Agrosecurity:
Dedicated to protecting agricultural and food industries from the deliberate or accidental introduction of plant and animal pests and diseases.
Vision:
The Pacific Agrosecurity Program will be recognized as the premier source of information about agrosecurity in the American Pacific.
Mission:
The mission of the Pacific Agrosecurity Program is to facilitate a collaborative partnership between academic institutions and regulatory agencies to address real and potential threats to agricultural and food industries in the Pacific.
Goals:
- Facilitate the rapid identification or diagnosis of pests in the Pacific
- Expand the surveillance of pest species througout the Pacific
- Train students, faculty, and regulators in pest identification, diagnosis and management
Participating Faculty:
| Anne M. Alvarez, PhD | Plant bacteriology, diagnostics |
| Barry M. Brennan, PhD | Agrosecurity, pesticide safety |
| Cathy Chan-Halbrendt, PhD | Resource economics |
| John Hu, PhD | Plant Virology, diagnostics |
| Daniel M. Jenkins, PhD | Chemical engineering, biosensors |
| Qingxiao Li, PhD | Hazard evaluation & emergency preparedness |
| Gernot Presting, PhD | Functional genomics, bioinformatics |
| Aurora A. Saulo, PhD | Food safety, HAACP |
| Wei-Win Winston Su, PhD | Molecular biotechnology, biosensors |
| Ray Uchida | Pest identification and diagnostics |
| Mark Wright, PhD | Entomology, distance diagnostics |