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ABCDS, Spring 2018

January 31, 2018 3:30pm No meeting
February 7, 2018 3:30pm No meeting
February 14, 2018 3:30pm Dr. Xiu-E Wang Mining Novel Genes in Wild Relatives for Wheat Breeding with Cytogenetic and Molecular Tools
February 22, 2018 3:30pm No meeting
February 28, 2018 3:30pm No meeting
March 7, 2018 3:30pm Paradee Thammapichai Development and characterization of Cucumis hystrix Introgression Lines for Cucumber Improvement
March 14, 2018 3:30pm Michelle Keller-Pearson How Low Water Availability and Inoculation with Isolates of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Impacts Growth of Four Genotypes of Carrot in Field and Greenhouse Conditions
March 21, 2018 3:30pm Elizabeth Straley QTL Analysis of Fusarium Basal Rot and Pink Root Resistance in Onion
March 28, 2018 3:30pm No speaker Spring Break
April 4, 2018 3:30pm No meeting
April 11, 2018 3:30pm Erin Weber On or Off: Progress towards an in planta PVY reporter

 

DateSpeakerTopic

ABCDS, Fall 2017

DateSpeakerTopic
October 11, 2017 3:30pm Lorraine Rodriguez-Bonilla (Zalapa Lab) María, the hurricane that destroyed Puerto Rico: Things you can do to help
October 18, 2017 3:30pm No meeting
October 25, 2017 3:30pm No meeting
November 1, 2017 3:30pm No meeting
November 8, 2017 3:30pm No meeting
November 15, 2017 3:30pm Mike Havey Informativeness of Onion SNPs for Estimation of Genetic Relationships
November 22, 2017 3:30pm Day before Thanksgiving … No meeting
November 29, 2017 3:30pm No meeting
December 6, 2017 3:30pm Nathan Butler Creating Quantitative Trait Variation using CRISPR in Crop Species
December 13, 2017 3:30pm Shawn Steffan Cranberry Entomology in Wisconsin: Highlights from 2016-2017
December 20, 2017 3:30pm No meeting

 

ABCDS, Spring 2017

DateSpeakerTopic
February 8, 2017 3:30pm Mike Havey Mitochondrial transmission in cucumber, maybe not always paternal??
February 15, 2017 3:30pm Paul Bethke Thoughts on breeding for improved water use efficiency and reduced water stress
February 22, 2017 3:30pm Shelley Jansky Wild Species for Germplasm Improvement. Where do we go from here?
March 1, 2017 3:30pm Jim Busse Phenology and Auxin Influence on Anthocyanin Content in Red Potato Skin.
March 8, 2017 3:30pm Charlene Grahn Art history as a record of our understanding of heredity
March 15, 2017 3:30pm Sidrat Abdullah Agricultural Research in Bangladesh at a Glance
March 22, 2017 3:30pm Spring break
March 29, 2017 3:30pm Eduardo D. Munaiz Epicuticular Wax Biochemistry Studies for Thrips Resistance in Allium cepa
April 5, 2017 3:30pm Katie Morey Gold and Amanda Gevens Developing Hyperspectral Reflectance and Imaging Systems for Early Disease Detection in Potato
April 12, 2017 3:30pm Michelle Keller-Pearson Isolates of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi differentially impact carrot cultivars during water restriction

 

ABCDS, Fall 2016

DateSpeakerTopic
October 26, 2016 3:30pm Yuhui Wang Downy mildew resistance in cucumber
November 2, 2016 3:30pm Prartahana Dharampal The Implications of the River linking Project in India
November 9, 2016 3:30pm Nathan Butler Targeted mutagenesis using CRISPR/Cas in inbred potatoes
November 16, 2016 3:30pm Giovanny Covarrubias Challenges for improving yield in wheat hybrids
November 23, 2016 3:30pm Thanksgiving Week
November 30, 2016 3:30pm David Spooner Collecting Wild Carrots in Spain
December 7, 2016 3:30pm Dennis Halterman When is a pathogen not a pathogen?
December 14, 2016 3:30pm Elissa Chasen Degree-Day Modeling in Cranberry Production

 

ABCDS, Spring 2016

DateSpeakerTopic
February 10, 2016 3:30pm Luis Diaz Garcia High throughput phenotyping of cranberry
February 17, 2016 3:30pm Shelley Jansky Thoughts on giving presentations
February 24, 2016 3:30pm Jim Busse The formation of the tuber skin, accumulation of skin pigments, and why most red potatoes at the grocery store appear to be various shades of brown
March 2, 2016 3:30pm Nathan Butler Genome Editing in Crops: What's Next?
March 9, 2016 3:30pm Rashid Hussain Research in Pakistan
March 16, 2016 3:30pm room 1111 Genetics Jean-Michel Ane Strange bedfellows: symbiotic signaling between land plants and their microbial symbionts
March 23, 2016 No meeting
March 30, 2016 3:30pm Arun Kumar A unified forward and reverse genetics approach to dissect potato-disease resistance mechanisms against Verticillium dahlia
April 6, 2016 3:30pm Erin Weber Assigning Blame: Defining Viral Roles in Establishing Systemic PVY Infection of Potatoes
April 13, 2016 3:30pm Charlene Grahn The influence of organic and conventional management on breeding for carrot top height
April 20, 2016 3:30pm Adam Bolton Developing a Method to Screen for Salt Tolerance in Carrot

 

