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

Spring 2011 - Seminar Schedule

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

For more information contact Mina Mila, 513-1291

January 31

"Using Grapevine fanleaf virus genetic variability information to develop, improve, and test constructs for GFLV control through genetic engineering"

Jonathan Oliver, Cornell University

February 7

"Recent developments in strawberry integrated disease management in NC"

Dr. Mahfuzur Rahman, NC State University

February 14

"Molecular Plant-Nematode Interactions"

Dr. Rick Davis, NC State University

February 21

"Comparative Analysis of Plant Nematode Genomes"

Dr. Charlie Opperman, NC State University

February 28

"Challenges Facing Land Grant Universities in an Affluent Society: Are we needed?
Dr. Dave Smith, NC State University

March 14

"The Story of Aflatoxin: From a Single Cell to Populations"

Dr. Ignazio Carbone, NC State University

March 21

'Integrated Management of Golf Course Putting Green Diseases in North Carolina'

Dr. Lane Tredway, NC State University

March 31

Nusbaum Symposium, “The Science Behind Sustainability”
Speakers:
Michael Specter, Columnist New Yorker
Author of “Denialism, How Irrational Thinking Ruins our Planet and Harms Our Lives”

Dr. Hans-Joachim Braun, CIMMYT, Director of Global Wheat Programs

Jan Leach, Colorado State University

Charles Rice, Kansas State University

April 4

“Sexual reproduction and evolution of microbial pathogens”

Dr. Joseph Heitman, Duke University

April 11

"Climate Change and Plant Disease"
Dr. Karen Garrett
, Kansas State University

April 18

Rosie Perez Seminar
Location: J.C. Raulston Arboretum
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Michael Milgroom, Cornell University

April 25

"Pathogenesis by Mycotoxigenic Fungi"

Dr. Gary Payne, NC State University