Plant Pathology Spring Seminar Series
Blueberry Building Classroom 131 or Online – Time: 4:05 PM - (Period 9).
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DATE |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
January 17 |
Melissa Irizarry PDC Lab Manager and Head Diagnostician Plant Pathology University of Florida |
Detection and management of disease in greenhouse grown watermelon transplants |
January 24 |
Ian Small Assistant Professor Plant Pathology/NFREC University of Florida |
Phenotyping of plant diseases and advances in precision crop protection |
January 31 |
Amirudeen Abdul Kader Jailani Postdoctoral Associate Plant Pathology/NFREC University of Florida |
Field-based rapid detection of plant viruses by recombinase polymerase amplification |
February 7 |
Nabil Killiny Associate Professor Plant Pathology/CREC University of Florida |
Compatibility and chemistry in the relationship between ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ and its vector Diaphorina citri |
February 14 |
Alumni Career Panel | Industry and Academic Career Paths |
February 21 |
Daniele Schiavi Dept of Agriculture and Forest Sciences University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy |
Nanotechnology in Crop Protection. A successful collaboration between Italy and USA |
February 28 |
Ina Schlathoelter Postdoctoral Associate Plant Pathology University of Florida |
Addressing challenges of breeding for disease resistance in woody perennial crops – examples from apple, pine, and cacao |
March 7 |
Ashish Adhikari Postdoctoral Associate Plant Pathology University of Florida |
Bipolaris species associated with foliar diseases on invasive and weedy grasses and their suppression by Cladosporium |
March 14 |
Spring Break | No Seminar |
March 21 |
Remco Stam Professor Institute for Phytopathology Christian Albrechts University Kiel |
Zoom only: Populations of a wild tomato species reveal diversity in defense mechanisms |
March 28 |
Jonathan Griffiths Research Scientist Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada |
Zoom only: Metagenomics based monitoring of plant viruses in Canadian agricultural fruit production systems through honey bee pollination |
April 4 |
Marcos Caiafa Postdoctoral Associate Microbiology and Plant Pathology University of California, Riverside |
Distinct fungal and bacterial responses to fire severity across a ten-year wildfire chronosequence in beetle-killed lodgepole pine forests |
April 11 |
Gitta Coaker Professor Department of Plant Pathology University of California, Davis |
The interaction between bacterial pathogens and their plant hosts |
April 18 |
Ben Lemmond PhD Candidate Plant Pathology University of Florida |
There's treasure everywhere: taxonomic and ecological updates for North American edible truffles |
April 25 |
Karina Peres Gramacho Forest Pathology Cocoa Research Center - CEPEC/CEPLAC Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil |
Exploring the population structure, genome evolution, and virulence mechanisms of M. perniciosa, the causal agent of the witches' broom disease of cacao |