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NCPN- Berries Committee Members

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Chair: 

David Lawson 

Agri-Starts Inc. 

Apopka, FL

Vice-Chair: 

Doug Thomas 

Crown Nursery 

Red Bluff, CA

                              INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES

Yongjian Chang   

General Manager

North American Plants, INC
Lafayette,Oregon 

 

Ellen Thompson

Global Director of Breeding

Hortifrut North America, Inc.

Watsonville, CA

 

David Lawson, Chair 

Agri-Starts Inc.

Apopka, FL 32712

Michael Seagraves 

Global Plant Health

Driscoll’s Strawberry Associates

Watsonville, CA 

 

Doug Thomas, Vice 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 

California Department of Food and Agriculture

Sacramento, CA 95814

Dipak Poudyal 

Plant Pathologist, Plant Health Program 

Oregon Department of Agriculture 

Salem, OR

Christie Almeyda - EC 

Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology
North Carolina State University

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Kim Lewers

Research Geneticist (Plants)

USDA-ARS

Beltsville, MD 

 

Walt Mahaffee   

Horticulture Crops Research Unit

Corvallis, OR 

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Natalia Peres

Plant Pathologist

University of Florida

Wimauma, FL

James Polashock

Research Plant Pathologist

USDA-ARS

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

 

Tim Miles

Plant Pathologist

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

RESEARCH AND EXTENSION MEMBERS

COORDINATOR(S)

Darcy Kochis

Portland, OR 

darcy@foodfirstmarketing.com

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