BPPsem

BOTANY & PLANT PATHOLOGY SEMINARS – SPRING 2006
Coordinators: Niklaus Grunwald 738-4049  and Robert Martin 738-4041

April 6     Dr. Gerald Carr, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, OSU, “Adaptive Radiation of the Hawaiian Silversword Alliance”

April 13     Dr. Jay Pscheidt, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, OSU, “The Eastern Filbert Blight Epidemic in the Pacific Northwest: Survey versus Biology”

April 20    Dr. David Ow, Albany Gene Expression Center, Albany, CA, “Recombinase-mediated plant transformation”

April 27    Dr. Frank Martin, USDA ARS, Salinas CA, “Molecular diagnostics for Phytophthora spp.”

May 4     Dr. Everett Hansen, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, OSU, "Posies and Pathogens of Patagonia: A New Phytophthora Species From Austrocedrus Trees With Symptoms of Mal del Cipres in the Andes of Argentina"

May 11     Lora Perkins, Graduate Student of Dr. David Pyke, OSU, Thesis Proposal, “Quantifying Bromus tectorum response to select soil surface C treatments”
 
May 18     Dr. Kathleen Pryer, Department of Biology, Duke University, Bonnie Templeton Seminar, “The evolution and diversification of "seed-free" vascular plants”

May 25     Dr. Ignazio Carbone, Department of Plant Pathology, NC State, “Recombination, Balancing Selection and Adaptive Evolution in the Aflatoxin Gene Cluster”

June 1    Dr. Christopher Daly PRISM Group, Dept of Geosciences, OSU, “Climate Mapping Activities at Oregon State University's PRISM Group”

June 8    Dr. Paul Hosten, USDI Bureau of Land Management, Medford, OR, “Studies of livestock influence on objects of biological interest within the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument”
   
SEMINARS ARE HELD ON THURSDAYS AT 4:00 P.M. IN ALS 4001