ABCDS, Fall 2015

DateSpeakerTopic
October 7, 2015 3:30pm Genetics Room 1111 Michael Purugganan The evolutionary biology of plant domestication
October 14, 2015 3:30pm Amy Wiberley-Bradford Just Chilling Out: Molecular Responses of Potato Tubers to Cooling for Low-Temperature Storage
October 21, 2015 3:30pm Sushan Ru Facilitating Efficient Tree Fruit Breeding by Modeling Seedling Selection.
October 28, 2015 3:30pm Paul Bethke The development of the scientific method
November 4, 2015 3:30pm Sarah Turner Environmental and genetic basis of top size in carrot
November 11, 2015 No meeting
November 18, 2015 3:30pm Shelby Ellison 2D and 3D image analysis techniques to study carrot root architecture
November 25, 2015 No meeting
December 2, 2015 3:30pm Yiqun Weng The Current and the Future of Xishuangbanna Cucumber and Its Wild Relative (C. hystrix) in a Rapidly Changing World – observations and perspectives from a recent visit of their natural habitats
December 9, 2015 3:30pm Masahiko Mori Potato Production in Malawi
December 16, 2015 3:30pm Shawn Steffan Beneficial or not? Decoding Carnivore Roles in Crop Protection

 

ABCDS, Spring 2015

DateSpeakerTopic
February 11, 2015 3:30pm David Spooner A Naturalist's Trip to the Deep Amazon
February 18, 2015 3:30pm Kyle Rak QTL mapping of tetraploid potato
February 24, 2015 3:30pm Michael Coen Biologically-Inspired Computational Models and Remote Sensing  Abstract
March 4, 2015 3:30pm Sarah Page and Axel O. Ramírez-Madera Experiences in Guatemala from two Plant Sciences Graduate Students
March 11, 2015 3:30pm John McCallum Plant and Food Research in New Zealand
March 18, 2015 3:30pm Genetics Room 1111 Jim Carrington It's a Small, Small RNA World
March 25, 2015 3:30 pm E. Charles Brummer Improving Forages for a Changing Climate
April 1, 2015 - No meeting, spring break
April 8, 2015 3:30 pm Umesh Rosyara Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) in Tetraploid Potato and Other Autopolyploids
April 15, 2015 3:30 pm room 351 Moore Hall Tom Koch The Business of Breeding
April 22, 2015 3:30 pm Axel Ramirez Madera Environmental and genetic effects on the occurrence of spontaneous tetraploidy in cucumber

 

ABCDS, Fall 2014

DateSpeakerTopic
October 8, 2014 3:30pm Shelley Jansky Unmanned aerial vehicles to phenotype breeding lines and plant responses to disease
October 15, 2014 3:30pm
Genetics/Biotech Room 1111		 Jen Sheen Plant TOR Signaling Networks
October 22, 2014 3:30pm Mike Havey Why are there so many markers tagging Ms of onion?
October 29, 2014 3:30 pm Chris D’Angelo Breaking Bud: The Underground Science of Vernalization and Dormancy in Onion
November 5, 2014 3:30pm Sarah Turner NABC26: TALENs, CRISPR/Cas9, and the Student Voice
November 12, 2014No meeting
November 19, 2014 3:30pm room 1111 Genetics/Biotech Sibum Sung Coordinated epigenetic regulation by long noncoding RNAs in plants.
November 26, 2014No meeting
December 3, 2014 3:30pm Yi Wang National coordinated efforts help reduce acrylamide and improve food safety of processed potato products
December 10, 2014 3:30pm room 1111 Genetics/Biotech Keith Slotkin Unraveling the transition from RNAi post-transcriptional mRNA degradation to chromatin modification and transcriptional silencing
December 17, 2014 3:30 pm Tusar Kanti Behera Vegetable industry could become a political game-changer in India

 

ABCDS, Spring 2014

DateSpeakerTopic
January 29, 2014 3:30pmDavid SpoonerCollecting wild Daucus germplasm in Morocco
February 5, 2014 3:30pm Room 351Mark WestgateLinking agricultural Production with Improved Nutrition and economic Growth in Uganda
February 12, 2014 3:30pmthe Havey labLightCycler real-time PCR system
February 19, 2014 3:30pmCurtis FrederickEstablishing a research project in the South African Bushveld
February 26, 2014 3:30pmDoug SenalikFun things you can do with bioinformatics ➠ Presentation avalable here
March 5, 2014 3:30pmAnnie DeutschWhat happens when "Moth fecundity goes SPLAT"
March 12, 2014 3:30pmEduardo CovarrubiasA Case for Non-Model Systems - The use of association genetics in cranberry Cancelled
March 19, 2014Spring Break
March 26, 2014 3:30pmShelby EllisonCarotenoids: nature's vibrant pathway
April 2, 2014 3:30pmClaire LubyDiversity exploration for an open source plant breeding framework
April 9, 2014 3:30pmJim BusseThe impact of heat-stress on stem-end chip defects in potato
April 16, 2014 3:30pmLynn MaherSelection for Geosmin Production in Table Beet

 

ABCDS, Fall 2013

DateSpeakerTopic
October 2, 2013 3:30 pmPaul BethkeNew variety adoption: Where plant breeding nd business colide cancelled by U.S. Congress
October 9, 2013 3:30 pmFlor Rodriguez  cancelled by U.S. Congress
October 16, 2013 3:30 pmDoug SenalikFun things you can do with bioinformatics cancelled by U.S. Congress
October 23, 2013 3:30 pmShelley JanskyPotato Yield Gains
October 30, 2013 3:30 pmJosh ParsonsCarrots, nematodes, linkage mapping and grad student woes
November 6, 2013 3:30 pmChris Von KohnAssembly and annotation of the chloroplast DNAs
November 13, 2013 3:30 pmJung Young Seok, 2013How to phenotype for disease resistance: soft rot in potato
November 20, 2013 3:30 pmAxel Ramirez-MaderaGenetic analysis of spontaneous tetraploidy
November 27, 2013 3:30 pmThanksgiving
December 4, 2013 3:30 pmAlfonso Del RioSome experiences on international research collaboration on potato diversity, conservation and sustainability
December 11, 2013 3:30 pmJenny BolivarCranberry: Past, Present and Future
December 18, 2013 3:30 pmYiqun WengMolecular breeding in cucumber five years after cucumber draft genome release – where are we now?

