Seminar Series

Spring 2026 Seminars

All seminars will be held at 2:55 PM on Mondays at the following locations unless otherwise noted:

Athens : 2401 Plant Sciences
Tifton: 533 NESPAL
Griffin: Turfgrass Building Conference Room
Zoom link for Tifton/Griffin: Join us for seminars here

January 12, 2026

No Seminar

January 19, 2026

No seminar, Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday

January 26, 2026

How host chemistry drives adaptation and host use during an insect's evolutionary transition to plant parasitism

Andrew Gloss
Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology, UGA

February 2, 2026

Exploring Next-Generation Nematode Management: From Reproduction Biology to Fumigant Alternatives.

Churamani Khanal
Assistant Professor, Plant Nematology, Plant and Environmental Sciences, Clemson, University

February 9, 2026

Sensing and AI-Driven Robotics for Sustainable Crop Production: Innovations in Biotic Stress Detection, Monitoring, Prediction, and Management

Md Sultan Mahmud
Assistant Professor of Precision Crop Protection, Plant Pathology, UGA

February 16, 2026

TBD

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February 23, 2026

Mechanistic Perspectives on Bacterial Virulence and Plant Resistance: Lessons from Arabidopsis, Onion, and Cotton

Brian Kvikto
Associate Professor of Molecular Plant Bacteriology, Plant Pathology, UGA

March 2, 2026

Investigation of Bacterial Responses to Plant Pattern Triggered Immunity

Jonny Chen
PhD Exit Seminar, Plant Pathology, UGA

March 9, 2026

No Seminar Spring Break

March 16, 2026

Single-cell and spatial biology in plant-microbe interactions

Shaid Mukhtar
Professor, Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University

March 23, 2026

From Hawaiʻi to Georgia: A Journey Fighting Plant Destroyers from Tropical Fruit to Vegetable Crops

Miaoying Tian
Ji/Georgia Vegetable Industry Distinguished Professorship in Plant Pathology; Associate Professor, UGA

March 30, 2026

South Remembers : Host-resistance against whitefly-transmitted begomoviruses in snap bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

Anoop Malik
Post-Doc, University of Georgia, Tifton Campus

April 6, 2026

The battle against pecan scab: Fungicide resistance and management approaches for Georgia´s pecan industry

Johanna Wesche
Post-Doc, University of Georgia, Tifton Campus

April 13, 2026

Unravel the molecular mechanisms of plant developmental-dependent-immunity

Feng Kong
Post-Doc, University of Georgia, Athens Campus

April 20, 2026

Characterization of a Novel Stylet-Secreted Effector Protein Family in Root-Knot Nematode Parasitism

Rebekah Lee
MS Exit Seminar