Seminar Series

Fall 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: 216 NESPAL
Griffin: Turfgrass Building Conference Room
Zoom link for Tifton/Griffin: Join us for seminars here

August 17, 2026

Navigating Emerging Issue of Pepper Anthracnose: A curious Case of Colletotrichum scovillei

Pei-Ling Yu
Post-Doc Dutta Lab, Plant Pathology, UGA-Tifton Camps

August 24, 2026

Emerging questions and expanding insights across plant-virus-vector pathosystems

Madison Flasco
Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, LSU, Baton Rouge

August 31, 2026

Advanced Pesticide Delivery Systems for Sustainable Plant Disease Management

Lingling Liu
Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, UGA, Athens Campus

September 7, 2026

No seminar, Labor Day Holiday

September 14, 2026

TBD

Phillip Vines
Assistant Professor of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Griffin, GA

September 21, 2026

Vascular Streak Dieback in Redbud: A Model for Understanding Emerging Fungal Diseases in Woody Ornamental Nursery Production

Fulya Baysal-Gurel
Associate Dean for Research,Research Associate Professor,College of Agriculture,
Department of Agricultural Science and Engineering, Tennessee State University, McMinnville, TN.

September 28, 2026

Unraveling the mechanisms driving biofuel sorghum-AMF-root microbiome interactions using microbiomics and metabolomics

Xiomy Pinchi Davila
PhD Exit Seminar, Plant Pathology, UGA, Athens Campus

October 5, 2026

Genetic diversity of Phyllachora mayids in United States and ascospore survival of stroma from Georgia USA

Kabita Khanal
MS Exit Seminar, Plant Pathology, UGA, Athens Campus

October 12, 2026

Population structure and diversity of Sarocladium zeae, a potential biological control agent in maize

Nino Laurel
PhD Exit Seminar, Plant Pathology, UGA, Athens Campus

October 19, 2026

Integrative Studies of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus: Pathogen Diversity, Host Response, and Gene Silencing Strategies

Bhavya Shukla
PhD Exit Seminar, Plant Pathology, UGA, Tifton Campus

October 26, 2026

Advancing the Understanding of Whitefly-Transmitted Viruses in Cucurbits: New Insights into Cucurbit Leaf Crumple Virus Epidemiology

Dalvir Dhadly
PhD Exit Seminar, Plant Pathology, UGA, Tifton Campus

November 2, 2026

Characterizing Colletotrichum and Botrytis Fungicide Resistance Profiles and Efficacy of Chemicals for Blueberry Fruit Rot Management

Anupa Adhikari
MS Exit Seminar, Plant Pathology, UGA, Tifton Campus

November 9, 2026

An Integrated Framework for Drone-Based Bacterial Leaf Scorch Severity Classification, Disease Forecasting, and Agentic AI Decision Support in Pecan Production

Shah Md Abul Hasan
MS Exit Seminar, Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens Campus

November 16, 2026

Understanding the Role of Fusarium poae in Fusarium Head Blight of Wheat and Barley: From pathogenicity to Transcriptomic and Genomic insights

Shiwarttan Kumar Gupt
PhD Exit Seminar, Plant Pathology, UGA, Griffin Campus

Novmber 23, 2026

No Seminar Thanksgiving Break

November 30, 2026

Non-Destructive Classification of Aflatoxin B1-Contaminated Peanut Seeds Using Hyperspectral Imaging and Machine Learning

Md Tauhidul Alam
MS Exit Seminar, Plant Pathology, UGA, Athens Campus