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The Villari Forest Pathology Lab @UGAWarnell focuses on interactions among trees, fungal pathogens and insect, and related chemical ecological aspects.

Joined September 2018
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One of the best parts of #IUFRO2024 conference is the fact that I get a chance to hang out with these amazing ladies focusing on #forest #pathology across the globe 🌏. #womeninSTEM @IreneBarnes19 @LabVillari @michellecleary @IUFROdivision7
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FABIans are joined by RSA and USA colleagues for a final bark beetle microbiome workshop fabinet.up.ac.za/index.php/n… #fabinews via @Fabiteam1
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Prof. Caterina Villari visits FABI fabinet.up.ac.za/index.php/n… #fabinews via @Fabiteam1
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What's behind these bumps on American beech? A @UGAWarnell undergraduate in @LabVillari and I are working to recreate this weird phenomenon and identify the cause! – at Athens, GA
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fantastic @UGAWarnell seminar by @richamelin on #foresthealth, #genomics, #climatechange and #invasive; fun discussion with lab members! Thank @LabVillari for organizing the seminar!
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This week’s # IUFRO2024 ✨#SessionHighlight ✨is about session T1.20 #NeedleDiseases of #conifers🌲: a globally rising threat to natural and planted #forests moderated by @IreneBarnes19, Michelle Cleary and Caterina Villari iufro2024.com/
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Joro Spider Awareness Day! Register: eventbrite.com/e/joro-spider… When: Oct 1, 2022 9am-11am Where: Oconee Forest Park (trailhead near 5 Alumni Drive, Athens GA 30602) Cost: $0 Want to learn about Joro spiders from UGA experts? Presentations, handouts/stickers, and guided ID walks.
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Hello🖐🏽 The @IUFRO 7th International Workshop of Genetics of Plant-Tree Interactions keeps working in #Pontevedra Now LIVE 🔴 m.youtube.com/watch?v=X0ZaLE…
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@IUFROdivision7 field trip to @bodegagranbazan where they produce six different wines. Few of us, including @DuroBless and @soumya4evr, tasted the 🍇 2/3 #ForestHealth2022 @7GTPI2022 – at Pontevedra, Spain
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Loblolly pine resistance IS achievable! Caterina Villari talk @7GTPI2022 gave insights into this #Vibrational #Spectroscopy
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Tania Quesada from @ForestPathLab was presenting neat work on predicting qualitative & quantitative resistance to #fusiformrust in loblolly 🌲 families using integrated genomic & phenotypic 🌲-🦠 data. @IUFROdivision7 @7GTPI2022 @USDA_NIFA #WomenInSTEM #ForestHealth2022 – at Pontevedra, Spain
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Busy week is coming to #Pontevedra! The 7th @IUFRO International Workshop on the Genetics of Tree-Parasite Interactions in Forestry is beginning at this time You can follow the conference here youtube.com/watch?v=nlrj03Yh… And more info at its website: gtpi2022.csic.es
[#ForestHealth2022] Another talk of Colton Meinecke @resinsoaked on a field-ready LAMP assay to detect the #pine pitch canker #fungus #Fusarium circinatum from host tissue @IUFROdivision7 @LabVillari @leptograph
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[#ForestHealth2022] Colton Meinecke @resinsoaked on diagnosing emerging needle diseases of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) @IUFROdivision7 @ForestPathology @LabVillari
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[#ForestHealth2022] Enrico Bonello (@OSUPlantPath) on early in-field detection of #BeechLeafDisease, caused by the nematode Litylenchus crenatae ssp. mccannii, using NIR spectroscopy @IUFROdivision7 @LabVillari @OhioState
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Invasive Jorō spiders are spreading in the SE USA but what does it mean?? In a collab w @biocontrol_uga and @GeorgiaWild, @UGAWarnell 's @LabVillari, Brittany Barnes, and Kamal Gandhi are collecting hundreds of them to figure out what they are eating. More to follow!
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WJ Dafoe et al. Submitted to Nature Vs. WJ Dafoe et al. Accepted in principle, Scientific Reports
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Combining #WomensHistoryMonth with & celebration of #InternationalDayOfForests, I couldn't pass the opportunity to celebrate another amazing #ForestPathology #researcher, #educator, & recent #editor in @FrontiersIn, Dr. Caterina Villari, @LabVillari. 1/2 warnell.uga.edu/people/facul…
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Always exciting to help with an emerging issue! We spent a gorgeous spring day sampling for the @LabVillari / @afaaqb2w project to find the cause of southern hackberry decline, with @usfs_srs and @GaTrees PC: Stephen Fraedrich; me
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