A New Sudden Oak Death Introduction & Its Implications for California Forests
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Join Matteo Garbelotto to learn about 25 years of research progress in understanding SOD and how a new introduction of the pathogen potentially puts our forests at greater risk.
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In this month’s online presentation, Matteo Garbelotto will begin by explaining what SOD is and describing progress in understanding this plant disease through research over the last 25 years. He will discuss the biology of the SOD pathogen and the epidemiology of the disease, with a focus on what can be done to slow its spread. In the second part of his talk, he will show how citizen science discovered a new introduction of the SOD pathogen in multiple locations around the Bay Area. This new introduction potentially puts our forests at greater risk than the first one and needs to be controlled.
Dr. Matteo Garbelotto is Adjunct Professor in Environmental Sciences at UC Berkeley, UC Cooperative Extension Specialist in Forest Pathology, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Plant Pathology. At UC Berkeley, he leads the Forest Pathology and Mycology Lab, which focuses on understanding the epidemiology of infectious plant diseases in natural ecosystems. He has been recognized for his efforts in public education, and he is well known for co-discovering the pathogen responsible for Sudden Oak Death. He created and leads the SOD Blitzes—large-scale volunteer-based surveys of SOD across California.