Seminars

Fall 2023 Seminars

Seminars are held Tuesdays at 3:30pm in 584 Russell Labs (Plant Path Library), unless otherwise noted.

Date	Presenter	Title
9/12/2023	Matthew Pereyra	Evaluating Forecasting Methods for Timing of Potato Pesticide Applications (Proposal seminar)
9/19/2023	Dr. Dennis Halterman	Building a Robust Defense: Unearthing the Mechanisms of Potato Disease Resistance
9/21/2023 (Thur.)	Shane Hansen	Protecting the Potato Tuber from Start to Finish: Optimizing the Use of Liquid Seed Treatments and Exploring the Use of UV-Light in Storage (Exit seminar)
9/26/2022	Dr Bill Underwood	Paralleling fundamental and applied research to improve sunflower resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
10/3/2023	Dr Jo Handelsman	A lifetime of Bacillus cereus: From field pathology to THOR, a model microbial community
10/10/2023	Dr Phil Brannen	Pathology challenges associated with growing grapes in the deep South
10/18/2023	Dr Sameer Deshpande	Sparse regression and graphical modeling with the spike-and-slab LASSO
10/24/2023	Dr. Caitilyn Allen	The Secret Lives of Plant Pathogenic Ralstonia
10/31/2023	Dr Jessica Hite	Fighting antimicrobial resistance by integrating microbial ecology and evolution
11/7/2023	Elizabeth Lane	Soil microbes ability to decompose different organic matter, enzyme activity and nitrate leaching in sandy soils in potato fields (Exit seminar)
11/14/2023	Kelly Debbink	Integrated Disease Management in Organic Field Crops (Exit seminar)
11/22/2023	no seminar
11/28/2023	Dr Mehdi Kabbage	Progress in understanding the Sclerotinia sclerotiorum pathosystem
12/5/2023	Bryce Alex	A single amino acid substitution at potential phosphorylation site in HCPro reverses Nytbr defense response to PVYO and PVYN (Exit seminar)
12/7/2023 (Thur.)	Judson Vanwyk	Life cycle transcriptomics of a homothallic cultivated morel, Morchella rufobrunnea. (Exchange student program - Michigan State University)
12/12/2023	Mariama Carter	Let’s Stick Together: Mechanisms of host attachment and biofilm formation in Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum (Exit seminar)

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+Spring 2023

Date	Presenter	Title
Jan. 31	Dr. Korsi Dumenyo (Tennessee State University)	The other bacterial wilt: pathogenesis of Erwinia tracheiphila on cucurbits
Feb. 7	Ana Maria Vazquez-Catoni	Evaluating the influence of endophytic and pathogenic microorganisms on the success of two vegetatively propagated crops: potato and cranberry
Feb. 14	No seminar (faculty candidate interviews)
Feb. 21	Dr. Samuel Miller (University of Chicago)	Insights into microbial protein evolution and translational regulation through the multi-omics software platform, Anvi’o
Feb. 28
Mar. 7	Austin VanDenTop	Investigating the role of SQUAMOSA promoter-binding proteins in plant Programmed Cell Death regulation
Mar. 14	No seminar (Spring Break)
Mar. 21	Nicholas Rajtar, University of Minnesota	Bio-surveillance of Invasive Forest Pathogens in Minnesota
Mar. 28	Dr. Nancy Keller	Ecologically relevant secondary metabolites in microbial communication
April 4	Brandon Roy, Cornell University	Profiling plant proteome and transcriptome changes during grapevine fanleaf virus infection
April 11
April 18	Dr. Katie Gold (Cornell University)	Plant Disease Sensing: Studying Plant Pathogen Interactions at Scale
April 20	Evan Lozano	Epidemiology and management of cranberry fruit rot in Wisconsin (4:00 PM. Rm 184)
April 25	Maxwell Chibuogwu	Understanding Gibberella diseases of Zea mays and management strategies for reducing deoxynivalenol (DON) in silage corn
April 27	Owen Washam	Organic Celery Powder: A Meat Curing Agent for Organic Processors (1:00 PM, Rm 216)
May 4	Adam Bigott

+Fall 2022

Date	Presenter	Title
9/13/2022	Helena Jaramillo Mesa	Deconstructing the TriMV IRES: identifying the functional elements required for translation
9/20/2022
9/27/2022
10/4/2022
10/11/2022
10/18/2022	Joshua Pultorak	Tiny Earth Project – report and discussion
10/25/2022	Zach Zalewski	Exploring and capitalizing on genotypic variation of the oat microbiome
11/1/2022	Wade Webster	Modernizing integrated management practices for Sclerotinia stem rot of soybean
11/8/2022	Bridget O’Banion, Dept Microbiology U. Tennessee-Knoxville	Disentangling the plant microbiome: Identifying host and microbial colonization determinants
11/15/2022	Daniel Lindner, USFS	An introduction to the Center for Forest Mycology Research, a mycological resource on campus
11/22/2022	Shannon Piper	Host and heavy metal determinants of Aster Yellows Phytoplasma disease dynamics
11/29/2022	No seminar
12/6/2022	No seminar
12/13/2022	Jose Sanchez	Bioactive Treatments to Improve Crop Productivity

