Happy Valentine's day

Dear all,
I wish you Happy Valentine's day and happy holiday (St Trifun - protector of grapevine and fruit trees)
In Macedonia, we have traditions to celebrate St Trifun, man usually cut the branches from grapevine and drink wine
In every case you can celebrate what you want and I wish you to have a nice time full with love and smile

e-learning with Prof Bill Warrick

After two wonderfull weeks with Prof Bill we finished with our e-learning course and we come back on our preveous work.

We will continue till June with e-learning but just online and after in June we will have our final meething

We learn a lot of useful information and I hope that we will have change to use in our teaching courses.

Here is one photo of our group

Have a nice day

Learning in Macedonia

Hello again,

Maybe, you were not very intersted for my blog information till now and for that in this blog I decide to tell you more about our country, life and education in Macedonia
The Republic of Macedonia lies in the northwestern third of the wider geographical region of Macedonia, with about 40% of the region's population. The capital is Skopje, with 506,926 inhabitants according to a 2004 census, and there are a number of smaller cities, notably Bitola, Kumanovo, Prilep, Tetovo, Ohrid, Veles, Štip, Kočani, Gostivar and Strumica. It has more than 50 lakes and sixteen mountains higher than 2,000 meters (6,550 ft).
The country is a member of the UN and the Council of Europe and a member of La Francophonie, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Since December 2005 it is also a candidate for joining the European Union and has applied for NATO membership.

For higher education this is a list of Universities in the Republic of Macedonia.

Public Universities
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje
St. Clement of Ohrid University of Bitola
Goce Delčev University of Štip
State University of Tetovo

Private Universities and Faculties
South East European University
FON University
University American College Skopje
Slavic University
European University-Republic of Macedonia
University of Studies Struga "EuroCollege"
MIT Faculties
New York University Skopje
Higher Education Professional Institution for Business Studies "Euro College" Kumanovo
University for Audiovisual Arts - Parisian European Film Academy ESRA - Skopje
International Summer University

So, we have a lot of University for choise and to learn in of some them
In University "Goce Delcev" in Stip, where I am working at the moment we have visitors from USA, Prof William Warrick, who teach us about LEARNING AND TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY
This is course about e-learning, a new technick for learn students
We are very satisfy of the possibillity from e-learning and we hope that from next semestar we wlll start with this type of learning at our Faculty

Thanks because you are guest on my Blog!

Emily, Macedonia

Hello dear readers of this blog,

This is a short blog about my topic of work and about Institution where I am working
I live in Stip, Republic of Macedonia and I am working at University "Goce Delcev" Stip, Faculty of Agriculture and my field of work is plant pathogenic bacteria
I finished my Master on grapevine diseases

In the Blog below I write some characteristics about grapevine diseases

Grapevine diseases

In this part of the blog I will try to write and to put some informations about phytoplasmas, especialy presence grapevine phytoplasmas in Macedonia
This is my field of work and I have some results on this topic

Grapevine phytoplasma is serious diseases which is not investigate in Macedonia, till now. Presence of symptomatic material for analyzes from vineyards, PCR and RFLP analyzes on 16SrDNA region, were used to detect and identify phytoplasmas infecting grapevines in the period of summer 2006 in Republic of Macedonia. The most important and bigger vineyards in the areas of Negotino, Kavadarci, Strumica, Radovis, Veles and Štip, were chosen for these survey. Only phytoplasmas belong to the Bois Noir (subgroup 16SrXII-A or stolbur) were found in the studied vineyards in Macedonia(1).
The aim of this study was to characterize presence of phytoplasmas isolates associated with grapevine yellows in Macedonian viticulture by molecular analyzes and to check there distribution in the most bigger vineyards, because this diseases are spreader all around the world and causes a lot of damages.