The CREC Plant Production Seminar series is back in full force at University of Florida’s Citrus Research and Education Center (UF/CREC). Below find a schedule of the upcoming Plant Production Seminars. The seminars will be held in the Citrus Research and Education Center, Ben Hill Griffin, Jr. Citrus Hall in Room 1. All seminars will start at 11 a.m. and refreshments will be available at 10:45 a.m. These dates are subject to change. For more details or updates you can e-mail Christen Johnson at UF/CREC, or call her (863) 956-1151 Ext. 1248.
Plant Production Seminar Series Schedule 2009
UF/IFAS Citrus Research and Education Center
02/27/2009
Presenter: Dr. Ron Brlansky
Professor/Assistant Professor
Citrus Research and Education Center, UF/IFAS, Lake Alfred
Seminar Title: Huanglongbing and India
03/06/2009
Presenter: Dr. Gwyn A. Beattie
Associate Professor & Robert Earle Buchanan Distinguished Professor of Bacteriology Iowa State
University Department of Plant Pathology
Iowa state university
Seminar Title: Investigations into phyllosphere ecology: How bacteria on plant leaves tolerate limited water availability, combat host defenses, and degrade organic air pollutants
03/13/2009
Presenter: Dr. Michael Goodin
Associate Professor
Department of Plant Pathology
University of Kentucky
Seminar Title: Plant-virus interactions: Live and in color
03/20/2009
Presenter: Dr. Fred Gmitter
Professor
Citrus Research and Education Center, UF/IFAS, Lake Alfred
Seminar Title: Update on Efforts to Sequence a Citrus Genome
03/27/2009
Presenter: Dr. Juan Carlos Melgar
Postdoctoral Assistant
Citrus Research and Education Center, UF/IFAS, Lake Alfred
Seminar Title: Irrigation strategies for improving Citrus water use efficiency and mechanical harvesting
04/03/2009
Presenter: Dr. Larry Gut
Professor
Michigan State University
Seminar Title: TBA
04/10/2009
Presenter: Dr. Ted DeJong
Professor
Vice Chair, Outreach and Extension,
Department of Plant Sciences
UC Davis
Seminar Title: L-Peach: a tree crop model that can be useful to horticulturists, physiologists, molecular biologists and breeders
04/17/2009
Presenter: Dr. Nian Wang
Assistant Professor
Citrus Research and Education Center, UF/IFAS, Lake Alfred
Seminar Title: Insights into the mystery of citrus Huanglongbing (greening)
04/24/2009
Presenter: Dr. Fred T. Davies ,
Professor
Department of Horticultural Sciences #416
Texas A&M University
Seminar Title: Hypobaria, Hypoxia and Ethylene Affect Growth and Gas Exchange of Lettuce? Challenges in NASA Production Systems
05/01/2009
Presenter: Dr. Megan Dewdney
Assistant Professor
Citrus Research and Education Center, UF/IFAS, Lake Alfred
Seminar Title: TBA
05/08/2009
Presenter: Dr. Fahiem El Borai Kora
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Citrus Research and Education Center, UF/IFAS, Lake Alfred
Seminar Title: Signaling and Predation by Nematophagous Fungi on Entomopathogenic Nematodes from Florida Citrus Orchards
05/15/2009
Presenter: Dr. Robin Stuart
Sr. Scientist
Citrus Research and Education Center, UF/IFAS, Lake Alfred
Seminar Title: Dealing With the Diaprepes Root Weevil: Recent Revelations on Where, When and How
05/22/2009
Presenter: Dr. XiuLi Shen
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Citrus Research and Education Center, UF/IFAS, Lake Alfred
Seminar Title: Application of tissue culture in propagation of Casuarina”.