Emerson Del Ponte

I'm excited to share my latest preprint: Stochastic modeling of yield losses due to bacterial leaf streak on corn. Our study examined the impact of bacterial leaf streak (BLS) on corn yield. Thanks to Prof. @edelponte.bsky.social and Dr. Adriano.

Preprint: osf.io/8zq4y_v1
Code: lnkd.in/d2DFmpje

The painting shows a coffee branch, with 10 leaves emerging in pairs, one on each side of the stem. Counting down from the terminal bud, the base of the fourth leaf pair has a cluster of finishing flowers, the fifth leaf pair has seven green coffee berries, and where the sixth pair would have been, there are a further six berries. The adaxial (upper) surface is displayed for eight of the 10 leaves, while the abaxial (lower) surface is shown for the remaining two. There are yellow chlorotic patches on the adaxial (upper) leaves, and dark brown necrotic areas in the largest lesions. On the abaxial (lower) leaves, bright orange areas in the centre of the yellow lesions indicate areas of sporulating rust.

In 2023 I painted coffee rust, caused by the fungus Hemileia vastatrix

This is one of my favourite plant disease paintings and was used for the cover @edelponte 's book Plant Disease Epidemiology (R4PDE) https://r4pde.net

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More on cover letters! Hat tip to @edelponte.bsky.social for the blog post. planteditors.com/cover-letter... #SciComm #SciPub

To abbreviate or not to abbreviate? Journal titles in the digital age – EM Del Ponte

Check out my latest blog post:
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Preprint alert!

Safer and Smarter: Leveraging Transfer Learning and Data Fusion of Disease and Environmental Data for Modeling Plant Disease Risk

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View of a sidewalk of Viçosa campus Brazil

This time of year, the campus feels quiet and lifeless as students have yet to return. Yet, the beauty of Viçosa's campus remains vibrant, and I look forward to seeing these sidewalks bustling with life next week.

Missed opportunity!! We edit a lot of cover letters to address exactly these points––it's your chance to explain why your paper is cool, so don't blow it by pasting in your abstract (which should also explain why your paper is cool but differently!).

Cover letters in manuscript submissions: Useless tradition or missed opportunity? – EM Del Ponte The cover letter, once vital in submissions, now often suffers neglect, with authors providing generic content and editors overlooking it due to lack of relevance. While a strategic, personalized lett...

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Machine learning in plant disease diagnosis: are we getting there?

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🚨Check it out! 🚨

🚨 Preprint by my PhD student @tomazrg.bsky.social who developed yield loss modeling studies and identified tolerance to target spot (Corynespora cassiicola) in Brazilian soybean cultivars. Economic returns were simulated under various scenarios.

🔗 osf.io/a3z7j

More opportunities!

Besides a PhD student (other post) we are looking for postdocs!

One on Quantitative Disease Resistance mechansims!
One on Population Genomics of barley pathogens!

The positions can start Feb 2025. For extremely well-fitting candidates can delay the date.

Restrictions like these threaten to end initiatives that expose Brazilian students to global knowledge and give visibility to our programs and faculty. Hybrid models, including asynchronous activities, are essential tools for advancing modern, inclusive, and internationalized education. 3/3

This course enables global collaboration and credit recognition in universities abroad, showcasing the potential of online education. Yet, CAPES' restrictions hurt programs aiming to attract international students and provide flexibility, particularly for professional master’s programs 2/3

The recent CAPES normative banning fully online courses and asynchronous activities in Brazilian graduate programs is a setback for modern education. It limits opportunities for internationalization, like the remote course (epidemiology) I offer in English, attended by students from abroad 1/3

Thank you Larry! Glad to see you here. It was a pleasure collaborating with you on this paper. Maybe your first with no equations? 🤔 😁 It’s exciting to see how this approach is transforming research in plant pathology. Thanks for paving the way.

It was great fun working with Emerson on this paper. Meta-analysis has occupied a major portion of my research time over the past 15+ years. Many plant pathologists are now seeing the benefits of this approach to quantitative research synthesis.

Did you know we have a topical collection called Disease Profile? It currently features 14 articles highlighting emerging plant diseases in the tropics and subtropics.

🔗 link.springer.com/collections/...

Tropical Plant Pathology | Volume 49, issue 6 Volume 49, issue 6 articles listing for Tropical Plant Pathology

The Dec 2024 issue is online, featuring an exceptional collection of 21 articles. This expanded volume is due to an upcoming change: the journal will adopt a sequential article numbering system, moving away from the traditional issue-based structure in 2025.
link.springer.com/journal/4085...

Meta-Analysis in Plant Pathology: Publication Patterns, Methodological Trends, and Potential Future Directions | Plant Disease Meta-analysis (MA) is increasingly adopted in agricultural and ecological sciences, fields at the interface with plant pathology. Our review of the use of MA in the field since 1999 identified 79 orig...

Excited to share here our review on the use of meta-analysis in Plant Pathology. Now available open access in Plant Disease volume 108, number 11.

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Just did my first Starter Pack, I think it can be useful. Let me know if you miss any journal and I will add it. Enjoy!! go.bsky.app/QPFZpj9

We have a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer position in Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash with a focus on education: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo.... You can see more about our Business Analytics group and courses that we offer at numbat.space.

Emerson M. Del Ponte on LinkedIn: Meta-analysis in crop protection Today I gave an online seminar at the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology - Oklahoma State University. In my talk, I showcased the power of…

Had a great time yesterday presenting an online seminar (short title: Meta-analysis in plant pathology) for the department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University.

Find my slides here:
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Screenshot of the interactive dashboard showing menus and a map

Here is the link for our R Shiny dashboard
edelponte.shinyapps.io/FGSCdb/

Hi BlueSky! 👋 I am a spatial statistician & university professor working on methods & #rstats packages for disease surveillance 🌍💻📊 I wrote books on #Geospatial Health Data & Spatial Statistics for #DataScience 📚

👉 bit.ly/bookspatial

Excited to connect, share, and learn with you all here! 💜 ✨

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Assistant Professor of Climate Change Ecology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Job Summary: The Departments of Integrative Biology and Botany are seeking candidates for a tenure-track faculty position in Climate Change Ecology. The selected candidate will mount a vigorous rese...

New faculty position in climate change ecology at UW-Madison, applications due in four days for full consideration. Come join us!
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Screen of a shiny app to predict wheat blast disease

Wheat blast is a severe yield-damaging disease. We developed weather-based prediction models based on data collected in Brazil. We built a Shiny app that uses nasa power data via {nasapower}. Note that predictions were not evaluated outside Brazil.
epidemiologiaufv.shinyapps.io/wheatblast/

Hey all, please RT this new starter pack for locating our fellow ecological modellers on Blue Sky! And please reply to this post if you'd like to be added to the starter pack!
go.bsky.app/EfUQaM2

Tidyplots empowers life scientists with easy code-based data visualization Code-based data visualization is a crucial tool for understanding and communicating experimental findings while ensuring scalability and reproducibility. However, complex programming interfaces pose a...

Tidyplots for data visualization. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...