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Recorded Seminars
Fall 2025:
Spring 2025:
Winter 2025:
Fall 2024:
Spring 2024:
Winter 2024:
Fall 2023:
Spring 2023:
- April 17, 2023 - Scot Adkins - Never a Dull Moment - Emerging Exotics and Detector Dogs
- April 24, 2023 - Matt Daugherty - Using Geospatial Tools to Understand the Factors Driving Insect Invasions
- May 8th, 2023 - Daisy Hernandez - Assessing the Transmission, Infection, and Pathogenicity Of Wood Decay Fungi in California Orchards
- May 15th, 2023 - Maya Kleiman - Harnessing Biomimetics to Study Plant-Environment Interactions
- May 22nd, 2023 - Poliane Alfenas Zerbini - Viruses of Phytopathogens: Adaptation and Modulation of Pathogenesis
- June 5th, 2023 - Marcelo Bustamante Exit Seminar - Biocontrol Strategies against Grapevine Trunk Diseases using Endophytic and Rhizospheric Microorganisms
- June 7th, 2023 - Anna Erickson Exit Seminar - Coinfection interactions and emergent plant viruses: biology of polerovirus, umbravirus, and tlaRNA diseases complexes
- September 26, 2022 - Jared LeBoldus - Growth and Defense tradeoffs in poplar trees mediated by cuticular wax composition
- October 03, 2022 - B.L. Patil - Emerging Plant Viral Diseases and Biotechnological Interventions to manage them
- October 10, 2022 - Pierre-Marc Delaux - Evolution of plant-microbe interactions
- October 17, 2022 - Hailing Jin - Cross-kingdom RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens
- October 24, 2022 - Fabrice Roux - A genomic map of local adaptation to microbiota and pathobiota in Arabidopsis thaliana
- October 31, 2022 - Cheryl Blomquist - Plant Diagnostics in a Regulatory Plant Pathology Laboratory
- November 07, 2022 - Alexandra J. Weisberg - Evolution of mobile elements and their impact on plant-microbe interactions
- November 14, 2022 - Domonique Lewis - Fatty acid MAMP, arachidonic acid, and brown seaweed derived biostimulant induce overlapping transcriptional and metabolic remodeling in tomato
- November 21, 2022 - Miaoying Tian - Application of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing in generation of crop resistance and oomycete functional genomics
- February 28, 2022 - Ken Shirasu - Molecular mechanism of host recognition in parasitic plants
- February 14, 2022 - Saskia Hogenhout - Building resilience to insect-vectored plant pathogens
- February 7, 2022 - Nick Talbot - Investigating the cell biology of plant infection by the blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae
- January 31, 2022 - Laurent Deslandes - The R. solanacearum PopP2 effector protein: a YopJ family acetyltransferase with multiple nuclear activities to promote infection
- January 24, 2022 - Sarah Green - Evidence for natural resistance in larch and juniper to Phytophthora in the UK
- January 10, 2022 - Ziv Speigelmenn - Plant viruses on the move: the roles of viral trafficking in disease and immunity
- January 3, 2022 - Chih-Horng Kuo - Phytoplasma Genomics: Links to Evolution, Function, Classification, and Identification
- November 29, 2021 - Ofir Bahar - Xylella fastidiosa outbreak in Israel
- November 22, 2021 - Peter van Esse - Leveraging our knowledge of the plant immune system to improve disease
- November 15, 2021 - Amna Fayez - Hiding in plain sight: Genome-wide recombination and horizontal gene transfer drive clonal diversity in Ethiopian populations of Fusarium oxysporum fsp ciceris.
