All seminars for this semester will be held on Mondays at 12PM virtually. If you are interested in meeting with any of the speakers, please notify the host faculty member. Questions? Contact Seminar Co-Chairs Dr. Melissa Welsh or Dr. Nicole Fiorellino.
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| 2.1.21 | Dale Layfield | Assessing Agricultural Professionals’ Awareness and Competencies of Recommended Practices in Synchronous Online Instruction During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Clemson University | Melissa Welsh | Dale Layfield 2.1.21 | |
| 2.8.21 | Joseph Fiola |
Helping to Build a Successful Grape and Wine Industry -The UME Viticulture and Enology Program |
UMD | Mengjun Hu | ||
| 2.15.21 | Neil Mattson | Enhancing the Viability of Urban Controlled Environment Agriculture | Cornell University | Diana Cochran | MNLGA | |
| 2.22.21 | Dilip Shah |
Plant Antifungal Peptides: Modes of Action and Biotech Applications |
Danforth Plant Science Center | Nidhi Rawat | ||
| 3.1.21 | Walt Mahaffee | Mission impossible: inoculum monitoring as a decision aid | USDA-ARS, Horticultural Crops Research: Corvallis, OR | Mengjun Hu | ||
| 3.8.21 | James Giovannoni | Genetic Regulation of Tomato Fruit Ripening and Quality Traits | Cornell University | Macarena Farcuh | ||
| 3.15.21-Spring Break | No seminar | |||||
| 3.22.21 | Hailing Jin | TBA | UC Riverside | Shunyuan Xiao | ||
| 3.29.21 | Tessa Burch-Smith | TBA | University of Tennessee |
Lovepreet Singh (Graduate Student Association) |
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| 4.5.21 | Erin Sparks | Bracing for Impact: Optimizing Maize Roots for Anchorage | University of Delaware | Nicole Fiorellino | ||
| 4.12.21 | Marc van Iersel | Optimizing light use efficiency in controlled environment agriculture From photon capture to yield |
University of Georgia | Diana Cochran | MNLGA | |
| 4.19.21 | Curtis Pozniak | TBA | University of Saskatchewan | Vijay Tiwari | ||
| 4.26.21 | Nidhi Rawat | TBA | University of Maryland | |||
| 5.3.21 | Gregory Bratman | TBA | University of Washington | Naomi Sachs/Jennifer Roberts |
