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The 2011 edition of the Aurora Sporealis alumni newsletter is now available online! Read it HERE.
The 2011 edition of the Aurora Sporealis was edited by Dean Malvick, designed by Sarah Morean and contributed to by many members of the department. Thanks to all involved!
We'd like to get your updated information for the next Aurora mailing as well as personal or professional updates to include in future issues. Please submit updates via the Register for Updates form on the Stay Connected page of our site.
President Kaler visited the Department of Plant Pathology on Friday, January 27, 2012. His tour included a brief welcome followed by two stops in Borlaug Hall and the Plant Growth Facility where he learned about our graduate and undergraduate research, extension and outreach, the Stakman-Borlaug Cereal Rust Center and more.
Research conducted at the University of Minnesota on stem rust of wheat has been featured in this video news story about Ug99. It ran on PBS NewsHour and was produced by the Under-Told Stories Project.
The Department of Plant Pathology partnered with Twin Cities Public Television to produce the documentary film "Saving Wheat: Rusts Never Sleep" which will air on TPT October - November. This program focuses on the global importance of wheat, the Green Revolution and one group of researchers' unending fight against diseases. It is 27 minutes long.
Find upcoming opportunities to watch this program on TPT by visiting their website HERE.
The topic for the 2011 Graduate Student Symposium is "Secreted Secrets of Plant Pathogens: Effectors and Beyond." This year’s symposium aims to explore bacterial, oomyceteous and fungal effectors and the mechanisms of effector-host recognition. Come learn how knowledge of effector-host interactions will prove key to promoting sustainable resistance in plant hosts against a variety of plant pathogens.
This event will take place on October 28, 2011, from 9am-3:30pm.
To learn more about the symposium, and view the agenda, please visit the 2011 Graduate Student Symposium website.
Registration for the symposium has closed.
This video podcast summarizes the efforts being made by University of Minnesota researchers to protect barley from Ug99 stem rust.
On March 21st Jim Stack delivered a seminar on campus titled "A Plant Biosecurity-Food Security Paradox: The Solution is the Problem." A video of that seminar can now be viewed online HERE or below. Click the play button to start the program.
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Elisabeth Kaplan, Head of the University of Minnesota Archives, and Emeritus Professor Richard Zeyen wrote an article about Minnesota's role in the Green Revolution and the process of digitizing papers related to that work. It has been published in the latest issue of Journal of Agricultural & Food Information.
This digitization of the "Green Revolution Collection" at the U of MN Archives, located in Andersen Library, is ongoing and will be completed by June 2011. This collection includes extensive papers of Elvin Stakman, John Niederhauser and others.
The Green Revolution Digitization Project at the University of Minnesota: A Collaborative Model of Support for Preservation and Access | by Elisabeth Kaplan and Richard J. Zeyen | Journal of Agricultural & Food Information
Event: Plant Pathology Seminar
Speaker: Burcu Yordem, Ph.D.
Topic: "Establishing Brachypodium distachyon as a new model system for understanding iron homeostasis in grasses."
Date: Monday, April 30, 2012
Time: 2:30pm
Location: 365 Borlaug Hall
A Tailored Pair of Genes | by Deane Morrison | UMNews
Testing Hybrids and Tossing Sandals in the Fight Against 'Wheat Rust' | by Fred De Sam Lazaro | PBS NewsHour
