Department of Horticulture Seminar Series

Department of Horticulture Seminar Series

The Department of Horticulture provides students the opportunity to present scientific material as a learning experience in the Horticulture 407, 507 and 607 Seminar Series. Department of Horticulture Faculty and industry leaders are often also featured as speakers and present on current topics of concern in horticulture research. All seminars are free and open to the public, and, unless otherwise specified, take place in Agricultural Life Sciences Building, Room 4001. The Seminars are recorded using Zoom and are accessible for live participation via the 'Live Feed' link if it is available for that seminar. To join the meeting, you need to have a Zoom account set up and/or download the Zoom application. Please note that the quality/transmission of video/sound may be dependent on the end-users internet connection and/or computer/viewing device. Access presentations from 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and upcoming 2023 seminars from side bar menu.

 

Winter 2024 Seminar Series 

Join us for the Winter Seminar Series in ALS 4001 or via Zoom at 12 PM, NOON, on Mondays. Recorded Seminar presentations will be posted on the 2024 Horticulture Seminar Series webpage as they become available.

Please see the seminar series schedule link and below for upcoming seminars. Zoom information is at the bottom of the page.

 

For an idea of what to expect in the series, check out the Fall 2020 Horticulture Seminar Video to the right.

Horticulture Seminar Series Schedule

WINTER 2024 SCHEDULE

JAN 29

Celebrating the Kalapuya Legacy: studying oak savanna remnants on OSU and neighboring lands

Dennis Albert, OSU Horticulture

 FEB 5

Federal vulnerable species legislation and pesticide use - what is changing?

Dani Lightle, OSU Horticulture

 

Dani Lightle is an Assistant Professor of Practice. Since 2019, she has specialized in pesticide registration and re-registration challenges that impact specialty crop production in the Pacific Northwest. She conducts residue field trials for the OSU IR-4 program to support pesticide label expansion, and efficacy research into new insecticide options across various cropping systems. Over the past year, Dani has actively engaged with government, industry, and private stakeholders to assess the potential impacts of proposed EPA label changes for Endangered Species Act compliance.
FEB 26

Breeding for nutritional and health quality in specialty crops, a field to clinic model

David Francis, Ohio State University

 

David Francis is a professor of Horticulture and Crop Science (HCS) at The Ohio State University (OSU) based on the Wooster campus. He is originally from Southern California.  He received his undergraduate degree in Biology from Pomona College where an undergraduate research experience in “Food, Land and Power” introduced him to plant breeding.  He received his PhD in Genetics from the University of California at Davis where he was supported by a McKnight Foundation fellowship focused on plant-microbe interactions.  At OSU his team develops technology and populations to support breeding of processing tomato adapted to humid environments. His team works with wild crop relatives to discover genes for resistance to disease and improve nutritional/health quality of tomato fruit. His group also develops and translates plant genomics resources for population genetics studies, genetic mapping, and selection in breeding populations.  He has long been motivated by problems at the interface between applied and basic science and finds satisfaction when his group’s work reaches farmers in the form of new traits and improved varieties. He teaches advanced plant breeding, data analysis, and proposal writing to graduate students. Professionally he has served as the President of the National Association of Plant Breeders and has been recognized by the USDA Secretary's Honor Award for Excellence.  In his spare time, he has been known to practice left turns on the track, run trail races, and work as the farm curmudgeon for his wife’s vegetable farm located outside of Wooster, OH.  

Group website: https://www.tomatolab.net/

GoogleScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QmiKBKUAAAAJ&hl=en

MAR 4

An overview of managing honey bee health

Priyadarshini Chakrabarti, Mississippi State

 

Priya Chakrabarti Basu is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University. Priya is also a courtesy faculty at the Department of Horticulture, Oregon State University. Priya studies the interactive impacts of multiple stressors on bees, for example poor nutrition, pesticides and climate change. She uses a wide array of multidisciplinary techniques across fields such as physiology, toxicology, functional biology, multiomics-based approaches and neuroethology to address her research questions. She is currently serving as the Secretary/Treasurer of the American Association of Professional Apiculturists and the North American Chair of the nutrition taskforce for COLOSS, the international bee organization. In addition to the research community, Priya enjoys working with stakeholders, policymakers and the general community in protecting bee pollinators and raising pollinator awareness. Priya is also a children’s book author to help spread pollinator awareness among young readers. More information about her lab’s research can be found at: www.priyadarshinichakrabarti.com.
MAR 18

Computer Vision for studying insect dispersal

Tim Warren, OSU Horticulture

 

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