NOTICE: Fall semester 2021 PLP 515 will be available in person in Johnson Hall RM 343 and through ZOOM, it can be viewed Monday afternoon at 4:10 pm . Please see link below.
https://wsu.zoom.us/j/94763621072?pwd=Ym4wNmpMYlg0WHBIeWZ2enNLU0w5QT09
Meeting ID: 947 6362 1072
Password: 3710
If you have any questions or concerns please email: t.cunningham@wsu.edu
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FALL 21 Schedule
Guest Speaker: Dr. Deven See-USDA-ARS Faculty
Topic: “Our research during the pandemic; a look at adaptation, pathology and molecular markers.”
September 6, 2021
NO SEMINAR-LABOR DAY
September 13, 2021
Guest Speaker: Dr. Wei Wei, Postdoc Research Associate Plant Pathology
Topic: “A novel fungal effector inactivates plant polygalacturonase-inhibiting protein (PGIP)”
September 20, 2021
Guest Speaker: Dr. Christina Hagerty, Columbia Basin Agricultural Research Center, Oregon State University
Topic: “Pathogen-roundup: Updates from the Pendleton cereal pathology program”
September 27, 2021
Samodaya K. Jaysinghe-PhD Student Plant Pathology
Topic: “Studying unculturable plant pathogens-Challenges and novel approaches”
Announcement Jayasinghe 9.27.21
October 4, 2021
Guest Speaker: Dr. Michelle Moyer-Washington State University-IAREC
Topic: “Playing the Long game with nematode management in wine grapes”
October 11, 2021
Dr. Natalia Moroz , Research Associate, WSU
Topic: “Potato immunostimulants alleviate powdery scab disease”
October 18, 2021
Dr. Mary Burrows, Montana State University
Topic: “Cat herding: perspectives from extension, research, and administration.”
October 25, 2021
Amber Loptien, Masters Student Plant Pathology
Topic: ” An Explanation of Cross-Kingdom Phytopathogens”
November 1, 2021
Noah Patrick Nilson, Masters Student Plant Pathology
Topic: “Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and their inter
November 8, 2021
Jonathan Thomas Puglisi, Masters Student Plant Pathology
Topic: “Little Cherry Disease”
November 15, 2021
Natalie Sanchez, Masters Student Plant Pathology
Topic: “Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria on Chickpea”
November 22, 2021
Thanksgiving Break-NO SEMINAR
November 29, 2021
Guest Speaker: Dr. Ned Klopfenstein, US Forest Service and Patrick Bennett, US Forest Service
Dr. Ned Klopfenstein —Topic: “Forest pathology research with the USDA Forest Service in Moscow, Idaho”
Dr. Patrick Bennett– Topic: “Insights into the epidemiology of an insect-vectored root disease fungus causing mortality of Douglas-fir in western Oregon”
December 6, 2021
Scot Anderson, PhD Student Plant Pathology
Topic: “Powdery mildew on Cannabis and it’s cross-reactivity with hops in the PNW”
December 13, 2021
Dr. Evans Njambere, Gowan Company
Topic: “Thinking about biologicals for crop protection: An industry insider’s perspective.”
Spring 21 Schedule
NO SEMINAR-UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY
January 25, 2021
Dr. Aida Damaso-Duarte, Post-doctoral Fellow
Topic: “Seed gall nematodes, Afrina sporoboliae and Anguina tritici, a notable species in U.S.”
Announcement _Aida Duarte_Jan 25-2021 (1)
February 1, 2021
Guest Speaker: Dr. Rubén Félix Gastélum, Professor, Departamento de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Unidad Regional Los Mochis-UAdeO, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, México.
Topic: “Potato diseases in Sinaloa, Mexico”
February 8, 2021
Guest Speaker : Dr. Thien Tho, Plant Pathology Lead Scientist, Driscoll Company, Watsonville, CA
Topic: “Diagnostic Re-thinking: Development and deployment of new molecular testing for berry pathogens”
Announcement Thien-Ho Feb 8-2021
February 19, 2021
Ninh Kkuu, MS Student (Exit Seminar)
Topic: “Titer and Distribution of Hop Stunt Viroid and Hop Laten Viroid Infecting Hops”
February 22, 2021
Elliott Marston, PhD Student
Topic: “Using Transciptomics to investigate plant pathlogen interations: revealing dynamic mechanisms of resisitance and subceptibility”
February 23. 2021
Lederson Ganan Betancur, PhD Student (Exit Seminar)
Topic: “Insights into the genetic diversity population structure, and fungicide sensitivity of the apple powedery mildew pathogen Podosphaera leucotricha in the United States”
March 1, 2021(RESCHEDULED FOR MARCH 15, 2021)
Guest Speaker : Dr. Yazmin Rivera, Assistant Director, Plant Germplasm and Quarantine Lab, USDA APHIS, Beltsville, MD
Topic: “Adapting new technologies for the molecular diagnostics of high consequence and regulartory plant pathogens”
Announcemenet Yazmín Rivera 3.1.21
March 8, 2021
Chiti Agarwal, PhD Student (Exit Seminar)
Topic: “Characterizing Sources of Genetic Resistance in Chickpea to Pre-emergence damping-off disease caused by metalaxyl reisistant Pythium ultimun”
Annoucement Chiti Agarwal_Mar8-2021
March 15, 2021
Dr. Yazmin Rivera, Assistant Laboratory Director, USDA APHIS PPQ
Topic: “Adapting new technologies for the molecular diagnostics of high consequence and regulatory plant pathogens:
PLP Seminar_Yazmín Rivera_Mar15-2021
March 22, 2021
Alex Batson, PhD Student
Topic: What’s in a name? The need for coherent taxonomic and nomenclatural standards for plant pathogens
Announcement Batson, Alex 3.22.21
March 29, 2021
Christine “Jade” Ermita, PhD Student (Exit Seminar)
Topic: “Wheat Genotype-Specific Recruitment of Rhizosphere Microbiomes that are suppresive to Rhizoctonia Root Rot”
April 5,2021
Marilen Nampijja, PhD Student
Topic: “Bioluminescent fungi. a source of genes to monitor plant stresses and changes in the environment”
April 12, 2021
Guest Speaker: Dr. Bob Blanchette, Professor, University of Minnesota
Topic: Wood Decay Fungi: Ethnomycology and New Insights oon Decomposition
Announcement Blanchette 4.12.21
April 19, 2021
Lauren Braley (Exit Seminar)
Topic: “Development of Comprehensive Molecular Detection of Potato Pathogens”
April 26, 2021
Joey Hulbert-Post Doctoral Research Associate
Topic: “Forest Health-community engagement to keep trees healthy”