 

ABCDS, Spring 2013

DateLabTopic
Wednesday, February 13, 2013Palm Duangpan (Jiang Lab)Developing a genome-wide mutagenesis system in potato
Wednesday, February 20, 2013Sarah Braun (Jansky Lab)Variability associated with screening for common scab and verticillium wilt
Wednesday, February 27, 2013Steve Damon (Havey Lab)Genetic analyses of epicuticular waxes in onion
Wednesday, March 6, 2013Aleksandr Khiutti (Jansky Lab)St. Petersburg, Russia, and potato pathology research there Cancelled
Wednesday, March 13, 2013Pablo Cavagnaro (Simon Lab)Comparative Genetic Mapping of Carrot Pigment Genes
Wednesday, March 20, 2013Shelby Ellison (Simon Lab)Using Genotyping-by-Sequencing to identify QTL underlying lateral root formation in carrot (Daucus carota L.)
Wednesday, March 27, 2013NO MEETING - SPRING BREAK 
Wednesday, April 3, 2013Massimo Iorizzo (Simon Lab)Variation in the Carrot Mitochondrial Genome
Wednesday, April 10, 2013Claire Luby (Goldman Lab)Assessing Types and Variation of Vitamin E (Tocochromanol) Compounds Throughout the Carrot Life Cycle
Wednesday, April 17, 2013Shawn SteffanCranberry Entomology in WI
Wednesday, April 24, 2013Kailiang Bo (Weng Lab)QTL mapping of orange flesh color in cucumber – a new perspective
Wednesday, May 1, 2013Angel R. Del Valle-Echevarria (Havey Lab)My internship in Barcelona:  the cucumber Psm story

 

Wednesday at Three O' Clock (previously ABCDS), Fall 2012

DateLabTopic
Wednesday, October 24, 2012Elizabeth Bosak (Steffan Lab)Red-Headed Flea Beetle: an Emerging Pest of Cranberry
Wednesday, October 31, 2012David SpoonerCollecting carrots in Morocco
Wednesday, November 7, 2012Phil SimonWhy breed vegetables and fruit for nutritional value?
Wednesday, November 14, 2012Havey LabDevelopment of a high-density SNP genotyping platform for onion
Wednesday, November 28, 2012Diego Fajardo (Zalapa Lab)Advances in cranberry genetics and genomics
Wednesday, December 5, 2012Massimo Iorizzo (Simon Lab)Carrot Domestication
Wednesday, December 12, 2012Prof. Xuehao Chen (Weng Lab)Cucumber genetics and breeding in China - an overview
Wednesday, December 19, 2012Sarah Braun (Jansky Lab)Variability associated with screening for common scab and verticillium wilt Postponed to January 30, 2013

 

Thursday at Three-Thirty (previously ABCDS), Spring 2012

DateLabTopic
Thursday January 26, 2012Josh HymanBiotech resources
Thursday February 02, 2012Phil SimonCarrot Diversity
Thursday February 09, 2012WEEK OFF 
Thursday February 16, 2012Sarah Braun (Jansky Lab)High throughput data collection
Thursday February 23, 2012  
Thursday March 01, 2012Janejira Duangjit (Havey Lab)Onion haploid mapping
Thursday March 08, 2012Jiming JiangDNase I hypersensitivity of plant chromatin
Thursday March 15, 2012Dr. Dal-Hoe Koe (Weng Lab)Cucumis chromosome evolution: something special in the genome?
Thursday March 22, 2012Shawn SteffanPheromone-based mating disruption in WI cranberries
Thursday March 29, 2012WEEK OFF 
Thursday April 05, 2012SPRING BREAK 
Thursday April 12, 2012  
Thursday April 19, 2012Linda CrubaughA Visit To Turkey - Culture and Agriculture
Thursday April 26, 2012Liz BosakTraveling to Japan: learning new techniques and making friends
Thursday May 03, 2012David SpoonerBeginning stages and long-range plans of Daucus collecting and taxonomy research
Thursday May 10, 2012Josh Parsons (Simon Lab)New sources of nematode resistance for carrot

 

Thursday at Three-Thirty, Fall 2011

DateLabTopic
Thursday, November 03, 2011JanskyCan we breed potato cultivars at the diploid level?
Thursday, November 10, 2011HaltermanBiotech vegetable crops - Why aren't there more being grown commercially?
Thursday, November 17, 2011GoldmanHow do you approach breeding for consumer-based traits?
Thursday, December 01, 2011BethkeBrainstorming the Future
Thursday, December 08, 2011ZalapaVaccinium breeding and genetics: wild germplasm utilization - Invited Speaker Nicholi Vorsa NEW LOCATION, room 108
Thursday, December 15, 2011WengChromosome evolution something special in cucurbits?

