Botany and Plant Pathology Seminar Series
Fall 2019
Wednesdays at 3:30 PM in WSLR, Room 116 (unless otherwise noted)
August 21 - Dr. David B. Lowry
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics, Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology, Physiology & Biochemistry, Michigan State University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"The genetic and physiological basis of local adaptation in plants"
Seminar host is Dr. Chris Oakley
August 28 - Dr. Raka Mitra
Department of Biology, Carleton College
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"The molecular battle between the bacterial wilt pathogen and its plant hosts"
Seminar host is Dr. Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi
September 4 - Dr. Dan Egel
Botany & Plant Pathology, Purdue University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Managing bacterial wilt and cucumber beetles on cantaloupe with products that induce resistance"
September 11 - Dr. Lindsey du Toit
Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"A Foundation in Diagnostics for Developing a Plant Pathology Research & Extension Program with a Land Grant Mission"
Seminar host is Dr. Tom Creswell
September 18 - Dr. Mark Johnson
Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Brown University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Molecular Dialogues between Pollen and Pistil"
Seminar host is Dr. Sharon Kessler
September 25 - Dr. Leslie Sieburth
Biological Sciences, The University of Utah
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"BYPASS1: Regulator of a Long-Distance Signaling Pathway with links to Drought"
Seminar host is Dr. Yun Zhou
October 2 - Dr. Gord McNickle
Botany & Plant Pathology, Purdue University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Plants and games: plant responses to other organisms, and their
consequences"
October 23 - Dr. Katy Heath
Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Coevolutionary genomics of legume-rhizobium symbiosis"
Seminar host is Dr. Gordon McNickle
October 30 - Dr. Jarmila Pitterman
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Santa Cruz
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Habitat specialization, physiology and drought resilience in ferns"
Seminar host is Dr. Scott McAdam
November 6 - Dr. Antonis Rokas
Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Genomics and the making of biodiversity across the budding yeast subphylum"
Seminar host is Dr. Cathie Aime
November 20 - Dr. Andrew D.B. Leakey
Department of Plant Biology, Crop Sciences and Genomic Biology, University of Illinois
3:30pm PFEN 241, Deans Auditorium
"Phenomics of stomata and water use efficiency in C4 crops"
Seminar host is Dr. Mike Mickelbart
December 4 - Dr. Richard Hamelin
Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, The University of British Columbia
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Genomic biosurveillance of alien forest enemies: a story written in code"
Seminar host is Dr. Steve Goodwin