June 2018

FACULTY IN THE NEWS

Dr. Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi was featured on the Purdue Agriculture website

on May 10th. The article was titled “Beauty and power beneath the

surface”. Dr. Iyer-Pascuzzi’s lab focuses on mechanisms of disease

resistance in roots to soil-borne pathogens.

To see the article, please click on the link.

https://ag.purdue.edu/stories/beauty-and-power-beneath-the-surface/?

platform=hootsuite

A good day for Mycology!

According to ResearchGate,

Dr. Cathie Aime was

acknowledged as the researcher

at Purdue with the most reads of

1,542 for a single investigator’s

publications.

What an outstanding accomplishment. Congratulations Cathie!

2018 GRADUATES

NEW FACES IN THE DEPARTMENT

Bachelor of Science Graduates Madison Dobbins LeAnn Lux Emily Gunter Ariana Myers Brandon Horn Kirk Rumple Caleb Houston Jacob Walsh Cade Kane Mark Wanhainen John Klimek

M.S. and Ph.D. Graduates Chao Cai, Ph.D. Yen-Ju Chen, M.S. Trevor Stacy, M.S.

Welcome our new Graduate Students to our Department!

Ben Westrich is a Master’s student under Dr. Bryan Young. His research

will focus on the evaluation of various herbicide programs to be used in

an MGI soybean system with emphasis on controlling populations of

giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifida) that is either resistant or susceptible to

acetolactate synthesis-inhibiting (ALS) herbicides. Currently under

Syngenta’s development, MGI soybeans are tolerant to preemergent

applications of mesotrione and isoxaflutole and post emergent

applications of glufosinate. The goal of his research will be to determine

an effective herbicide program to be used in MGI soybeans and develop an increased

understanding of the mechanisms of ALS-resistance in giant ragweed.

Ryan Hockemeyer has joined the department as a PhD student during

the summer of 2018. He will be conducting his research under Dr.

Leonor Boavida’s supervision. His research will include characterizing

functional role of tetraspanin proteins in sexual reproduction in

Arabidopsis thaliana.

UNDERGRADUATE RECOGNITION

Congratulations to our outstanding Undergraduates! Dean’s List Semester Honors (cumulative GPA at or above 3.5) (semester GPA at or above 3.5)

Alex Angel Alex Angel Josh Randall Jennifer Fishburn Kevin Bonar Kristin Sauder

Aileen Frazier Stacy Brittsan Isabelle Turner

Brandon Garver Jennifer Fishburn Drew Wennmaker

Emily Gunter Aileen Frazier

Monica Haughan Brandon Garver

Brandon Horn Emily Gunter

Cade Kane Monica Haughan

Lucy Liu Brandon Horn

Josh Randall John Klimek

Kristin Sauder Lucy Liu

Isabelle Turner LeAnn Lux

Drew Wennmacher Ariana Myers

Congratulations to Bryce Westman! He was awarded the Martin Agricultural Research Fund Scholarship for the upcoming 2018-2019 academic year. This scholarship represents the highest award bestowed to our College of Agriculture undergraduate students for their involvement in undergraduate research. Bryce’s mentor is Dr. Nick Carpita.

ALUMNI NEWS

Amanda Gevens, (M.S. 2001), was recognized with the Excellence in Extension Award From American Phylopathological Society (APS). Amanda is an Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin.

Congratulations to Amanda for this outstanding achievement!

Please see the article at: http://www.apsnet.org/members/awards/ExcellenceExtension/Pages/AmandaJGevens.aspx

PUBLICATIONS

Friday at 2:30pm in LILY, Room 2-425

June 22 Dr. Nick Talbot, University of Exeter

www.ag.purdue.edu/btny

Frontiers in Plant Science, May 24, 2018. Targeted Deletion of the USTA and UvSLT2 Genes Efficiently in Ustilaginoidea virens With the CRISPR-Cas9 System. Yafeng Liang, Yu Han, Chenfang Wang, Cong Jiang and Jin-Rong Xu. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.00699 Wiley Online Library. Plant, Cell & Environment. Coordinated plasticity maintains hydraulic safety in sunflower leaves. Amanda A. Cardoso, Timothy J. Brodribb, Christopher J. Lucani, Fabio M. DaMatta, Scott A.M. McAdam. 10 May 2018 https://doi.org.10.1111/pce.13335 VIP1 and its homologs are not required for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, but play a role in Botrytis and salt stress responses. Frontier in Plant Science. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00749 Rachel Lapham, Lan-Ying Lee, Daisuke Tsugama, Sanghun Lee, Tesfaye Mengiste and Stanton B. Gelvin Life history variation is maintained by fitness trade-offs and negative frequency-dependent selection. Mark R. Christie, Gordon G. McNickle, Rod A. French, and Michael S. Blouin. PMAS April 24, 2018. 115 (17) 4441-4446; April 11, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1801779115 Epigenetic switch from repressive to permissive chromatin in response to cold stress. Junghoon Park, Chae Jin Lim, Mingzhe Shen, Hee Jin Park, Joon-Yung Cha, Elisa Iniesto, Vicente Rubio, Tesfaye Mengiste, Jian-Kang Zhu, Ray A. Bressan, Sang Yeol Lee, Byeong-ha Lee, Jing Bo Jin, Jose M. Pardo, Woe-Yeon Kim, and Dae-Jin Yun. PNAS May 21, 2018. 201721241; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1721241115 ScienceDirect, Volume 49, April 2018, Pages iv-v. Editorial overview: Genome architecture and expression: Mobile elements at work. Damon Lisch, Kathleen H. Burns. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gde.2018.05.003

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