 

ABCDS Spring 2011
Thursdays at 2:30 in Rm 473

Feb 10Mamta PathakOverview of vegetable research work at Punjab
Agricultural University
Feb 17Irwin GoldmanBeet Breeding Research
Feb 24Pedro UribeVerticillium wilt resistance in potato
Mar 3
Mar 10 Jiming JiangPotato cytogenetics — Still exciting
Mar 17 (UW Spring break)
Mar 24Megan BowmanEvaluation of gene expression in carrot
Mar 31Massimo IorizzoThe Carrot Transcriptome
Apr 7Agnieszka KielkowskaCucumber mitochondrial genetics
Apr 14Diego FajardoPotato Starch
Apr 21Huayu ZhuCotton Diversity
Apr 28Juan ZalapaCranberry Genomics
May 5Xingkui CaiPVY Resistance Mechanisms

 

ABCDS Fall 2010
2:30 Thursdays, Rm. 473

DateSpeakerTitleLab
23-SepLei WuSilencing invertase genes in potato cultivarsJiang
30-Sep   
7-Oct   
14-OctDr. Douglas MaxwellThirty years of breeding beans for Latin Africa: Model for collaboration 
21-OctYu (Monica) ChenLate blight in potatoHalterman
28-OctAmy WiberleyRegulation of isoprene production in plantsBethke
4-NovSarah RosenthalBreeding for resistance to common scab in potatoJansky
11-NovAgnieszka KielkowskaHaploids in carrotHavey
18-NovNO MEETING(Room not available) 
2-DecEmily HagaBreeding for early blight resistance in potatoJansky
9-DecDr. Xiaoming HeMinor cucurbit production and research in ChinaWeng
16-DecNO MEETINGHort/Agron Holiday Party 

 

ABCDS Spring 2010
2:30 Thursdays, Rm. 473

25-FebJiming JiangDevelopment of Low Acrylamide/Low Sugar Potatoes
4-MarNick GoeserRusset Burbank Growth and Development Patterns in Wisconsin
11-MarPiya KittipadakulHow to deal with a massive data set using PROC MIXED.
18-MarClaudia Irene CalderonUsing the recently published cucumber genome sequence as a tool for cloning the Psm (Paternal Sorting of Mitochondria) locus.
25-MarSPRING BREAK 
1-AprSPRING BREAK 
8-AprXingkui CaiIdentification of New Sources of Resistance to PVY
15-AprPostponed until May 20th
22-AprLaxmikanta AcharyaGarlic Diversity
29-AprIrwin GoldmanThe Bussey Institute/Plant Breeder Pedigrees*
*Note time change for this seminar - it will be held at 3:00 instead of 2:30.
6-MayYiqun WengCucumber Genomics
13-MayDavid SpoonerAllopolyploid Evolution in Potato
20-MayYi WangSimilarities and Differences between Stem-end chip defect and sugar ends defect

 

ABCDS, Fall 2009, 2:30, Rm 473

15-OctAjmer DhattVegetable breeding at Punjab Agricultural University, India
22-OctJiwan PaltaDeveloping strategies for improving frost tolerance in potato: Genetic and physiological approaches
29-OctLaxmikanta Acharya Genetic diversity assessment and conservation of rare, endangered, and threatened plant secies in the Eastern Ghats of India
5-NovFelix NavarroMarker Assisted and Early Generation Selection on Snap Beans and Potatoes
12-NovPaul BethkeHow old are you anyway?
19-NovDiego FajardoPotato starch
3-DecYong Suk ChungSoft rot resistance in wild Solanum species Room 108
10-DecLuming YangMap-based cloning a fertility restorer gene of CMS in cotton
17-DecAlicja Macko-PodgorniTransposable Elements of Carrot

 

ABCDS Meetings, Spring, 2009. Thursdays at 3:30 in Room 473

19-Feb Piya Kittipadakul Tuberization response to photoperiod in potato haploid - wild species hybrids
26-Feb Yiqun Weng Cucumber improvement research in USDA ARS, Madison - short and long term goals and approaches
5-Mar Sergio Melgar Proteomic analysis of cytoplasmic male sterility in onion
12-Mar Felix Navarro Back to the basics: Sample sizes for accurate and precise estimation of defects in vegetables and fruits, the case of potatoes
19-Mar Marina Iovene
  		Rescheduled to April 16,
No ABCDS Meeting this week
26-Mar Leah McCann Factors affecting chip processing ability in a wide range of Solanum species
2-Apr John Bamberg US Potato Genebank: Service and research for potato genetic improvement
9-Apr Dennis Halterman Late blight resistance genes - resistance to more than just late blight?
16-Apr Dan Ronis
Marina Iovene 		 
Association between pachytene chromosomes and linkage groups in carrot
23-Apr Claudia Calderon Fine mapping towards the cloning of Psm in cucumber
30-Apr Ted Tibbitts Potatoes for life support in space
7-May Calvin Lietzow The inheritance of rind colors in Cucurbita moschata

 

ABCDS Meetings, Fall, 2008. Thursdays at 3:30 in Room 473 (On Oct 2, Rm 128)

Date Presenter Title
2-Oct Mike Havey What I did on sabbatical in Vienna OR Developing cucumber as a model for mitochondrial transformation Room 128
9-Oct Jiwan Palta Improving quality and production of native potatoes in the Peruvian highlands
16-Oct Rob Kane Genetic influences on the seed yielding ability of carrot hybrids
23-Oct Andy Hamernik Introgression of wild species germplasm with extreme resistance to cold sweetening into the cultivated potato
30-Oct Erin Silva Developing a UW organic ag research program NOTE SPECIAL TIME: Seminar will begin at 3:00. CANCELLED
6-Nov Megan Bowman Expression analysis of carotenoid biosynthesis genes in carrot using real time PCR
13-Nov Bala Pudota Characterization of genes involved in RB-mediated late blight resistance of potato
20-Nov Aamir Ali New sources of nematode resistance in carrots
4-Dec Jim Busse History of potato research at UW
11-Dec Yiqun Weng Cucumber improvement research in USDA ARS, Madison - short and long term goals and approachesCANCELLED in favor of department holiday party instead

