A workshop on remote diagnostics is to be held in April 2011 in Darwin, Northern Territory. The workshop, Web-based ID Tools, Screening Aids and Communication for Diagnosticians, is to be presented by staff from the Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity and Museum Victoria.

The workshop will provide presentations and demonstrations on the Pest and Disease Image Library [1](PaDIL) suite of products that includes:

• diagnostic biosecurity and biodiversity image and information websites
• remote diagnostic microscope networking
• plant pest diagnostic protocols and contingency action plans, and
• social communication tools for diagnosticians.

The workshop will run in association with the 4th Asian Conference for Plant Pathology [2]and the 18th Biennial Australasian Plant Pathology Society [2]conference which is to be held from 26–29 April 2011 in Darwin, Northern Territory.

The cost of the workshop is $30 per person. For further details about and registration for the workshop, please visit the conference website [2].

The workshop is sponsored by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and the Subcommittee on Plant Health Diagnostic Standards (SPHDS). SPHDS is responsible for sustaining and improving the quality and reliability of diagnostics for plants pests throughout Australia.