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

Spring 2010 - Seminar Schedule

Mondays, 4:00 PM
Toxicology Auditorium, NCSU Centennial Campus

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Jan. 11

"The Role of Science in Plant Health Emergencies"
Dr. Russ Bulluck
National Science Program Leader
Response and Recovery Systems Technology
USDA, APHIS, PPQ, CPHST
Raleigh, NC

Jan. 18

Holiday

Jan. 25

"APS:  A Change in Governance and Meeting Member Needs?"
Dr. James Moyer
Professor and Department Head
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology

 

 

Feb. 1

"Trafficking Pathways for Arabidopsis Tonoplast Proteins"
Dr. Marcela Rojas-Pierce
Assistant Professor
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Biology

 

 

Feb. 8

"Scab, crabs, and a broken Mf (Malus floribunda)."
Dr. Janna Beckerman
Assistant Professor
Purdue University-Dept of Botany and Plant Pathology

 

 

Feb. 15

 

“The Phytophthora Advance: Ornamentals and Christmas trees”
Dr. Mike Benson
Professor
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology

 

 

Feb. 22

"Mycological Herbaria: Applications for Teaching and Research (New Uses for Dead Things)"
Dr. Larry Grand
Professor
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology

 

 

Mar. 1

"Next generation biology: insights into pathogenicity of the rice blast fungus"
Dr. Ralph Dean
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology

 

 

Mar. 8

"Patterns of evolution and recent migration of the sudden oak death pathogen Phytophthora ramorum"

Dr. Nick Grunwald
USDA ARS
Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory
Corvallis, OR

 

 

Mar. 15

No Seminar--Spring Break

 

 

Mar. 22

"Disease ecology in natural plant communities "
Dr. Charles Mitchell
Assistant Professor
UNC-Chapel Hill - Dept. of Biology

 

 

Mar. 29

“Weather-based Decision Support for Agriculture”

Dr. Ryan Boyles
Director and State Climatologist
State Climate Office, NCSU

 

 

Apr. 5

"Seeking the system in the Pseudomonas syringae type III secretion system"

Dr. Allan Collmer
Professor
Cornell University – Dept of Plant Pathology

 

 

Apr. 12

“Improving control strategies for Stagonospora nodorum blotch of wheat”
Miss. Ashley Zearfoss
Master Student
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology

 

 

ROSIE PEREZ MEMORIAL SEMINAR- Details

Apr. 19

"Beetlebellyeasts: Beetles and their yeast endosymbionts from basidiocarp habitats"
Dr. Meredith Blackwell
Louisiana State University

 

 

Apr. 26

"Progress toward transgenic resistance to root-knot nematodes in selected crop species"
Miss. Kate Schweri
Ph.D. Candidate
NCSU-Dept. of Plant Pathology