 

ABCDS Meetings - Spring 2008

Date Presenter (Lab Group) Title
Feb 14 David Spooner and Phil Simon Plant and Animal Genome Meeting
Feb 21 Paul Bethke Movement of carbohydrates in potato
Feb 28 Aamir Ali (Simon lab) Status of life sciences in Punjab University
Mar 6 Karsten Holmquist (Brunet lab) Indirect estimations of contemporary pollen movement: Effects of pollinator type and spatial population structure
Mar 13 OPEN  
Mar 20 Piya Kittipadakul (Jansky lab) Genetic mapping of tuberization under a short photoperiod
Mar 27 Flor Rodriguez (Spooner lab) COSII-based mapping and diversity in Solanaceae
Apr 3 Yong Suk Chung (Jansky lab) Genetics of resistance to tuber soft rot
Apr 10 Angel Hui Song (Staub/Simon labs) Development of a consensus map containing carotenoid biosynthetic genes in cucumber
Apr 17 Dennis Halterman Understanding molecular disease resistance mechanisms in potato
Apr 24 Zachary Larson-Rabin (Brunet lab) Investigating the genetic control of endoreduplication, and its role in the cell proliferation and cell expansion of plant morphogenesis.
May 1 Marina Iovene (Simon lab) In situ hybridization in plants

 

The ABCDS Group Meetings
Fall Semester 2007
Thursday, 3:30

Date Speaker Topic Room
October 18 Shelly Jansky Wild Solanum UtilizationRESCHEDULED to Dec. 13Nov. 8 473
October 25 Pablo Cavagnaro Carrot BAC Library Characterization 473
November 1 Yu Monica Chen Hyper-sensitive Response of
Potato to Late Blight

473

November 8 Mehtap Yildiz
Shelly Jansky 		Anthocyanin Biosynthesis Genes
in Carrot
Wild Solanum Utilization 		473
November 15 Vanessa Gordon The Effects of Introgression of
Chilling Tolerance in Cucumber 		473
November 22

Thanksgiving Break  
November 29

Juan Zalapa

Hybridization Patterns Between U.S.
Native and Invasive Siberian Elm

473

December 6 Zhenyu Liu The Interaction Between Potato
Potato Late Blight 		473
December 13 Shelly Jansky Wild Solanum Utilization 473

 

ABCD Group Meetings
Spring Semester 2007
Thursday, 3:30

Date Speaker Topic Room

February 15

Bala Pudota

Functional characterization of genes
associated with late blight disease
resistance in potato using RNA
interference

473

February 22

Mike Havey

The Plant Genome meeting 2006

473

March 1

Sarah Rosenthal

Antioxidants in potato

473

March 8

Anil Khar

Allium research in India and
mapping bulb-color genes

473

March 15

Marina Iovene

Cytogenetic comparisons among
the Apiaceae

473

March 22

Jin Joo Bae

Breeding for Verticillium wilt
resistance in potato

473

March 29

Johanne Brunet
Tusar Kanti Behera

What is going on with Aquilegia?
Bitter melon: A future crop of Asia

473

April 85

Spring Break

April 12

Leslie Tirado

Cytokinin changes in plants upon
cold stress

473

April 19

Natalia Alvorez

The Brevicaule complex: Morphology

473

April 26

Tusar Kanti Behera
Johanne Brunet

Bitter melon: A future crop of Asia
What is going on with Aquilegia?

473

ABCD Group Meetings
Fall Semester 2006
Thursday, 3:30

Date Speaker Topic Room

October 5

Paul Bethke

Potato storage: Life in the slow lane

473

October 12

Vanessa Gordon

Plants and stress environments CANCELLED

473

October 19

Halterman Lab
(Zhenyu Liu)

Potato disease resistance

473

October 26

Hugo E. Cuevas

Carotenoids in melon Unannounced schedule change: Lara Colton presented

473

November 2

Shelley Jansky

Potato flavor

473

November 9

Jiming Jiang
Sergio Melgar

Potato late blight
PPRs in onion

473

November 16

Sergio Melgar
Hugo E. Cuevas

PPRs in onion
Carotenoids in melon

473

November 24

Thanksgiving Holiday

November 30

Diego Fajardo &
Flor Rodriguez &
David Spooner

Potato and tomato phylogeny

473

December 7

Karsten Holmquist

Pollen-mediated gene dispersal

473

ABCD Group Meetings
Spring Semester 2006
Thursday, 3:30

Date Speaker Topic Room

February 16

Shanna Mason

Genetics of fruit quality in cucumber

473

February 23

Isabelle Delannay

Broadening genetic diversity in cucumber

473

March 2

Vanessa Gordon

The chloroplast genome of cucumber CANCELLED

473

March 9

Mike Havey

Asparagales genomes

473

March 16

Spring Break

March 23

Jenelle Meyer

Genetic basis of recurrent selection for maysin

473

March 30

Leah McCann

Wild potato chipping ability

473462

April 6

Phil Simon +
Soledad Alessandro

Genetic variation in wild garlic +
Genetic and molecular study of vernalization response in carrot (Daucus carota L.)

