Healthy Citrus 2020, Annemiek Schilder, Shifting the Mindset for IPM: Biology and Prevention First
Channel: Jan Dietrick
Date: 2020-04-25

AnnemiekSchilder, PhD
Director, UCCE Ventura County and Hansen Agricultural Research and Extension Center. 
Topic: Shifting the Mindset for IPM: Biology and Prevention First 

AnnemiekSchilder completed her primary and secondary education in The Netherlands and her B.S. in Agronomy at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette, Louisiana. She studied Plant Sciences at Wageningen Agricultural University in Wageningen, the Netherlands. Subsequently, she obtained her MS and PhD degrees in Plant Pathology at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Annemiek then moved to Nigeria, Africa, fulfilling a long-time dream to work in agricultural development and spent 3 years as a at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture researching legume and cassava diseases, seed health, and plant quarantine issues. For the next 20 years, she was an Assistant and then Associate Professor in Small Fruit Pathology at Michigan State University, investigating diagnosis, epidemiology and management of diseases of grapes and berry crops. Annemiek is particularly interested in sustainable crop production, including organic approaches.