Ohio State Department of Plant Pathology (PP995)

Seminars are on Tuesdays, 4-5 p.m.

Videolink locations: Ohio State Columbus/Kottman Hall 244 and
OARDC Wooster/Fisher 121

Link to Commtech streaming video (PP 995)

Spring Quarter

March 25
Daniel Anco - Dept. of Plant Pathology MS student (Dr. Ellis)
Cunyu Li - Dept. of Plant Pathology MS student (Dr. Paul)

April 1
Dr. Eric Nelson, Cornell University
Department of Plant Pathology and Plant Microbe Biology

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April 8
Pattavipha Songkumarn - Dept. of Plant Pathology PhD student (Dr. Wang)

Isolation and functional analysis of novel effector proteins in Magnaporthe oryzae.
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April 15
Chan Ho Park - Dept. of Plant Pathology PhD student (Dr. Wang)

Functional analysis of three E3 ligase genes involved in the regulation of programmed cell death and defense signaling pathway in rice.

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April 22
Jiye Cheng - Dept. of Plant Pathology PhD student (Dr. Graham)

Phenylpropanoid defense responses of soybean to exogenous elicitors, signal molecules and transduction regulators.

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April 29
Dr. Ron Walcott, University of Georgia, The Plant Center

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May 6
Annemarie Nagle - Dept. of Plant Pathology MS student (Dr. Bonello)

Investigating Phytophthora-mediated diseases of American oaks
Kylea Odenbach - Dept. of Plant Pathology PhD student (Dr. Paul)

Fusarium Head Blight: Characterizing deoxynivalenol accumulation in asymptomatic wheat grain.

May 13
Rosa Raudales - Dept. of Plant Pathology MS student (Dr. McSpadden Gardener)

May 20
Sarah Ellis - Dept. of Plant Pathology MS student (Dr. Boehm)
Alissa Kriss - Dept. of Plant Pathology PhD student (Dr. Madden)

May 27
Miguel Vega Sanchez - Dept. of Plant Pathology PhD candidate (Dr. Wang)

Winter Quarter

January 8

Chris Woltjen - Dept. of Plant Pathology MS student (Dr. Lewandowski)

The Soybean Rust Sentinel Plot Project 2007
Carola De La Torre - Dept. of Plant Pathology MS student (Dr. Lewandowski)

Characterization of the types of resistance to Hosta virus X in hosta

January 22

Gautam Shirsekar - Dept. of Plant Pathology PhD student (Dr. Wang)

Ubiquitination in Plant Host Defense

January 29

Melanie Ivey - Dept. of Plant Pathology PhD student (Dr. Miller)

Plant Pathology and Food Safety: Making the Connection

February 5

Sawsan Elateek -  Dept. of Plant Pathology PhD student (Dr. Miller)

Identification of Phytoplasma affecting Tomato in the U.S.
Xiulan Xu  -  Dept. of Plant Pathology PhD student (Dr. Miller)

Construction of a bioluminescent Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis (Cmm) strain

February 12

HeHe Wang  -  Dept. of Plant Pathology PhD student (Dr. Dorrance)

Discovery of the Genetic Mechanisms of Soybean Partial Resistance to Phytophthora sojae

February 19

Justin Whitehill -  Dept. of Plant Pathology PhD student (Dr. Bonello)

Plant Defense towards Insect Herbivory

February 26

Kirk Broders - Dept. of Plant Pathology Doctoral candidate (Dr. Dorrance)

Life in the soil: Population biology of fungal and oomycete soil-borne pathogens

March 4

Dr. Shunyuan Xiao, Univ. of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Center for Biosystems Research

The molecular basis of RPW8-mediated broad-spectrum disease resistance