473462

April 14

Rob Kane

Factors contributing to carrot seed production

473462

April 20

Sara Arscott

Selenium enriched vegetables

473462

ABCD Group Meetings
Fall Semester 2005
Thursday, 3:30

Date Speaker Topic Room

October 20

Sulieman Al-Faifi

The Psm locus of cucumber

247

October 27

Irwin Goldman

Selenium enrichment of vegetables

247

November 3

Steve Raines

Onion carbohydrates

247

November 10

Hugo Cuevas

Carotenes in Cucumis

247

November 17

Mark Ansay

Markers for CMS restoration and other genes in carrot

247

November 24

Thanksgiving Holiday

December 1

Matt Robbins

Marker-assisted selection in cucumber

247

December 8

Shanna Mason

Fruit quality in cucumber CANCELLED

247

ABCD Group Meetings
Spring Semester 2005
Thursday, 3:30

Date Speaker Topic Room

February 17

Brian Dunphy

Patterns of gene flow in three tropical tree species in a highly fragmented landscape

473

February 24

Mike Havey

To be announced

473

March 3

Phil Simon

Carrot anthocyanins

473

March 10

Sara Arscott
Jack Staub

An interspecific hybrid in Cucumis

473

March 17

Pablo Cavagnaro

Variation in flavor and health compounds in garlic

473

March 24

Spring Break

March 31

Tom Koch
Sara Arscott

To be announced

247

April 7

Jack Staub
Sara Arscott
Tom Koch

Cancelled

247

April 14

Leah McCann
Tom Koch

Selection for increased vitamin E in carrots

473

April 21

Monica Norby
Leah McCann

Sugar variation for cold chipping in wild Solanum species

473

April 28

Marina Iovene

Cytological localization of rRNA genes in several Apiaceae

473

May 5

Shanna Mason

Genetics of fruit quality in cucumber

247

ABCD Group Meetings
Fall Semester 2004
Thursday, 3:30

Date Speaker Topic Room

October 21

Irwin Goldman

Severe population bottlenecks and the response to divergent selection

473

October 28

Mike Havey

Comparative mapping of onion and rice

473

November 4

Crystal Stewart

Horticulture therapy applications

473

November 11

Jernej Jakse

Sequencing of onion and asparagus

473

November 18

Dariusz Grzebelus

Transposon display-based DNA for carrot

473

November 25

Thanksgiving Holiday

December 2

Vanessa Gordon

The chloroplast genome of cucumber

247

December 9

Miriam Paris

Fruit quality analysis in melon

473

ABCD Group Meetings
Spring Semester 2004
Thursday, 3:30

Date Speaker Topic Room

February 12

Irwin Goldman

Nutritional anthropocentrism and breeding for health-related traits

247

February 19

Group Discussion
Kyle Willis

Plant Genome 2003
VIGS Based Silencing of Tomato

247

February 26

Brian Just

Profiling carotenoid biosynthesis in carrot roots

247

March 4

Jack Staub

Genetic diversity in melon

247

March 11

Mike Havey

Molecular facilitated selection in onion
Marker selection for virus resistance in tomato

247

March 18

Spring Break

247

March 25

Phil Simon

Pursuing major genes in carrot

247

April 8
April 1

Juan Zalapa

Mapping yield components in melon

247

April 1
April 8

Monica Norby

Potato late blight resistance

247

April 15

Jewej Jakse

Microsatellites in hops CANCELLED

247

April 22

Maggie Schaber

Visual versus marker-based identification/selection of F1 hybrid progeny in table beet

247

April 29

Sang-Min Chung

 Sequencing of the cucumber chloroplast genome

247

May 6

Zhanyong Sun

Mapping parthenocarpy in cucumber

247

ABCD Group Meetings
Fall Semester 2003
Thursday, 3:30

Date Speaker Topic Room

September 25

Erin Silva

Quantification of anthocyanins in purple carrot

473

October 2

Bill Briggs

Recurrent selection in model fast plant populationsRescheduled to Oct 30

473

October 9

Bill Martin

Comparative genomics of the Asparagales

247

October 16

Daniel De Joode
Mike Havey

Effects of logging on understory plant diversity
Genetics of fructan accumulation in onion

473

October 23

Mike Havey
Daniel De Joode

Genetics of fructan accumulation in onion
Effects of logging on understory plant diversity

473

October 30

Jack Staub
Bill Briggs

Genetic diversity in melon
Recurrent selection in model fast plant populations

473

November 6

John Prichard

Phylogenetic analysis of Solanum
Rescheduled to Nov 13

473

November 13

Maggie Schaber

Visual versus marker-based identification/selection of F1 hybrid progeny in table beet
Rescheduled to next semester

247

John Prichard Phylogenetic analysis of Solanum

November 20

Irwin Goldman

Nutritional anthropocentrism and breeding for health-related traits
Rescheduled to next semester

473

November 27

Thanksgiving

December 4

Johanne Brunet

Plant size, pollinators and selfing rate In Aquilegia coerulea

473

December 11

Josh Hyman

Comparison of AFLPs across related carrot populations

247

ABCD Group Meetings
Spring Semester 2003
Thursday, 3:30

Date Speaker Topic Room
February 20 Phil Simon Application of biological knowledge in feeding 11 billion people 247
February 27 Mike Havey What to do with 11,008 onion ESTs 247
March 6 Veronica Gaertner Pigment distribution in high pigment table beet populations 473
March 13 Jack Staub Sex expression in cucumber 247
March 20 Spring Break
March 27 Tom Koch at 3:00 Tocopherols in carrots 473
April 3 Bill Martin Postharvest physiology and genetics of snapdragon 473
April 10 Meryem Ipek Garlic variation Moved to April 17 247
April 17 Meryem Ipek Garlic variation 247
April 24 SangMin Chung Phylogenetic relationships in the Cucurbitaceae 473
May 1 Juan Zalapa The inheritance of yield components in melon: Progress report 473
May 8 Bill Briggs Genetic variation and response to Selection in model ‘Fast Plant’ populations 247

