Botany and Plant Pathology Seminar Series
Fall 2018
Wednesdays at 3:30 PM in WSLR, Room 116 (unless otherwise noted)
August 22 - Dr. Xin Li
Department of Botany, University of British Columbia
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"NLR disease resistance gene clusters: What are their biological functions and biochemical mechanisms?"
Seminar host is Dr. Guri Johal
August 29 - Dr. Pierce Paul
Department of Plant Biology, The Ohio State University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Application of Quantitative Methods to Address Applied Questions in Wheat Pathology"
Seminar host is Dr. Christian Cruz
September 12 - Dr. Sharon Kessler
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"She's the boss: Female control of reproductive success in Arabidopsis thaliana"
September 19 - Dr. Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi
Department of Botany & Plant Pathology, Purdue University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Getting to the root of plant disease resistance"
September 26 - Dr. Caren Chang
Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"The ethylene precursor, ACC, has independent signaling roles in growth, pollen tube guidance and calcium flux"
Seminar host is Dr. Gyeong Mee Yoon
October 3 - Dr. Birgit Scharf
Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Sinorhizobium meliloti's attraction to the scent of alfalfa"
Seminar host is Dr. Dan Syzmanski
October 10 - Dr. Mina Rostamza
Department of Botany & Plant Pathology, Purdue University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"TBD"
October 17 - Dr. Brian Kvitko
Departmemt of Plant Biology, University of Georgia
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Tales from the frontline: getting the bacterial perspective on plant immunity"
Seminar host is Dr. Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi
October 24 - Dr. Steve Long
College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Increasing Crop Productivity Sustainably by Bioengineering PhotoSynthesis"
Seminar host is Dr. Peter Goldsbrough
October 31 - Dr. Thelma Madzima
Biological Science, University of Washington
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"RdDM and abiotic stress mediated transcriptional regulation in maize"
Seminar host is Dr. Nick Carpita
November 7 - Dr. Daphne Goring
Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Pollen Acceptance or Rejection: Cellular Regulation of Mate Selection in the mustard family"
Seminar host is Dr. Leonor Boavida
November 28 - Dr. Michele Holbrook
Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"TBD"
Seminar host is Dr. Scott McAdam
December 5 - Dr. Jill Anderson
Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Climate change disrupts local adaptation and shifts fitness functions: Insights from field studies of the montane mustart, Boechera stricta"
Seminar host is Dr. Chris Oakley