+Spring 2022

Date	Presenter	Title
January 25	Claire Benezech Postdoc with the Ané lab	Development and study of tripartite systems involving legumes, rhizobia and pathogens
February 1	Robyn Roberts, Colorado State Univerisity	Leveraging bacterial pathogens of two crops to gain molecular insights into plant immunity
February 8	Wade Webster (Smith Lab)	Modernizing Integrated Management Practices for Sclerotinia Stem Rot of Soybean
February 15	Marin Brewer, University of Georgia	Environmentally acquired antifungal resistance in a plant-associated pathogen of humans
February 22	David Strickland, Cornell University	Fungicide-based solutions, old and new, for effective apple powdery mildew management
March 1	Sharifa Crandall, Pennsylvania State University	Twice the Fun: Fungal Disease Ecology and Functional Traits of Specialty Crops
March 8	Daniel Hayden (Lankau and Silva Labs)	Stuck in the Weeds: Interseeding Cover Crops in Indigenous Corn Systems
March 22	Max Miao (Lankau Lab)	Disentangling the effects of Potato Domestication and Host Determinism in the Rhizosphere Microbiome
March 29	Shane Hansen (Gevens Lab)	Protecting the Tuber from Start to Finish
April 5	Daowen Huo (Koch Lab)	Targeting oxalic acid production in Clarireedia jacksonii to develop novel control strategies for dollar spot in amenity turfgrass
April 12	Corri Hamilton (Allen Lab)	What mechanisms help R. solanacearum succeed in host xylem
April 19	Aaron Lowenstein (Bent Lab)	Investigating the mechanism of soybean cyst nematode resistance conferred by Rhg1 WI12 protein
April 26	Nate Westrick (Kabbage Lab)	Sclerotinia sclerotiorum survival in an inhospitable host
May 3	Dandan Shao (Kabbage Lab)	The Contribution of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum Effectors to Sclerotinia Stem Rot Development in Soybean

+Fall 2021

Date	Presenter	Title
9/14/2021	Zac Freedman, Assistant Professor, Department of Soil Science, UW-Madison	Bringing marginal lands to the center of bioenergy crop production by harnessing the power of the microbiome
9/21/2021	Scott Harper, Assistant Professor, Director of the Clean Plant Center Northwest, Washington State University	Two viruses and a phytoplasma – the parallel outbreak of Little cherry and X-disease in the Pacific Northwest
9/28/2021	Adriana Romero-Olivares, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, New Mexico State University	Fungal responses to climate change: how tiny fungal genes affect large ecosystems
10/5/2021	Alejandra Huerta, Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, NCSU	Rhs toxin diversity and function in strain os the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex
10/12/2021	Edel Perez Lopez, Assistant Professor of Phytopathology, Département de Phytologie, Université Laval	Redefining clubroot pathotyping in response to canola growers needs
10/19/2021	Afona Irabor, Graduate Student, Gevens Lab	Enhancing soil health in potato production systems
10/26/2021	Cara Haney, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia	Unearthing mechanisms in plant-microbiome interactions
11/2/2021	Adam Biggott, Graduate Student, Lankau and Allen Labs	Investigating Bacterial Communities Associated with Transgenic Disease Resistance in Tomato
11/9/2021	NO SEMINAR
11/16/2021	Yulin Du, Graduate Student, Bent Lab
11/23/2021	Mohammad Arif, Assistant Professor, Department of Plant & Environmental Protection Sciences, University of Hawaii Note: 11/23 is the day before Thanksgiving break
11/30/2021	Alison Robertson, Professor, Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University	Seedling disease risk associated with planting corn into a green winter cereal rye cover crop”
12/7/2021	Mark Gleason, Professor, Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University	Do mesotunnels make sense for organic cucurbit production?
12/14/2021	NO SEMINAR

+Spring 2021

Seminars are held Tuesdays at 3:30 in 150 Russell Labs, unless otherwise noted.

Date	Speaker/Institution	Title of Seminar
Jan. 26	NO SEMINAR
Feb. 2	Led by Dr. Valerie Young	Rethinking Impostor Syndrome: An interactive program
Feb. 9
Feb. 16	Sanju Kunwar UW-Madison Plant Pathology, Allen Lab	Ralstonia solanacearum effector RipBN breaks EFR-mediated resistance by suppressing PTI
Feb. 23	Tiffany Lowe-Power UW-Madison Plant Pathology, Allen Lab	Using high-throughput genetics (RB-TnSeq) to map the fitness landscape of plant pathogenic Ralstonia
Mar. 2	Luna Sanchez-Reyes University of California-Merced
Mar. 9	Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara, Associate Prof and Director of Graduate Studies UW-Madison Dept. of Afro-American Studies	Black on the Wisconsin Frontier from Slavery to Suffrage
Mar. 16	Dr. Markus Brauer
Mar. 23	David Wheeler
Mar. 30	SPRING BREAK
Apr. 6	Nandhitha Venkatesh
Apr. 13	Tina Wu
Apr. 15 Thurs.	Christina Zambrana-Echevarria
Apr. 20	Breanne Krissalstein	From Good to Grape (Great): the progression of metagenomic research on the obligate biotroph, Erysiphe necator, and how these studies can influence our ability to manage the disease more effectively
Apr. 27	Brian Schafer
Apr. 29	Wade Webster
May 4

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