| DATE |
PRESENTOR |
TITLE |
| January 22 |
open
|
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| January 29 |
John Norman
UW-Madison
Norman Website
|
Some causes of spatial heterogeneity in biotic environments
|
| February
5 |
open
|
|
| February 7 (Thursday) |
Paul
Schulze-Lefert
Max-
Planck- Institutefor Plant Breeding Research;
Department
of Plant Microbe Interactions
Schulze-Lefert
website
|
Signal integration
in the plant immune system |
| February 12 |
open |
|
| February 19 |
Iris Yedidia
Volcani Center
Irsael
|
A story of an old battle: Pectobacterium
carotovorum and ornamental monocots |
| February 26 |
open |
|
| March 4 |
Laetitia Willocque
|
Modeling Epidemics of Plant Diseases within Hierarchical
Structures of Plant Host Populations |
| March 11 |
Nathan Schroeder |
Behavioral quiescence and sensitivity of J2 Heterodera
glycines to exogenous toxins |
| March 18 |
SPRING BREAK |
|
| March 25 |
Yu Monica Chen |
Characterization of RB mediated late blight resistance |
| April 1 |
open |
|
| April 3 (Thursday) |
Muthusubramanian Venkateshwaran |
Subcellular localization and functional analysis of DMI1
(Does not Make Infections 1) and its homologs in Medicago
truncatula
|
| April 8 |
Angela Creager
Princeton University
Creager website
|
After the Double Helix: Rosalind Franklin's Research on
Tobacco Mosaic
Virus
NOTE ROOM: Ebbling Symposium Center, 1220 Microbial Sciences
Building |
| April 10 (Thursday) |
Greg Martin
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
Martin Website
|
A Pseudomonas
syringae type III effector
uses multiple mechanisms to suppress plant immunity
|
| April 15 |
Sophien Kamoun
Sainsbury Lab,
John Innes Centre
Kamoun website
|
Evolution and function of oomycete effectors |
| April 17 (Thursday) |
Monique Royer
Philippe Rott
CIRAD
Monpellier, France
|
Genomics
and functional genomics of Xanthomonas albilineans,
an unusual xanthomonad that causes leaf scald disease of
sugarcane |
| April 22 |
Kimberely Lesniak |
Population and spatial dynamics of Coniothyrium
minitans in commercial snap bean fields in Wisconsin
|
| May 1 |
Courtney Jahn |
Characterization of genes involved in
both biofilm biogenesis and virulence in Dickeya dadantii
|
| May 6 |
Maria del Pilar (Mapi)
Marquez Villacicencio |
Pectobacterium species: same disease,
different strategies
|
| May 20 |
Michele Kouhout |
The suppressive effects of Pennisetum
glaucum (forage pearl millet) on Pratylenchus penetrans and Verticillium
dahliae
|