Seminário FIP 797

Coordenação: Prof. Fabrício A. Rodrigues

Seminário Especial – Small things considered: using RNAi and nanotechnology to control plant pathogens

Esta semana, o PPG Fitopatologia recebe o Dr. Washington da Silva, da Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, para um seminário especial.

Palestrante: Washington da Silva
Título: “Small things considered: using RNAi and nanotechnology to control plant pathogens”
Data: 05/05/25, às 9h, no Anfiteatro do sub-solo

 

Seminário de tema livre – Hyphae in communication: a quorum-sensing mechanism in fungi

Prelecionista: Thiago Moura Rocha
Orientador: Lucas Magalhães de Abreu
Data: 29/04/2025, às 16
Local: Anfiteatro do DFP – ESB

Resumo: The collective behavior mechanism known as quorum sensing (QS) has been extensively studied and is well established in bacteria. It typically requires high cell density, a diffusible signaling molecule, and a membrane-bound receptor […]

Seminário de tema livre: Plants and phytopathogens beyond the sky: an odyssey for the future?

Prelecionista: Leonardo Packer de Quadros
Orientador: Fabrício de Ávila Rodrigues
Data: Terça, 22/04/25, às 16h
Local: Anfiteatro do ESB-DFP

Resumo: As human space missions increase in complexity, duration, and distance – exemplified by upcoming missions to the Moon (Artemis III, NASA, 2027) and Mars (2030s, NASA and SpaceX) – the incorporation of plants […]

Seminário de defesa: Identification and fungicide sensitivity of Cercospora spp. on soybeans in Brazil, etiology of atypical leaf spots on cotton and fungicide sensitivity of Corynespora cassiicola isolates obtained from soybean and cotton

Prelecionista: Deivid Sacon
Orientador: Sergio H. Brommonschenkel
Data: Terça, 15/04/2025, às 16h
Local: Online, via Google Meet*

Resumo: Diseases are limiting factors on soybean and cotton production. On soybean, Cercospora leaf blight (CLB) and purple seed stain (PSS) have exhibited increasing incidence in recent years, which may be associated with changes in disease etiology and/or the […]

Seminário de defesa: Potencial de rizobactérias promotoras de crescimento no controle da murcha-de-ralstonia em eucalipto

Prelecionista: Vitor Morais de Sousa
Orientador: Rafael Alfenas
Data: 20/12/24, às 8h, via Google Meet
Link da videochamada: https://meet.google.com/oav-aray-xhz

Resumo: A murcha-de-ralstonia, causada por bactérias do complexo Ralstonia solanacearum, é uma das principais doenças que afeta o eucalipto no Brasil, sendo responsável por grandes perdas econômicas. A doença é disseminada principalmente por mudas infectadas […]

Seminário de defesa: Genetic variation and aggressiveness of Ceratocystis fimbriata and resistance of Tectona grandis to Ceratocystis wilt

Prelecionista: Flávia Sampaio Alexandre
Orientador: Rafael Ferreira Alfenas
Coorientador: Acelino Couto Alfenas
Data: 10/12/2024, às 16, no anfiteatro do ESB

Resumo: Tectona grandis, commonly known as teak, is a highly valued hardwood species, but its cultivation is increasingly threatened by Ceratocystis wilt, caused by Ceratocystis fimbriata. Planting resistant genotypes represents the most effective […]