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Contact information
Andrew Larack Stone
Andrew.stone@usda.gov
Foreign Disease/Weed Science Research
1301 Ditto Avenue, Fort Detrick, MD 21702
Phone: (301)-619-7309
Fax: (301) 619-2880
Andrew Stone is a support scientist (Biologist) at the Foreign Disease/Weed Science Research Unit, having worked at this Frederick, MD ARS location since 1987. Research topics include risk assessments for the potential US emergence of soybean dwarf virus and Wheat Dwarf Virus, and surveying for and identifying their potential insect vectors in the U.S. Other skills include virus purification, production of anti-sera and monoclonal antibodies and the design and validation of RT-PCR and real time PCR assays for plum pox virus and citrus greening disease.
Currently detailed to Dr. Rachel Koch-Bach’s lab working on the fungal causal agents of soybean red leaf blotch, coffee leaf rust and peanut smut.
Previously worked as a Biological Science Aide (Plants) in the Fruit Lab in Beltsville, MD on meristem culture and virus indexing of strawberry plants while an undergraduate student (1985-1986).
Education
Graduate student, Agronomy and Plant Molecular Virology, University of Maryland 1993-1994
B.S, Biology, University of Maryland 1987
B.A/M.A Romance Languages, University of Chicago, 1976
Publications
No publications listed for this employee.
Committee and Location Service
- FDWSRU Safety Committee, centrifuge safety officer, 2000-present
- FDWSRU Pesticide applicator 2013-present
- FDWSRU Essential personnel during Pandemic 2020-2023
- Member of the HazMat team of the Ft. Detrick Fire Dept. 1988-1989
Awards and Recognition
- APHIS Deputy Administrator’s Outstanding Achievement Award” Your contribution has been essential in eradication of PPV from PA. USDA, APHIS, PPQ would like to distinguish your hard work and wishes to recognize you as a key member of this significant achievement.” 2010
- US ARMY Certificate of Merit for Safety for “outstanding achievement for the prevention of accidents” 1996
