Spring 2020 Seminar Schedule
The Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology is pleased to present the Departmental Seminar series for the Spring 2020 semester. Seminars feature a series of speakers presenting topics related to the plant and crop sciences.
Seminars take place every Wednesday at 3:30 PM in Room A465 Life Science Annex and is open to the everyone who would like to attend. For more information, contact Dr. Jonathan Richards at JRichards@agcenter.lsu.edu.
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| January 15 | Dr. Jonathan Richards, Assistant Professor, Plant Path. & Crop Phys., LSU AgCenter | Organizational meeting (Only for students registered in PLHL 7052) |
| January 22 | Dr. Jennifer Brum, Assistant Professor, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, LSU | "Emerging Ecological Roles of Viruses in the Global Oceans" |
| January 29 | Dr. Jong Ham, Professor, Plant Path. and Crop Phys., LSU AgCenter | "A paradigm shift in the regulatory system of Burkholderia glumae" |
| February 5 | Mr. Jose Cortes, Graduate Student, Plant Path. & Crop Phys., LSU AgCenter | "Advances in gene expression detection using NGS technology" |
| February 12 | Dr. Yulin Jia, USDA-ARS, Stuttgart, Arkansas | "Understanding and utilization of plant innate immunity for crop protection" |
| February 19 | Dr. Adam Schneider, Assistant Professor/Herbarium Curator, Biology Department, Hendrix College | TBD |
| March 4 | Dr. Karim Ammar, CIMMYT | "Disease resistance breeding, a costly but essential pillar of global wheat improvement" |
| March 11 | Ms. Jobelle Bruno, Graduate Student, Plant Path. & Crop Phys., LSU AgCenter | "Plant-microbe interactions in rice rhizosphere" |
| March 18 | Ms. Harleen Kaur, Graduate Student, Plant Path. & Crop Phys., LSU AgCenter | "Understanding endophytes and their role in plant health" |
| April 1 | Ms. Izabel Costa de Novaes, Graduate Student, Plant Path. & Crop Phys., LSU AgCenter | "Ionomics and disease: The role of nutrient balance in plant-pathogen interactions" |
| April 8 | Dr. Aaron Smith, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, LSU | "Low-phosphate chromatin dynamics predict a cell wall remodeling network in rice shoots" |
| April 15 | Mr. Teddy Garcia-Aroca, Graduate Student, Plant Path. & Crop Phys., LSU AgCenter | "Emerging diseases in the age of genomics: using big data to solve big problems" |
| April 22 | Ms. Marija Zivanovic, Graduate Student, Plant Path. & Crop Phys., LSU AgCenter | "Investigation of factors that affect growth and cercosporin production of Cercospora cf. flagellaris and dsRNA as a tool for management" |
| April 29 | Dr. Jacqueline Joshua, Bayer/Monsanto, Chesterfield, MO | TBD |
| Tuesday April 14, Special Seminar | Dr. Bill Wintermantle, USDA-ARS, California | "Determining the ecological competitiveness of introduced viruses and implications for agriculture" |