Plant Pathology Seminar Schedule Spring 2018
Seminars are held Tuesdays at 3:30 in 150 Russell Labs, unless otherwise noted. Student speaker names are in red; off-campus speakers are in blue Date Speaker (campus host) Title Jan 23 Jaime Wilbur Development and refinement of integrated management strategies for white mold of soybean Feb 1 Shaojie Han The Rhg1 amino acid transporter and soybean cyst (Thurs) (Bent lab postdoc) nematode resistance Feb 6 Identification of a symptom determinant of Grapevine Larissa Osterbaan Cornell University (K. Gold) fanleaf virus Feb 13 Megan McCaghey Development of multiple resistance strategies to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in soybean (Glycine max) Feb 20 Eric Larson Transcriptome changes in Phytopthora infestans and potato over time Feb 27 Jim Westwood (C. Allen) RNA exchange between parasitic plants and their hosts: Virginia Tech U. A search for meaning Mar 6 Gitta Coaker (A. Bent) Investigating how vascular bacterial pathogens cause U. California-Davis disease on tomato Mar 13 Sofia Macchiavelli Giron Investigating pathogen character and detection for enhanced management of potato silver scurf caused by Helminthosporium solani Mar 20 Laurent Noel (C. Allen) Immunity at hydathodes restricts infection by INRA, U. Toulouse, France Xanthomonas April 3 Michelle Marks Investigating Pseudoperonospora humuli in Wisconsin hop yards for improved disease understanding and management April 10 Shunping Ding Investigating epidemiology of the potato early blight complex and fungicide resistance of the causal pathogens in Wisconsin April 12 Katelyn Butler Identification of novel soybean cyst nematode Thursday resistance April 17 Haley Higgens Developing a hydroponic systems approach to investigate potato powdery scab caused by Spongospora subterranea April 24 Emma Buczkowski The impact of pesticides on turfgrass rhizosphere bacterial communities April 26 Sachin Jain Identification and functional characterization of a Bcl-2 Thursday associated athanogene in Aspergillus nidulans May 1 Jeff Rollins (M. Kabbage) Dissecting host-pathogen compatibility in the broad University of Florida host-range necrotrophic Sclerotiniaceae lineage Seminar Organizer and PP923 Instructor: Caitilyn Allen,
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