🌿 APP Phase 2 Train-the-Trainer workshop kicked off today in Mbombela. Jan Hendrik Venter welcomed African delegates, stressing the link between safe plant movement, trade, and food security. ARC showcased its mobile clinic and biosecurity work. #PlantHealth #Biosecurity

🎥 Highlights from today’s visit by South China Agricultural University (SCAU). The delegation spent the afternoon at our ARC VIMP and PHP campus, visiting the Biosystematics unit and engaging with our research teams. A focused end to a meaningful first day. #ARCSCAU

Una breve entrevista de nuestro proyecto FIC para el manejo integrado del nematodo de la frutilla (Aphelenchoides fragariae) Gobierno Regional de O'Higgins Universidad de O'Higgins Laboratorio de Nematología UOH youtube.com/watch?v=neMv1Y…

Congratulations to Sebastian Eves-van den Akker who has received this year's IS-MPMI Early Career Achievement Award - a reflection of his leadership & the brilliant work of members of his lab, over several years. tinyurl.com/mr2d3ubv

Save the date! 🪱 Advances in Nematology 2025 will be held at the Linnean Society London & online on December 4th 📆 Limited in-person registration opens 1st September Submit an abstract & find out more 🔗 buff.ly/HOgf6af Anika Damm Dr Richard Binks 🇺🇦🐝 #nematodes

📢The Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 2026 abstract submission deadline has been EXTENDED 🐛🐜🕷️🦠🪱 Abstracts are NOW due AUGUST 15th 23:59 PDT‼️ Submit an abstract 👇 globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/abstract/

🌿 Maria João Camacho, from INIAV, IP, recently presented sensor technology for sustainable crop protection, highlighting the PurPest project and the crucial role of early #nematode detection 🌱🔬 🔎 Read more at purpest.eu/news/iqtb-plan…

Student Travel Grants for the GSB2026 Conference are now open‼️ Students who work on any aspect of soil biodiversity are encouraged to apply 🐛🦠🪱 Find the full call below 👇 static1.squarespace.com/static/5b9033f…

Absolutely honoured to have been invited to speak and very much looking forward to the conference!!

For #WormWednesday, here's Neothada olearum - a species of tylenchid nematode found in the soils of olive groves around the Mediterranean basin. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

A West Kootenay male Teratocephalus sp. Active Plant Nematologists

Excited to share our lab's latest publication doi.org/10.1002/ps.700… on #EPN and their symbiotic #bacteria for controlling #nematodes in #turfgrass! Kudos to my former MS student Jake Larkin for leading this work and Dr. Rami Kassam & Billy Crow for fruitful contributions!

Calling all soil taxonomists 📣 Have you described a new species in the last 5 years? If so, we would love to hear about it! Tell us about in our Free + Open Submission event Name Drop! New species unveiled faster than you can say Linnaeus 👇 globalsoilbiodiversity.org/gsb4

📢The Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 2026 abstract submission deadline is in TWO WEEKS 🐛🐜🕷️🦠🪱 Abstracts are NOW due AUGUST 15th 23:59 PDT‼️ Submit an abstract 👇 globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/abstract/

Bleeding-edge state of the Art NemRec -- Automatic nematode recognition by image Site: http://168.138.167.251:8080/ Needs more images for training. Great effort so far!!! Active Plant Nematologists

🪱 Reminder: Registration for #VNC2025 is NOW OPEN until September 10th!! 🎉 Register and submit your abstract here. 👉 lnkd.in/dzTRsK7z Special thanks to The Company of Biologists who support this year’s VNC via Funding for Innovations in Sustainable Conferencing!

We’re excited to be a key partner in the Nematology Awareness Workshop happening in 📍 Meru University of Science and Technology (MUST) 18th–19th August 2025 In attendance; our supervisors NemaChap and Solveig Haukeland #nematodeawareness #soilhealth

We’re glad to support the fight against Potato Cyst Nematodes During the Nematology Awareness Workshop at Meru University of Science and Technology (MUST) , NemAfrica donated a Fenwick Can to aid in PCN extraction and training. With better tools, we empower more hands to protect farmers’ crops Solveig Haukeland

We are excited that Dr. Deepak (Thee-puck) Haarith🔬🌱🎓🖊️⛏️⚖️🇮🇳 has joined the UF Nematology faculty as our Molecular Nematologists. He will be advancing Nematology by leaps and bounds!

Plant protection congress 2025