Ellie Walsh

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Ellie Walsh

PhD (Taylor)

walsh.378@osu.edu

Office:

202/212 (lab) Selby Hall, Wooster

Professional Information

Degrees & Credentials:

MS Ed Science Education CUNY Lehman College

BS Plant Science and International Agriculture & Rural Development, Cornell University

Biography:

Area of research: Interaction between root-knot nematodes and their host

Hometown

Uniontown, Ohio

Awards

Kenneth and Betty Barker Student Travel Award & John M. Barnes Student Travel Award, American Phytopathological Society (2016)
American Phytopathological Society Foundation Board, Kenneth and Betty Barker Student Travel Award and The Dennis Hall Named Student Travel Award (2014)
Patricia Ngwira Travel Award, Plant Pathology Graduate Students Association (2013)
Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation ion Plants Travel Grant, American Society of Plant Biologists Satellite Meeting (2013)
Gamma Sigma Delta, The Honor Society of Agriculture
OARDC SEEDS grant, The influence of parasitic interactions on host gene silencing (2012)
Excellence in Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Graduate Fellowship (2010-2012)
American Phytopathological Society, North Central Division Annual Meeting June 13-15, 2012, Wooster OH. Graduate student oral presentation, 2nd place.

Activities

Plant Pathology Graduate Students Association
Student Exchange Seminar Chair, 2015-2016
President, 2013-2014
Vice President, 2012-2013

American Phytopathological Society
Nematology Commitee, Chair (2015-2016)
APS Press Publications Board, graduate student member
Nematology Committee, Vice Chair (2014-present)
Graduate Student Committee
Teaching Committee

Society of Nematologists, member

Works

Publications

Testen AL, Walsh EK, Taylor CG, Miller SA, Lopez-Nicora H. 2014. First report of bloat nematode (Ditylenchus dipsaci) infecting garlic in Ohio. Plant Disease 98:859.

Veturi Y, Kump K, Walsh E, Ott O, Poland J, Kolkman JM, Nelson RJ, Kurti, P., Holland, J., Wisser , R., (2012) The longitudinal mixed linear model: an information-rich statistical technique for analyzing disease resistance data. Phytopathology. 102(11):1016-25.

Chung, C., Poland, J.A., Kump, K., Benson, J., Longfellow, J.M., Walsh, E.K., Balint Kurti, P.J., Nelson, R.J. 2011. Targeted discovery of quantitative trait loci for resistance to northern leaf blight and other diseases of maize. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 123:307-326.

Chung C, Longfellow J, Walsh E, Kerdieh Z, Esbroek GV, Balint-Kurti P, Nelson R. (2010) Resistance loci affecting distinct stages of fungal pathogenesis in maize: use of introgression lines for QTL mapping and characterization. BMC Plant Biology, 10:103.

Presentations

Poster, Soybean Cyst Nematodes of Ohio: Deciphering Mechanisms of Virulence. E. WALSH, B. Cassone, A. Grenell, T. Miller, C. G. Taylor. American Phytopathological Society Annual Meeting, Aug. 1-6, 2015, Pasadena, California.

GrowNextGen, teacher workshop, National Association of Biology Teachers Convention, Nov. 13, 2014, Cleveland Convention Center
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Root-knot Nematode Parasitism Suppresses Host Gene Silencing. ELLIE WALSH, C. G. Taylor. Poster, American Phytopathological Society Annual Meeting, Aug. 9-14, 2014, Minneapolis, Minn.

Walsh E, Pengue G, Portela V, Marella H, Taylor G. (2013) Effects of rootknot nematode parasitism on host gene silencing. (poster) American Society of Plant Biologists, Providence, RI.

Walsh E, Pengue G, Portela V, Marella H, Taylor G. (2012) The influence of root-knot nematode parasitism on host gene silencing. (oral) North Central Division APS, Wooster, OH.

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