Currently, all seminars are presented over Zoom. Please contact Communication Specialist Grant Czadzeck ([email protected]) for more information. View past seminars here.
Seminars and titles are subject to change.
Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Moderator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/25/2021 | Ryan Lins | Syngenta Crop Protecton | A Year in the Life of an Industry Field Scientist | Jim Kolmer |
| 2/1/2021 | Cori Bazemore-James and Mylene Culbreath | UMN Grad School Diversity Office, Director of Retention | Graduate School Diversity Office Recruitment and Retention Support | Jim Bradeen |
| 2/8/2021 | Melvin Bolton | USDA-ARS Fargo ND | Shedding light on a sugar beet pathogen’s dark secrets – the role of cercosporin and CbNip1 in Cercospora beticola pathology | Kristi Ledman |
| 2/15/2021 | Ruth Dill Macky | UMN Plant Pathology | MAES Project - Integrating Best Management Practices for Fusarium Head Blight: Progress and Challenges | Nick Rajtar |
| 2/22/2021 | Mark Sanders | UMN Imaging Center | Imaging Technology at the University Imaging Centers - Maintaining Excellence in a New Normal | Nick Greatens |
| 3/1/2021 | Marike Boenisch | UMN Plant Pathology | Reorganization of cells and organelles of Fusarium graminearum upon induction of DON mycotoxins during wheat infection and in vitro | Kristi Ledman |
| 3/8/2021 | Linda Kinkel | UMN Plant Pathology | MAES Project: The Ecology & Evolutionary Biology of Plant Microbiomes | Nick Rajtar |
| 3/15/2021 | Claudia Castell Miller | UMN Plant Pathology | The cultivated wild rice-Bipolaris oryzae pathosystem: past, present and future research | Nick Greatens |
| 3/22/2021 | Stephan Marek | Oklahoma State Univ | Two fungus-plant pathosystems: Switchgrass rust and tan spot of wheat | Jim Kolmer |
| 3/29/2021 | Jonathan Jacobs | Ohio State University | Basis of bacterial tissue-specific plant colonization | Rebecca Curland |
| 4/5/2021 | SPRING BREAK | NO SEMINAR | NO SEMINAR | NO SEMINAR |
| 4/12/2021 | Nick Greatens | PLPA Grad Student | Biology, ecology, and biocontrol potential of Puccinia coronata var. coronata | Kristi Ledman |
| 4/19/2021 | Kristi Ledman | PLPA Grad Student | Seed localization and transmission of Xanthomonas translucens, the pathogen causing bacterial leaf streak of small grains | Nick Rajtar |
| 4/26/2021 | Nick Rajtar | PLPA Grad Student | The significance of Blister Blight (Exobasidium vexans) on tea shrub/leaf (Camellia sinensis) around the world | Nick Greatens |
| 5/3/2021 | Mark Sanders | UMN Imaging Center | Imaging Technology at the University Imaging Centers - Maintaining Excellence in a New Normal |
Nick Greatens |