Plant Pathology Seminars Spring
ZOOM ONLY – Time: 4:05 PM - (Period 9).
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| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| January 12 | Organizational meeting for students | No Seminar |
| January 19 | Steven E. Lindow Professor Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology UC-Berkeley | Assembly of epiphytic bacterial communities on plants and their interactions with the plant host: Insights for managing the plant microbiome |
| January 26 | Jose Lozano Assistant Professor Laboratory of Nematology Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands | Proline-rich extension-like receptor kinases mediate damage-triggered immune responses to nematode infections – My road to a successful individual grant |
| February 2 | Corné Pieterse Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions and Scientific Director Institute of Environmental Biology Department of Biology, Utrecht University, the Netherlands | The root microbiome and plant immunity |
| February 9 |
Tony A. HendryAssistant Professor Department of Microbiology Cornell University |
Interactions of aphids with bacteria in the phyllosphere and potential impacts on foliar pathogens |
| February 16 | Flavio H.V. de Medeiros Associate Professor Plant Pathology Department Federal University of Lavras, Brazil | Biologicals: concepts and application in tropical agriculture |
| February 23 | Gitta Coaker Professor, Department of Plant Pathology University of California, Davis | Host manipulation by phloem-limited bacteria |
| March 2 | Asaf Levy Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | The extracellular contractile injection system - an environmental cell-free nano weapon |
| March 9 | Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh Metagenome Program Head Environmental Genomics Group Lead DOE Joint Genome Institute | A Genomic Catalog of Earth’s Microbiomes |
| March 16 | Rodrigo Mendes Head of Research and Development Embrapa Environment Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply, Brazil | The rhizosphere microbiome and plant health |
| March 23 | Antonio Chalfun-Junior Associate Professor Biology Department Federal University of Lavras, Brazil | Reproductive development in plants: Improvements in the knowledge of tropical crops of Brazil’s interests |
| March 30 | Luis A J Mur Professor Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences (IBERS) Aberystwyth University, UK | Defining metabolomic reprogramming during plant pathogen interactions in model and crop species |
| April 6 | Alejandra Huerta Assistant Professor Dept. of Entomology and Plant Pathology NC State University | All is fair in wilt and war: Intraspecies competition in the R. solanacearum species complex |
| April 13 | Victoria Knight-Connoni Senior Director, Microbial Sourcing and Evaluation Indigo Ag, Inc. | Harnessing the plant microbiome to help farmers sustainably feed our planet |
| April 20 | Sharifa G. Crandall Assistant Professor Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology Penn State University | Twice the fun: fungal dynamics, functional traits, & soilborne disease management |
