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SPLS Tuesday Seminar - The International Oryza Map Alignment Project: Harvesting 15 Million Years of Evolutionary History to Help Solve the 10-billion People Question Dr. Rod Wing Arizona Genomics Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, and Center for Desert Agriculture, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 10/17/2023 - 4:00pm Marley 230
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Maize Genomes to Phenomes: Insights into Nitrogen Response, Disease Resistance, and Canopy Architecture Dr. Addie Thompson Department of Plant, Soil & Microbial Sciences, and Plant Resilience Institute, Michigan State University 10/3/2023 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Using natural genetic variation to improve and extend aflatoxin biocontrol Dr. Kenneth Callicott USDA-ARS Aflatoxins Biocontrol Laboratory, Tucson, AZ 9/5/2023 - 4:00pm Marley 230 and by Zoom
Teaching Biotechnology in Tucson …and Petropavl Dr. Samantha Orchard School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona 8/29/2023 - 4:00pm Marley 230
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - The endophytic root microbiome shifts under drought in higher-performing sorghum genotype Ciara Garcia, Graduate Student School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona 5/2/2023 - 4:00pm Marley 230 & Live on Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88614287572 Password: spls2023
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Image and cyber physical systems-based high throughput phenotyping aimed at crop improvement Dr. Krishna Jagadish Department of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University 4/25/2023 - 4:00pm Marley 230 & Live on Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88614287572 Password: spls2023
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Target-enrichment illumina plant virus discovery toolbox Cory Keith, Graduate Student School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona 4/18/2023 - 4:00pm Marley 230 & Live on Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88614287572 Password: spls2023
Precision Breeding at Bayer: Unlocking value through AI-driven plant breeding April Agee Carroll Nursery Design and Strategy Lead 4/11/2023 - 4:00pm Marley 230 & Live on Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88614287572 Password: spls2023
PhD Defense Tania Chakraborty PhD Student 4/7/2023 - 3:00pm Marley 230 & Live online https://arizona.zoom.us/j/86155286299 Password 20182023
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Time is of the essence: A systems approach to understanding nutrient homeostasis in plants David Mendoza Cozatl, Associate Professor University of Missouri 4/4/2023 - 4:00pm Marley 230 & Live on Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88614287572 Password: spls2023
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Thinking beyond dsRNA for highly-tailored RNAi biocontrol technology Alex Flint, Associate Professor The University of Southern Mississippi 3/28/2023 - 4:00pm Marley 230 & Live on Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88614287572 Password: spls2023
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Understanding and sustaining adaptive capacity of trees in the Anthropocene Dr. Charles Cannon Morton Arboretum 3/21/2023 - 4:00pm Marley 230 & Live on Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88614287572 Password: spls2023
SPLS PhD Defense - Small RNAs during reproductive development in the Brassicaceae family Cecilia Chow School of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences 3/15/2023 - 9:00am ENR2 - room S215 or https://arizona.zoom.us/j/2668337257 password 15032023
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Raising the BAR for Hypothesis Generation in Plant Biology: Guard Cell Drought Transcriptomes Use Case Dr. Nicholas Provart University of Toronto 3/14/2023 - 4:00pm Marley 230 & Live on Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88614287572 Password: spls2023
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Plant enemies moderate environmental variation and change: what happens at the limit? Dr. Thomas M. Chappell, Assistant Professor Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology 2/28/2023 - 4:00pm Marley 230 & Live on Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88614287572 Password: spls2023
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Pests and pathogens of Theobroma cacao: Protecting the crop today for more chocolate tomorrow Dr. Jean-Philippe Marelli MARS Wrigley 2/21/2023 - 4:00pm Marley 230 & Live on Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88614287572 Password: spls2023
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - A Basic and Applied Investigation into Improving Water Use in Maize Dr. Anthony Joseph Studer, Associate Professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2/14/2023 - 4:00pm Marley 230 & Live on Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88614287572 Password: spls2023
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Predicting Phenotypes for an Unknown Future Dr. James Schnable University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2/7/2023 - 4:00pm Marley 230 & Live on Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88614287572 Password: spls2023
SPLS Special Friday Seminar - Coordinated regulation of Na+ extrusion and long-distance transport in plant Professor Dae-Jin Yun Department of Biomedical Science & Engineering, Konkuk University, Korea 2/3/2023 - 11:00am Marley 230 & Live on Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83779488325 Password: spls2023
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Disentangling organisms' metabolic responses and acclimation to environmental gradients through ecometabolomics Dr. Malak Tfaily, Associate Professor, Environmental Science University of Arizona 1/24/2023 - 4:00pm Marley 230 & Live on Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88614287572 Password: spls2023
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Recycled Wastewater Use for Irrigation: Separating the Knowns from the Unknowns Dr. Jean McLain, Assistant Dean, College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences The University of Arizona 1/17/2023 - 4:00pm Marley 230 & Live on Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88614287572 Password: spls2023
