NC STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Department of Plant Pathology
Seminars

Fall 2008 Seminar Schedule

Mondays, 4:00 PM
Stephens Room, Gardner 3503
 

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Aug. 25 "Welcome Seminar and Social"
Dr. James Moyer
Professor and Department Head
Dr. David Ritchie
Professor and Director of Graduate Programs
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology
   
Sep. 1 No Seminar--Labor Day
   
Sep. 8 "Ecology, genomics, populations and novel management of Rhizoctonia disease"
Dr. Marc Cubeta
Associate Professor
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology
   
Sep. 15 "Unraveling the genetic basis of plant multiple disease resistance"
Dr. Randy Wisser
USDA-ARS Plant of Sciences Research Unit
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology
   
Sep. 22 "Maize and its foliar fungal foes; Corn fights back"
Dr. Peter Balint-Kurti
USDA/Assistant Professor/USDA-ARS Research Plant Pathologist/Geneticist
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology
   
Sep. 29 "Scab and vomitoxin: the allures of Fusarium head blight of wheat"
Dr. Christina Cowger
USDA/Assistant Professor/USDA-ARS Research Plant Pathologist/Geneticist
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology
   
Oct. 6 "IPM of Strawberry Diseases: Discovery Research and Regional Impacts"
Dr. Frank Louws
Associate Professor and Extension Specialist
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology
   
Oct. 13 "Next Generation DNA Sequencing Facilitates the Discovery of Horizontally Transferred Metabolic Pathways in the Soybean Cyst Nematode, Heterodera glycines"
Dr. Kris Lambert
Associate Professor, Nematology
Department of Crop Science
University of Illinois
   
Oct. 20 "Modeling the Structure of Red Clover Necrotic Mosaic Virus "
Mr. Stanton Martin
PhD Candidate
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology
   
Oct. 27

"MAP kinase signaling in plant responses to herbivory"
Dr. Johannes Stratmann
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
University of South Carolina

   
Nov. 3 "Concurrent genome expression profiling of Maize and Aspergillus flavus during pathogenesis"
Miss Andrea Dolezal
Ph.D. Candidate
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology
   
Nov. 10 "Multi-million Dollar Litigation - Plant Pathology Under Oath: A Case Study"
Dr. David Ritchie
Professor and Director of Graduate Programs
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology
   
Nov. 17 "Role of alternative splicing in plant stress adaptation"
Dr. Paola Veronese
Assisant Professor
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology
   
Nov. 24 "Long distance signaling to induce disease resistance"
Dr. Harsh Bais
Assistant Professor
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
University of Delaware
   
Dec. 1 "Soil microbial responses to elevated atmospheric CO2 and O3: Impacts on ecosystem C and N cycling"
Mr. Lei Cheng
Ph.D. Candidate
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathologyy
   
updated October 6, 2008 MPLEE