Upcoming events

The Garrett Lab is pleased to present a workshop at the Ecological Society of America 2026 Annual Meeting. The wokshop topic is Mapping Habitat Connectivity for Biosecurity, Conservation, and Invasion Ecology: A Practical Workshop Using the geohabnet R Package.

Selected past events

December 10, 2025

• Plex is pleased to deliver an oral presentation as part of the IPRRG webinar series. A YouTube video of this webinar is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O4Eke0NCXQ&list=LL&index=56&t=18s

August 5, 2025

• Plex was invited to present about GIRAF 1.0 at Plant Health 2025 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

• Plex also delivered a selected oral presentation on the technical session about tree diseases at the Plant Health 2025 in Honolulu, Hawaii. A PDF copy of this presentation is available at

October 9, 2024

• Plex received the New Frontiers Scholar Award and participated in the national conference on climate change in agriculture at Corteva Agriscience’s headquarter in Indianapolis, Indiana.

April 9, 2024

• Plex presented his work on host-pathogen infection networks in major terrestrial agroecosystems at the International Epidemiology Workshop in Foz de Iguazu, Brazil.

August 23, 2023

• Plex was selected to present research progress on global biosecurity at the 12th International Congress of Plant Pathology, held in Lyon, France.

December 7, 2019

• Plex graduated as an engineer in agriculture from the prestigious Zamorano University, in Honduras.