent talks include “The Fight Against Boxwood Blight” at the MNLA Great Lakes Trade Expo, “Oak Wilt, it‚Äôs here, it‚Äôs spreading- so what are we doing about it” at the DNR Professional Development Training meeting and this week “Genetics of Caliciopsis species affecting Pinus spp.; what we know and what we need to find out” at the White Pine Health Workshop in Athens, Georgia. Next week Dr. Sakalidis will be talking at the Winter Nursery Meeting on “MSU Research Update on Spruce Decline‚Äù & ‚ÄúWhat are your concerns? Conifer Growers Disease Survey”, in West Olive on February 16th.