Specializing in the assessment of plant health problems and the pests/pathogens that cause them.
Joined June 2017
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28 Mar 2025
We’ve moved…come find us on Instagram at @msudiagnostics …same fun diagnostic antics, new location
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17 Dec 2024
This year we invited our whole building (Center for Integrated Plants Systems, CIPS) to participate in a little spirit week fun...Monday was Flannel/Fleece Day and Today was Fun Sock Day! Stay tuned for more winter shenanigans...@MSU_PSM @MSUEntomology
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18 Dec 2024
Today was Holiday (any holiday) shirt day! Very festive!!
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5 Nov 2024
Our new lab pet, a hermit flower beetle grub, that we adopted from a recent sample needs a name…see poll below
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5 Nov 2024
What should we call it?
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Grubba the hut
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Chester
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Hans Grubber
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Pudge
4 votes • Final results
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5 Nov 2024
This is what it should look like if we can nurture it to adulthood…
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31 Oct 2024
Happy Halloween from your favorite diagnosticians! 🎃👻🧙♀️🧛♂️🍭🦇
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4 Oct 2024
When we said @MSU_PSM was searching for a new chair this was not what we had in mind 🤣 Here we see a new type of diagnostic sample w/ evidence of wood boring insects….but if you’d like to be our new boss, check out careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/52… @MSUExtension @MSUAgBio
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17 Sep 2024
It's Taco Tuesday & that is exactly what shape of these pocket galls (aka gall midges Macrodiplosis majalis) remind us of on oak. Check out more info at the link 🌮 gallformers.org/gall/1204 (Photos by Sarah Hughson)
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13 Sep 2024
🕷️It's Friday the 13th & what could be more frightful than a spider ID? This one = a black widow brought in on plant material from a southern state...but did you know we have northern black widows in lower Michigan? Read more here: canr.msu.edu/resources/north… (Photo by Sarah Hughson)
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12 Sep 2024
👏 We’re proud to announce that Laura Miles & Jan Byrne were awarded the @NPDN Outstanding Service Award!! Congratulations, we can’t wait to display your plaque in the lab 😀
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11 Sep 2024
Hot off the press...Oak Wilt testing can now be done with leaves instead of branch segments, which makes testing more accessible to individual residents. Learn more in this article from our very own Laura Miles!
canr.msu.edu/news/new-resear…
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11 Sep 2024
🔊When your colleagues are away the @NPDN meeting & you're left to entertain yourselves 💀This TURF MUMMY was pressNseal wrapped ...yet another unique way to send a sample (👀added from emergency googly kit)👻 #septemberween 🪦
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4 Sep 2024
Diagnostic samples come in all sorts of packages…but bugs in a bottle? That’s a new one for us! 🪳 🍼😱
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MSU Plant & Pest Diagnostics retweeted
21 Aug 2024
We are excited to recruit a PhD/MSc student to work on the bacterial plant pathogen P. syringae and its interactions with plasmids and phage. My group utilizes genomics, molecular bacteriology, protein biochemistry and fieldwork to study bacterial evolution 🧫🌱 Please share! 🤩
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5 Aug 2024
Molecular Diagnostician, Laura Miles, just turned 50! 🎉Ok, not 50 years old...but she is celebrating turning out >50 PCR reactions SETS for July....more than she has ever done before in a month...so her colleagues decorated her office 🥳👏 #stillveryyoung #sobusy @MSU_PSM
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2 Aug 2024
Hot off the press, learn more about the recent change in leadership at MSU Plant & Pest Diagnostics!
@MSUExtension @MSUAgBio @MSU_PSM @michiganstateu
canr.msu.edu/news/msu-plant-…
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MSU Plant & Pest Diagnostics retweeted
1 Aug 2024
Want to get the most out of your photo communications for ag-related problems?
Join me for the @MSUEFieldCrops Virtual Breakfast on Aug 8th @ 7am
Not only will u learn about📸, ✔️ out ⛈️ trends & gain 1 RUP/CCA credit, u can help me celebrate my 🎂🎉
canr.msu.edu/news/field-crop…
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31 Jul 2024
Got Scales? Magnolia scales have been a hot topic in the lab lately. The good news is, if you have crawlers there's still time to treat! See video from Sarah Hughson! And learn more from a recent MSUE article by Barbara Gregerson (1/2)
canr.msu.edu/news/why-is-sap…
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