Seminars
Location & Time
Cameron Williams Lecture Hall, Room 101 Plant Science Building
Mondays, 3:00-4:00 PM (unless specified otherwise)
Schedule
Date | Speaker | Title |
| February 17 | Dr. Emily Pfeufer, Extension Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky | Understanding resistance to crop protectants and elucidating routes forward for successful vegetable and tobacco production in KY |
| March 2 | Mr. Biao Sun, Graduate Student, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky | “Never ending battle between hosts an d viruses: many roles of the nucleocytoplasmic transport” |
| March 9 (Zoom only) | Dr. Nancy Keller, Professor, Department of Bacteriology and Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin | TBA |
| March 23 | Dr. Michael Goodin, Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky | COFFEE; everything that WE ARE in the CAFE! “Core” lessons from coffee-based pedagogy |
| March 30 | Dr. Matt Kasson, Assistant Professor of Forest Pathology, Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University | Successes and Setbacks of Biological Control: Can fungi really solve our invasive plant and pathogen problems? |
| April 6 | Dr. Lisa Vaillancourt, Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky | 20,000 sexes! Diversity in Fungal Mating |
| April 7 (Tuesday, 9:00 AM) | Ms. Madison McCulloch, Graduate Student, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky | Diversity and cross-infection potential of Colletotrichum on apples and small fruits in Kentucky mixed-fruit orchards |
| April 13 | Mr. Yuanrong Kang, Graduate Student, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky | TBA |
| April 17 (Friday, 11:00 AM) | Dr. Carolle Bull, Department Head and Professor, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Pennsylvania State University | Seminar title: Mushroom madness: The carnival of pathogens causing bacterial blotch on mushrooms and strategies for blotch management |
| April 20 (Zoom only) | Dr. Frances Trail, Professor, Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University | Exploring the Life History of Fusarium graminearum, the head blight fungus |
| April 27 | Dr. Zhike Feng, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky | Tombusvirus replication: From enrichment of PI3P phosphoinositide to biogenesis of viral replicase complex |