Fall 2005 Seminar Schedule
Mondays, 4:00 PM
Centennial Campus Toxicology Bldg, Auditorium Room 2104
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| August 22 |
Welcome Seminar and Social, North Carolina State University |
| August 29 |
Dr. Jim Holland , Professor
Department of Crop Science
North Carolina State University
"Conventional and Marker-Assisted Breeding for Quantitative Disease Resistance." |
| September 5 |
Labor Day |
| September 12 |
Dr. Eric Davis , Associate Professor
Department of Plant Pathology
North Carolina State University
"Getting to the Roots of Parasitism by Nematodes." |
| September 19 |
Dr. Mary Palm , National Mycologist
APHIS PPQ
"Systematics, plant pathology and the global agricultural market: challenges and solutions." |
| September 26 |
Dr. Shuijin Hu , Assistant Professor
Department of Plant Pathology
North Carolina State University
"Microbial Mediation of Plant and Ecosystem Responses to Perturbations." |
| October 3 |
Dr. Darrell Desveaux, Assistant Professor
Department of Botany
The University of Toronto
"Structural Analysis of the Pseudomonas syringae Type III Effector AvrB and its host target RIN4." |
| October 10 |
Dr. Michael Schwarz, Director, Seed Treatment Product Development
Bayer CropScienc
"The Changing Role of Seed-Applied Technologies in Agriculture . " |
| October 17 |
Dr. Jim Moyer , Professor and Department Head
Department of Plant Pathology
North Carolina State University
"Genetic Basis of Evolution and Adaptation of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus: Why TSWV Remains a Threat to Agriculture."
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| October 24 |
Dr. Scott Baker, Senior Research Scientist
Pacific Northwest National Labs
"Fungi biobased products and the biorefinery."
*Seminar sponsored by CIFR |
| October 31 |
Ms. Yeon Yee Oh, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Plant Pathology
North Carolina State University (FGL)
"Gene expression and functional analysis of Magnaporthe grisea during spore germination and appressorium formation." |
| November 7 |
Dr. Gloria Abad, Director of Plant Pathogen Identification Laboratory
Department of Plant Pathology
North Carolina State University
"Evolution in the Taxonomy of the Straminipiles: Phytophthora , Pythium and Pythiogeton " |
| November 14 |
Dr. Jim Starr, Professor
Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Texas A & M University
"A tale of two stories: gene expression and host resistance." |
| November 18 |
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| November 28 |
Dr.
Les Szabo, Adjunct Associate Professor
USDA ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory
University of Minnesota
"Cereal Rust Fungi: Genomes and Genomics"
*Seminar sponsored by CIFR
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