Dr. Dante L. Adorada is a Research Fellow in Plant Pathology at the Centre for Crop Health, Institute of Life Sciences and the Environment, at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. He has a BSc degree in Agriculture (Plant Pathology) from the University of the Philippines at Los Baños (UPLB) in 1987, an MSc degree in Agricultural Biology (Plant Pathology) from the New Mexico State University (NMSU) USA in 1994, and a PhD degree in Plant Pathology from the Charles Sturt University (CSU) NSW Australia in 2013. He worked at UPLB, the Philippine Rice Research Institute, NMSU, CSU, NSW-Department of Primary Industries, and the University of Southern Queensland in plant pathology; the Los Alamos National Laboratory USA in environmental microbiology; Plantek Inc. in hybrid maize breeding; the International Rice Research Institute in abiotic stress tolerance breeding; and at NMSU and CSU in teaching plant pathology, entomology, and microbiology courses. He is currently at UniSQ doing research and supervising students in plant pathology. His research interests are environmental microbiology, abiotic stress tolerance breeding, plant pathology, mycology, phytobacteriology, disease surveillance, and molecular diagnostics. He is a member of the Australasian Plant Pathology Society, the American Phytopathological Society, the American Society of Microbiologists, and the National Plant Biosecurity Diagnostic Network of Australia.