Jie Zhu - Single-cell resolution of plant response to bacterial infection - November 8, 2021 - Didier Tharreau - Population structure of the rice blast fungus Pyricularia oryae and its determinants at the worldwide scale
- November 1, 2021 - Logan DeMott - Spatiotemporal involvement of JAZ4 in Arabidopsis signaling networks controlling plant development, growth, and defense (Contains unpublished data; please contact Dr. Douglas Cook if interested in viewing)
- October 25, 2021 - John Taylor - Mycobiome of crops: Arbsucular mycorrhizal fungal ecology and drought response
- October 18, 2021 - Libo Shan - Non-self recognition Plant Cell Surface Immune Receptors and Beyond (Contains unpublished data; please contact Dr. Douglas Cook if interested in viewing)
- October 11, 2021 - Sebastian Schornack - Interactions of early divergent land plant lineages with filamentous microorganisms (Contains unpublished data; please contact Dr. Douglas Cook if interested in viewing)
- October 4, 2021 - Ioannis Stergiopoulos - Emergence of a novel effector function through functional diversification in the fungal Avr4 core effector family
- September 27, 2021 - Steve Knapp - Long Standing and Emerging Soil-Borne Disease Threats in Strawberry: Can Natural Genetic Resistance and Genome-Informed Predictive Breeding Solve the Problem?
KitBase Seminars (June 29-30, 2021)
- June 1, 2021 John Carr - Viral manipulation of plant- vector interaction
- May 25, 2021 Cathy Aime - The evolution of complex life cycles in the rust fungi
- May 20, 2021 Rick Bostock - Connections and common threads: Reflections on four decades of plant pathology
- May 11, 2021 Matthias Erb - Adaptations of herbivores and their natural enemies to root secondary, metabolites in maize
- May 4, 2021 Asaph Aharoni - Yin And Yang In The Rhizosphere: Interplay Between Root Exudation and Microbiome Forces in the Tomato Underground World
- April 27, 2021 Cory Hirsch - Leveraging multi-omic platforms and analyses to expand our understanding of plant stress responses
- April 13, 2021 Kari Peter - From Fruit Rots to Mysteries: Never a Dull Moment in Pennsylvania Apple Orchards
- April 6, 2021 Sara Garcia Figuera - A social-ecological systems perspective of huanglongbing management in California
- March 30, 2021 Francis Martin - Evolution of the Mode of Nutrition in Symbiotic and Saprotrophic Fungi in Forest Ecosystems
- March 15, 2021 Miguel Aranda - Loss-of-susceptibility to pepino mosaic virus in tomato
- March 10, 2021 Erh-Min Lai - Mechanistic and biological insights of the Agrobacterium type VI secretion system in interbacterial competition and plant infection
- March 8, 2021 Natalia Peres - Integrated strategies for management of multiple diseases and fungicide resistance in strawberry
- March 1, 2021 Seminar not recorded at speaker's request
- February 22, 2021 Fernando Garcia-Bastidas - Fusarium wilt (a.k.a. Panama disease) of banana; a re-emerging disease that threatens banana production
- February 17, 2021 Treena Burgess - A 100-year global experiment with planted eucalyptus
- February 8, 2021 Boris Szurek - Engineering resistance by loss-of-susceptibility against rice pathogenic bacteria
- February 1, 2021 Nadav Kashtan - Bacterial colonization of leaves: why microscale and individual-cell resolution matter
- January 25, 2021 Koon-Hui Wang - Managing Plant-parasitic Nematodes in Agroecosystems Through Cover Cropping or Biological Derived Products
- January 20, 2021 Jun Liu - The Apoplastic Immunity in Plants
- January 11, 2021 Daolong Dou - Pathogen Effectors-Informed Breeding for Crop Disease Resistance
- January 04, 2021 Carrie Ewing - Investigating the Microbiome of American Beech Foliage to Determine the Causal Agent of Beech Leaf Disease
