Botany and Plant Pathology Seminar Series
Spring 2019
Wednesdays at 3:30 PM in WSLR, Room 116 (unless otherwise noted)
January 9 - Dr. Justin Walley
Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Unraveling developmental and immune networks using integrated omic profiling"
Seminar host is Dr. Guri Johal
January 16 - Dr. Peter Goldsbrough
Department of Botany & Plant Pathology, Purdue University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"OMG, it's a GMO! Adventures in biotechnology outreach"
January 23 - Dr. Cankui Zhang
Department of Agronomy, Purdue University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Plant vasvulature: a superhighway for nutrient movement and stress signaling"
January 30 - Dr. Leonor Boavida
Department of Botany & Plant Pathology, Purdue University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Tearing Down Barriers in Plant Fertilization: Regulation of Gamete Interactions by Tetraspanin Signaling Complexes"
February 6 - Dr. Nick Carpita
Department of Botany & Plant Pathology, Purdue University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"The Plant Cell Wall: News from the Cell's Frontier"
February 13 - Dr. Guri Johal
Department of Botany & Plant Pathology, Purdue University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"The ins and outs of a maize "immunostat"
February 20 - Dr. Li-Jun Ma
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Dissecting Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Fusarium Wilt Diseases"
Seminar host is Dr. Jin-Rong Xu
February 27 - Dr. Tom Buckley
Departmemt of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"TBD"
Seminar host is Dr. Scott McAdam
March 6 - Dr. Vivian Irish
Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Yale University
3:30pm PFEN Room 241
"On growth and form in petals"
Seminar host is Dr. Yun Zhou
March 20 - Dr. David Ehrhardt
Department of Biology, Stanford University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"TBD"
Seminar host is Dr. Chris Staiger
March 27 - Dr. Mary Beth Mudgett
Department of Biology, Stanford University
3:30pm PFEN, Room 241
"TBD"
Seminar host is Dr. Angalie Iyer-Pascuzzi
April 3 - Dr. Zachary Lippman
HHMI Investigator, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Genome Editing in Plants: From Basic to Applied, and Back Again"
Seminar host is Dr. Tesfaye Mengiste
April 10 - Dr. Erik Nielsen
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"Roles of CSLD snytases during polarized cell wall deposition in Arabidopsis"
Seminar host is Dr. Chunhua Zhang
April 17 - Dr. Joshua Widhalm
Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University
3:30pm WSLR, Room 116
"TBD"
Seminar host is Dr. Damon Lisch
April 24 - Dr. Rick Vierstra
Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis
3:30pm PFEN, Room 241
"TBD"
Seminar host is Dr. Nick Carpita