Botany and Plant Pathology Research Seminar Series

Fall 2024

All seminars will be in-person on Wednesdays at 3:30 pm in WSLR 116 (unless otherwise noted below). Questions? Email Cindy Salazar.

You can view several past seminars on our YouTube page.


August 28 - Dr. Gyeong Mee Yoon

Department of Botany & Plant Pathology, Purdue University

Hosted by Tesfaye Mengiste


September 4 - Dr. Lee Miller

Department of Botany & Plant Pathology, Purdue University

Hosted by Tesfaye Mengiste 


**September 11 - Dr. Jeffrey Conner (PFEN 241)
Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University
Hosted by Center for Plant Biology and Botany & Plant Pathology

September 18 - Mariela fernandez campos
Department of Botany & Plant Pathology, Purdue University
Recipient of the Dr. Chunhua Zhang Legacy Travel Award
Hosted by Botany & Plant Pathology

**september 25 - david domozych (Virtual)

Biology Department, Skidmore College

Hosted by Dan Szymanski


October 2 - Dr. Xuehua Zhong

Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis

Hosted by Gyeong Mee Yoon


**October 9 - Dr. Paul Esker (PFEN 241)

Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, Penn State University

Hosted by Christian Cruz


October 16 - Dr. Asa Ben-Hur

Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University

Hosted by Dan Szymanski


October 23 - Dr. Brian Dilkes
Department of Biochemistry, Purdue Univeristy
Hosted by Damon Lisch

October 30 - Dr. Anna Dobritsa

Department of Molecular Genetics - The Ohio State University

Hosted by Sharon Kessler


November 6 - Dr. Dazhong (Dave) Zhao
College of Letters & Science - Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Hosted by Yun Zhou

November 20 - Dr. Peter Balint-Kurti

USDA-ARS, NC State University

Hosted by Botany & Plant Pathologh Graduate Stuent Organization


December 4 - Dr. Claudio Vrisman

Corteva Agriscience

Hosted by Botany & Plant Pathology Graduate Student Organization