BIO: Dan is the vegetable plant pathologist for Indiana. In addition to directing the vegetable disease extension program for Indiana, Dan is the lead author for the annual Midwest Vegetable Production Guide for Commercial Growers and is the editor for the Vegetable Crops Hotline newsletter in season. Recent research efforts have concentrated on management methods of Fusarium wilt of watermelon and fungicide resistance in strains of Didymella bryoniae causing gummy stem blight of cucurbits. Dan has been involved in efficacy testing of numerous fungicides in various cucurbits as well as tomatoes. Dan is a member of the Botany and Plant Pathology Department of Purdue University and is located in Vincennes at the center of cucurbit production in Indiana.