Fall 2022 PSLA Seminars

Seminars for this semester will be held on Thursdays at 3:30PM virtually and in person where indicated. Seminars are hybrid.  If you are interested in meeting with any of the speakers, please notify the host faculty member. Questions? Contact Seminar Co-Chairs Dr. Naomi Sachs or Dr. Diana Cochran

Date:	Guest Speaker:	Presentation Title	Virtual/In person	University/Institution:	Host:	Sponsor:	Recordings:
9.8.22	TBD
9.15.22	Scott Cosseboom, PhD and Blaise Jumbam, PhD	Unraveling a Disease Complex: Late Season Bunch Rots of Grape     From tropical forest botany through tropical mycology to plant pathology: the fruit of resilience	In Person	University of Maryland	PSLA Seminar Committee		9.15.22 Recording
9.22.22	Holger Puchta, PhD	Applying CRISPR/Cas to Plants: From Gene Editing to Chromosome and Tissue Engineering	Virtual	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Dr. Yiping Qi		9.22.22 Recording
9.29.22	Amit Dhingra, PhD	How will we Sustainably Produce Nutritious Food in Abundance?	In person	Texas A&M	Dr.Vijay Tiwari		9.29.22 Recording
10.6.22	Wambui Ippolito, PhD	IMMIGRANT LANDSCAPES: Horticulture, History, and Immigrants: The altering of the American landscape.	Virtual	Jane Gil Gardens	Dr.Naomi Sachs
10.13.22	Greg Miller, PhD	Working collaboratively to improve teaching and learning: Tried and true methods	In person	Iowa State University	Dr.Melissa Leiden Welsh
10.20.22	Gina Brown-Guedira, PhD	Genomic resources for identifying sources of variation underlying important traits in wheat	Virtual	NC State University	Dr. Vijay Tiwari
10.27.22	Cindy Tong, PhD	Fruit crispness retention and storage disorders of Honeycrisp and its relatives	In person	University of Minnesota	Dr.Macarena Farcuh
11.3.22	Yaguana (Sunny) Lao, PhD	To be rescheduled.	Virtual	USDA	PSLA Graduate Students
11.10.22	Mengjun Hu, PhD	Refining Fungicide Sprays in Small Fruit Fields: Less is More	In person	University of Maryland	PSLA Seminar Committee
11.17.22	Carolee Bull, PhD	Finding a Needle in a Haystack: Phytobacterial Identification and Detection in a Phytobiomes Context	In person	Penn State University	Dr.Nidhi Rawat
Thanksgiving-No Seminar
12.1.22	Barclay Poling, PhD	How Improvements in Weather Management Tools and the Development of Weather-tolerant Varieties for Plasticulture Production Can Boost the Profitability of Eastern Strawberry Growers.	In person	NCSU (Emeritus)	Dr.Chris Walsh		12.1.22 Recording
12.8.22	Justin Walley, PhD	Unraveling Signaling Networks using Integrated Omic Profiling	In person	Iowa State University	Dr.Shunyuan Xiao

Spring 2022 PSLA Seminar