- December 07, 2020 Cheng Gao - Sorghum Mycobiome: Stochasticity, Drought Stress, Succession, Partner Selection
- November 30, 2020 Maggie Wagner - Hybridization, Heterosis, and the Maize Microbiome
- November 23, 2020 Stephen Parnell - Optimising Surveillance Strategies for Invading Plant Disease Epidemics
- November 16, 2020 Ivette Acuña - Working Together in a Common Disease: Latin Blight Network Example
- November 09, 2020 Alberto Macho - Deciphering the Molecular Interface between Plants and the Bacterial Pathogen Ralstonia Solanacearum: Beyond Activation and Suppression of Immunity
- November 02, 2020 Yuelin Zhang - Salicylic Acid in Plant Immunity
- October 28, 2020 Nari Williams - Clip of Pythophthora Pathogens Impacting New Zealand's Natural and Planted Forest Estates
- October 28, 2020 Ryan McAllister - Networks for Governing Biosecurity Through Peace and War
- October 26, 2020 Juliana Osse de Souza - Biological and Molecular Characterization of Tomato-infecting Geminivirus from Brazil
- October 19, 2020 Jeff Rollins - Brute Force Necrotrophy and Nuance in Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum Pathogenesis
- October 12, 2020 Israel Pagán - Strategies for Virus Transmission: from Plant Castration to Seed Invasion
- October 05, 2020 Alan Zamorano Carrasoc - Phytoplasma: The Hidden Enemy. The Experience in South America
- December 03, 2018 Lorena Rangel
- November 26, 2018 Li-Hung Chen
- November 19, 2018 Candidate Seminar - Not available for public viewing
- November 05, 2018 Candidate Seminar - Not available for public viewing
- October 29, 2018 Candidate Seminar - Not available for public viewing
- October 22, 2018 Deborah Finke (Video not available)
- October 15, 2018 Cynthia Gleason
- October 01, 2018 Kent Bradford
- December 04, 2017 Juliana Gil
- November 27, 2017 Emily Rustad
- November 20, 2017 Nathan Pumplin
- November 13, 2017 Not Available for Public Viewing
- October 30, 2017 Not Available for Public Viewing
- October 23, 2017 Not Available for Public Viewing
- October 16, 2017 Bob Gilbertson
- October 09, 2017 Not Available for Public Viewing
- October 02, 2017 Not Available for Public Viewing
- December 05, 2016 (No Seminar Recorded)
- November 28, 2016 Nick Thomas
- November 21, 2016 (No permission to record)
- November 14, 2016 (No Seminar Recorded)
- November 07, 2016 Guo-Liang Wang (No permission to post video)
- October 31, 2016 James Jay Farrar
- October 24, 2016 (No Seminar Recorded)
- October 17, 2016 Steven Lindow
- October 10, 2016 (No Seminar Recorded)
- October 03, 2016 Oliver Dong
- September 26, 2016 Sara Dye
- November 30, 2015 Rory Pruitt
- November 23, 2015 Caroline Roper
- November 16, 2015 Bruce MacDonald
- November 09, 2015 Brittany Pierce
- November 02, 2015 Matteo Garbelotto
- October 26, 2015 Virginia Stockwell
- October 19, 2015 William Dawson
- October 12, 2015 Toby Kiers
- October 05, 2015 Norman Pace
- September 28, 2015 Terry Henkel
- March 16, 2015 Themis Michailides , Ph.D
- March 09, 2015 Karen – Beth Scholthof
- March 02, 2015 Tom Wolpert
- February 23, 2015 Hailing Jin
- February 09, 2015 Dr. Doug Cook
- February 03, 2015 Maeli Melotto
- January 26, 2015 Bob Martin
- January 12, 2015 Andy Jackson
- January 05, 2015 Steve Whitham
- December 08, 2014 (No permission to record video)
- December 01, 2014 Barbara Baker
- November 24, 2014 Jean-Francois Laliberte
- November 17, 2014 Georgios Vidalakis
- November 10, 2014 Dr. Gitta Coaker
- November 03, 2014 Kristi Sanchez
- October 27, 2014 Jeremy Warren
- October 20, 2014 Alexander Aksenov
- October 13, 2014 Andrew Bent
- October 06, 2014 Dennis Halterman