Rotation Talks Clay Christenson and Yong Zhang School of Plant Sciences - Graduate Students 12/7/2022 - 10:30am https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83906524551
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Using large-scale comparative -omic analyses to uncover functional elements in plant genomes Dr. Andrew Nelson, Assistant Professor Boyce Thompson Institute 12/6/2022 - 4:00pm Marley 230 or Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83941552191 password: spls2022
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Evolutionary and biological basis of bacterial plant tissue-specificity Dr. Jonathan Jacobs, Assistant Professor Emerging Infectious Disease Ecology, Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University 11/29/2022 - 4:00pm Marley 230 or Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83941552191 password: spls2022
Dissertation Defense - Understanding the Complexities of Chloroplast Stress Signaling and Quality Control David Tano School of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences 11/28/2022 - 1:00pm Zoom: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/81238621518 Password: chlorofun
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Transforming a quarter petabyte of field phenomics data into functional traits and beyond Emmanuel Gonzalez - Graduate Student University of Arizona 11/22/2022 - 4:00pm Live, in-person Marley 230 or online broadcast Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83941552191 password: spls2022
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Ovule siRNAs methylate protein-coding genes in trans Cecilia Chow School of Plant Sciences - Graduate Student 11/15/2022 - 4:00pm Marley 230 or Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83941552191 password: spls2022
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Promotion Talk Dr. Eric Lyons The University of Arizona, School of Plant Sciences 11/8/2022 - 4:00pm Marley 230 or Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83941552191 password: spls2022
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Non-canonical RNA Polymerases in Plants: Origins and Functions Tania Chakraborty, Graduate Student The University of Arizona, School of Plant Sciences 11/1/2022 - 4:00pm Marley 230 or Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83941552191 password: spls2022
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Bananas, a major global food crop in crisis - Panama disease & biotechnological innovations James Dale, Distinguished Professor Queensland University of Technology 10/25/2022 - 4:00pm https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83941552191 password: spls2022 A live broadcast will be available in Marley 230
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Stakeholder-driven research to mitigate aflatoxin contamination in diverse cropping systems Dr. Hillary L. Mehl, Research Plant Pathologist USDA-ARS Pest Management and Biocontrol Research Unit 10/18/2022 - 4:00pm Marley 230 or Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83941552191 password: spls2022
PLS/PLP 592 Rotation Talks Yong Zhang, Clay Christenson, Sallu Nepal School of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences 10/14/2022 - 10:00am Zoom Meeting https://arizona.zoom.us/j/87192694239
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Ancient viral epidemics through the lens of adaptation in host genomes Assistant Professor David Enard Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, The University of Arizona 10/4/2022 - 4:00pm Marley 230 and Zoom - https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83941552191 Password: spls2022
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - A new paradigm for bacterial nectrotrophs: chemical warfare Associate Professor Brian Kvitko Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia 9/27/2022 - 4:00pm Marley 230 or Zoom - https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83941552191 Password: spls2022
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - RNA-directed DNA Methylation: a Maternal Influence during Seed Development Associate Professor Rebecca Mosher School of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences 9/20/2022 - 4:00pm Marley 230 and Zoom - https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83941552191 Password: spls2022
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Understanding respiration by plant mitochondria: from what they consume during metabolism to how their ATP is used to drive the homeostasis of proteins. Harvey Millar, School of Molecular Sciences The University of Western Australia 9/13/2022 - 4:00pm Dr. Millar will be presenting in Marley 230 Zoom broadcast - https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83941552191 Password: spls2022
SPLS Tuesday Seminar - Indispensable: Helping Growers to Manage the Onslaught of Invasive and Intractable Fungal Diseases of Cotton and Watermelon Thomas Isakeit, Professor and Extension Specialist Department of Plant Pathology, Texas A&M Microbiology, College Station 9/6/2022 - 4:00pm Professor Isakeit will be presenting in Marley 230 Zoom broadcast - https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83941552191 Password: spls2022
Tuesday SPLS Seminar - Exploring the functional and chemical diversity of ecologically diverse Xylariales fungi using comparative genomics and metabolomics Assistant Professor Jana U'Ren Ecosystem Genomics in the Department of Biosystems Engineering and BIO5 Institute at UArizona 8/30/2022 - 4:00pm Live presentation in Marley 230, Zoom broadcast - https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83941552191 Password: spls2022
Rotation talks Sallu Nepal & MD Nafis Ul Alam School of Plant Sciences - Graduate Students 8/26/2022 - 9:00am Join Zoom Meeting https://arizona.zoom.us/j/81021178017
Pollen tube growth: a critical link in heat stress tolerance and evolution of angiosperm reproduction? Associate Professor Ravi Palanivelu School of Plant Sciences - Faculty 8/23/2022 - 4:00pm Marley 230 or Zoom Link: - https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83941552191 Password: spls2022

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