Autumn 2012
Aug. 28
Brian McSpadden Gardener, Monica Lewandowski, Mike Ellis; Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State
For Grad Students Only: Deadlines, Forms, Habits and Procedures You Need to Know to Succeed in Grad School
Sept. 4
Terry L. Niblack, Professor and Chair, Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State
"Racism" in Nematology: Assessing Variability in Soybean Cyst Nematode
Sept. 11
Lucy Stewart, Research Molecular Biologist, USDA ARS, Wooster
Cracking waikavirus code: Progress on Maize chlorotic dwarf virus
Sept. 18
Cancelled
Sept. 25
Sungwoo Lee, PhD student, Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State (A. Dorrance and R. Mian, advisors)
Partial resistance QTL to Phytophthora sojae in two populations derived from plant introductions originating in South Korea
Oct. 2
Jerald Pataky, Monsanto
Common Smut: Trying to Breed for Resistance and Production of Cuitlacoche
Oct. 9
Leona Horst, Horticulturist, USDA ARS
IR4 Program: Responding to grower needs
Oct. 16
American Phytopathological Society, Council (society officers)
Oct. 23
Dave Mackey, Associate Professor, Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State
Collaborative targeting of the plant defense network by bacterial virulence factors
Oct. 30
Parwinder Grewal, Professor, Department of Entomology, Ohio State
(Topic: Bacterial genomics and biocontrol)
Nov. 6
Donald Nuss, Professor and Director, Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, University of Maryland
Mycoviruses at the fungal-plant interface: New insights into RNA silencing, viral RNA recombination and the genetics of fungal non-self recognition
Nov. 13
Anna Conrad, PhD student, Plant Pathology, Ohio State (P. Bonello, advisor)
The role of tannins in plant defense against pests and pathogens
Nov. 20
Andika Gunadi, MS student, Plant Pathology, Ohio State (A. Dorrance, advisor)
Elucidating the Genetic Basis of Rps3- and Rps8-Mediated Resistance to Phythophthora sojae in Soybean Mapping Populations
Nov. 27
David Francis, Associate Professor, Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State
Breeding for resistance to bacterial diseases of tomato
Dec. 4
Graduate Student Exchange - Anna Testen, Penn State
Spring 2012
March 27
Thomas Clemente, Eugene W. Price Distinguished Professor of Biotechnology, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Strategies to improve soybean oil quality through biotechnology
April 3
Lisa Jones, PhD candidate, Plant Pathology, Cornell University (part of a graduate student exchange between Cornell, Penn State and Ohio State) Host: Plant Pathology Graduate Students Association
Pathogens in New York surface irrigation water
April 10
Mary Beth Mudgett, Associate Professor, Biology, Stanford University. Host: Plant Pathology Graduate Students Association.
Insight to the mechanism by which Xanthomonas represses plant transcription during infection
April 17
Jasleen Singh, MS student, Plant Pathology, Ohio State (Feng Qu, advisor)
April 24
Wojciech Janisiewicz, Research Plant Pathologist, USDA ARS, Appalachian Fruit Research
Station, Kearneysville, WV. Host: Brian McSpadden-Gardener
Note date change: Monday, May 1, 9-10 am, Kottman 244/Columbus and Fisher 121/Wooster videolink
Youliang Peng, Professor, China Agricultural University
Molecular analysis of key pathogenesis in Magnaporthe oryzae
May 8
Christopher Taylor, Assistant Professor, Plant Pathology, OARDC - Ohio State
May 15
John Hammond, Research Plant Pathologist, Floral and Nursery Plants Research Unit
USDA-ARS, United States National Arboretum, Beltsville, MD
Broad spectrum methods for plant virus detection and identification from ELISA to a Universal Plant Virus MicroarrayMay 22
Donald Nuss, Director and Professor, Center for Agricultural Biotechnology, University of Maryland
Mycoviruses at the fungal-plant interface: New insights into RNA silencing, viral RNA recombination and the genetics of fungal non-self recognition
May 29
Stephen Opiyo, Molecular and Cellular Imaging Center, Columbus
Bioinformatics-driven search for proteins similar to AvrE proteins from Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis genome
Winter 2012
Jan. 10
Bryan Cassone, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, USDA-ARS
Transcriptional stress response of insect vectors
Jan. 17
Pierluigi (Enrico) Bonello, Professor, Plant Pathology, Ohio State
Understanding interactions between trees and invasive, exotic pests
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Jan. 24
Esther van der Knaap, Associate Professor, Horticulture and Crop Science, OARDC, Ohio State
Diversity in the morphology of the tomato fruit
Pattavipha Songkumarn, PhD candidate, Plant Pathology, Ohio State (G-L Wang, advisor)
Isolation and functional analysis of carbohydrate binding module (CBM)-containing effectors in Magnaporthe oryzae (Research update)
Feb. 7
Bin Tian, PhD student, Penn State University (hosted by the Plant Pathology Graduate Students). Part of a graduate student exchange between Cornell, Penn St. and Ohio State.
Understanding the mechanisms and evolution of vector transmission, and host specificity for Soybean Dwarf Virus
Feb. 14
Youliang Peng, Professor, China Agriculture University (Invited by Dr. Guo-Liang Wang)
Molecular analysis of key pathogenesis genes in Magnaporthe oryzae
Feb. 21
Katrina Cornish, Professor, Horticulture and Crop Science
Introduction of alternate rubber crops: Success, challenges and needs
Feb. 28
Yebo Li, Assistant Professor, Ag Engineering, OARDC, Ohio State
Innovative technologies for conversion of organic waste to energy and products
March 6
Chenxi Chen, PhD candidate, Plant Pathology, Ohio State (T. K. Mitchell, advisor)
Genome-wide Transcriptome Analysis of Two Histoplasma capsulatum strains by RNA-sequencing
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