Seminars are presented over Zoom or in a hybrid format. Please contact Annie Harvieux ([email protected]) or [email protected] with questions.
Join the Seminar on Zoom, or Borlaug Hall 335, at 2:30 Central on the dates below.
Seminars and titles are subject to change.
2025 Seminars
2025 Seminars
Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Modality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 27 | Josiah Mutuku | 2Blades | Leveraging a High-throughput Gene Platform for Sourcing and Validating Resistance against Fusarium in Corn | Hybrid |
| February 3 | Michelle Grabowski | Minnesota Dept of Agriculture | Regulatory Plant Pathology at Work | Hybrid |
| February 10 | Ce Yang | Dept of BBE, U of MN | Drone Hyperspectral Imaging for Crop Disease Detection | Hybrid |
| February 17 | Becca Hall | Dept of Plant Pathology, U of MN | Growing Awareness: Expanding the Reach of Plant Pathology | Hybrid |
| February 24 | Akerke Zhamalbekova and Aizhan Sardar | Kazakh Research Institute of Plant Protection and Quarantine | Plant disease diagnostics in Kazakhstan and the UMN Scholars Academy mentoring program | TBD |
| March 3 | Cancelled due to illness | |||
| March 17 | Becky Spanner | U of MN Plant Pathology, Post-Doc | Haplotype-phased cereal rust reference genomes reveal evolutionary origins of global isolates and facilitate avirulence gene mining. | Hybrid |
| March 24 | Jasper Tao | Dept of Plant Pathology, U of MN | TBD | Hybrid |
| March 31 | Mickey Drott | USDA-ARS CDL, St Paul | TBD | TBD |
| April 7 | Linda Kinkel | Dept of Plant Pathology, U of MN | TBD | Hybrid |
| April 14 | Joana Serrano Salgado | Dept of Plant Pathology, U of MN | TBD | Hybrid |
| April 21 | Connor Slawin | Dept of Plant Pathology, U of MN | TBD | Hybrid |
| April 28 | Ronan Keener | Dept of Plant Pathology, U of MN | TBD | Hybrid |
| May 5 | Kay Lerohl | Dept of Plant Pathology, U of MN | TBD | Hybrid |
More seminars to be announced soon, check back for updates