
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
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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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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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Forest pathology in changing climate @TreeHealthDoc @j_e_stewart @LabVillari #treedisease #climatechange #foresthealth frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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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.

ALT Background is a joro spider in a web. Text from top to bottom reads: Joro Spider Awareness Day. October 1, 2022 9:00 am - 11:00 am. Expert Speakers. Spider ID Walks. Stickers and Handouts. Search Eventbrite for "Joro Spider Awareness Day." Location: Oconee Forest Park. Parking and Boardwalk Trail entrance near 5 Alumni Drive, Athens GA 30602. Three logos on the bottom of the graphic are for Joro Watch, University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, and University of Georgia College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences.
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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
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[#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
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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















































