NOTICE: From March 23, 2020 until the end of the Spring Semester PLP 515 will only be available through ZOOM it can be viewed Monday afternoon at 4:10 pm . The ZOOM dial up is 148-370-013.
If you have any questions or concerns please email: t.cunningham@wsu.edu
Thank you!
Spring 2020 Schedule
NO SEMINAR-PLANNING MEETING
January 20, 2020
NO SEMINAR- MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY
Janaury 27, 2020
Dr. Kiwamu Tanaka, WSU
February 3, 2020
Dr. Prabu Gnanasekaran, WSU
Topic: “Mechanism of βC1 protein mediated geminivirus pathogenesis”
February 10, 2020
Dr. Cynthia Gleason, WSU
Topic: “A study of root-knot nematode effectors and their manipulation of host plants”
February 17, 2020
NO SEMINAR-PRESIDENTS DAY
February 24, 2020
Dr. Sanjaya Gyawali, WSU
Topic: “Participatory plant breeding (PPB):Concept,methods,and case studies
March 2, 2020
Dr. Fangming Xio, University of Idaho
Topic: “Manipulation of host proteins and cellular processes by potato cyst nematode effector RHA1B”
March 9, 2020
Dr. Lei Zhang, WSU
Topic: “Basic and applied nematology research to help management of the Columbia root-knot nematode”
March 16, 2020
NO SEMINAR–SPRING BREAK
March 23, 2020
NO SEMINAR
March 30, 2020
Nickisha Pierre-Pierre, WSU
Topic: “Fighting Disease: Cancer Treatments and Their Role in Plant Defense”
Announcement Pierre-Pierre 3.30.20
April 6, 2020
Lauren Braley, WSU
Topic: “The engineering of low-gluten wheat using the gene-editing technique CRISPR/CAS9.”
April 13, 2020
Dr. Prashant Swamy, WSU
Topic: “Fungicide Resistance in the Prunus avium: Podosphaera cerasi pathosystem”
April 20, 2020
NO SEMINAR
April 27, 2020
Dr. Kutay Ozturk, WSU
Topic: “Small number of secondary metabolism genes in the hemibiotrophic forest pathogen, Dothistroma septosporum, are mostly non-essential for disease progression”
Fall 2019 Schedule
Dr. Amer Dababat, CIMMYT Global Wheat Program, Ankara-Turkey
“Management strategies against the Soil Borne Pathogens in wheat”
September 2, 2019
No Seminar LABOR DAY
September 9, 2019
Melissa Kay LeTourneau
“Moisture-dependent Mechanisms of Iron Mobilization”
September 16, 2019
Chandra Jack
“Rapid Evolution and novel interactions in Medicago polymorpha”
September 23, 2019
Dr. Richard Allen White III
“Unraveling rhizosphere phage-microbe interactions using metagenomics”
September 30, 2019
Guest: Dr. Linda Kinkel, University of Minnesota
October 7, 2019
Guest: Dr. Shinyi Marzano, South Dakota State University
October 14, 2019
Ninh Khuu– “Host-directed evolution of viroids & Emily McLachlan– “Impact and Maintenance of Specialist Strategies in the Legume-Rhizobia Mutualism”
Announcement 10.14.19 Khuu,Ninh
Announcement 10.14.19 Mclachlan, Emily
October 21, 2019
Olga Kozhar “Ecology and population biology of Botrytis cinerea on Red Raspberry and other small fruit hosts in the Pacific Northwest.”
October 28, 2019
Nickisha Pierre-Pierre —“Characterization of Galacturonic Acid Catabolic Genes in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum”
Sajal Sthapit—“Gene pyramiding and cultivar mixtures for disease management”
Announcement 10.28.19 Pierre-Pierre
November 4, 2019
Scott Anderson—“What fossils reveal about parasitism in the phylum Nematoda”
Richard Manasseh–“Arms Race: Ongoing Conflict between Potato and Viruses”
November 11, 2019
No Seminar VETERAN’S DAY
November 18, 2019
Lederson Ganan–“Fungicide resistance, a continuous threat to plant and human health”-
Kayla Spawton –“Phylogeography: history, applications and constraints”
November 25, 2019
No Seminar THANKSGIVING
December 2, 2019
Elliott Martson—“Host-induce gene Silencing in cereals:transgenetically engineering immune responses”
Samoyda Jayasinghe–“Mechanisms behind Biochar-Mediated Disease Suppression”
Announcement 12.2.19 Jayasinghe
TBD