Review of seminar guidelines and expectations with students enrolled in Pl P 515.

Speaker: Dr. Joey Hulbert, Post Doc, WSU PREC hulbe@wsu.edu Tentative Seminar Title: Research needs for mitigating the emergence of Sooty Bark Disease in the Pacific Northwest

Speaker: Dr. Marianne Elliott, Research Associate, WSU PREC melliott2@wsu.edu Tentative Seminar Title: Phytophthora ramorum in Washington State: Management Successes, Failures, and Challenges

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