ABCD Group Meetings
Fall Semester 2002
Thursday, 3:30

Date Speaker Topic Room

September 26

Darzic Grzebelus

Update on the transposable element in Dacus

473

October 3

Irwin Goldman

Why medicine needs agriculture

473

October 10

Josh Hyman

Caroenoids in Lycopersicon species

247

October 17

Erin Silva

Carbohydrate partitioning and nectar production in onion

473

October 24

Matthew Robbins

Deployment of molecular markers for multiple-trait selection in cucumber

473

October 31

Anabel López-Sesé

A framework for the evaluation of germplasm

473

November 7

Mike Havey

A new paradigm for breeding long - generation crops

473

November 14

Jack Staub

Methodologies to improve genetic diversity analysis - Cancelled

247

November 21

Grzegorz Bartoszewski

Genetic analysis of MSC the mutation of cucumber

473

November 28

Thanksgiving Recess

December 5

Phil Simon

Application of biological knowledge in feeding 11 billion people Cancelled

247

ABCD Group Meetings
Spring Semester 2002
Thursday, 3:30

Date Speaker Topic Room
February 28   Round table discussion:
Plant Genome Meeting 2002 		473
March 7 John Pritchard Putative gene transfer from cultivated to wild Solanum species 473
March 14 Juan Zalapa Progress towards understanding the inheritance and mapping of multiple lateral branching in melon 247
473
March 21 Sang Min Chung Development of concensus chloroplast markers for genetic analysis 247
March 28   Spring Break  
April 4 Pablo Cavagnaro Alliinase gene family in garlic 473
April 11 Dariusz Grzebelus Insertion sequence disrupting carrot invertase gene-is it a novel transposable element? 247
April 18 Crow Lecture Series   Genetics Auditorium  
April 25 Ahmet Ipek Transposon tagging in carrot 473
May 2 Brian Just Genetic mapping of carrot pigment mutations 473
May 9 Zhanyong Sun Genetics of parthenocarpy in cucumber 247

ABCD Group Meetings
Fall Semester 2001
Thursday, 3:30

Date Speaker Topic Room
October 18 Brian Just Genetic mapping in Malus 473
October 25 Beda N. Dahal Vitamin A rich product preparation
by local agricultural cooperatives using
local crops in Nepal 		473
November 1 Grzegorz Bartoszewski Genetic basis of MSC phenotype of
cucumber 		473
November 8 Phil Simon The nature of resistance to southern
nematode in carrot 		473
November 15 Matt Robbins Progress towards combining complex
yield traits in cucumber 		473
November 22   Thanksgiving Break 473
November 29 Anabel López-Sesé Phenotypic selection for multiple lateral
branching in cucumber 		473
December 6 Tom Koch Progress of studies relating to
carotenoids and tocopherols in carrots 		473

ABCD Group Meetings
Spring Semester 2001
Thursday, 3:30

Date Speaker Topic Room
Feb. 15 Mark Ansay CMS restorers in carrot 473
Feb. 22 Pablo Cavagnaro Penicillium resistance in Argentinian garlic 473
March 1 Irwin Goldman How the orange carrot got its color 473
March 8 Bill Briggs Either onions or fast plants 247
March 22 Mike Havey Recent advances on CMS studies in onion 473
March 29 Dick Lower Plant types in cucumber 473
April 6 Phil Simon Breeding for carrot quality 473
April 12 Ali Gokce Changes in allelic frequencies in CMS populations 247
April 19 Grzegorz Bartoszewski Tomato breeding and transformation in Poland Cancelled 473
April 26 Sun Zhanyong Parthenocarpy in cucumber 473
May 3 Gennaro Fazio QTL mapping and marker-assisted selection in cucumber 473

ABCD Group Meetings
Fall Semester 2000
Thursday, 3:30

Date Speaker Topic Place
Sept. 28 Marek Szlarczyk Genes showing association with CMS in carrots 473
Oct. 5 Jack Staub Genetic diversity assessment in melon 473
Oct. 12 Young Hong Park Molecular tagging of virus resistance in cucumber 247
Oct. 19 Matt Robbins Fine mapping of the Tomato Frl locus which confers resistance to fusarium crown rot 473
Oct. 26 Phil Simon Carrot breeding and quality improvement - Cancelled 473
Nov. 2 Anabel López Sesé Estimation of genetic variation in melon for germplasm management 247
Nov. 9 Sang-Min Chung Inheritance of chilling injury in cucumber 247
Nov. 16 Beda Nidhi Dahal A glance of Nepal and research in BIOINT 247
Nov. 30 Mark Ansay CMS restores in carrot Cancelled 473
Dec. 7 Bill Briggs Either onions or fast plants Cancelled 247
Dec. 14 Ahmet Ipek Transposon tagging in carrot 247

ABCD Schedule
3:30 PM Thursdays
Spring 2000

Date Speaker Topic Place
Feb.24 Phil Simon A collection of Mediterranean Daucus 473
Mar.2 Jack Staub Map merging studies in cucumber 473
Mar.9 Dr. Shivaji Pandey   247
Mar.16

SPRING BREAK

Mar.23 Jason Lilly Organellar genetics 473
Mar.30 Leonardo  Boiteux A construction of a RAPD-based map of carrot 473
Apr. 6 Gennaro Fazio SSR development and its application to breeding
for multiple lateral branching cucumber phenotypes 		473
Apr. 13 Dr. Mary Ruth
McDonald 		Challenges in managing onion smut (Orocystis
cepulae) 		247
Apr. 20 Inga Bach Male sterility in carrot 473
Apr. 27 Marilyn Horius Screening yellow cooking onions for resistance to
white rot. 		473
May 4 Kathryn Orvis Onion health studies Rescheduled to May 11  
May 11 Kathryn Orvis Onion health studies 247

Note Room Changes on Two Dates!!

