Speaker: Dr. Mustafa O. Jibrin, Post Doc, WSU TFREC mustafa.jibrin@wsu.edu Tentative Seminar Title: Clonality and Recombination in the Globally Spread Bacterial Spot of Tomato and Pepper Pathogens

Speaker: Dr. Jane Stewart, Associate Professor of Agricultural Biology, Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO Jane.Stewart@colostate.edu Tentative Seminar Title: TBD

Speaker: Marilen Nampijja, PhD student marilen.nampijja@wsu.edu Tentative Seminar Title: RNA Interference Technology, Opportunities, and Challenges in the Management of Plant Diseases

Speaker: Kristen Bullough, PhD student kristen.bullough@wsu.edu Tentative Seminar Title: Cordyceps: From Zombie Ants to Chinese Medicine

Speaker: Dr. Richard Sniezko, Geneticist, US Forest Service Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Dorena, OR richard.sniezko@usda.gov Tentative Seminar Title: Developing Resistant Populations of Trees to Non-Native Pathogens

Speaker: Ninh Khuu, PhD student ninh.khuu@wsu.edu Tentative Seminar Title: Mistletoe: Merging of Myth and Science

Speaker: Joseph K Mellow, MS student joseph.mellow@wsu.edu Tentative Seminar Title: Understanding Botrytis Gray Mold on Strawberry and its Fungicide Resistance Mechanisms

Speaker: Alex Batson, PhD exit seminar alex.batson@wsu.edu Tentative Seminar Title: Characterization, Detection, and Genetics of the Spinach Fusarium Wilt Pathogen

Student-Invited Speaker: Dr. Peter Henry Research Plant Pathologist, USDA ARS Crop Improvement and Protection Research. Salinas, CA Peter.Henry@usda.gov Tentative Seminar Title: The Origins and Evolution of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. fragariae, Cause of Fusarium Wilt of Strawberry

Speaker: Dr. Enrico Bonello, Professor of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH bonello.2@osu.edu Tentative Seminar Title: Beech Leaf Disease: A Forest Epidemic of National and International Concern

Speaker: Dr. Marin Talbot Brewer, Professor of Mycology/Plant Pathology University of Georgia, Athens, GA mtbrewer@uga.edu Tentative Seminar Title: TBD

Please join us for our first seminar of the Spring semester featuring Guest Speaker Dr. Allen Sutton presented by the Plant Pathology DEI Committee ,  his talk will be on  “Inclusion 101”,  January 23rd, 2023, at 4:10PM. For more information please see the  Seminar Announcement- Dr. Allen Sutton