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APS Centennial 2008
Welcome to our Blog APS Centennial Meeting
July 26-30, 2008 - Minneapolis Convention Center
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Album of APS Centennial Highlights, including alumni photos |
View our award winning video |
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Ohio State Posters and Presentations (with links to abstracts)
> More Pics from the meeting
Below, Bus Riders on the way to Minnesota
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Here's to a great meeting! Anne Dorrance (far left) and Maggie Ellis at the final poster session of the event.APS Photo Journal - check out a nice photo of our bus group on Saturday, and another pic of the Ohio State alumni social on Sunday. They even included a link to this blog! http://meeting.apsnet.org/overview/photos/default.cfm |
July 31 - Back in Ohio
Sometime around 6 am EST: the bus pulls into Columbus. Everyone quickly piles out and disperses. Three vanloads begin the trip to Wooster. Anne is ready to sing more nematode songs on the trip to Wooster.
July 30 - More Activity, Meeting Adjourns, Then On Our Way Home
A busy morning of posters and talks, capped off with a great lunch and an enlightening and entertaining keynote speaker, Lowell Catlett presenting "Tomorrow's Agriculture - Six Trends You Can't Afford to Miss."
3:15 pm CST: Bus passengers load the bus for the journey home, energized and drained at the same time.
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Left, Pattavipha Songkumarn at the poster session. Right, Nathan Kleczewski at his oral presentation. |
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> More photos from Wednesday's poster session
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Student travel awards were presented at the North Central Region business meeting on Wednesday. From Ohio State, awardees were Annemarie Nagle (far left), Sawsan Elateek (middle) and Kirk Broders. |
July 29 - Poster Sessions and Presentations
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Mike Boehm (far left) was honored with the Excellence in Teaching Award at the Honors and Award ceremony on Tuesday night. Near left, Pierce Paul was honored to receive the William Boright Hewitt and Maybelle Ellen Ball Hewitt Award (awarded to a scientist within five years of their PhD degree who has made an outstanding, innovative contribution directed toward the control of plant disease). |
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APS Foundation student travel grant recipients were recognized at the Honors and Awards ceremony. Ohio State recipients were, left to right, Nate Kleczewski, Gautam Shirsekar, Pattavipha Songkumarn, Xiulan Xu and Valdir Correa. |
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Dr. Steven A. Slack (left), the director of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster, is a past APS president. Other APS presidents from Ohio State are A.D. Selby, Randy Rowe and Larry Madden. A special poster commemorated the first 100 APS presidents. |
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Another full day. Below, photos from the morning's poster session. Presenter names below are linked to their poster abstracts.
> More Pics from Tuesday Poster Session
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Above, left photo - Valdir Correa (rght) discusses his poster with Anne Dorrance. Right photo, l to r, Francisco Vale, Pierce Paul, Fulya Baysal Gurel, Sawsan Elateek and Larry Madden.
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Above, left photo, Sawsan Elateek at her poster. Middle photo, Christian Cruz (left) and right photo, Annemarie Nagle.
July 28 - In Full Swing
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Our plant path students created the winning video for the APS "Dirty Jobs in Plant Pathology" contest. The contest sought entertaining and educational videos in the theme of Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs" television show. The storyline was centered on rotten potatoes and plant disease diagnosis. > View the video |
Above, Sarah Ellis (standing right) accepts the first place "Dirty Jobs" award from Martin Draper (center). An entry from Virginia Tech received the second place award. The awards were presented at the Grad Student Social Monday evening (below).
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Selected poster authors presented five-minute poster previews, called "Flash and Dash." Left, Hehe Wang and right, Carola De La Torre were among two of the presenters. |
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July 27 - The Meeting Officially Opens
Seeing old friends is one of the best parts about annual meetings like this. Attendees gathered at an evening social which included several alumni gatherings. To commemorate the occasion of the APS Centennial, we commissioned two copies of artwork that were signed by past and current members of the department in attendance, to be framed for our offices in Columbus and Wooster.
> More Pics from the Alumni Social
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Alumni Social - above, left photo: Young-Ki Jo (left), now a faculty member at Texas A&M, with Terry Graham. Middle photo, Andrew Wyendandt (Rutgers) and Joe Laforest (Univ. of Georgia). Right photo, Zhenyu Liu and Miaoying Tian.
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Sally Miller (center) at the Silent Auction, a fund raiser for the Office of International Programs. Kirk Broders (right) checks out some of the items up for bid. Miller serves as the director of the APS Office of International Programs. Proceeds will help fund travel to provide education and training in various parts of the world. |
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Above left, group photo. Right photo, l to r, Angel Rebollar Alviter, Santiago Mideros, Emily Helliwell and Wirat Pipatpongpinyo.
