The Consequences of Disease. Listen to a podcast given by Dr. Ristaino to incoming freshman at NC State in Wicked Problems: Wolfpack Solutions class on “The Consequences of Plant Diseases and the Irish Famine”. She shares here own experience in plant patholology, her global travels to track outbreaks and talks about efforts to inderstand the history of the famine and why it is relavent to controlling emerging pathogens today.

Listen to her daughter Sarah Ristaino since a song on the impact of the loss of potatoes on the Irish food supply “Oh the Praties they Grow Small”