June 2016: Leslie tied first place at the “graduate student oral presentation competition” at APS Pacific division in La Conner, WA, with her talked entitled “Diversity of Cytospora species associated with fruit and nut crop canker diseases in California”. (Picture taken with APS Pacific division president Soumaila Sanogo, NMSU).
May 2016: Plant Pathology graduate group visited Kearney for the Field class with instructor and professor Bob Gilbertson.
April 2016: Leslie and Ara met with Julie Ogawa after receiving the Joseph M. Ogawa Research & Teaching Endowment Award, 2015!
March 2016: Leslie talks in an interview to CAES about the work she does in almond orchards!
http://www.caes.ucdavis.edu/news/articles/2016/04/that2019s-nuts