Botany and Plant Pathology Seminar Series
Spring 2018
Wednesdays at 3:30 PM in WSLR, Room 116 (unless otherwise noted)
January 10 - Dr. Yun Zhou
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Stem Cells, Transcriptional Circuits and Plant Shoot Development"
January 17 - Dr. Adrienne Roeder
Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"How Floral Organs are made with the same size and shape: the role of primordium initiation"
Seminar host is Dr. Yun Zhou
January 24 - Dr. Eric Knox
Department of Biology, IU Herbarium, Indiana University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Digital Herbaria in the 21st Century"
Seminar host is Dr. Cathie Aime
January 31 - Dr. Tesfaye Mengiste
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Multipathogen Resistance: Pathology, Mechanisms and Potential Applications"
February 7 - Dr. Jin-Rong Xu
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"A-to-I RNA editing in filamentous Fungi"
February 14 - Dr. Elliott Meyerowitz
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology
3:30pm PFEN, 241
"TBA"
Seminar hosts are Dr. Yun Zhou and Dr. Jody Banks
February 21 - Dr. Kevin Solomon
Department of Ag and Biological Engineering, Purdue University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Early-Diverging Anaerobic Fungi for Lignocellulose Degradation and Sustainable Chemistry"
Seminar host is Dr. Cathie Aime
February 28 - Dr. Bill Johnson
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Dicamba and an Extension Weed Scientist - we were made for each other!"
March 7 - Dr. Teh-hui Kao
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"S-RNase-Based Self-Incompatibility: A Complex Mechanism of Self/Non-Self Recognition between Pollen and pistil"
Seminar host is Dr. Sharon Kessler
March 21 - Dr. Emmanuel Byamukama
Department of Horticulture, Agronomy and Plant Science, South Dakota State University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Pathogen Characterization for improved managementof soybean cyst nematode and Phytophthora root and stem rot"
Seminar host is Dr. Guohong Cai
April 4 - Dr. Ning Zhang
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Rutgers University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Diversity and functions of root associated fungi in the pine barrens ecosystem"
Seminar host is Dr. Jin-Rong Xu
April 11 - Dr. Esther van der Knaap
Department of Horticulture, University of Georgia
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"The role of Ovate Protein Family in regulating tomato fruit shape"
Seminar host is Dr. Chris Staiger
April 18 - Dr. Keiko Torii
Department of Plant Biology, University of Washington
3:30pm PFEN Room 241
"TBA"
Seminar host is Dr. Gyeong Mee Yoon
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April 25 - Dr. Gina Baucom
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"The evolution of resistance in an agricultural weed: convergence, costs, and the mating system"
Seminar host is Dr. Chris Oakley
June 22 - Dr. Nick Talbot - SPECIAL SEMINAR
University of Exeter, United Kingdom
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Investigating the biology of plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe orzae"
Seminar host is Dr. Cathie Aime