ABCD Schedule
3:30 PM Thursdays
Fall 1999

Date
Speaker
Topic
Place
Sept. 23 Bill Briggs Differential in vitro antiplatelet activity of Allium thiosulfinates and assessment of an in vivo coronary thrombosis model 473
Sept. 30 Herbert Peterka Allium species hybridization 473
Oct. 07 Mike Havey Cucumber as a model system for mitochondrial transformation 473
Oct. 14 Ana I. López Sesé Virus resistance in melon 247
Oct. 21 Dr. Sidhu Vegetable breeding program at Punjab Agriculture University 473
Oct. 28 PCIC No meeting
Nov. 04 Young Hoon Park Mapping of virus resistance loci in cucumber 473
Nov. 11 Carlos Santos Genetic Control and Mapping of Carotene Genes in Carrot 247
Nov. 18 Joe Kuhl Late blight resistance in 2x 1 EBN Mexican Solanum species 473
Nov. 25 Thanksgiving No Meeting
Note Room Changes on Two Dates!!

ABCD Group Meetings
Spring Semester 1999
Thursday, 3:30

Date
Speaker
Topic
Room
Feb. 18 Jack Staub Genetic diversity in cucumber: An approach to a core collection 473
Feb. 25 Daniela Liete Cytoplasmic molecular diversity in leek 473
March 4 Gennaro Fazio Breeding for multiple lateral branching in cucumber 247
March 18 Irwin Goldman Immigration of Puritans, Pilgrims, and onions to the New World - Rescheduled to Mar. 25 473
March 25 Jason Lilly Cytogenetics of organelles and other stuff - Rescheduled to Apr. 22
March 25 Irwin Goldman Immigration of Puritans, Pilgrims, and onions to the New World 473
April 8 Azumi Tozuka Genetic study of carrot color 247
April 15 Zhangyong Sun Inheritance and mapping of parthenocarpy genes in cucumber 473
April 22 Joe Kuhl Late blight resistance in 2x(IFBW) Solanaceae - Cancelled
April 22 Jason Lilly Cytogenetics of organelles and other stuff 473
April 29 Bill Briggs Differential antiplatelet activity of Allium thiosulfinates - Cancelled 473
May 6 Carlos Santos Genetics and mapping of carotenoids in carrot - Cancelled 473

ABCD Group Meetings
Fall Semester 1998
Thursday, 2:30

Date
Speaker
Topic
Room
Oct. 8 Sang-Min Chung Chilling tolerance studies in cucumber - Rescheduled to Oct. 15
Oct. 15 Sang-Min Chung Chilling tolerance studies in cucumber 473
Oct. 22 Mike Havey Cytoplasm used commercially to produce hybrid onion 473
Oct. 29 Jack Staub Genetic diversity in African melon PI's 473
Nov. 5 Ali Fuat Gokce Molecular facilitated maintainer line selection in onion 473
Nov. 12 Jim Bradeen Molecular diversity assessment in carrot - Postponed
Dec. 3 Gennaro Fazio Incorporation of multiple lateral branching in a unilateral branching elite cucumber genotype - Postponed
Dec. 10 Frank Yau Characterization of the carrot (Daucus carota) Rs mutant in the line B4367rs - Postponed

ABCD Group Meetings
Spring Semester 1998
Thursday, 3:30

Date
Speaker
Topic
Room
Feb. 26 Mike Havey Orgin of onion 473
Mar. 5 Tom Horejsi Diversity analysis in melon 473
Mar. 12 Phil Simon Origin of carrot 247
Mar. 19 Barbara Michalik Gynogenesis in Allium 473
Mar. 26 Irwin Goldman The beginnings of beets 473
Apr. 2 Claudio Galmarini Onion situation in the MERCOSUR 473
Apr. 9 Leonardo Boiteux at 2:30 Identification of disease resistance analogous gene
sequences in the carrot genome 		247
Apr. 16 Ahmet Ipek at 2:30 Transformation of maize transposable elements, Ac
and Ds into carrot 		473
Apr. 23 Inga Bach at 2:30 CMS in carrot 473
Apr. 30 Karen S. Osmont at 2:30 Fibronectin-like binding protein from onion 473
May 7 Ali Fuat Gokce Mapping in onion - Rescheduled to May 21
May 14 Ahmed Mliki at 2:30 In vitro regeneration and transgenesis in globe artichoke (Cynara scolymus L.) 473
May 21 Ali Fuat Gokce at 2:30 Mapping in onion - Cancelled

ABCD Group Meetings
Fall Semester 1997
Thursday, 3:30

Date
Speaker
Topic
Room
Oct. 9 Gennaro Fazio Mapping of markers linked to crown rot resistance in tomato 247
Oct. 16 Mike Havey Evolution of large nuclear genomes 473
Oct. 23 Azumi Tozuka Evolution & genetics of Glycine soja 473
Nov. 6 Jim Bradeen Breeder friendly markers from AFLP's 473
Nov. 13 Meryem Ipek Determination of diversity in garlic by molecular markers 247
Dec. 4 Jason Lilly Cucurbit mitochondrial genome evolution 473
Dec. 11 Eduardo Villanueva FISH & RFLP analyses of Allium interspecific hybrids 247

 

 

 

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