Spring 2020 Seminar Schedule

January 15 Dr. Jonathan Richards, Assistant Professor, Plant Path. & Crop Phys., LSU AgCenter Organizational meeting (Only for students registered in PLHL 7052) January 22 Dr. Jennifer Brum, Assistant Professor, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, LSU "Emerging Ecological Roles of Viruses in the Global Oceans" January 29 Dr. Jong Ham, Professor, Plant Path. and Crop Phys., LSU AgCenter "A paradigm shift in the regulatory system of Burkholderia glumae" February 5 Mr. Jose Cortes, Graduate Student, Plant Path. & Crop Phys., LSU AgCenter "Advances in gene expression detection using NGS technology" February 12 Dr. Yulin Jia, USDA-ARS, Stuttgart, Arkansas "Understanding and utilization of plant innate immunity for crop protection" February 19 Dr. Adam Schneider, Assistant Professor/Herbarium Curator, Biology Department, Hendrix College TBD March 4 Dr. Karim Ammar, CIMMYT "Disease resistance breeding, a costly but essential pillar of global wheat improvement" March 11 Ms. Jobelle Bruno, Graduate Student, Plant Path. & Crop Phys., LSU AgCenter "Plant-microbe interactions in rice rhizosphere" March 18 Ms. Harleen Kaur, Graduate Student, Plant Path. & Crop Phys., LSU AgCenter "Understanding endophytes and their role in plant health" April 1 Ms. Izabel Costa de Novaes, Graduate Student, Plant Path. & Crop Phys., LSU AgCenter "Ionomics and disease: The role of nutrient balance in plant-pathogen interactions" April 8 Dr. Aaron Smith, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, LSU "Low-phosphate chromatin dynamics predict a cell wall remodeling network in rice shoots" April 15 Mr. Teddy Garcia-Aroca, Graduate Student, Plant Path. & Crop Phys., LSU AgCenter "Emerging diseases in the age of genomics: using big data to solve big problems" April 22 Ms. Marija Zivanovic, Graduate Student, Plant Path. & Crop Phys., LSU AgCenter "Investigation of factors that affect growth and cercosporin production of Cercospora cf. flagellaris and dsRNA as a tool for management" April 29 Dr. Jacqueline Joshua, Bayer/Monsanto, Chesterfield, MO TBD  Tuesday April 14, Special Seminar Dr. Bill Wintermantle, USDA-ARS, California "Determining the ecological competitiveness of introduced viruses and implications for agriculture"