Spring 2021
PLNTPTH 8899. Seminars are Mondays, 12:40-1:35 pm. For Zoom link, contact Dr. Feng Qu (qu.28@osu.edu)
Seminar coordinators: Dr. Francesca Hand and Dr. Feng Qu
1/11/2021
Soybean pathologist candidate
1/18/2021 - No seminar, Martin Luther King Day
1/25/2021
Soybean pathologist candidate
2/1/2021
NO SEMINAR
2/8/2021
Satyanarayana Tatineni, Research plant pathologist, USDA ARS, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Biology and disease management of Wheat streak mosaic virus
2/15/2021
Patrick Ewing, USDA Integrated Cropping Systems Research Station, Brookings, SD. (Host: Soledad Benitez Ponce)
2/22/2021
James N. Culver, Professor, University of Maryland
Reprogramming the Plant Vascular System: A Viral Approach to Systemic Disease
3/1/2021
Robert V. Tauxe, Director, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, NCEZID, DDID, CDC (Host: F. Hand)
Foodborne infections in the United States and improvements in foodborne outbreak detection and investigation
3/8/2021
Olufemi (Femi) J. Alabi, Associ Prof, Texas A & M University
Retooling Extension Plant Pathology to Address Plant Virus Disease Outbreaks
3/15/2021
3/22/2021
Shin-Yi Marzano, Molecular Biologist, USDA ARS, Toledo, OH
3/29/2021
Neha Potnis, Assistant Professor. Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University (Host, J. Jacobs)
Uncovering the basis of host adaptation in a stealthy plant pathogenic bacterium, Xanthomonas
4/5/2021
Peter Moffett, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
4/12/2021
Jiyang Wang, Visitng scholar, Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State
4/19/2021
Caleb Kime, M.S. student, Plant Pathology, Ohio State (P. Bonello, advisor)
4/26/2021 - Final exams, No Seminar
Autumn 2020
PLNTPTH 8899. Seminars are Mondays, 10:20-11:15 am. For Zoom link, contact Dr. Francesca Hand (hand.81@osu.edu)
Seminar coordinators: Dr. Francesca Hand and Dr. Feng Qu
8/31/2020
Drs. Monica Lewandowski/Jason Slot, Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State. Graduate Program Updates
9/7/2020 LABOR DAY - NO SEMINAR
9/14/2020
Felipe Dalla Lana da Silva, Plant Pathology Ph.D. candidate, Ohio State (P.A. Paul, advisor). Exit seminar
9/21/2020
Dr. Caroline Roper, University of California, Riverside
9/28/2020
Dr. Sarah Hovinga, BAYER Biologics
10/5/2020
Dr. Larry Madden, Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State
10/12/2020
Margery Daughtrey, Cornell University
10/19/2020
Dr. JoAnne Crouch, USDA-ARS (Beltsville, Maryland)
10/26/2020
Dr. Katie Gold, Cornell University
11/2/2020
Dr. Nicole Ward Gauthier, University of Kentucky
11/9/2020
Student exchange seminar, Penn State
11/16/2020
Student exchange seminar, University of California, Davis
11/23/2020
Dr. Barbara Kowalcyk, Department of Food Science and Technology, Ohio State
11/30/2020
Student exchange seminar, Michigan State University
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Spring 2020
PLNTPTH 8899. Seminars are Mondays, 1:00-1:55 pm. Alternate day/time: Fridays, 1:50-2:45 pm.
Subject to change.
Jan. 6, 2020
Ranjana Rawal, Horticulture and Crop Science PhD student
Jan. 13, 2020
Phillip Martins, Penn State graduate student (Kari Peters, advisor). Part of a graduate student seminar exchange with Penn State.
Jan 20, 2020
Holiday, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. No seminar.
Friday, Jan. 24
Lisa Vaillancourt, Professor, University of Kentucky
Evidence for a special role of the signal peptidase in the establishment of biotrophy by the maize anthracnose pathogen Colletotrichum graminicola
Friday, Jan. 31
1:50-2:45 pm, Kottman 244 (Columbus) - Fisher 121 (Wooster)
Matthew Kasson, Interim Director of the International Culture Collection of (Vesicular) Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (INVAM)
Assistant Professor of Forest Pathology, West Virginia University
Deciphering fungus-arthropod interactions: from ambrosia fungi to cicada-killing “zygomycetes”
Monday, Feb. 3
1:00-1:55 pm - Fisher 121 (Wooster) videolinked to Kottman 244 (Columbus)
Ying-Yu Liao, PhD student, University of Florida (advisor, Mathews Paret) - Graduate Student Exchange Seminar
Magnesium nanomaterial, a novel alternative to bacterial spot of tomato disease management
Monday, Feb. 10
Monday, Feb. 17
1:00-1:55 pm, Kottman 244 (Columbus) - Fisher 121 (Wooster)
Alison Bennett, Assistant Professor - Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Ohio State
March 2
Week of March 9-13, Spring Break
No seminar
Monday March 16 (Postponed to April 23)1:00-1:55 pm, Fisher 121 (Wooster) videolinked to Kottman 244 (Columbus)
Rebecca Kimmelfield, PhD candidate, Translational Plant Sciences (Christopher Taylor, advisor)
Exit Seminar
Monday, March 23 - Cancelled.1:00-1:55 pm, Fisher 121 (Wooster) videolinked to Kottman 244 (Columbus)
Chris Peritore-Galve, Cornell University - Graduate Student Exchange Seminar
Friday, March 27
1:50-2:45 pm, Kottman 244 (Columbus) and Fisher 121 (Wooster)
Jean Ristaino, North Carolina State University
March 30
Monday, April 6, 2020
1:00-1:55 pm, Kottman 244 (Columbus) - Fisher 121 (Wooster)
Coralie Farinas, PhD candidate, Plant Pathology, Ohio State
PhD Exit seminar
April, 13, 2020
Monday April 20, 2020
1:00-1:55 pm, Fisher 121 (Wooster) videolinked to Kottman 244 (Columbus)
Michael Goodin, University of Kentucky