MSU Plant & Pest Diagnostics

We’ve moved…come find us on Instagram at @msudiagnostics …same fun diagnostic antics, new location

Today was Holiday (any holiday) shirt day! Very festive!!

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

This is what it should look like if we can nurture it to adulthood…

What should we call it?

Our new lab pet, a hermit flower beetle grub, that we adopted from a recent sample needs a name…see poll below

Happy Halloween from your favorite diagnosticians! 🎃👻🧙‍♀️🧛‍♂️🍭🦇

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/5206… @MSUExtension @MSUAgBio

@MSU_PSM (i.e. MSU Dept. of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences) is looking for a new chairperson. Check out the link if you'd like to be our new boss😀We have a robust, thriving department just waiting for you. careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/5206…

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)

🕷️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/nort… (Photo by Sarah Hughson)

👏 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 😀

@ISU_YardGarden It works on our end but hopefully now you can cut and paste from the above reply if it’s still not working for you

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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-resea…

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The color version

🔊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 🪦

Diagnostic samples come in all sorts of packages…but bugs in a bottle? That’s a new one for us! 🪳 🍼😱

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! 🤩

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