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FALL 2019

Date

Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title

Host

Oct. 4

Dr. Kari Peter - Penn State University Dr. Peter Oudemans
Oct. 11

Dr. Mengjun Hu - University of Maryland

Challenges and Opportunities of Managing Fungicide Resistance: a Rising Concern in Fruit Production

Dr. Peter Oudemans
Oct. 18

Leigh Anne Starling, President - AHTA

Horticultural therapy in Mental Health Setting

Dr. Gary Altman
Oct. 25

Dr. Paul Koch - University of Wisconsin

Integrated turfgrass disease management using insights from the phytobiome and disease predictive modeling

Dr. Bruce Clarke
Nov. 1

Dr. Wayne Jurick - USDA/ARS

In search of ‘silver bullets’ to combat postharvest blue mold on apple via a multiomics approach

Dr. Joan Bennett
Nov. 8 Dr. Jeffrey Jones - University of Florida Dr. Donald Kobayashi
Dec. 6

Dr. Donald Walker - Middle Tennessee State University

Host-microbiome-pathogen interactions: a comparative approach across ecological scales

Dr. Lena Struwe/ Dr. J. White
     
SPRING 2019

Date

Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title

Host

Feb. 22

Dr. Theodore Petti, Rutgers Medical School

Seminar Title: "The human health implications of marijuana use"

Joseph Heckman

Mar. 1

Dr. Richard McAvoy, University of Connecticut

Seminar Title: “Plant Growth Regulators in Commercial Practice”

A. J. Both

Mar. 8

Dr. Marc Iersel, University of Georgia

Seminar Title: "Optimizing supplemental lighting in Greenhouses: From Physiology to Crop Growth"

A. J. Both

Mar. 15

 

Dr. Greg Roth, Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences

Seminar Title: "Agronomy of Hemp"

Joseph Heckman

Mar. 29

 

Dr. David Munns, City University of New York

Seminar Title: “The beginning of the phytotron: The most significant instrument no one has heard of”
A. J. Both

Apr. 12

 

Dr. James White

Seminar Title: “Rhizophagy cycle: A cryptic system in plants for extraction of nutrients from soil microbes”

Joseph Heckman
FALL 2018

Date

Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title

Host

Oct. 12

Dr. Chad Finn
Research Geneticist (Plants) USDA/ARS, Horticultural Research Unit Corvallis, OR

"Breeding berries in the Northwest-Life is Good!"
Dr. Nicholi Vorsa/Stacy Bonos
Oct. 19

Dr. Gregory Thyssen

USDA/ARS -Molecular Biologist, Cotton Fiber Bioscience Research: New Orleans, LA

Dr. Nicholi Vorsa/Dr. Tom Molnar
Oct. 26

Dr. Mark Sorrells

Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Plant Breeding in the 21st Century: Molecular Breeding and High Throughput Phenotyping

Dr. Stacy Bonos
Nov. 9

Dr. Seth Murray

Soil and Crop Sciences, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Texas A & M University

Towards predictive field phenomics in maize breeding and genetics using unmanned aerial systems (UAS, i.e. drones)

Dr. Stacy Bonos
Nov. 16

Dr. Susan Brown

School of Integrative Plant Science - Horticulture, Cornell - College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Cornell Apple Breeding and the Influence of Rutgers University Training

Dr. Tom Molnar
Dec. 7

Dr. Tom Orton - Rutgers

History and future of tomato breeding at Rutgers