Plant Pathology

UF Plant Pathology Seminar Schedule
Fall 2025

Location: Blueberry Building, Room 145
Time: 4:05 PM (Period 9)

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DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
August 26	Organizational meeting for students	No Seminar
September 2	Megan Dewdney Associate Professor (CREC) Phil Harmon Professor Department of Plant Pathology University of Florida	Ask Me Anything
September 9	Marcus Marin Assistant Professor (GCREC) Department of Plant Pathology University of Florida	Bridging Science and Industry Through Plant Pathology
September 16	Shannon Sharpe Graduate Student Department of Biology University of North Florida	Endophytic fungi within galls induced by Asphondylia borrichiae and their surrounding host tissues
September 23	James Skelton Research Assistant Professor Department of Plant Pathology	From woods to water: Some ecosystem implications of plant-animal-fungal interactions
September 30	Braham Dhillon Assistant Professor (FLREC) Department of Plant Pathology	What’s in a Title? 45 Years of Plant Disease Notes Decoded and Mapped
October 7	Deepak Haarith Assistant Professor Department of Entomology & Nematology University of Florida	Eavesdropping on nematode conversations with plants, microbes and other nematodes
October 14	Amanda Strayer-Scherer Associate Professor & Extension Plant Pathologist Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology Auburn University	IPM: From row crops to horticulture
October 21	Wilfred Vermerris Professor & Associate Chair Department of Microbiology & Cell Science University of Florida	Unraveling the complex interactions between sorghum and its hemibiotrophic pathogen Colletotrichum sublineola
October 28	Seminar Cancelled	No Seminar
November 4	Ian Small Associate Professor (NFREC) Department of Plant Pathology University of Florida	NSF funded IoT4Ag project
November 11	UF HOLIDAY	No Seminar
November 18	Beatriz De Toledo Franceschi Graduate Student Department of Plant Pathology University of Florida	Physiological costs of carrying the immune receptor XA21 in rice
November 25	UF HOLIDAY	No Seminar
December 2	Review of Semester and feedback	No Seminar