Florida Extension Plant Disease Clinic-Gainesville

Florida Extension Plant Disease Clinic (FEDPC)-Gainesville is the resource diagnostic clinic for the Florida Plant Diagnostic Network (http://fpdn.ifas.ufl.edu/index.htm) and the location of the Rapid Turfgrass Diagnostic Service (http://turfpath.ifas.ufl.edu/turfgrass/). 

FEDPC-Gainesville is also the hub clinic for the Southern Plant Diagnostic Network (http://www.sepdn.org/) and a participating clinic in the National Plant Diagnostic Network (http://www.npdn.org).  Specific areas of diagnostic expertise include: Asian Soybean Rust, Citrus Greening, Fusarium Wilt of Palm, Lethal Yellowing of Coconut Palm, Sudden Oak Death, Tomato Mottle Virus and Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus. 

FEDPC-Gainesville personnel support the educational activities of the Department of Plant Pathology by providing internships for Doctor of Plant Medicine and other graduate students, through participation in departmental courses, and Extension Agent and Master Gardener orientation.


FEDPC Personnel

  • Robert J. McGovern
    • Ph.D., Professor and Clinic Director
  • Carrie Lapaire Harmon
    • Interim Clinic Director and Associate Director of SPDN
  • Philip F. Harmon, Ph.D.
    • Assistant Professor and Director, Rapid Turfgrass Diagnostic Service
  • Anne M. Vitoreli
    • Laboratory Manager and Biological Scientist
  • Mark Elliott
    • Diagnostician and Biological Scientist
  • Kris Beckham
    • Diagnostician and Biological Scientist
  • Jerome Dewberry
    • Assistant, Rapid Turfgrass Diagnostic Service
  • Courtney Buckley
    • DPM Student, Clinic Assistant

Official address:

Florida Extension Plant Disease Clinic University of Florida
Institute of Food and Agricultural Science
Building 78 Mowry Rd.
PO BOX 110830
Gainesville, FL 32611-0830

U.S. Mail address:

Plant Disease Clinic
U.F., Bldg. 78 Mowry Rd.
PO BOX 110830
Gainesville, FL 32611-0830

Private carriers:

Plant Disease Clinic
U.F., Bldg. 78 Mowry Rd.
Gainesville, FL 32611-083