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| Date | Speaker | Seminar title and abstract | Zoom recording | Evaluation forms | Time & location |
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| 01.25.2019 | Shelly Pate (Advisor: Dr. Kelly) Tyler Smith (Advisor: Dr. Kelly) | Analyzing Populations of Cotton Seedling Disease and Evaluating Seed Treatment Efficacy (M.S. proposal seminar) Fungicide Screening for Target Spot and Frogeye Leaf Spot in Cotton and Soybean (Ph.D. proposal seminar) | S. Pate T. Smith | 3:35pm 160 PBB |
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| 02.01.2019 | Tara Rickman (Advisor: Dr. Olukolu) | Genome Wide Association Study in Hexaploid Sweetpotato Germplasm (M.S. proposal seminar) Abstract | T. Rickman | 3:35pm 160 PBB |
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| 02.08.2019 | Dawson Kerns (Advisor: Dr. Stewart) Tim Siegenthaler (Advisor: Dr. Hansen) | Effect of Bt Expression on Bollworm Spatial Distribution Within the Cotton Canopy and the Impact of Protein Source on Quantified Resistance (M.S. proposal seminar) Abstract Exploring Population Structure and Fungicide Sensitivity of Phytophthora Blight of Cucurbits and Peppers (Phytophthora capsici) Found in Tennessee (M.S. proposal seminar) Abstract | D. Kerns T. Siegenthaler | 3:35pm 160 PBB |
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| 02.15.2019 | Beant Kapoor (Advisor: Dr. Guerry) Matthew Longmire (Advisor: Dr. Grant) | Flowering Dogwoods under Fire: Responses of the Microbiome to Prescribed Burn Management (M.S. proposal seminar) Abstract Evaluating the Impact of a Dual Cropping Soybean System on Pest and Beneficial Insects, and Slugs, in Tennessee (M.S. proposal seminar) Abstract | B. Kapoor M. Longmire | 3:35pm 160 PBB |
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| 02.22.2019 | Devin Rowe (Advisor: Dr. Trout Fryxell) | Identifying predictors and developing spatial-temporal models for La Crosse virus vectors (Aedes albopictus (Say), Ae. japonicus (Theobald), and Ae. triseriatus (Skuse)) in an endemic area (Knox County, TN) (M.S. exit seminar) Abstract | D. Rowe | 3:35pm 160 PBB |
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| 03.01.2019 | Wanwan Liang (Advisor: Dr. Grant) | Determine Spread and Distribution of Kudzu Bug (Megacopta cribraria) and Kudzu (Pueraria lobata) and Evaluate Effects of Kudzu Bug on Kudzu with Remote Sensing (Ph.D. exit seminar) Abstract | W. Liang | 3:35pm 160 PBB |
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| 03.08.2019 | Dr. Brandon Ballengee Louisana State University | Citizen Science and Engagement in Research Through Art Abstract | Ballengee | 10:10am 113 PBB |
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| 03.08.2019 | Travis Davis (Advisor: Dr. Trout Fryxell) | Improving identification methods for Tabanus flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) from the southeastern United States using DNA barcoding and environmental niche modeling (M.S. exit seminar) Abstract | T. Davis | 3:35pm 160 PBB |
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| 03.15.2019 | Nicholas Strange (Advisor: Dr. Trigiano) | Floral visitors of Helianthus verticillatus, a rare sunflower species in the southeastern United States (M.S. exit seminar) Abstract | Strange | 3:35pm 160 PBB |
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| 03.29.2019 | Dr. Wei-Chee Wong Fulbright Scholar from Malaysia | Molecular guided oil palm crop improvement and its major disease caused by Ganoderma boninense | 1:00pm 160 PBB |
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| 03.29.2019 | Fang Liu (Advisor: Dr. Staton) | Understanding soybean root microbiome assembly from both plant and soil aspects (Ph.D. exit seminar) Abstract | F. Liu | 3:35pm 160 PBB |
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| 04.05.2019 | Meher Ony (Advisor: Dr. Guerry) | An assessment of genetic diversity and spatial distribution of Cercis canadensis (Eastern Redbud) using microsatellite loci (M.S. exit seminar) Abstract | M. Ony | 3:35pm 160 PBB |
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| 04.12.2019 | Dr. Rob Dunn N.C. State University | Imagining the Future Abstract | R. Dunn | 10:10am 113 PBB |
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| 04.12.2019 | Swati Mishra (Advisor: Dr. Jurat-Fuentes) | Mechanism of resistance to dsRNA in Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) (M.S. exit seminar) Abstract | S. Mishra | S. Mishra | 3:35pm 160 PBB |
| 04.26.2019 | David Bechtel (Advisor: Dr. Grant) | Impact of Insecticide on Pollinator Communities in a Forest: A Model System Using Hemlocks, Rhododendron maximum and Imidacloprid (M.S. exit seminar) Abstract | D. Bechtel | D. Bechtel | 3:35pm 160 PBB |
