NCPN- Berries Committee Members
Chair:
Doug Thomas, Vice Chair - EC
Crown Nursery
Red Bluff, CA
Vice-Chair:
Ellen Thompson
Global Director of Breeding
Hortifrut North America, Inc.
Watsonville, CA
INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES
Yongjian Chang
General Manager
North American Plants, INC
Lafayette,Oregon
Ellen Thompson, Vice Chair - EC
Global Director of Breeding
Hortifrut North America, Inc.
Watsonville, CA
David Lawson
Agri-Starts Inc.
Apopka, FL 32712
John Place
CEO
Nourse Farms
South Deerfield, MA
Melody Meyer-Jertberg
Senior Manager - Clean Stock & Plant Health
Driscoll’s Strawberry Associates
Watsonville, CA
Doug Thomas, Chair - EC
Crown Nursery
Red Bluff, CA
Jon Umble
Fall Creek Farm and Nursery, Inc.
Lowell, OR
STATE REGULATORY REPRESENTATIVES
Brenda Lanini - EC
Environmental Program Manager 1
California Department of Food and Agriculture
Sacramento, CA
Dipak Poudyal
Plant Pathologist, Plant Health Program
Oregon Department of Agriculture
Salem, OR
Christie Almeyda
Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology
North Carolina State University
Kim Lewers
Research Geneticist (Plants)
Genetic Improvement of Fruits and Vegetables Lab
USDA-ARS
Beltsville, MD
Walt Mahaffee
Horticulture Crops Research Unit
USDA-ARS
Corvallis, OR
Natalia Peres
Plant Pathologist
University of Florida
Wimauma, FL
James Polashock
Research Plant Pathologist
USDA-ARS
Genetic Improvement of Fruits and Vegetables
Chatsworth, NJ
Maher Al Rwahnih
Foundation Plant Services
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA
Annemiek C. Schilder, PhD
Director, UCCE Ventura County and Hansen Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Ventura, CA
Ioannis Tzanetakis
Department of Plant Pathology
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR
RESEARCH AND EXTENSION MEMBERS
Non-Voting Members
Jennifer Nicholson
Coordinator, National Clean Plant Network
APHIS-Plant Protection and Quarantine
Raleigh, NC