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

Spring 2009 Seminar Schedule

Mondays, 4:00 PM
Toxicology Auditorium, Room #2104
 

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Jan. 19 No Seminar--MLK Holiday
   
Jan. 26 "Two-Component Elements Mediate Susceptibility of Arabidopsis to the Oomycete Hyaloperonospora parasitica, Through Cytokinin-Dependent and -Independent Mechanisms"
Miss Cristiana Argueso
PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
UNC Chapel Hill-Dept. of Biology
   
Feb. 2 "Global migrations and evolutionary history of P. infestans"
Dr. Jean Ristaino
Professor
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology
   
Fe. 9 "Development of Seed Applied Technologies"
Dr. Jennifer Riggs
Seminar will begin at 3:30 pm
Product Development Manager
Bayer CropScience
   

Feb. 16

 

 

"Beyond the genome sequence: Unravelling the complex biology of rice blast disease"
Dr. Ralph Dean
Williams Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology
   
Feb. 23 "The making of a model: The M. hapla genome and beyond"
Dr. David Bird
Professor
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology
   
Mar. 2 No Seminar--Spring Break
   

 

 

Mar. 5

2009 Nusbaum Conference
Thursday, March 5, 2009
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Jane S. McKimmon Center, Raleigh, NC
"Building on Strength: Integrating Lessons from the Past into Strategies for the Future"

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Mar. 9 "Epidemiological synthesis: New lessons from old (and not-so-old) data"
Dr. Harald Scherm
Professor and Graduate Coordinator
University of Georgia
Dept. of Plant Pathology
   

Mar. 16

"Scaling up plant-microbe interactions from the rhizosphere to ecosystems"
Dr.Shuijin Hu
Associate Professor
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology

   
Mar. 23 "Soilborne diseases and soil microbial diversity in different agricultural ecosystems"
Mr. Bo Liu
Research Associate
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology
   
Mar. 30 No Seminar
   
Apr. 6 No Seminar
   

Apr. 13

3:00 PM

Reception begins at 2:45 pm

"Genetic Engineering for Virus Resistance in Plants: Different Viruses Demand Different Strategies"
Dr. Roger N. Beachy
President
Donald Danfort Plant Science Center

Biography
Dr. Beachy's Laboratory

Location: McKimmon Center
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Apr. 20 "Biology and Management of Fairy Rings on Golf Putting Greens"
Mr. Lee Miller
Ph.D. Candidate
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology
   
Apr. 27 "Characterization of small RNAs from mycelia and appressoria of Magnaporthe oryzae"
Mr. Cristiano Nunes
Ph.D. Candidate
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology
   
May 4 "Plant virus structure and assembly and how it can be applied to Nanotechnology"
Dr. Steve Lommel
Williams Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor and Assistant Vice-Chancellor for Research
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology
updated August 17, 2009 by MPLEE