LSU Dept. of Plant Pathology & Crop Physiology

Thanks to all my mentors at @lsuplantpath, including @ppp_trey, @Richards_JK, Lawrence Datnoff, and Vinson P. Doyle. Last but now least, thanks to my postdoc advisor @CheAndamMicro for all the support!

Happy to announce that I will be starting as an assistant professor at @UNL_PlantPath this fall. Already looking for students, so if you know anyone interested in fungal ecology and diversity, population genetics, epidemiology, and bioinformatics, please send them my way.

Reminder: APS Grads March Social Event will be held on Monday, March 28th from 2:15 – 3:30pm EST. Dr. Sara Thomas-Sharma, Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University, will be our early career guest. Check your email for the zoom link!

Still time to apply! Application review starts next week. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions. Please share.

"Unfinished Business of a Dinosaur" This will be Dr. Christopher Clark's seminar title. He will be our speaker on Wednesday February 23rd as part of the Spring Seminar Series 2022 at LSU Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology Department We are looking forward to listening this talk!

Exciting job opportunity! Our department is hiring a TT professor broadly focused on fundamental aspects of plant immunity! A highly collaborative environment with great colleagues. Feel free to email/DM me with any questions. Position description in comments. Please RT.

a greenhouse protocol to screen soybean varieties for resistance to this pathogen. 🌱🔬🧫 Read more below: apsnet.org/members/commun… @lsuplantpath @plantdisease

Congratulations Cesar Escalante and Waana Kaluwasha for their awards!

Congratulation to Raj Singh, Director of the LSU AgCenter Plant Diagnostic Center, for being selected as Southern Region Vice Chair for NACAA Agronomy and Pest Management Professional Improvement Committee!

Today, we mourn the loss of professor Emeritus Marc A. Cohn. May his soul Rest In Peace. obits.theadvocate.com/us/obituaries/…

Congratulations to @cesaresgua and @David_Galo_ for passing their doctoral dissertation and M.S. thesis defense, respectively! May the future bring more success for you.

Three giants of our profession have been named @plantdisease Fellows: Marc Fuchs @CornellAgriTech @CornellCALS, @plant_clean John Hammond @USDA_ARS @USDA and Rodrigo Valverde @LSU @lsuplantpath Congratulations for the well-deserved honor!!!

Congrats to 11 new APS Fellows! It's great that the awards committee is recognizing the contributions of so many government and international researchers, and is achieving gender parity representative of the Society for the second year in a row. apsnet.org/members/give-a…

Congratulations to Professor Rodrigo Valverde for becoming a APS Fellow in April of 2021! apsnet.org/members/give-a…

Thank you, John Ontoy (M.S. student) for a great seminar titled: “Identification of candidate rice genes for bacterial panicle blight and sheath blight resistance through QTL linkage analysis and QTL-seq”!

Congratulations to Heather Cizek (M.S. student) for presenting her seminar titled: “Effects of mealy plum aphids (Hyalopterus pruni) on multiple Roseau cane lineages”.

Congratulations to Max Miller (M.S. student) for presenting his seminar titled: “Double Haploid Technology: Methods, Mechanisms and Recent Advancements”

Our weekly seminar featured David Galo and his research titled: “Diversity of fungi isolated from Roseau cane foliage: pathogenic or non-pathogenic?” Thank you, David for an interesting seminar.

Congratulations to Jose Solorzano (M.S. student) for presenting his seminar discussing his research on secondary metabolites produced by Xylaria necrophora!

Thank you, @hailingj1 for breaking down your research for us! Our students were very proud to have you as our [virtual] spring semester invited speaker this year!