Fall 2006 Seminar Schedule
Mondays, 4:00 PM
Bostian 2722
(North Campus Map, Building 67A)
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Next six weeks' schedule
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| Aug. 28 |
Welcome
Seminar and Social |
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| Sept. 11 |
"Serving
the NC Green Industry and Beyond - One Size Does Not Fit All."
Dr. Colleen Y. Warfield
Assistant Professor |
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| Sept. 18 |
"Improving
Site-specific Disease Advisories for Sclerotinia Blight of Peanut
(Arachis hypogaea L.)"
Mr. Damon Smith
Ph.D. Candidate
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| Sept. 25 |
"Development
of Weather-Based Crop Management Tools Using NC ECONet Observations."
Mr.
Mark Brooks
Environmental Meteorologist
State Climate Office
of North Carolina |
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| Oct. 02 |
"The
Phytophthora Database: A global cyber-infrastructure
supporting detection, identification and monitoring of Phytophthora."
Dr. Kelly L.
Ivors
Assistant Professor |
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| Oct. 09 |
"The
Role of Plant Pathology in the Regulatory Arena: Where CPHST
fits."
Dr.
Russ Bulluck
USDA-APHIS-PPQ
Center for Plant Health, Science & Technology
Raleigh, NC |
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| Oct. 16 |
"Identification
and characterization of an unknown disease of creeping bentgrass
(Agrostis stolonifera)."
Mr. Jim Kerns
Ph.D. Candidate |
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| Oct. 23 |
"Strategies
for the development of resistance to cercosporin, a photoactivated
toxin produced by Cercospora species"
Dr.
Margo Daub
Professor of Plant Pathology,
Head - Dept.
of Plant Biology
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| Oct. 30 |
"Plant
host interactions with Pseudomonas syringae type III
effector proteins that are injected into host cells."
Dr.
Jean Greenberg
Associate Professor
Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
University of Chicago |
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| Nov. 6 |
"Working
toward a more complete picture of the chestnut blight fungus:
Viruses and transposons of Cryphonectria parasitica."
Dr.
Bradley Hillman
Professor and Vice Chair,
Plant Biology and Pathology,
Rutgers University
Assoc. Director, NJ Ag. Experiment Station |
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| Tuesday, Nov. 14 |
CIFR
Distinguished Lecture Series: Perspectives on the Role
of Gene Duplication and Transpostion on Genome Evolution, featuring:
“Genome Duplication, Gene Loss and the Origin of Yeast Species.”
Dr.
Kenneth H. Wolfe
Associate Professor of Genetics
Smurfit Institute of Genetics,
Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
“High Rates of Gene Creation and Genome Rearrangement in Flowering
Plants.”
Dr.
Jeffrey L. Bennetzen
Giles Professor of Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics
Department of Genetics,
University of Georgia
2:00 – 4:30 pm,
Hamner Conference Center
North Carolina Biotechnology Center
Research Triangle Park
Directions
to NCBC |
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| Nov 20 |
"High-throughput genotyping
for developing disease resistant wheat cultivars."
Dr.
Gina Brown-Guedira
Research Geneticist
USDA-ARS, Plant Sciences Research Unit |
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| Dec 4 |
"Analysis of
plant cell wall synthesis activity in feeding sites formed by
root knot nematode"
Ms. Laura Hudson
Ph.D. Candidate |
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2006 JMcI
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