I'm excited to announce that the NCSU Plant Nematology Lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team! Requirements: must like working with #sweetpotatoes and digging in the dirt to find #nematodes 🍠🪱👩‍🔬👨‍🏫 Apply at jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/173463

It’s been four years but I’ll never forget what I found in this fungal DNA sequence alignment! Has anyone ever seen this?

The worst part of mentoring students is when they leave 😢 keep an eye out for Jake Seiter undergrad research on GRBV in the southeast, and much more to come as he starts his PhD at NCSU with Dorith Rotenberg. We’ll miss you Jake!

Not just one, but two RB-TSWV variants found in NC. First Report of Resistance-Breaking Variants of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (TSWV) Infecting Tomatoes with the Sw-5 Tospovirus-Resistance Gene in North Carolina | Plant Disease apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PD…

A great team made the the new virus discovery! 🍅 This is a game changer for TSWV control recommendations on tomato (in locations with the RB variants). @meadowslab Dorith Rotenberg Kirsten Lahre and Reza Shekasteband NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology NC State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Mtn Hort

The state of the paper when the C.V lists it as "in preparation"

A Salivating Super Vector and the Secrets that Lurk Within cals.ncsu.edu/?p=211095 Great work by Dorith Rotenberg and team! I can't wait to see what comes from this work exploring thrips salivary glands and saliva. NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology NC State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Great place to learn and find friends for life! Go for it!

I haven't read an article like this after a mass shooting before (then again, I might not have been paying as close attention). It describes how many are feeling right now. Let's be kind to and careful with each other. slate.com/news-and-polit…

I just published: Pikobodies: A new hope for made-to-order plant disease resistance. Via Mia Cerfonteyn link.medium.com/XuS4eIfbSxb

Thanks David!!! I am really looking forward to some amazing discoveries and science NC State University NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology! 👨🏻‍🔬👨🏻‍💻🦠🍅🌱🍀

This story about GFLV silencing suppressor mechanisms was a long time coming!! My role was way back in 2012 as a Cornell AgriTech summer scholar, and it was my start in virology. Congrats Jessie Choi and the whole team!🤩 apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/pdf/10.109…

Fantastic lab and opportunity for vector biologists. I would jump at the chance if I could Jorunn Bos Maybe a sabbatical? 😉

Did you see any thrips?

A retirement celebration for Dr David Bird. Nematologist extraordinaire! An impressive 28 years of research and WNR distinguished professor at NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology NC State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences NC State University But he’s still working on his last paper!

A new release from my lab describing a method for In-silico prediction of RT-qPCR-high resolution melting for broad detection of viruses using emaraviruses as model genus. Also a contribution to Rose Rosette Disease research. Hope U like it 😃 @ PLOS ONE journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Thanks Libby Cieniewicz for sending Jake our way! We are happy to have him at NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology.

Fantastic work! I’ve been looking forward to this one! Congrats Anna! @_aedye NC State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology

Exciting Plant Virus Vector Interactions work happening in DEPP. Proof-of-principle project marks another barrier busted for functional genomic studies with Frankliniella occidentalis, the western flower thrips – a notorious virus vector and crop pest. resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/im…