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The assessment of applications for the 2016-17 round of Laboratory Residentials has been completed and brief descriptions of the successful projects can be found here. Professional development updates will be provided as opportunities arise. We strongly encourage you to inform the SPHD secretariat if you come …

The 2017 Annual Diagnosticians’ Workshop is fast approaching and SPHD are working with the Modern Diagnostics initiative to host another fruitful training workshop and networking opportunity. Expressions of interest will be open to all NPBDN members early in 2017, please watch this space for more …

An interactive key and information system for all described Australian freshwater molluscs has just gone live at Lucidcentral.org

A joint meeting of the Subcommittee on Plant Health Diagnostics and the Subcommittee on National Plant Health Surveillance was held by the Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre in Canberra from 11-13 October 2016. A communiqué from the SPHD meeting can be accessed here.  

The Subcommittee on Plant Health Diagnostics (SPHD) is pleased to announce the 2016-17 round of Laboratory Residentials is now open for expressions of interest. For more information please follow this link.

9 National Diagnostic protocols and 18 draft protocols are due for review and/or verification, these are listed below. If you would like to undertake one of these reviews, and can do so within a reasonable time frame, please contact the SPHD Secretariat (sphd@agriculture.gov.au) outlining the review you …

Three new Diagnostic Protocols on Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, Xiphinema americanum sensu lato, and Phytoplasmas – DP 10, DP 11 and DP 12, respectively – were adopted by the Standards Committee on behalf of the Commission of Phytosanitary Measures as annexes to ISPM 27 (Diagnostic protocols for …