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Seminars

Fall 2021 Seminars

Date	Presenter	Title
9/14/2021	Zac Freedman, Assistant Professor, Department of Soil Science, UW-Madison	Bringing marginal lands to the center of bioenergy crop production by harnessing the power of the microbiome
9/21/2021	Scott Harper, Assistant Professor, Director of the Clean Plant Center Northwest, Washington State University	Two viruses and a phytoplasma - the parallel outbreak of Little cherry and X-disease in the Pacific Northwest
9/28/2021	Adriana Romero-Olivares, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, New Mexico State University	Fungal responses to climate change: how tiny fungal genes affect large ecosystems
10/5/2021	Alejandra Huerta, Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, NCSU	Rhs toxin diversity and function in strain os the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex
10/12/2021	Edel Perez Lopez, Assistant Professor of Phytopathology, Département de Phytologie, Université Laval	Redefining clubroot pathotyping in response to canola growers needs
10/19/2021	Afona Irabor, Graduate Student, Gevens Lab	Enhancing soil health in potato production systems
10/26/2021	Cara Haney, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia	Unearthing mechanisms in plant-microbiome interactions
11/2/2021	Adam Biggott, Graduate Student, Lankau and Allen Labs	Investigating Bacterial Communities Associated with Transgenic Disease Resistance in Tomato
11/9/2021	NO SEMINAR
11/16/2021	Yulin Du, Graduate Student, Bent Lab
11/23/2021	Mohammad Arif, Assistant Professor, Department of Plant & Environmental Protection Sciences, University of Hawaii Note: 11/23 is the day before Thanksgiving break
11/30/2021	Alison Robertson, Professor, Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University	Seedling disease risk associated with planting corn into a green winter cereal rye cover crop"
12/7/2021	Mark Gleason, Professor, Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University	Do mesotunnels make sense for organic cucurbit production?
12/14/2021	NO SEMINAR

Questions? Contact the seminar chair, Prof. Erin Silva.

Prior Seminars

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+Spring 2021 Seminars

Seminars are held Tuesdays at 3:30 in 150 Russell Labs, unless otherwise noted.

Date	Speaker/Institution	Title of Seminar
Jan. 26	NO SEMINAR
Feb. 2	Led by Dr. Valerie Young	Rethinking Impostor Syndrome: An interactive program
Feb. 9
Feb. 16	Sanju Kunwar UW-Madison Plant Pathology, Allen Lab	Ralstonia solanacearum effector RipBN breaks EFR-mediated resistance by suppressing PTI
Feb. 23	Tiffany Lowe-Power UW-Madison Plant Pathology, Allen Lab	Using high-throughput genetics (RB-TnSeq) to map the fitness landscape of plant pathogenic Ralstonia
Mar. 2	Luna Sanchez-Reyes University of California-Merced
Mar. 9	Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara, Associate Prof and Director of Graduate Studies UW-Madison Dept. of Afro-American Studies	Black on the Wisconsin Frontier from Slavery to Suffrage
Mar. 16	Dr. Markus Brauer
Mar. 23	David Wheeler
Mar. 30	SPRING BREAK
Apr. 6	Nandhitha Venkatesh
Apr. 13	Tina Wu
Apr. 15 Thurs.	Christina Zambrana-Echevarria
Apr. 20	Breanne Krissalstein	*From Good to Grape (Great): the progression of metagenomic research on the obligate biotroph, Erysiphe necator, and how these studies can influence our ability to manage the disease more effectively*
Apr. 27	Brian Schafer
Apr. 29	Wade Webster
May 4

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