Wednesday, 29 October 2003: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM

235/236 (Convention Center (Second Floor))

Section E Symposium: Building a National Plant Pest and Disease Diagnosis Network--A Federal/State Partnership

Organizer(s): Michael J. Firko
Dennis Kopp
Kitty Cardwell
1:00 PMIntroductory Remarks
1:10 PM0937Attributes of the new National Plant Diagnostic Network and the role of USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Coanne O'Hern
1:35 PM0938Integrating the new National Plant Diagnostic Network with USDA’s existing national system for detection and diagnosis of plant pests and diseases
Joseph Cavey
2:00 PM0939Sustainable governance and funding for the National Plant Diagnostic Network
Robert S. Zeigler, Kitty Cardwell, Coanne O'Hern
2:25 PM0940Developing education curricula for plant protectionists
Gail C. Wisler, Tim Momol, Tom Creswell, Steven A. Cain
2:50 PMBreak
3:10 PM0941Functioning data systems and network integration
Eileen Luke, John S. Yaninek, Will Baldwin, Jim Pheasant
3:35 PM0942Functioning diagnostic processes, standard operating procedures, and standardized protocols
Rosemary Loria, Karen Snover, Laurene Levy
4:00 PM0943Functioning automated data analysis processes for event detection
Carla Thomas, Richard M. Bostock, Eileen Luke
4:25 PM0944Functioning response activation and decision support mechanisms
Daniel Fieselmann, Ray Hammerschmidt
4:50 PMConcluding Remarks

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