Auburn University

Advisory Meeting FY26

 
 

Advisory Meeting - FY2026

Agenda and Handouts - PDF

Advisory Meeting Agenda FY26
FY25 Accomplishments
FY26 Work Plans
FY25 Income Structure
FY26 - FY28 Budget
FY26 Meeting Minutes

Presentations

Dr. Eckhardt: Mitigating needle blight: A growing economic threat to pine forests - project overview
Anrew Howard: Component 1 Update (Part 1): Isolation and Idenitification of L. acicola and other foliar pathogens associated with needle blight on Pinus taeda
Emmanuel Nyarko: Component 1 Update (Part 2): Susceptibility of Pinus taeda families to L. acicola
Jaden King: Component 2 Update (Part 1): Physiological responses to brown spot needle blight and anatomical variation among families of loblolly pine
Laura Nieto: Component 2 Update (Part 2): Evaluating a portable NIR-based model to detect susceptibility in loblolly pine trees affected by BSNB
Swati Singh: Component 3 Update: Remote sensing-based detection of BSNB: A comprehensive review and UAV-based, spacially explicit assessment - Swati Singh
Temitope Folorunso: Component 4 Update (Part 1): Lecanosticta acicola's genome features and its significance in BSNB - Temitope Folorunso
Gabriel Silva: Component 4 Update (Part 2): Integrative bioinformatic and molecular approaches to elucidate the genomics of Lecanosticta acicola and its impacts on BSNB - Gabriel Silva
Jaden King: Survival of spores in pine straw litter
William Heaster, Jacob Podemski: Detecting Biological Invasions with Sentinel Plantings in Alabama

Posters

Joseph Anglin: Effects of control burns and weather on L. acicola spore dispersal
Gracey Goldsby: Using dendrochronology to evaluate the impacts of brown spot needle blight

CO-OP Update

Forest Health Diagnostics Update - Pat Gordon

Sentinel Garden Article

First Line of Defense: Faculty developing sentinel gardens to detect pests and diseases