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Left to right, plant path alumni Amy Niver, Samantha Thomas and Young-Ki Jo. Right photo, alumna Chris Wallis (left) and Summer 2008 doctoral graduate Soledad Benitez sign the artwork.
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In the Opening Plenary Session, "Agriculture, Food Security and Public Health: Global Issues - Global Solutions," six renowned leaders offered their perspectives on biodiversity, climate change, water, malnutrion and research, including projects that address food crises in Africa. |
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Above, Terry and Madge Graham take a break; above right, Matt Wallhead sets up his poster. Right, Robbie Beaulieu, Duan Wang and Ainhoa Martinez Medina at the poster setup. |
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July 26 - Plant Pathologists Start to Converge
It's a beautiful day in Minneapolis as plant pathologists start to arrive of the APS Centennial Meeting. The registration desk opens and workshops and committee meetings are on the day's slate. Below, Gautam Shirsekar and Pattavipha Songkumarn at the APS Foundation booth; far right, Kirk Broders checks in.
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Greetings from the Kamoun Lab!
Great APS trip blog! Greetings from Norwich from the Kamoun Group! Have fun in Minneapolis. Wish we could be there!
Sophien Kamoun and labbies
The Sainsbury Laboratory
Lab web site: http://www.KamounLab.net
| Nice blog! Fun to see the pics and stories. We wish you all a great trip and a good meeting in Minneapolis!
Cheers, Edgar and Jorunn |
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July 25 - Bus Arrives in Minneapolis
1:30 am CST (2:30 pm EST). The bus arrives in downtown Minneapolis. Everyone starts to stir, except for Kara Riggs, who is fast asleep, as the interior bus lights are turned on and we start to maneuver through the city. Mike Boehm explains that skywalks connect the downtown buildings and hotels, including the convention center. The bus stops at each of several hotels, dropping off passengers at each stop. Mike instructs someone to wake up Kara.
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9:30 pm EST. We're driving through Wisconsin. Below, more pics from the morning.
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6:30 pm EST. We are west of Chicago. The bus inhabitants are munching on apples, cookies and crackers. Here's what people on the bus are reading:
Clara Zumpetta, The Other Bolelyn Girl by Phillippa Gregory; Maria Andrea Ortega, Genetics and Genomics of Soybean; Tom Mitchell, A Life Decoded by J. Craig Venter; Lee Wilson, Devil in the White City by Erik Larson; Fulya Baysal Gurel, Veda by Ayse Kulin; Nate Kleczewski, Intensity by Dean Koontz; Robbie Beaulieu, The Power of One; Hehe Wang, a gene silencing article from the Plant Journal; Cunyu Li, literature on Fusarium head blight of wheat; Nancy Taylor, Midnight in Ruby Bayou by Elizabeth Lowell; Bridget Meiring, History in the Making by Kyle Ward.
4:30 pm EST. Sally Miller is carrying antiques and artwork. They are among the items that will be up for auction at the Office of International Programs' Silent Auction. Proceeds fund a program callled the Global Experience, a program aimed at helping young plant pathologists work with scientists in developing countries on training and outrach.
Among the items that Sally is bringing to the auction include a painting of Alternaria spores by former faculty member Curt Leben. Leben's paintings grace the walls of various plant pathology rooms in Columbus and Wooster. Sally also has an old microscope and some beautiful copper (or copper-like) pipette containers, which have potential new life as floral vases.
This year several vintage and cultural items are up for bid and interest in the auction has really grown over the past four years. The Silent Auction is Sunday, July 26 during the Opening Centennial Celebration from 6-8 pm.
2:35 pm EST. We're all looking forward to the special events of the APS Centennial Meeting. Ohio State extends special thanks to all APS staff and members for their hard work in putting on this extraordinary celebration.
We're on the road again, heading towards Illinois.
Everyone's pretty docile and enjoying the bus ride. Dr. Sally Miller, whose daughter works for Pixar, has brought an extensive collection of Pixar DVDs (but not Wall-E). We've watched Ratatouille and now, upon special request, The Incredibles.
1:30 pm. A lunch stop in Indiana brought many questions about who we are and where we were going. After a quick stop at Radio Shack to purchase forgotten cables, we're now online.
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10:20 am. We begin the bus journey. 40 people in red t-shirts. Where's Selby? Who's Selby? The t-shirts explain it all - A.D. Selby, Ohio's first experiment station plant pathologist, was instrumental in the formation of the American Phytopathological Society in 1908. He was a charter member, the society's first vice-president, and the third president. The department's home on Wooster bears the name, Selby Hall. History + Mike Boehm's ideas + Kirk Broder's artwork = a busload of Ohio State plant pathologists donning Where's Selby t-shirts. Hard to miss. |
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